despair

But even “A Different World” hit its limits when it plunged the audience inside the Black folks’ shock and despair after the 1992 Los Angeles uprising.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

“I’d worried she might spiral into despair over her memory loss,” Tan wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

The party has only recently rolled out training for its MPs on making social videos, something senior figures despair at.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

In nearly three years since the brutal attack on Israel, American Jews have been experiencing unprecedented trauma and despair, with escalating antisemitism around the world and across our own country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

There was an expression of something like despair mingled now with the worry lines in his face.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Marriage is the main topic, both the joys and despairs, in numbers that make ambivalence energizing, fun, poignant and, most important, resonantly true.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2024

Kakar despairs at the plight of Afghans who remain in Pakistan.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024

Then Isabel’s despairs stack, pressing her to expand her inquiry beyond the United States and diagnose history’s gravest injuries.

From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2024

Mr Jones said he "despairs" when visitors in north Wales are "let down" by the train network, and said that it was a "big, big disappointment".

From BBC ● May 30, 2023

But without academic credentials, he despairs of ever getting published in a scholarly journal.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Still, he kept laboring toward a perfection he didn’t always reach but never despaired of reaching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

But closer to the high-security perimeter, a crowd of worshippers despaired as police officers blocked their route.

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

You despaired because buying merchandise—both Fanatics’ own and products it retails—did not satiate your appetite to do e-commerce with this company.

From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2025

I’ve long despaired about the homelessness crisis in particular.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024

“From the perspective of Aeneas,” said Reverend Buckminster next, and Turner despaired with the hero in the groaning and stretching ship—or maybe it was Aeneas who was groaning and stretching.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

Despite facing notable challenges and coming of age in a culture infected by “big woe,” or an onslaught of despairing information, Moore believes there is still reason for young people to be optimistic.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

That cruel realization haunts the cash-strapped protagonist of English filmmaker Mark Jenkin’s transfixing, increasingly despairing “Rose of Nevada.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

Tyler Smith made a despairing dive to try to block his shot but the assistant referee raised his flag immediately to signal the goal.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

Mr. Page expresses such deep, despairing horror that, for a few minutes at least, this minor tragedy rises to heights of harrowing feeling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

I frequently had difficult conversations with clients who were struggling and despairing over their situations—over the things they'd done, or had been done to them, that had led them to painful moments.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson