The question came out with a kind of desperateness she hadn't intended.

He seemed quite calm, despite the desperateness of the situation.

Indeed, the tactics used by the pilots seem to have a wild desperateness about them.

There is a certain desperateness about all this that ought to cause us to reflect carefully.

Nor did he know the desperateness of her deed.

Despite the desperateness of the situation and the haunting time pressures, I found myself gaping at him.

In the moment of that thought the desperateness of his situation dawned upon him.

He's using tricks to exploit the desperateness of these people's situations."

And live to the end he did, smiling through all desperateness and extremity.

"Many of them have a high level of desperateness.

Judge of the efforts you have to make and of the desperateness of the struggle.

They tried to numb their minds with the uppers and heroin, but still the desperateness of the situation forced itself upon them.

Kirk could see McCoy's mind turning back to the desperateness of the problem he faced.

In his desperateness, he did not fear this intruder, but rather felt relieved that here was something real that could be dealt with.

He is best known for his saying "The way of the Samurai is in desperateness.

He realized that by accepting their unprecedented and illegal presence on Skid he was also admitting the desperateness of the situation.

It scuttles out of office doorways with a desperateness that is quickly dispelled by sucking on a white, smoking cylinder.

They talk of roundups and deportations, bringing to the Secret Annex the desperateness of the situation.

Danny's own desperateness emerged when he asked directions to the nearest restaurant from a cemetery worker who had just asked us the time and got it.

Perhaps One of the guards jabbed him painfully in the ribs, recalling Caramon to the desperateness of their situation.

Notwithstanding the desperateness of our situation, however, there was not one of us so paralyzed by fear, but that we fully realized the horror of it all.

They blasted away with M-16s, machine guns, shotguns, grenade launchers, and pistols, expending ammunition at a rate that testified to their desperateness.

He shut his eyes and did not think and she kissed him and it had gone further now and he could tell and feel the desperateness.