despair

Triumph, termination, starting over: This would be Capra’s Hollywood loop, with corresponding moods that veered from euphoria to near-suicidal despair.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Gwen Owen is the founder of a women-only running group and has taken to Instagram to express her despair at "intimidating" harassment she and Môn Girls Run receive from men at night.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Picking Stevie Wonder’s “Living for the City” as a campaign theme song despite its stark lyrics of urban despair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Recalling how he rushed to the site of the crash, Fernandez said he was confronted with "an image of desolation, despair, uncertainty, death".

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Maybe she’d turned bitter and cursed Percy’s girlfriend out of despair.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Klaus both despises his native country and despairs at the dichotomous paradigm of the postwar world—“Stalin or Mickey Mouse,” he gripes—and asks Erika, “Is there anything you still believe in?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024

Now he despairs of the international community because it is not doing more to stop the fighting.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2024

She badgers LB to get a job and despairs when her stubborn daughter holds out for meaningful work rather than going to Scranton, Pa., to work in collections.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

Another story: the emperor despairs of Ending a horse able to run a thousand li.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

Several MPs the BBC spoke to despaired that such a significant social change could hinge on their colleagues' diary commitments.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

He despaired about how to collect the boys, unsure he could obtain a U.S. visa, court documents showed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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

They mourned the loss of entertainment industry jobs and despaired over homeless people living in squalor.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

“Better, ten kilos of rice and two bars of soap,” she said, which we do need badly, but I despaired for an imaginary windfall that would bring nothing but more white starch into this house.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

Parents, siblings and best friends are interviewed by Ms. Borgman, all singing the praises of the deceased but almost uniformly despairing of the results of the case, a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Crowther shares a few scraps of despairing, Plathian verse, but almost entirely neglects her unfinished posthumous memoir, published in 1974 as “My Story.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026

With the tiring Sale defence in disarray, Malins fed Calouri on the wing to dive over Warr's despairing tackle to leave Sharks boss Alex Sanderson with much to consider at the break.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

Her locker was depressingly empty, but the second thing kept her from despairing too much: June’s mom had agreed to let her go to the dance.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake