It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. From LearnThat.org. [Henry David Thoreau.]
Felt a desperate urge to confess. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A desperate criminal. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A desperate illness. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They prey on the hopes of the desperate. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
By early 1954 the Party was in desperate need of funds. From Wordnik.com. [The FBI and Martin Luther King] Reference
Punctuality is in desperate need of instant adjustment. From Wordnik.com. [Gringos are changing Mexico] Reference
The boat was close at hand now, and in desperate plight. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 19] Reference
America's aging system is in desperate need of investment. From Wordnik.com. [Heather Taylor-Miesle: Tea Partiers: Be Careful What You Wish For] Reference
Imriel lifted his head, his expression desperate and stubborn. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
Hand to hand in desperate strife, fighting for your country's life. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Winds of Eirinn] Reference
Food pantries are in desperate need of our donations - food and money. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
Even in desperate cases, however, treatment begins with the conventional. From Wordnik.com. [Vaccinating Against Cancer] Reference
I know of situations where they paid people who were in desperate straits. From Wordnik.com. [Overseer of BP's gulf oil spill fund gets his hands dirty] Reference
Children in desperate need anywhere and everywhere required help and attention. From Wordnik.com. [United Nations Children's Fund - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Physicians were in desperate need of accurate methods for radiation measurement. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
This, after she said he could not come home when he called desperate from Oregon. From Wordnik.com. [Night Navigation (excerpt)] Reference
This, after she said he could not come home when he called desperate from Oregon. From Wordnik.com. [Night Navigation (excerpt)] Reference
It's in desperate need of upkeep and repair, especially after all of us rally on it. From Wordnik.com. [Jon Stewart rally to raise money for Mall maintenance] Reference
Such courage in desperate circumstances as Paul here showed is wonderfully infectious. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
I was still a tyro so far as concerned knowing how to behave in desperate circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 20: A Lost Oligarch] Reference
The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strengthas are the elves and dwarves. From Wordnik.com. [Brisingr (Inheritance, Book 3) by Christopher Paolini: Book summary] Reference
Since women still only earn 77 cents to the dollar, you are in desperate need of some back-up. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Birthday, Equal Pay Act!] Reference
They find themselves, by tens of thousands, in desperate straits in the army of the unemployed. From Wordnik.com. [Inefficiency] Reference
Clearly the financial system is not the only institution that's in desperate need of a makeover. From Wordnik.com. [Don Tapscott: Macrowikinomics : The Choice Between Atrophy or Renaissance] Reference
If banks found themselves in desperate need of capital, they would convert this debt into equity. From Wordnik.com. [Idea to Prevent Next Banking Bust?] Reference
As always, we're in desperate need of money, and we want this cause to be a little more widely known. From Wordnik.com. [Something Special in the World] Reference
US forces made many, many heroic rescues of downed airmen and other Americans in desperate situations. From Wordnik.com. [Capt. Mike McGrath's "Macs Facts"] Reference
The computer, he said, contained secret military information and he was in desperate need to replace it. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes or Villains?] Reference
Home — no less than the cherished “homeland” of dismal fame — seems in desperate need of securing. From Wordnik.com. [Home Alone] Reference
All public utterances were cheery and optimistic, but privately many of the utters were in desperate straits. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XXI] Reference
Such material treated the child literally — that is, as a corporeal entity in desperate need of nourishment. From Wordnik.com. [A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries] Reference
Cornwallis is desolate, alone and dispossessed; a figure not unlike Samson who is in desperate need of recuperation. From Wordnik.com. [Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta] Reference
Two developing countries that are in desperate need of peace to rise from poverty, India and Pakistan, are now at war. From Wordnik.com. [The 1971 Nobel Prize - Presentation Speech] Reference
Now in desperate need of help, Kai summons a childhood friend, the freed slave Aidan O'Dere, to go on a deadly mission. From Wordnik.com. [Zulu Heart: Summary and book reviews of Zulu Heart by Steven Barnes.] Reference
They had marched hundreds of miles on empty stomachs and were in desperate need of clean clothing, baths, and good food. From Wordnik.com. [Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I] Reference
When you first did me the honour, seven years ago, of inviting me to address the Empire Club, we were in desperate danger. From Wordnik.com. [The World Without the Empire] Reference
Africa is in desperate need of resources for prevention and now treatment and care for the tens of millions who are infected. From Wordnik.com. [Greg Behrman - An interview with author] Reference
Yes, instead of looking for managers who can communicate, we now seem in desperate need of managers who will not communicate so much. From Wordnik.com. [Email Inundation] Reference
Blood-sport Baroque on the inside: heads looming from every wall, giant fish twisted in desperate poses, freezers full of strange meats. From Wordnik.com. [In the Monster's Maw] Reference
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