It is a sign of desperateness indeed; yea, of desperate madness.
So it was with those people--their desperateness was without an object.
Women felt this, and were the more ready to sympathise with him and help him, until at last he revolted them by his drunkenness and debauchery, by the desperateness of which I have spoken already.
He had the measure of the threat to the last fraction, and he flung himself into the battle with a desperateness of energy and resolve that bore almost immediate fruit.
A desperateness quite unrealized until it was over, and complete victory had been achieved.
Vigor even to desperateness of action both Nelson and Farragut on occasion showed--recklessness never.
The desperateness of the situation was, however, manifest to all.
Despite the seriousness of the situation and the real desperateness of their position the Pony Rider Boys laughed so that they were unable to yell for a full minute.
He realized the desperateness of Willie Jones' character fully now.
The inroads of hunger were already experienced; and this knowledge of the desperateness of my calamity urged me to frenzy.
The desperateness of my condition was, for a moment, forgotten.
This attempt to cast out the Devil with Beelzebub indicates in some degree the desperateness of the situation.
The German Government had long lost any illusions it might have cherished in respect to Austria-Hungary's value as an ally, and it was fully informed of the desperateness of the situation there.
Chancellor Count Hertling, addressing the Reichstag on September 24th, made a speech which, read between the lines, was a veiled admission of the desperateness of the situation and the increasingly discouraged condition of the people.
It was a pitched battle, planned for carefully, and fought with all the desperateness of the Evil One at bay against overwhelming forces.
The world's condition spells out thedesperateness of that need.
The desperateness of my condition became hourly more apparent.
Each sustained a wretch, whose groans and distortions bespoke the desperateness of his condition.
