desperation
Example Sentences
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This play confronts humanity’s most essential themes—the quiet desperation of ordinary life and sadness over life’s disappointments.
The highs, the lows, the dramatics, the desperation, it was all there when nothing was there, it was the feeling that even with everything gone, you still belonged to something.
From Los Angeles Times
And somewhere between common sense and desperation, they settled on a formula: bowl a little fuller.
From BBC
In desperation, and perhaps losing his mind, the seemingly mild-mannered Man-soo becomes obsessed with nailing the application process for a comparable job.
Although he comes across as lethally ineffective—desperation is not the way to please an audience—the movie positions his act as a hit.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
