despair

Example Sentences

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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

It wasn’t the lost necklace that sparked her despair, he said, but the gold cross, which carried the ashes of Esther Guerrero’s daughter.

From Los Angeles Times

But the protagonist is a Latino man crying over the film’s despairing score that he’ll “do anything” to return to his wife and kids and “live again.”

From Los Angeles Times