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

Mr. Southwode's detail, while it interested her terribly, and in a sort nattered her, also reduced her to a very low feeling of downheartedness.

From A Letter of Credit by Warner, Susan

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

A strange moodiness had come over her, and even with him at home she had at times given way to fits of downheartedness which seemed altogether alien to her nature.

From The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West by Stead, Robert J. C.

Hussey, with his cheeriness and his banjo, was another vital factor in chasing away any tendency to downheartedness.

From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir