despond

Example Sentences

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Randy started building the “Phantasma Gloria” around the turn of the millennium, when he was “languishing in the sea of despond for the unmet yearning to create something new and beautiful in the world.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2023

“The Unfolding” suggests no solutions to this plight, but it offers irresistible reflection on how the audacity of hope got pushed off the rails and fell into the slough of despond.

From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2022

The Salt Lake City Games in 2002 nearly drowned in a despond of corruption; the Pyeongchang Games in February chewed up forests and pushed out villagers.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2018

As 2017 begins, the general mood in the so-called mainstream media is a bewildered despond, captured well in the opening of a year-end New York Times editorial:

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2017

I knew right then I was in the sloop of despond.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver