Crossword clues for desperation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Desperation \Des`per*a"tion\, n. [L. desperatio: cf. OF. desperation.]
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The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.
This desperation of success chills all our industry.
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A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.
In the desperation of the moment, the officers even tried to cut their way through with their swords.
--W. Irving.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Middle French désperation or directly from Latin desperationem (nominative desperatio) "despair, hopelessness," noun of action from past participle stem of desperare "lose hope" (see despair (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope. 2 A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.
WordNet
n. a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute" [syn: despair]
desperate recklessness; "it was a policy of desperation"
Wikipedia
Desperation is a horror novel by Stephen King. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its "mirror" novel, The Regulators. It was made into a TV film starring Ron Perlman, Tom Skeritt and Steven Weber in 2006. The two novels represent parallel universes relative to one another, and most of the characters present in one novel's world also exist in the other novel's reality, albeit in different circumstances.
Desperation is a story about several people who, while traveling along the desolated Highway 50 in Nevada, get abducted by Collie Entragian, the deputy of the fictional mining town of Desperation. Entragian uses various pretexts for the abductions, from an arrest for drug possession to "rescuing" a family from a nonexistent gunman. It becomes clear to the captives that Entragian has been possessed by an evil being named Tak, who has control over the surrounding desert wildlife and must change hosts to keep itself alive. They begin to fight for their freedom, sanity and lives before realizing that if they are ever to escape Desperation, they must trap Tak in the place from which he came.
Desperation is the first live praise and worship album from the Desperation Band at New Life Church.
Desperation may refer to:
- Despair
- Panic
- Desperation (novel), a 1996 Stephen King novel set in the fictional town of Desperation, Nevada
- Stephen King's Desperation (film), a 2006 TV movie based on King's novel
- Desperation attack, a video game action/move
- Desperation (album), Christian rock album by the Desperation Band
- Desperation Records, a record label by Barenaked Ladies
- Omorashi, a fetishism sometimes referred to in the Western world as "desperation fetishism"
Desperation is the third album from Hostyle Gospel. Hostyle Gospel Ministries released the project on August 13, 2013. Hostyle Gospel Ministries worked with Blessing Adeoye Jr., Chivas Hemphill (Chevaltron-X), Scott Degroot, Joel Elam, Lamorax and Sene on the production of this album.
A group member said, "The idea behind this album was to show how broken this world we live in is and how we need a Savior to save us."
Usage examples of "desperation".
In desperation Max tried to push his adaptor arm out even farther and nearly damaged himself.
Finally, almost in desperation, he searched for any reference to the Arthurian legends, and lo and behold a single return flickered up onto the screen.
In desperation, Bondo had even sunk to consulting an alchemist, who filled his palace with unpleasant odors and his ears with gibberish, accomplished nothing, and demanded a purse of gold for his nugatory services.
In desperation Cugel tore up branches of brittlebush, whose wood made excellent torches.
In desperation he kicked his legs up to its belly, claws seeking flesh but unable to strike home.
America: the desperation of starving settlers, the special helplessness of the displaced African, the powerful incentive of profit for slave trader and planter, the temptation of superior status for poor whites, the elaborate controls against escape and rebellion, the legal and social punishment of black and white collaboration.
WENT BACK to Cranshaw, feeling hopeless and foolish at my desperation to make one more try to reach her.
Some dogs refused to cooperate, and in desperation, their handlers crawled through the barrel while dragging the dogs through by their leashes.
With the blood pressure crashing, the surgery resident in desperation had performed an emergency laparotomy, hoping to control the internal bleeding.
Fingerhood, Jimmy, her co-star, her husband, the movie composer she screwed in desperation the night she lost the Oscar, the cameraman whose only interest was her labia minora which he said resembled a pink tea rose, the construction worker she picked up on a dare and was let down by with a bang, even the midgetthey all agreed she was a washout in bed.
He had walked the Moonpaths to no effect - so now he tried a desperation move.
The blanket smelled of stale traffic, the corroborating truth a laboratory of research onanists might produce in their methodical throbbing and desperation for pictures.
Ellis Ann had shrunk enough that they were the same height now, and she clung to Rags with what looked like desperation.
In the beginning, they made their homes on some of the less rocky, more southerly islands, refurbishing ancient ruins, farming where decent soil remained, breeding small numbers of stock beasts on the strictly limited graze, fishing, and in times of desperation, raiding the coasts and riverways of their previous homelands to the west.
People who came to Rochdale in formlessness or desperation or freakout, found out what they wanted, and went off to it?