This is the true measure of her desperation.

This was a good measure of his desperation.

It is a measure of our desperation that the next thing we began to hope for was to find a boat.

It was a measure of her growing desperation, no doubt, and in the rings she had seen that it would bring ruination on everything.

That was probably a measure of his desperation.

Its warmth was a measure of her desperation.

And each move had increased the measure of his desperation.

It was the firmest measure of their desperation.

I took his anxiety to see you at breakfast, despite my explanation, to be a measure of his desperation.

The palpable yearning it has stirred is one more measure of the country's desperation over Iraq.