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They veiled the stage in gauze on “Copy of A,” casting dozens of Reznor shadows while he strutted and howled about a despondent, depersonalized modernity.

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Many of those I speak to in the Hillsborough community have been feeling despondent.

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However, he seemed to have succeeded at the 2009 Labour Party conference when Mandelson delivered a rousing speech to despondent delegates, telling them: "If I can come back, we can come back."

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You need a closer so you don’t have the eternal optimist Roberts looking oddly despondent late Sunday afternoon.

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It’s very easy to become despondent and overwhelmed.

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