Sentences with phrase «like desperate»

Demi and Harry Morton's dad being together sounds like a Desperate Housewives plot!

With most Realtors spending the majority of their time prospecting via the online streams, like desperate old - time gold - rush miners sifting for nuggets in real - world streams (they actually worked... physically), is it any wonder that the new - age Realtor knows far more about computer programs and how to be an online presence than he / she knows about actual real - world real estate?

Never let your honest efforts seem like a desperate appeal to the recruiters as this can hurt your chances of being selected.

It just makes you look like a desperate job seeker.

But especially during a job search, there's a built - in problem: how do you approach someone you want to meet without sounding like a desperate job seeker?

HR does not like desperate applicants as they may view you as indecisive, or the fact that there must be something wrong with you which explains why you are desperate to get any job.

They sound like a desperate man willing to say anything he thinks might get him off the hook.

Does that sound like a desperate person looking for final expense life insurance?

Divorce, custody, alimony, child support and other matters of family law can seem like desperate struggles.

This kind of pushback from conventional meat producers is unsurprising, but also seems like a desperate measure.

Sorry, this looks like another desperate effort by the proponents of CAGW to somehow get CAGW back on to the political agenda.

It all seems like a desperate attempt at * ss covering.

You starting replying to everything I post, trying to engage me, like a desperate gambler trying to buy their way back into the game and win the farm back.

Despite the innovative new platforms Sussman and Sanders have contrived to reinvigorate this 80 - year - old tradition, it seems more like a desperate cry than a solution to the systemic problems the Whitney Museum of American Art, and, of course, all other major art institutions in the U.S., now face.

It is also suspiciously like a desperate retread of a more popular exhibition, since Warhol worked with Basquiat.

You can work with people in the industry without looking like a desperate actor.

Unlike other boss tracks it manages to make this final battle feel like a desperate race against time.

At face value, this version of Mount & Blade: Warband feels like a desperate cash - grab even though it's available at a budget price.

People who thrive on N4G like desperate vampires don't have the talent, or the patience, for what most would consider «good» writing.

And doubling down like some desperate gambler isn't exactly part of it.

Or that mode of precious, jokey, self - regarding prose that seems like a desperate bid for our readerly affections.

In that sense, the agency model seems less like some elaborate conspiracy to control the market and more like a desperate move by a fading industry.

To those who aren't au fait with their racing history, Alfa Romeo partnering up with the Sauber Formula 1 team might seem like a desperate attempt at relevance for a brand trying to declare themselves as a real contender in a performance market.

The XFR's almost casual, cool, undemonstrative style takes some adjusting to, but it could make the competition, particularly the M5, seem like desperate over-achievers.

They describe local schools as «scrabbling around for any form of cash like a desperate person checking down the side of their sofa for the odd pound coin or two».

History has proven time again and time again exactly how you would respond, just like the desperate mother and son that we see Chris Kyle kill with single shots from his well - hidden sniper's position.

In «Child 44,» however, key action scenes like a desperate fight on a prison train and a struggle for survival in a mud - filled trench are so dirty and dark that it's nearly impossible to make out who is doing what to whom.

Yet bookending the bizarreness is a quite lovely, drifting theme that captures a dream - like optimism, a melody that's like a desperate cry for normalcy from a war - scarred character never able to attain it.

Stanton revs up the pace so quickly that I couldn't figure out exactly where Dory and her parents were or how they'd gotten into or out of trouble, and a long car chase seems like a desperate move to keep kids from fidgeting.

And when hilarity breaks out in Miller's Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009), it's like a desperate bark from someone drowning.

We've seen other variations in recent years, most notably in Johnson Family Vacation and Thanksgiving Family Reunion, but in nearly all instances, these movies seem like desperate knock - offs on autopilot rather than truly funny, inspired family comedies.

Her efforts to gussy up feel like desperate acts of prayer from an antiquated era, as the husband is rarely seen onscreen (though he does find the time to play Dead Island).

When: June 12th Why: It's been 22 years since the release of the original «Jurassic Park,» and 14 years since the last sequel, but while fans of the series may be excited at the prospect of a new installment, it feels more like a desperate attempt to revitalize a popular brand than a necessary continuation of the story.

Even the commentators John Michael Higgins and Elizabeth Banks (always on the side - lines, yet always delivering that perfect joke just when you need it), feel like desperate shadows of their former selves, clinging to their sarcastic insults, as if it is all they've got left of the glory days of acapella singing.

Gilles Paquet - Brenner «s tone - deaf adaptation of Gillian Flynn «s engaging airport fiction sucks the lifeblood from the project like a desperate amateur vampire.

Stone gives himself much credit of «telling the truth» about Alexander's bisexuality as if it's some progressive badge of honor, but at the same time he can't get away from the cruelest, least imaginative stereotyping: His Alexander, as expressed through the weepy histrionics of Colin Farrell, is more like a desperate housewife than a soldier.

It feels like a desperate grasp into the past in search of material that is more than twenty years past its sell - by date.

I felt that dating someone younger would make me look like a desperate.

Once you write your dating profile, take a quick read through, asking yourself if it sounds like a desperate person, or someone who just wants someone to share their ride.

Rich men don't like women who look like desperate gold diggers.

These tips sounded like a desperate woman whom is out prey of men.

Get to the nitty - gritty as fast as you can without seeming like a desperate person.

Women don't like desperate men — even women who are looking for a casual relationship.

So whilst on the face of it the surge of online dating activity in December looks like a desperate attempt to find a match before the dawn of the New Year (and Valentines Day just over a month later!)

Avoid sexual talk or innuendos unless you're an expert at this and it has worked for you in the past, otherwise you'll just sound like a desperate, sexually deranged loon.

If you look like desperate and mad after him, he probably wouldn't give you that much significance to you.

A hundred other A-holes have already drooled all over her and failed to penetrate her armor, so your sincere words are going to make you sound like a desperate loser or like just another jerk trying to get to her earthly delights.

I tried playing it coy (not like the desperate - for - love girl I was inside) and kicked around the soccer ball with my friend.

Shpagin designed guns like a desperate dieter tries to lose weight.

«Girls don't like desperate guys.»