Sentences with phrase «like desperation»

The reality is, though: this word smells like desperation.

I'm sure the word «efficiency» was used in many internal documents and emails, but here it just smells like desperation especially as the profit margin is only improved by tenths of a % through this re-imagination.

The «has no games» argument is BS and sounds like desperation — it's got ta stop.

Don't call them and say you need to buy x, y and z. Banks don't like desperation.

The reality is it's more like a desperation ploy: If they can't stoke inflation they risk allowing deflation, where businesses slow hiring or cut staff and investment, while consumers hold back on purchases.

It's a valuable tool, but too much participation can start to look like desperation.

Finding the woman of your dreams is no easy task, but trying to make it happen in a bar that smells like desperation and old beer is basically impossible.

Plus think about it: — Deadline day — Overpaying for a player which isn't nearly as good yet as what we are about to lose to one of our rivals Smells like desperation and a panic buy to me just to keep the fans quiet, what we really need to do is continue our #WengerOut #KroenkeOut #GazidisOut...

There are parents who will tell you that they knew when their child was young < - parents are not scientists... and they do nt speak for the kids... the kids can say it for themselves... seems more like desperation to add parents in this as you did..

Not exact matches

From the ashes rose creativity, powered by desperation and hope, the likes of which hasn't been seen in decades.

Yet, it seems like even mainstream media is grasping at some of these tactics in desperation to survive.

What looked like evidence of desperation 18 months ago — cost cuts, layoffs — now reads as welcomed discipline.

In desperation, Puerto Ricans are bathing and washing their clothes in rivers that have raw sewage pouring into them, the Associated Press reported, exposing them to bacteria like Leptospira, which causes leptospirosis.

While she's probably not wrong in that it's likely hovering near the end - point, I would like to just take a moment to point out that most of this whole affair has been fuelled by weak - sauce allegations and conflated facts, and this particular air of desperation as people keep flinging the equivalent of spaghetti against a wall in the hope that something inevitably sticks.

The saddest display is the loneliness and desperation of divorced women who have to pretend that they like acting like children to attract men who really do like acting that way.

And this is what desperation looks like: a reaching.

is like a parent searching for the children who have wandered off during a shopping trip; it is the desperation to be close again.

Here's CBS's Armen Keteyian, staring into Astrue's eyes with the unblinking gaze of some solemn Salem judge, in January 2008, eleven months after Astrue was sworn in, and demanding, «Are you aware of the level of desperation in America right now [like that] backlog of 24,000 cases in cities like Atlanta?»

Such alienation or estrangement brings about a sense of human frustration, sometimes felt very keenly but more often and with most of us in something like Thoreau's «quiet desperation,» known at moments when we can not sleep or when we are not happy about what we have been doing or thinking.

He discerns a Lady Macbeth - like «moral desperation» and psychological denial in her pushing of the «abortion rights» agenda so strongly as to be blatantly self - contradictory by then denying any rights to the unborn.

It is not enough just to point out the «desperation» and denial evidenced in the likes of Ms Furedi's shrill campaigning.

God will allow things like these to happen to humble us and cry out to Him in desperation.

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(Recipes like these, which do suggest a sense of desperation, hark back to the Great Depression.)

I've made what I like to call «desperation cake» a few times — it's 3 tablespoons of cake mix mixed with 1 tablespoon Greek yogurt and microwaved for a minute — and that works well in a pinch.

I just hope coach projects the desperation onto the team as we need to actually look like we want this one.

BYU won via last - minute, desperation touchdown pass in each of the first two weeks (Nos. 19 and 18), and it looked like the Cougars» Week 3 visit to UCLA might end the same way.

We have already heard a lot about Man City needcing to bring some of these players in, hence the links with the likes of Raheem Sterling and our own Jack Wilshere as well as their desperation to hold on to James Milner.

Out of desperation, he downloaded so many useless players on transfer deadline day — usually at mid-night — including the likes of Park, Santos, Squillaci and Benayoun (on loan from our rivals), etc..

Reports in The Sun confirm Wenger's desperation to prevent Wilshere following the likes of Samir Nasri, Gael Clichy, Bacary Sagna, Emmanuel Adebayor and Kolo Toure up to Manchester, regardless of whether he's able to make an impact between now and the end of the season.

Coquelin was only a temporary Gap filler (more like a chewed piece of chewing gum) that managed to stop the leak at that time of Desperation!

In the 14th, as if in desperation, he wound up like a soft - ball pitcher and scored with a bolo punch to Duran's chin.

It could also be one of the oldest tricks in the book: A guaranteed, for - pay disaster, built by cynicism and greed, and validated on the viewer's part only by a desperation for something like novelty and a persistent morbid curiosity.

This team shows no desperation but instead seem like they couldn't care less on the court.

Teague was supposed to provide outside shooting and complement our pieces in this system... yet we get several games like this one with him wasting entire possessions with nonsense endless dribbling into desperation shots.

With the quality in our squad, and the desperation to win, or at least go further in the Champions League, to go out against a side like Monaco requires a sacking of the manager.

Whatever passion the bettor may have had as a fan dissolves into a flaming desperation, tied to point spreads, over-unders and multigame wagers like parlays and teasers.

Yes, Wenger is fighting for his Arsenal life because he hasn't got the full backing of the board, like before... Hence his desperation with changes.

In our desperation for a new striker we might end up signing the wrong guy for a transfer fee he's not worth, this Lacazette is not all that and there's a reason why no big teams are after him even despite his 48 goals in Ligue 1, even though I'm not a fan of Giroud I would rather stick with him with Sanchez as second striker like Griezmann for France than sign Lacazette

it seems like alexis wasn't prepared to play there and the added stress of playing an unfamiliar position combined with his desperation to win showed in his lack - luster performance on the day.

Like Bendtner three passes before, he squeezes the ball beyond the lunge of Maxwell — his desperation exaggerated by the frazzled nature of his flowing brown hair — and into the path of his intended target.

Eto'o suddenly started being put out as a second striker by Martinez in place of players like Barkley or Naismith in what seemed to most fans like a degree of desperation by our Spanish manager — almost as if he was trying to put a team of players out in the hope that it would come off for him.

It felt like a deep desperation to validate myself in the eyes of a woman.

If you know what it feels like to experience medically managed hormones that are raging out of control - on top of your own emotions that are trying to fight for a place at the crowded table of rage and fear and sadness and hope and desperation.

If you're a breastfeeding mama like me, you probably shake your hands in desperation wondering how you'll find the time and space to take care of yourself when you can't leave your little.

We have no backup desperation nap plans like cars, swings, stroller and we just have to do all of the naps in the crib.

So my TED journey now: Like most I was in desperation mode.

Starting to look like we will have a Democratic House next year (unless Russia interferes out of desperation) and them we will find out «What's there to address?»

Mr President, the desperation so far exhibited by your person and your government in manipulating sensitive agencies of state like the judiciary and now the electoral commission to further your bid to win the 2020 election is totally against the spirit of democracy and peace bestowed by the NDC in conceding defeat at the Presidential election.

The governor, who said there was nothing wrong with the legal system in Nigeria, added that «in recent times, politicians like President Buhari are the ones responsible for the rot in the judiciary because of their desperation to use the courts to foist one party state on Nigerians with conflicting judgments from election tribunals.»