When it comes to money, some pretty desperate people need to be saved from themselves, yes.

And if these two were reading for me, I'd have to be pretty desperate to cast them.

"I guess they've got to be pretty desperate to try something like this."

You describe a pretty desperate situation which I find extremely difficult to believe.

When I talked to him at the jail, he seemed pretty desperate.

Seems pretty desperate to keep an opportunity to lose money.

You had to be, at first, pretty desperate to ask an Army sergeant a question like that.

One has to be pretty desperate to play a move like 30 Na7?

"If that was the captain, it must have gotten pretty desperate for him to fire on us."

And the door had not been locked just because we looked pretty desperate characters.