As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence.
Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?
I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.
The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
I'm desperate to have children. I am chomping at the bit. It's a problem. I can't imagine that I will not be a mother.
The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.
To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.
On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again
Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.
Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a pliant Congress, a desperate public -- and, at his disposal, the greatest pot of money in galactic history.
A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.
I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.
I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.
This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.
One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort to save the tiger.
That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate.