0 the feeling that you have when you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to take risks in order to change it: --
1 the feeling of being in such a bad situation that you will take any risk to change it: --
All of us have, lurking somewhere on our hard disks, some 'quick and dirty' improvisations, sometimes thrown together in desperation, that just seem to work!
When they did achieve proximity, it was unsatisfactory, temporary, or more expressive of desperation than desire.
78 such features were constructed as acts of desperation in response to climatic change.
In their desperation, they feel they have no alternative but to seek sanctuary elsewhere, however hazardous the attempt might be.
British social historians have traditionally concentrated on the working-class predicament of desperation.
The testimony of some of these women demonstrates the desperation at, and mistrust of, the actions of the colonial administration and indigenous leadership.
The violence of secret societies, on the other hand, appears ineradicable given the desperation of the lower classes.
My anticipation that the chapters contributed seemingly by default by the editor would show some signs of haste and desperation was, happily, not met.
