desperation

Converse of object

• convey: Don't apologize for your age, lack of recent relevant experience, and do not convey desperation.
• reveal: Research of today's would-be FTBs, carried out on behalf of Yorkshire Building Society, has revealed the extreme desperation of many.
• increase: With increasing desperation are they are trying to find ways of getting you to pay for their party.
• grow: Out of his predicament grew desperation, out of desperation grew resentment.
• show: It shows the desperation of a couple, forced to emigrate with their young family by lack of opportunities at home.
• feel: These people end up feeling a great desperation in their quest, either feeling not worthy enough or terminally blocked in some way.

Adjective modifier

• sheer: In sheer desperation in the final quarter they had to rely on their fitness to pull them through edging us by 2 goals.
• utter: In utter desperation, the company offered the SER a hundred year lease on its line in 1844.
• quiet: The phrase " quiet desperation " has always appealed to me.
• absolute: Even with decompression, swinging 14½ liters must have been an act of absolute desperation.
• economic: In Yugoslavia and Iraq the problem has been brutal and selfish leadership rather than ethnic or economic desperation.
• political: If he did not, it would have looked like an act of political desperation.

Preposition: into

• determination: She has encountered seemingly impossible odds and overcome them and through her experiences she has learned how one can turn desperation into determination.
• hope: The building of a revolutionary organization could help to begin turning desperation into hope.

Preposition: on

part: Is this all just desperation on the part of marketers?

Modifies a noun

• attack: Chose to attack on your next turn and the character should use their desperation attack.
• people: Poverty and desperation force people into this business with often the inevitable consequences.

Preposition: in

face: The confidence that permeates the book of Joshua has disappeared, replaced by a sense of desperation in the face of enormous obstacles.

Preposition: of

• people: Their tragic deaths reflect the desperation of people as they seek a better life free of danger and persecution.
• life: What religion, in the name of truth and honesty, reflects the violence and desperation of the natural life?