The police were desperate about the drug scene, and there was a feeling that you couldn't stop drugs.

The laughter of men who lived through the war has something forced and desperate about it.

It's easy to feel desperate about language right now.

"I don't know, I've just never been desperate about my career," she says.

After four months she was desperate about her eyes.

But there was a lot of the desperate about it.

Governor Bush's campaign is getting desperate, with a negative ad about me.

Feel desperate about a problem and don't know where to turn for help.

Families are still desperate for knowledge about the fate of their loved ones.

Another 34 percent of the sample described themselves as feeling "truly desperate" about the situation.