Anger that she wasn't answering now combined with concern and something approaching desperation in his mind.
Even a minor incident reveals his desperate determination to overcome, the desperation of the poor.
Even his last act of desperation proved a failure.
Here, lawlessness, poverty and desperation were the norm.
I went to the police in desperation!
It was just a feeling of anger and desperation.
Other self-defeating organizations rely on insincere optimism and empty slogans to mask an inner sense of desperation.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES►drive somebody to despair/desperation
(=make someone despair)· Escalating personal debts have driven many people to despair.
►quiet confidence/satisfaction/desperation
(=having a particular feeling but not talking about it) a woman whose life of quiet desperation threatens to overwhelm her
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE►quiet
· There was a mood of quiet desperation about Mr and Mrs Quigley.· Why do you think Thoreau said lives of quiet desperation?· Conversing politely over the tea-cups in the huge drawing-rooms, he sensed their quiet desperation.· There is a quiet desperation around the whole area.· The husband belongs to Scarlet, a woman whose life of quiet desperation threatens to overwhelm her.
VERB►drive
· He seeks to blackmail Headstone but succeeds only in driving the man to desperation.· Being driven to desperation, it occurred to him to seek a strong ally.· But even they had been known to take direct action when driven to desperation.· Boredom and isolation were driving Polly to desperation.
the state of being desperate: a look of desperationin/out of desperation She resorted to stealing food out of desperation. In desperation, we had to borrow the money.