In the poem, the poet envisions his son breastfeeding on his mother's onion blood ( sangre de cebolla ), and uses the child's laughter as a counterpoint to the mother's desperation.

Most actual uses have been out of extreme desperation or as an act of last defense.

Morrison uses this repetitive concept to emphasize the severity of their lifestyles and their desperation to keep up appearances.

In desperation Eden uses Julia's gun to shoot her in the head.

The games were then offered to the other North American entry, Vancouver / Garibaldi, but political turmoil due to the recent change in government led to their bid being withdrawn as well, and in desperation the IOC returned the games to Innsbruck for a second time in a row.

On lap 15, Regazzoni pitted in desperation, but a tire change didn't improve his car.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

However, fame was still eluding him, and partly out of desperation, Coppola bought the rights to the David Benedictus novel You're a Big Boy Now and fused it with a story idea of his own, resulting in You're a Big Boy Now ( 1966 ).

With the Chig War as the main story arc of the series, Space: Above and Beyond probes human emotion in extreme desperation and conflict.

In the expansion, Rise of the Shadowhand, the story depicts the increasing desperation and despotism of the Imperium after the emergence of the Tograns as a third credible faction.

The story, concerning the Galactic Empire's current status in the 4th millennium, during the 3200's, serves as an entry point, gradually introducing the player to new concepts ( planet management, space battles, ground battles, research, component & ship production, diplomatic functions ) as he rises through the ranks from Lieutenant to Captain, Commander, Admiral and eventually Grand Admiral ( where all functions are unlocked and the player has full control ), all the while revealing the character's shrouded past, revealing that Johnson is the Galactic Empire's secret weapon that was created in desperation, an android, through flashbacks.

The sura tells the story of the birth of Yahya after his father's desperation for having a successor.

Despite the fact that Helstrom made up his story out of desperation, Denham finds an authentic treasure.

It's a desperation resulting from dealing with cliché story submissions that have come streaming in amid the confusion about how childlike or adult Captain Power is.

In desperation Maggie consulted Eugenia one afternoon: `` Do you think you could find me something I could do here at home to make some money, so I could still watch the baby and do the rest of the things ''??

Isolation plays are also common in tournaments to isolate a player who is " short stacked ", that is, one who is in imminent danger of elimination, and so is likely to be playing aggressively out of desperation.

Mantrid's head remained alive, though rapidly dying, and in desperation Viggo, ordered the drones to immediately remove the infant Insect's essence-transfer organ so that he could perform the procedure on Mantrid himself.

Seldom have pop culture, darkness and desperation blended so well.

These cold opens were originally born out of desperation as a way to fill air time, since the dialogue on the show was spoken so quickly and the producers needed something to fill the entire hour.

Just before he was tackled, he threw a completed desperation forward pass to his running back Clarence Davis in the game's final moments, and in doing so ended Miami's dominance.

In desperation, Acroyear bonds with the Worldmind to defeat Karza but in doing so destroys his world.

He was seen by the goddess Astronoë ( thought by many scholars to be a version of ‘ Ashtart ) who so harassed him with amorous pursuit that in desperation he castrated himself and died.

I speak not this for myself, but for others ; that they may not be handled so inhumanely, to drive men to desperation, if it were possible.

Red and Kitty even went so far as to revoke their offer to pay for Eric's college tuition in a final act of desperation to put a stop to the wedding but were unsuccessful.

In desperation, the king appealed to the French people to save their country, and in doing so gained thousands of new army recruits.

He was warned by Lyons that if the proclamation were issued, he would have been perceived as acting in desperation, since the U. S. was about to officially concede defeat and that issuing such an order would amount to nothing more than an attempt to raise insurrection inside what was now another country, and doing so would be seen as a directly hostile act.

" I'd be banging away on a Son House tune and the whole audience would be talking, so maybe out of desperation or boredom, or the audience's boredom, I'd make up these ridiculous songs just to see if people were listening.

In Margaret Drabble's The Realms of Gold, the hero flies hundreds of miles to reunite with the heroine, only to miss her by 24 hours – leaving the onlookers ' wondering what grand passion could have brought him so far ... a quixotic look about him, a look of harassed desperation '.

The standard slave armies of the illithids were unable to stop the voor invasion, so in desperation a long-vanished illithid Creed constructed tumerogenesis tanks to impart certain physical, spiritual, and psionic enhancements on selected slave-soldiers.

Springsteen explained the two songs by revealing that " Reno " was about a man so in love with his lost wife that his desperation could not be vanquished even by a prostitute (" It wasn't the best I ever had / not even close ") and that the expletive in " Long Time Comin '" was not negative but, in fact, a positive affirmation (" I ain't gonna fuck it up this time ," referring to raising his new child ).

During the first few decades of the building's history, it featured artists such as jazz legends Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, although at one point the business at the Paramount Theatre had decreased so substantially that in desperation it was converted into a movie theatre, specializing in soft core porn.

As the night passed, more and more Panyu defenders defected to Lu Bode's camp out of desperation, so that as dawn arrived most of the Nanyue soldiers were gone.

In desperation he tries to buy the park back to pay for these expenses, but the original owner refuses, commenting that only an idiot would sell the park now it's so successful.

In an act of desperation, the scientists try to communicate with the cloud, and to their surprise succeed in doing so.

Despite her arguments and refusal to be sold, it was already in the process of being arranged, so in desperation, she took her daughters to her mother's house to live.

While the Deplorable Word was used without remorse by Jadis to obliterate her enemies in an act of pure evil, the Ritual of Desecration enacted out of utter desperation in hopes of ridding The Land of evil once and for all so that future generations could live out their lives in peace ; a purpose which ultimately failed.

In his desperation to return to his family, he befriended Baxter Stockman and helped him create a new body while working on a transmat device so he could rejoin the Utroms.

Amidst the criticisms of his mother, the confusion and desperation covering the country, and the desire of his girlfriend to leave, Nik is still unsure whether he wants to leave.

Driven to desperation, Xena and Gabrielle fake their own deaths, and that of Eve, by staging a fatal crash, then taking a sleeping draught in a manner similar to the ploy in Romeo and Juliet.

In desperation, she signed over power of attorney to an accountant who disappeared with the majority of her money, leaving her with no more than $ 150, 000.

Given that Gable and Cukor had worked together before, in Manhattan Melodrama and Gable had no objection to working with him then, and given Selznick's desperation to get Gable for Rhett Butler, if Gable had any objections to Cukor, certainly they would have been expressed before he signed his contract for the film.

Fans connected with Jon's " loneliness and desperation " and found his " crazy antics " humorous ; Jim Davis himself called Walsh's strips an " inspired thing to do " and said that " some of strips work better the originals ".

In desperation, Kaunda attempted to sever his ties with the IMF in May 1987 and introduce a New Economic Recovery Programme in 1988.

The Trojans, fuelled with desperation, fought back fiercely, despite being disorganized and leaderless.

By June 1598, The Japanese forces fought with desperation, turning back several Chinese offensives in Suncheon and Sacheon as the Ming army prepared for a final assault.

As in his painting of the apocalypse by water ( Composition VI ), Kandinsky puts the viewer in the situation of experiencing these epic myths by translating them into contemporary terms ( with a sense of desperation, flurry, urgency, and confusion ).

In desperation, Kaunda broke with the IMF in May 1987 and introduced a New Economic Recovery Programme in 1988.

She is now angry over the dates he has broken with her, but after he kisses her in desperation, she yields and hands over a little money.

Looking to cast the lead role of a serial killer on death row, producer Herman Shumlin met with Tracy, and later recounted: " beneath the surface, here was a man of passion, violence, sensitivity and desperation: no ordinary man, and just the man for the part.

Italian Neorealist films mostly contend with the difficult economic and moral conditions of post-World War II Italy, reflecting the changes in the Italian psyche and the conditions of everyday life: poverty and desperation.

At that time the Eora conscientiously avoided contact with the newcomers, and in desperation Phillip resorted to kidnap.

Urolagnia is sometimes associated with omorashi, though in Western culture, omorashi is typically distinguished from urolagnia, with terms such as bladder desperation or panty wetting.

Watersports may also be used in a BDSM scene as a form of humiliation, sometimes involving desperation until incontinence or infantilization, sometimes physical humiliation associated with being urinated on or pressured to consume urine.

Guy Picciotto formed Rites of Spring in 1984, breaking free of hardcore's self-imposed boundaries in favor of melodic guitars, varied rhythms, and deeply personal, impassioned lyrics dealing with nostalgia, romantic bitterness, and poetic desperation.

The actresses ' style of performing sometimes shows a kinship with that of the early Kim Stanley or the recent Joanne Woodward, but the notes of desperation are emphatically her own.

By the early 1900s, Ulysses was the last surviving town in Grant County, Kansas, and by 1906, Ulysses was faced with increasingly hard times and desperation.

When the Ilkhanate collapsed after Abu Sa ' id's death, its senior-beys approached Uzbeg in their desperation to find a leader, but the latter declined after consulting with his senior emir, Qutluq Timür.

In desperation, the money is hidden in Bergdorf's coffin, with $ 10, 000 set aside for the widow ( Willes ).

Perhaps in desperation Hotspur attempted to address this imbalance with a charge aimed at killing the King himself, the Royal Standard was overthrown and Sir Walter Blount, its carrier, hacked down.

In her autobiography, Duncan relates that she begged a young Italian stranger — the sculptor Romano Romanelli — to sleep with her because of her desperation to have another baby.

The novel deals not only with the after-effects of the camp experience, but also with making a parallel between the desperation of the residents of Harlem and that of the people in the camps.