He had longish hair and an air of quiet desperation.

Thoreau wrote 150 years ago that most people lead "lives of quiet desperation."

He sighed, ran both hands through his hair several times, a gesture of quiet desperation.

There is a feeling of quiet desperation in the room.

So it has come to this, as the days of quiet desperation visit the Bronx once more.

There was a growing and quiet desperation to her in that time as going back to being the Lady approached.

Responding to their quiet desperation, she had gone to the government.

If that sounds like a plea of quiet desperation, it is.

Would I like to go back to my life of quiet desperation?

A. There may be a lot more people living in quiet desperation than one ever wants to think about.