desperateness

In those fatal spring months in New York, the sound inside ambulances conveyed, at least to me, a desperateness even more dire than the wailing sirens ricocheting across the city.

“The images clearly convey the ugliness and desperateness of these women,” Parkin told The Washington Post in 2016.

This element of overachieving, of desperateness to dazzle, was very camp.

She’s given a short, angular bob like Liza Minnelli in the movie and the coked-up desperateness that this rendition layers onto the Sally Bowles character.

“But you feel its desperateness, as if it is opening one eye and looking back at you, saying, ‘What have you done to me?'