Again and again the Rosses had suffered attacks on their lands from their enemies and when at last, driven to desperation and thoroughly infuriated, they gathered their forces and marched against the Mackay Chief, they were in the mood to teach the Mackays a severe lesson.

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.

Beyond the law, he also tries his hand at selling real estate, reasoning that it was a natural move as most of his clients ended up losing their homes anyway, and out of desperation for work, babysitting, where he produces a switchblade on awakening suddenly after nodding off to sleep, and also burns a lot of presumably incriminating documents in the Simpsons ' fireplace, then claiming he is now " Miguel Sanchez ".

In desperation, the three band together and blow up the theater to end the production.

I think that activity came out of isolation and desperation, and I hope that isn't going to be something that people feel they have to take up because they have no other way to express their opposition to the brave new world.

In desperation, Lambeau calls on Sean Maguire ( Robin Williams ), his estranged college roommate who also grew up in South Boston and now teaches psychology at Bunker Hill Community College.

In desperation, they resort to comical means to try to keep up.

In her desperation, Zosh once again gives herself away, standing up in front of Frankie and the police.

In sheer desperation, Amuro ended up piloting the RX-78-2 Gundam to defend his home.

When Death, personified as a teenage girl in a goth dress, shows up to take him, Hazel makes a promise in desperation.

At Motegi, a mechanical failure was followed a stalled car at the start at Mine after starting seventh, where he proceeded to cause a multi-car pile-up in desperation to climb back up the field.

In desperation and out of instinct, Raistlin throws up his hands to stop the fireball that is hurtling towards him.

In desperation, Mai destroys the monitor and ( presumably ) computer that they were using, and drags him outside, where a splash of rainwater wakes him up.

In desperation they had turned to Saint Cunibert who had advised them to pray to God and to promise to bring up an eventual child in the Christian faith.

In an act of desperation Sturm attempts to blow up the base and inflict damage on Wars World by self-destructing the missile.

The director said, " Out of desperation, I called up MC Hammer because he had read the script and liked it.

Then, with 32 seconds remaining Staubach again lined up in the shotgun formation, took the snap, pump-faked left, then turned to his right and unloaded a desperation pass to Drew Pearson who was being covered by All-Pro cornerback Nate Wright.

In desperation, they hiked for days to the border to be picked up and were brought back to Seoul.

" 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.

He wrote it after racking his brain in desperation for five hours, trying to come up with another song for Rubber Soul.

In an act of desperation, Zor Prime blew up a Tirolian Mothership above the three giant burial mounds in an attempt to wipe out the flowers.

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 ).

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

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

Richie is in desperation with the state of the nation, when Eddie suggests they go up to the roof and watch cricket.

With regard to a safety net, Hayek advocated " some provision for those threatened by the extremes of indigence or starvation, be it only in the interest of those who require protection against acts of desperation on the part of the needy.

Of course, the introduction of irreducible primitives into a philosophical theory is always problematical ( some would say a sign of desperation ), and such anti-reductionist accounts are unlikely to please those who have other reasons to hold fast to the method behind JTB + G accounts.

The words, which in the musical are those of the minister Stephen Kumalo at the depth of his desperation, tell how God once " held all the stars in the palm of his hand " " and they ran through his fingers like grains of sand, and one little star fell alone.

The idea persists to this day, of the process of heartache and desperation associated with the broken and hurting lives of those involved in buying and selling of sex and drugs on the streets and in the registered brothel in the area.

Feeling alienated by everyone around him, especially by his peers, Hedayat's last published work, The Message of Kafka, bespeaks melancholy, desperation and a sense of doom experienced only by those subjected to discrimination and repression.

In desperation, the miners took all their gems to the Well of Knowledge, which is said to grant wishes and provide information for those who dropped treasure into it.

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.

Trying to postpone returning home ( where he has planned suicide ), Harry walks aimlessly around the town for most of the night, finally stopping to rest at a dance hall where he happens on a young woman, Hermine, who quickly recognizes his desperation.

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.

When the young man is tied to his chair, his " ravings " seem instead to indicate desperation to escape an enchanted captivity.

Barlach, however, created a sculpture with three German soldiers, a fresh recruit, a young officer and an old reservist, standing in a cemetery, all bearing marks of the horror, pain and desperation of the war, flanked by a mourning war widow covering her face in despair, a skeleton wearing a German army helmet, and a civilian ( the face is that of Barlach himself ) with his eyes closed and blocking his ears in terror.

The young ladies unexpectedly appear again assuming that a chaperone is there, and in a fit of desperation, Jack suggests that Charley pose as his aunt-anyway he's wearing the costume right now.

This is a reference to Mary Furley, a destitute young woman sentenced to death in 1844 for infanticide after her desperation not to return to the workhouse led to a failed suicide attempt in which her illegitimate child drowned.

Emgann clams that it does not approve of the violent actions of the ARB, but it doesn't disapprove either, treating them instead as " a logical consequence of the colonialist French state and the desperation of young Bretons.

That changes when a young man who has been stabbed falls right in front of her, screaming in pain and desperation.

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 ''??

Alfred Jodl, Chief of Operations in the OKW, remarked, after Raeder said Kriegsmarine could not meet the operational requirements of the Army, " then a landing in England must be regarded as a sheer act of desperation ".

Unable to escape, the POWs could only scream and thrash in desperation.

He noted that a state of love could turn to fury and desperation, and that sudden severe reversals in life, such as " from the pleasure of success to an overwhelming idea of failure, from a dignified state — or the belief that one occupies one — to a state of disgrace and being forgotten " can cause mania or ' mental alienation '.

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.

Credible strategic nuclear deterrence, the secretary felt, depended on fulfilling several conditions: maintaining essential equivalence with the Soviet Union in force effectiveness ; maintaining a highly survivable force that could be withheld or targeted against an enemy's economic base in order to deter coercive or desperation attacks against U. S. population or economic targets ; establishing a fast-response force that could act to deter additional enemy attacks ; and establishing a range of capabilities sufficient to convince all nations that the United States was equal to its strongest competitors.

In desperation, the King promised his beautiful daughter's hand in marriage to anyone who could defeat the dragon.

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.

Nor could Adam, or his heir, leverage this grant to enslave mankind, for the law of nature forbids reducing one's fellows to a state of desperation, if one possesses a sufficient surplus to maintain oneself securely.

In a final act of desperation, he mailed copies of the tape to any major record label he could think of.

Given Demon Hunter's overt Christianity, the video could be seen as people reaching out for a savior in their time of desperation.

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 '.

In desperation, the King promised his beautiful daughter's hand in marriage to anybody who could defeat the dragon.

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.

In A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens examines the inner soul, and shares with us how people are driven to the valley of human emotions, where desperation and anger reign, and what could happen afterwards if we let these emotions build up inside.