desperado
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Still, with his chest-hugging T-shirt and rugged handsomeness, Mr. Bernthal recalls John Travolta in his early prime rather than the sweaty, disheveled but endearing desperado memorably created by Mr. Pacino.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
But it seems clear that there was no reason to approach him so aggressively, as though he were some armed desperado fleeing a murder scene.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2023
You’d think Kuehl, 81, was some kind of desperado.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
East Chicago police in the raiding squad said “two Department of Justice men” executed the desperado, but would not name them.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2019
“Just fine,” she said, and wondered who else in Maycomb still remembered Scout Finch, juvenile desperado, hell- raiser extraordinary.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
Qf6, and no amount of desperadoes can deflect White’s mating attack.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
“It’s telling our history, about citrus wars, about Chicano murals, about the Black Panther Party, about desperadoes — all of those stories.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2017
His experience pursuing desperadoes and fugitives—and once being a fugitive himself—allowed Hester to think like his prey.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2016
In these days of expletive strewn reality TV shows it is easy to forget just how incendiary Rotten and his band of desperadoes were.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012
They are ragtag desperadoes with nothing to lose.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
The Special Operations Division of the DEA often goes overseas to capture desperados with elaborate undercover stings.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2022
You’ve turned some of the state’s women into desperados.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2022
With his stocky build, unnerving gaze, five o’clock shadow and tightly wound energy, Mr. Persoff specialized in portraying gangland figures, Wild West desperados, bellicose generalissimos and Cold War heavies.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022
Either way, this is an easy watch, especially with a glass of wine, a bowl of crisps, looking at these ripped desperados, and asking yourself, “Who’s really winning?”
From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2020
For a fleeting instant the thought, that she must fall a victim to such desperados, paralysed her with fear; but only for an instant.
From Bengal Dacoits and Tigers by Sunity Devee
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