The original title of the film, Fucking Åmål, refers to the girls ' feelings about their smalltown home: in a key scene one of the girls shouts in desperation " varför måste vi bo i fucking jävla kuk-Åmål " ( which roughly translates to " why do we have to live in fucking bloody cock-Åmål ").

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.

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 '.

This reached near-hysterical heights at one point with UK press making a report that Ford would reintroduce the previous Cortina model out of desperation.

When Eudocia's father died he left her with little means, only " one hundred gold coins " Eudocia then went to her aunt in Constantinople out of desperation, and it was decided that Eudocia would come before Pulcheria to petition for her lost fortune.

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.

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.

In an act resembling human desperation, HAL rams Poole with one of the spaceship's EVA pods, severing his oxygen hose and sending Poole hurtling into outer space without his oxygen.

Finally, in desperation, Lowell detaches one of the domes with one of the robots aboard seconds before he is killed by the boarding party.

Traditional accounts of the Cromwellian wars often dismiss the appeal to Lorraine as an act of desperation, but recently one historian has argued that the stateless Duke was in fact seriously interested in becoming the Protector of Ireland.

In a moment of desperation, Sarah attempts to murder Miles Dyson, one of the computer researchers who works at Cyberdyne Systems and is destined to build the revolutionary microprocessor that eventually becomes Skynet.

In desperation, Dirk Struan turned to Jin-qua, who lent him one million sterling in specie.

While piloting a C-46 on one such mission, Lt. Wally A. Gayda returned fire in desperation against a fighter by pushing a Browning automatic rifle out the cockpit window and firing a full magazine, killing the Japanese pilot.

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.

At least one extra levy provoked desperation and rioting in which the emperor's statues were destroyed.

In desperation, he says to himself that he will grow old with only his right hand as lifelong companion — until one morning when he wakes to find a miniature Midori attached to where his right hand used to be.

Although this move may be seen as one of either supreme confidence or supreme desperation, it pays off, as the film garners much more attendance and revenue for the owners than they previously had.

The Black Death was one of the most traumatic events in European history, and the renewed desperation of the people, hopeful for divine intervention to end their sufferings, brought about a return of the flagellants and the Geisslerlieder.

In one episode of the new 3D animation productions, Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: Apocalypse 0079, Zeon deployed their own mobile attack pod, the MP-02A " Oggo ", in desperation.

: But as for the crown of grass, it was never conferred except at a crisis of extreme desperation, never voted except by the acclamation of the whole army, and never to any one but to him who had been its preserver.

Black Manta realizes that Aquaman was right, but makes one last effort to kill him in desperation.

Fighting with desperation, Carbajal finally got to Gonzalez, who by now was tired, in round six, connecting strong punches to the head and causing swelling around one of Gonzalez's eyes.

Knowing this, O ' Brien threatens to let rats devour Winston's face, and in utter desperation he begs O ' Brien, " Do it to Julia!

I don't know what Cameron's going to do, but in the end you vote out of desperation.

Club, Zack Handlen called Deep Throat's death " a shocking moment, even when you know it's coming ", praising the " desperation " evident in Hardin's performance, although lamenting the " curse of continuity " that led to the character being quickly replaced with Steven Williams ' X. Ben Rawson-Jones, writing for Digital Spy, felt that Deep Throat's tenure on The X-Files was " arguably the show's peak ", and praised Hardin's acting in the role.

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.

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.

" The article stated " Say the words " Fifth Ward " to most Houstonians, and they'll think crime, poverty and desperation.

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

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.

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.

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 Elders gathered up those young vampires that could be saved and entrusted them to me.

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 ).

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.