despair
Example Sentences
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It’s far easier to sit in the boiling waters of despair until the heat becomes tolerable than it is to try to alter the temperature all on our own.
From Salon
In an area of several hundred acres, a few paces in any direction can be the difference between a narrative of hope and one of despair.
From Los Angeles Times
This was Spurs in microcosm with mistake piled upon mistake – the self-destruct button pressed with despairing regularity.
From BBC
It was the most Iranian sentence I could imagine: despair and hope in the same breath, separated by a comma.
Desire expels despair, however, when Marty meets his brother’s new bride.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
