downheartedness

Example Sentences

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This spring’s blighted crop of dystopian novels is pessimistic about technology, about the economy, about politics, and about the planet, making it a more abundant harvest of unhappiness than most other heydays of downheartedness.

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017

When the first days of downheartedness were over, and at sight of the danger which threatened Lille and the remains of the Flemish army assembled within its walls, all Flanders rushed to arms.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Black, Robert

Fortune once more takes us into her good graces, and we are scarcely able to understand our past downheartedness in view of the new happiness to which we have fallen heirs.

From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix

Could Ernest have known Mr. Kurtz's true state of mind, he would have had less reason for downheartedness.

From Miss Theodora A West End Story by Reed, Helen Leah

There is no more pregnant a "reviver" of downheartedness than letters from the old people, nor is anything more liable to inspire the "pip" than the absence of such personal touches with familiar scenes.

From Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry by Blicq, A. Stanley