What has happened to turn hit-making in such a desperately hard profession?

He was trying desperately hard to make amends, she thought.

They're not desperately hard up or anything like that." "

Each time, Eden had tried desperately hard to fit in, and she'd succeeded.

Some of the writing is desperately hard to follow.

It has been desperately hard to leave out hundreds of other brave men and women.

I tried desperately hard to find any real positives after Friday's game.

If they get a foothold there it will be desperately hard to winkle them out.

I was silent for a moment, trying desperately hard to remember events that had happened only a few minutes earlier.

Can't really remember the last time I saw a film try so desperately hard to be offbeat and quirky with nothing to show for it.