despair

Example Sentences

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It was a year that knocked me flat, tearing me apart from so many things that once anchored me, setting me afloat in a sea of guilt and despair and ultimate uncertainty.

From Los Angeles Times

Maybe it’s the overwhelming despair and helplessness about a problem that is still devouring our globe.

From Salon

This grassroots activism, characterized by humor and optimism rather than despair, suggested that democratic participation remained a viable path forward.

From Los Angeles Times

Time and again, Ann’s hope is met with heart-wrenching pain, and to hear Seyfried’s angelic voice laced with her character’s despair is quite unlike anything I have ever experienced watching a film, musical or otherwise.

From Salon

But his wife warned that "the public conscience cannot be silenced. These hardships do not lead me to despair but to solidarity. I trust the will and conscience of the people," she said.

From Barron's