Now, short of doing something truly desperate like putting a letter in an envelope, there's a way.

Only then did the Jews become truly desperate, and they begged for peace.

Woods was making the best response he knew to a truly desperate situation.

They must have been truly desperate to undertake the journey.

Gabriel realized how truly desperate the family must have been.

She encounters characters ranging from the truly desperate to the bizarre.

There would also be bingo, of course, last resort for the truly desperate.

Anyone truly desperate for a Grammy might think about changing style.

If I get truly desperate, there's always the paper to eat, she thought.

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