In blind panic of grief she accepted Jonathan's dictum, and believed in her desperation that she had been cursed by God.

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.

In desperation, she shot herself.

In a moment of terror and desperation, she bares her heart to him, revealing that she never loved her first husband, only him.

Out of desperation, she approached several loan sharks, incurring a huge debt about which Holloway knew nothing.

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.

Zelda Fitzgerald succeeded, in this novel, in conveying her own heroic desperation to succeed at something of her own, and she also managed to distinguish herself as a writer with, as Edmund Wilson once said of her husband, a ' gift for turning language into something iridescent and surprising.

The ship however had already left the shore and in desperation she leapt in the water.

She finally gave in, realizing the desperation and persistence of the sage and fearing that if she did not heed to his request, he might topple the boat midstream.

Reluctant, but in desperation, she feigns love for Andrei, and agrees to become his mistress in return for the promise of complete secrecy about their relationship.

Despite the desperation of her predicament, she is confident that this will be another of her happy days.

In desperation, Don Caesar pretends that he will marry and young girl and then send Olivia off to a convent unless she marries right away.

In desperation, she shoplifts a large supply of over-the-counter medication from her own grocery store.

In the process, she learns that he did not hire a matchmaker out of desperation and in fact has admired Isabelle from afar for several years.

A free spirit in the purest sense of the word, Megu-chan discovers emotions she ’ d never known existed – loneliness, compassion, grief, love, desperation, and ( perhaps most importantly ) self-sacrifice.

Without an income or property, it was in her desperation as a widowed mother that she began publishing her writings.

In the poem, Betty is caring for a sick neighbor ; in desperation, she sends her mentally handicapped son Johnny on horseback to fetch a doctor from the nearby town.

Nevertheless, when her son is kidnapped by a criminal Jennifer is defending, she, in desperation, turns to Michael Moretti for help.

After he leaves, Hetty Sorrel agrees to marry Adam but shortly before their marriage, discovers she is pregnant. In desperation, she leaves in search of Arthur.

In desperation Beowulf grabbed a giant sword of great age and with it took off the head of the she monster.

When questioned regarding Carey's suicidal rumor, Berger claimed she had broken dishes out of desperation, and as a result, accidentally cut her hands and feet.

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.

Alternatively, the use of polygraph testing, where it causes desperation over dismissal for past dishonesty, may encourage spying.

While he is generally considered to be rather short-tempered when compared to Rama, Lakshmana is also considered an important element of Mariyada Purushottama, displaying great courage and presence of mind when Rama becomes distraught, angry and desperate over the loss of Sita — in an uncharacteristic display of desperation, a furious and almost hopeless Rama, not knowing of Sita's fate or whereabouts, is suddenly about to fire a weapon capable of bringing vast devastation of life ; Lakshmana stops Rama, calms him down, explains to him that the world is not responsible for their separation from Sita, and consoles and encourages his righteous brother, while giving him support and strength to keep looking for her.

" In desperation, Harris propped the board over a paraffin heater.

As a number of albatrosses circled over Luckner, one swooped down and seized his outstretched hand in its beak but Luckner grabbed the bird in desperation.

Some individuals took advantage of a hiding person's desperation by collecting money, then reneging on their promise of aid — or worse, turning them over to the Germans for an additional reward.

He frequently gets himself into near-fatal situations, and in desperation, talks his way out of them ; several times he tries to bring peace to warring families ; on many occasions, he proves useful to Xena in winning people over.

Such was Robson's desperation for Mourinho to join him he offered to step down after two years in charge and hand over the reins to Mourinho.

Ungar later said in his biography that he loved seeing his opponent slowly break down over the course of a match, realizing he could not win and eventually get a look of desperation on his face.

In desperation, Krüger returns to HQ to make a personal appeal to the general for more reinforcements, but on arrival he finds that the building has been taken over by the SS and Von Brock has been arrested for being " defeatist ".

The Rebellion broke out over economic desperation and government oppression but later assumed a religious tone.

African American men, like the Germans, often murdered in response to economic conditions but not over desperation about the future.

During an NBC broadcast in 1963, Roger Staubach, then a Navy quarterback, described a pass play during his team ’ s victory over Michigan that year as a “ Hail Mary play .” He scrambled to escape a pass rush, nearly getting sacked 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage before completing a desperation pass for a one-yard gain.

However, in the late noble era when pessimism was popular due to the “ belief that Buddhism will decline during the latter days of this world ”, the Pure Land movements spread out in the strong admiration to the future life in desperation over the life in this world.

Skipper Ponting showed some desperation when he brought Michael Hussey on with nine overs to spare, knowing that the spinners couldn't keep it tight, but got his reward in Hussey's second over when Collingwood was run out for 53-off 116 balls.

Whilst on the journey, the three form a friendship but they face hardships, such as Sharkboy's anger for the oceans being frozen over, and Lavagirl's desperation to find her true purpose on Planet Drool.

A lengthy series of investigations into the source of the noise followed and, in desperation, the USAF eventually turned over the testing to a panel headed by SRI.

In this as in other poems, the poet turns his wife's body into a mythic symbol of desperation and hope, of regenerative power desperately needed in a broken Spain.

On the accession of the Caps to power in 1766, Fersen refused to employ the Guards to keep order in the capital when King Adolf Frederick of Sweden, driven to desperation by the demands of the Caps, abdicated, and a seven days ’ interregnum ensued.

The resort's supervisors, in increasing desperation, try to regain control by shutting down power to the entire park, but this traps them in the control rooms, unable to turn the power back on while the robots run amok on stored power.

The general's thoughts are relayed to the reader through winding sentences which convey his desperation and loneliness alongside the atrocities and ruthless behavior that keep him in power.

In desperation, Emerson tries to make a public appeal at a charity event to Green Lantern, believing Green Lantern's power ring can help him.