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 -- 破釜沉舟，拼死一搏
We understand the desperations that, unfortunately, have produced the spirit that only force can solve this question.
Eventually, in desperation, he seeks a doctor, and receives the salutary advice to stop work and take a break in the country.
Insecurity was followed by anxiety and feelings of desperation.
The apparent recklessness of the act is a testimony to the desperation of the situation.
Exalted imagery may be evidence not of universal enthusiasm but of a desperation to paper over cracks.
There are no lives of quiet desperation here.
When describing the mood among those imprisoned, primary accounts convey a silent desperation in the first years of this persecution.
My anticipation that the chapters contributed seemingly by default by the editor would show some signs of haste and desperation was, happily, not met.
