desesperado
frantic ; desperate ; in desperation ; agonised [agonized, -USA] ; hopeless ; despairing ; up against the wall ; with + Posesivo + back against the wall ; forlorn ; frenzied.
Frantic assistants fell over each other's feet trying to retrieve tickets from the rows and rows of issue trays = Frantic assistants fell over each other's feet trying to retrieve tickets from the rows and rows of issue trays.
Compassion shadowed the trustee's face - she could see he was desperate - and compassion was in her voice as she answered: 'All right, I'll go over this afternoon'.
When a library user comes to the reference desk in frustration and desperation - perhaps in a rage or in tears, it is often an unforgettable (and sometimes unpleasant) opportunity to test one's problem-solving abilities and diplomatic talents.
He went back into the house, addressing his Maker in low agonized tones, changed, and started out again.
This article discusses the pre-revolutionary shortage of books on agriculture economy in 1913, and how existing books only discussed the miserable, hopeless life of the peasants.
Sympathetic readers wept with Dwight MacDonald in his despairing plea for the restoration of the English language after first encountering 'Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language'.
The article is entitled 'Up against the wall: highlights of the Detroit Conference, American Library Association, June 27-July 3'.
With his back against the wall, he might judge that he had little choice but to use his weapons of mass destruction in a last-ditch attempt to save his country.
The author wrings sick humor from its feckless heroes' forlorn attempts to escape from a drug habit that they do not really enjoy any longer.
There was a frenzied last-minute rush by Indians to do their bit to see the Taj Mahal through to the elite list of the new Seven Wonders of the World.
en una situación desesperada
in dire straits
Egypt's Internet situation is in dire straits after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean were accidentally severed yesterday.
estar desesperado
Posesivo + back + be + against the wall
What do you do when your back's against the wall following a breast cancer diagnosis?.
