One would never sense any desperateness in the world. From Wordnik.com. [THE IDEA OF VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS IN MAJOR EXHIBITIONS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS] Reference
Joan was keenly aware of the desperateness of the situation. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 22] Reference
"Keep away!" he warned, as he spread-eagled with acted desperateness. From Wordnik.com. [THE KANAKA SURF] Reference
So it was with those people — their desperateness was without an object. From Wordnik.com. [A Desperate Character] Reference
And live to the end he did, smiling through all desperateness and extremity. From Wordnik.com. [THE MEXICAN] Reference
The desperateness of his position set in like a lead weight tied to his neck. From Wordnik.com. [Deuces Wild] Reference
Judge of the efforts you have to make and of the desperateness of the struggle. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
In the moment of that thought the desperateness of his situation dawned upon him. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 46] Reference
Everywhere in Washington the talk was of the “desperateness” of the situation. From Wordnik.com. [Truman Fires MacArthur] Reference
Obama coasted on the apparent desperateness of the Clinton campaign's attacks on them. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Campaign Co-Chair Questions Hillary's Tears] Reference
Then she paused with them in her hand, and the desperateness of the venture nearly overwhelmed her. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas] Reference
I know this sounds ridiculous, considering the desperateness of the situation, but I mean every word. From Wordnik.com. [Take Me There] Reference
Despite the desperateness of the situation and the haunting time pressures, I found myself gaping at him. From Wordnik.com. [Myth-Ing Persons]
The foul elephantine leprosy, alleviated for an hour, re-appears in new force and desperateness next hour. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
The crime rate in these makeshift communities soared as residents experienced depression and desperateness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
It was only the degradation of my will and my mind, and it was only caused by the desperateness of my position. From Wordnik.com. [A Gentle Spirit] Reference
Perhaps One of the guards jabbed him painfully in the ribs, recalling Caramon to the desperateness of their situation. From Wordnik.com. [War of the Twins]
But, even so, I felt the desperateness of the situation. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Red Pepper] Reference
Something menacing, but has a eerie desperateness to it. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
That whole talk of desperateness, insecurity and anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [NAACHGAANA] Reference
The desperateness of my condition was, for a moment, forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference
The world's condition spells out the desperateness of that need. From Wordnik.com. [Quiet Talks on Following the Christ] Reference
The desperateness of the situation was, however, manifest to all. From Wordnik.com. [Admiral Farragut] Reference
Moreover, the very desperateness of the cause was their inspiration. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the World] Reference
I convinced him of its desperateness, and I unfolded to him my scheme. From Wordnik.com. [Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes] Reference
So it was with those people -- their desperateness was without an object. From Wordnik.com. [A Desperate Character and Other Stories] Reference
A desperateness quite unrealized until it was over, and complete victory had been achieved. From Wordnik.com. [The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon] Reference
Each sustained a wretch, whose groans and distortions bespoke the desperateness of his condition. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793] Reference
A lady visitor was groaning politically to Madame de Girardin over the desperateness of the situation. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II] Reference
Vigor even to desperateness of action both Nelson and Farragut on occasion showed -- recklessness never. From Wordnik.com. [Admiral Farragut] Reference
The foul elephantine leprosy, alleviated for an hour, reappears in new force and desperateness next hour. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
The feeling here is that we are not getting real facts regarding the desperateness of the U-boat situation. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Franklin K. Lane] Reference
We must extricate these people of our own from a situation whose desperateness most of them do not recognize. From Wordnik.com. [Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi] Reference
And in the desperateness of it, in the fierce height to which his battling temper had arisen, he had killed his man. From Wordnik.com. [The Man in the Twilight] Reference
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