How To Use Despair In A Sentence
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they moaned in despair and dismay
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A small flurry of winners brings hope, only for a minor drought to promote despair.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alex was almost speechless with rage and despair.
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And it was Charlie’s indirect responsibility that he committed suicide, thus ending that marriage in acrimony and despair.
Patrick McGrath’s ‘Trauma’ « Tales from the Reading Room
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When we moved from pilot to series, the notion of recasting Mitchell, Annie and Herrick was met with wails of despair.
SFX
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On every side my heart is in despair; nor is there any help for my pain; but it burneth ever thus.
The Argonautica
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A townswoman actually comes to the castle in despair, demanding her child; Dracula sets a pack of wolves on her.
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But as if divining his thoughts -- just as they passed through the dining-room door, Euphra looked round at him, almost over Funkelstein's shoulder, and, without putting into her face the least expression discernible by either of the others following, contrived to banish for the time all Hugh's despair, and to convince him that he had nothing to fear from Funkelstein.
David Elginbrod
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Then she went to the window and threw it open, looking down with despair at the six-storey drop to the courtyard below.
TREASON KEEP
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But surely, I say, there are some people blessed with sunny dispositions - it doesn't necessarily mean they're valiantly trying to stop themselves from sliding into despair.
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My mind went blank with grief and despair.
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The adventure had a final despairing twist.
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Vary the story to take in the white collar worker, the ice man let out with the coming of the frigidaire, the clerk displaced for the young graduate, vary it to include, if you will, the "chiseller" and the exploiter, but remembering that suffering, need, idleness and despair play their own part in turning the man who cannot work into the man who will not work.
Canada's Problems in Relief and Assistance
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No one is privy to her despair, her chaos, and her shame.
Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
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In 1940, even the indomitable Winston Churchill despaired of survival, far less ultimate victory.
SAN ANDREAS
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The squalid conditions in the shack settlements drive many to despair.
Times, Sunday Times
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One fan has captured the despair by calling his blog Capitol Punishment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some shook with superstitious dread; others, driven to atheistical despair, with horrible execrations, again strove to force a passage through the doors.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Her appearance was deathlike, and her look of despair very pitiful.
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Even so, they wallow in the lifelessness of the mood of despair and they make no effort to step out of their lethargy.
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‘We were promised Utopia and we are in the depths of despair,’ said one governor.
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In 1940, even the indomitable Winston Churchill despaired of survival, far less ultimate victory.
SAN ANDREAS
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And thrice in the time that I did go, there did be a running of feet amid the darkness; and odd whiles strange and horrid cryings in the night; so that I put a force upon my despair, and hid me; for, indeed, I had no right to lose care of my life, if there did be any chance yet that I find the Maid.
The Night Land
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Theo was in the depths of despair as it was ten years to the day that his beautiful wife died, somewhat mysteriously.
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The goats that grazed these trees began to lose their teeth and many died of starvation, much to the despair of their owners.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even so, I did not leave the young, brown-haired man in complete despair and ruin.
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He was afire with every kind of sorrow, lamentation and despair.
THE BROKEN GOD
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He's developed this captivating narrative voice that mingles his own sharp commentary with Peter's mock-heroic despair.
Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles
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How can we live honestly, not deceiving ourselves yet not giving way to cynicism or despair?
Christianity Today
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He sank down into a chair in front of the uneaten breakfast I had made for Nicola and suddenly his eyes were wild and despairing.
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
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I have thought it, for example, not humane to variegate the text of an Anthology with despairing obeli: and occasionally I have covered up an indubitable lacuna by artifices which I trust may pass undetected by the general reader and unreproved by the charitable critic.
Preface
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He is a man who has a very successful record in real estate, but he is also a man who has experienced the depths of despair.
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On Monday, members of the town council recreation and amenities committee despaired over the number of owners who continue to let their dogs foul public places.
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And what's so impressive is that Parini manages to create Melville's homoerotic yearning and despair in the context of 19th-century attitudes about sexuality, a pre-Freudian age that had not neatly divided the world into gay and straight, but also had no words for the feelings of love between men that Walt Whitman was so bravely yawping about.
Melville's stormy seas
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We all can trust in the words of the Lord as he brings hope in place of despair and light in place of darkness.
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The last despairing effort had seen the Nationalists gain a decisive victory.
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
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'Jane Eyre' is Bronte's classic novel of courage in the face of despair.
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Most of the drawings, etchings and aquatints that convey his bitter contempt and passionate despair for what the artist saw as a Spanish hell on earth remained unknown to the public until after his death.
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The former world light welterweight champion hit a trough of despair after two high-profile defeats.
The Sun
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Dispatches opened with footage of a young man curled up by his front door, whimpering in pain and despair.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the distracted and despairing man whom love and longing trepan from the lover under passion’s ban the prisoner of transport and distraction from this Kamar al-Zaman son of Shahriman to the peerless one of the fair Houris the pearl-union to the Lady Budur daughter of King Al Ghayur
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Then such a wave of despair and anguish overwhelmed him, the irrevocableness and implacability of fate so smote him, that he lifted up his head and howled aloud.
Flush: a biography
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Carl heard these words from far away and though they conferred on him a feeling of complete despair they roused him briefly from his speechless stupor.
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A wave of despair washed over him, taking away all of his heated frustration.
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Earlier expressionists turned to tribal art to find the inspiration to distort the body in ways that could convey modern despair and agony.
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The long, hot dusty afternoons, where time hangs still, and dry leaves fly in sad whirls before collapsing to the ground, the inertia and sloth that drives even the most energetic into a huddle, the sense of despair.
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Theirs is an all-consuming love that has been rudely dashed but will quicken again tomorrow, regardless of today's despair.
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Inspiration moves one from pessimism to optimism, from doubt to faith, from despair to hope, and from darkness to light! RVM
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Both the frog and dragonette screamed now, but the cries of the ocean warrior's opponent were full of pain and despair.
Odyssey
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Picrochole thus in despair fled towards the Bouchard Island, and in the way to Riviere his horse stumbled and fell down, whereat he on a sudden was so incensed, that he with his sword without more ado killed him in his choler; then, not finding any that would remount him, he was about to have taken an ass at the mill that was thereby; but the miller's men did so baste his bones and so soundly bethwack him that they made him both black and blue with strokes; then stripping him of all his clothes, gave him a scurvy old canvas jacket wherewith to cover his nakedness.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
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Thus Flora on one occasion had been reduced to rage and despair, had her most secret feelings lacerated, had obtained a view of the utmost baseness to which common human nature can descend -- I won't say _a propos de bottes_ as the French would excellently put it but literally _a propos_ of some mislaid cheap lace trimmings for a nightgown the romping one was making for herself.
Chance A Tale in Two Parts
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But there was always Leam in the background with whom he had to reckon -- Leam, who wandered through the house in her straight-cut, plain black gown, made in the deepest fashion of mourning devisable, pale, silent, feverish, like an avenging spirit on his track; undoing what he had done if he had profaned an embodied memory of her mother, and as impervious to his anger as he was to her despair.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
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Anne is miserable, alternating between laughing and despairing.
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Roger Avery directs with a flair for despair.
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Charity was a pronounced element in the show — the spectacle of this strange young soul, in despair or recklessness, chaotically seeking occasions for compassion: taking a bath with a homeless man (“Who gets trench foot in the year 2002?!”), or romancing an elderly lady.
Brit Wit
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It recalled the despairing Congregation to a mood of resolute trust and hope.
John Knox
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We veer between a rivetingly fresh reinvention of a myth and some clunkier contemporary confrontation and despair.
Times, Sunday Times
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Him drifting around stylish wooden houses while battling existential despair?
Times, Sunday Times
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Then, last Saturday, Liverpool adjusted to cope with the pre-match loss of two key players, came back from conceding an early goal, and proceeded to thoroughly humiliate Manchester United at Old Trafford: "Ferguson, standing on the touchline in a coat reminiscent of Michael Foot, had the legs cut from under him and took to twitching from a seat in the dugout," whilst Wayne Rooney was reduced to an arm-whirling figure of anger and despair.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Simple boredom is the sort you suffer from during long Christmas dinners or political speeches; "existential" boredom is more complex and persistent, taking in many conditions, such as melancholia, depression, world weariness and what the psalmist called the "destruction that wasteth at noonday"—or spiritual despair, often referred to as acedia or accidie.
Accidie? Ennui? Sigh . . .
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Sometimes the despair can be sudden and overwhelming.
Times, Sunday Times
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And it ought to be remembered, that the guilt of this kind of apostacy hath driven some to despair; as in the case of
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06.
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The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
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Some cards include cruel jokes about people suffering despair.
The Sun
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R. did not so much wallow in self-pity as luxuriate in a whimpering, orchestrated, self-flagellating symphony of slights, woes, and despairs.
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In an etherized daze, we stumble up, thank our caretaker and falter through halls stinking of sanitized despair.
Habits Die Hard
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Just as it's right that we avoid smug complacency, so we shouldn't tumble into despondency and despair.
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The American lets out a groan of despair as he mis-hits a backhand at 30-15 down.
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THE constant sound of aircraft taking off and landing would drive most people to despair.
Times, Sunday Times
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With a distressed eyeroll at Seanglenn Beckhannity, and a weary headshake at Keithrachel Olbermaddowman, not to mention clenched fists of despair at TalkRadio VonHateScream, let me remind the rest of us -- aka. most people -- that just because the makers of so called News think Balanced and Thoughtful is some long-ago folk duo, it doesn't mean we should join in the sneerfest, and passively watch as standards continue to plummet.
Roderick Spencer: Fake News Is the Real News
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If not for you, I must be shivering in the despair and fear, groaning painfully. But for you, every day I will dream the most beautiful apart. Becoz u use your whole life to love me, and I feel free. My life seems to leave me like the sand flowing. I can hear that, but I can still smile only as long as I see you sleeping by my side.
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It is said that imitation is the sincerest flattery; and if Isabel was sometimes moved to gape at her friend aspiringly and despairingly it was not so much because she desired herself to shine as because she wished to hold up the lamp for Madame Merle.
The Portrait of a Lady
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The hope and the relief is all gone now, replaced with a stoic determination, salted with despair.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it was the last defiant act of a season that has brought equal amounts of joy and despair.
The Sun
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My hope is that we will realize that there was a context to our friend's fall and humbly wonder what might happen to us if we ever found ourselves in a sustained slough of disillusionment, despair and spiritual darkness.
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The book describes a spiritual journey from despair to happiness.
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Despite a successful career his drinking increased and, in despair after his wife threw him out, he connected himself to a drip designed to kill.
Times, Sunday Times
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They organize the missions not as a purposeless manifestation of despair but to attain a certain political aim.
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Many of Munch's paintings express a deep feeling of despair.
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It is real, sometimes a balm and sometimes an irritant, a cause of solace but something that can also rouse you to anger or despair.
Times, Sunday Times
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And we have led them here to you who have "saved the poor fragment of our people who fled from our once beautiful planet" He bowed his head, his shoulders slumping with his con - summate despair.
The City Who Fought
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Are you finding yourself moping around the house in the depths of despair, the wrong results in your hands and feeling unsure about what to do with your life?
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I take this moment to tell you today that I'm so grateful for the love that you give me.Your smiling face is like the sunlight which brightens my world.The comfort and encouragement you give to me help me through all the despair. Words can not express how much I feel for you.You're a wonderful wife who deserve all my love.Have a happy birthday!
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They often sound like deep groans of despair.
Times, Sunday Times
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When Patrick Douglas, the learned and honoured, but fortuneless soldier, found that his new competitor for the hand of the gentle Jolande was none other than his sovereign, he was dumb with despair, and the last, the miserable _hope_ which it imparts, and which maketh wretched, began to leave him.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17
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But don't despair if you are underperforming the overall market!
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However, as dark films go, this one lacked the depth of despair and pathos usually achieved.
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He skipped past the defender's despairing lunge.
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You have to be mad, you have to be insane, to despair in that way.
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One fan has captured the despair by calling his blog Capitol Punishment.
Times, Sunday Times
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He did not "enthuse," and he did not despair; he kept his head.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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Thus, the two sides to Neptune are rapture or despair, delirious happiness versus pain and confusion.
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Too often such warnings are presented as counsels of despair.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whatever he touches withers in his grasp and sinks from view into a muck of despair, negativism and nihilism.
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If calligraphy is not a skill you possess or think you could learn, do not despair for there are some alternatives.
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Whilst I am being held by the sleep of despair and darkened with the mist of malice, do thou, O precursor, restore me with thy bright intercession and grant that I may beseemingly walk as in the clay of virtues.
The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
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Only a windlike chant would do -- something with an undertone of human despair, outsoared by brave, savage flights of invincible soul-hope -- great virile singing man-cries, winged as the starlight, weird as space -- Whitman sublimated, David's soul poured out in symphony.
The River and I
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Without him, the slow dive into the pit of despair would be relentless.
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That devil, born of isolation, he had seen so often destroy young men through exhaustion, frustration and despair.
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If you've ever despaired over the misuses and misunderstandings, and just plain apathy around punctuation these days (errant apostrophes et al.) then this book will delight you.
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She saw again the Dinard letter and his furious despair at a word overheard at a wine-shop table.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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His mood could swing from joy to despair.
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And realized, with a disappointment too deep for despair, that the Kellen who fought here today, the Kellen who rode his dragon high above the battle, the dragonrider who shared his name-
Tran Siberian
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I like a lonely puppet, lost and I follow like a shadow another puppet, never show will not move, was abandoned in the corner of dusty, alone in despair, in a desperate sad, then continue to missing you.
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One sibling's hard-partying, self-destructive lifestyle makes the other despair, but the pair are making too much money to cut each other off completely.
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The reliance on luck, with all the hunches and superstitions it involves, is portrayed here as a kind of world view, an attitude towards life that turns out to be founded on despair.
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I was also despairing as a teen because of my weight.
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Hark ye, Covenant," she went on, "whan his sowl he selled him, the deevil telled him, 'at never mair sud he turn a hair at cry or moanin' in highway or loanin ', for greitin' or sweirin 'or grane o' despair.
Warlock o' Glenwarlock
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And when I woke up today, I found a lot of the despair and anguish I had been feeling lately had left me.
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And finally, if you're over a size 6, have stretch marks or visible scars, or are simply plain ugly - don't despair!
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The chatterers who argued two weeks ago that the war was turning into a quagmire have found a new cause for feigned despair: looting.
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His mother flung up her hands in despair when the boy failed yet another examination.
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There may be far too much institutional complacency but there is no reason for despair.
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In despair, the young boy had hanged himself.
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Looks of despair flashed across all of their faces, but to their credit they were too polite to outwardly groan.
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When we finally left in despair, the casino paid for a limousine to the airport.
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The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair.
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Asia's fledgling democracies should not despair just because things are messy at the moment.
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It was a depiction of legends passed down, legends of despair and desolation.
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The borer is the despair of the land-owner; he works underground; no
Sons of the Soil
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She is confused, bewildered and despairing.
Times, Sunday Times
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When one crop fails the husband man hopes the next may make it up; but here they despair of that, the seedness being as bad as the harvest.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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One is no longer the hopeful or the despairing guest: one is host in the house of oneself.
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And I'm having my semi-annual despair-over-my-lack-of-a-love-life freakout, too.
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But the skin beauty is not the firmest hold she has on Temple's affections; this was not the beauty that had attracted her lover and held him enchained in her service for seven years of waiting and suspense; this was not the only light leading him through dark days of doubt, almost of despair, constant, unwavering in his troth to her.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
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I think if someone has never experienced depression or that depth of emotional despair it can be hard to comprehend.
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She was another Catholic gentlewoman of the 17th century, who spent her entire fortune making vestments of silk, gold and pearls, to the rage and despair of her relatives.
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He too must not despair: despite the seeming lack of progress, he might have made more strides than he realised.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were all too kind to snigger but Suzi distinctly saw fat Luiza shrug her shoulders in a gesture of fatalistic despair.
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Her moods kept changing now happy, now filled with despair.
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They seemed rare round there from the time he took; and I was just casting about in my mind as to what method would be best to employ in getting up the smooth, yellow, sandy-clay, incurved walls, when he arrived with it, and I was out in a twinkling, and very much ashamed of myself, until Silence, who was then leading, disappeared through the path before us with a despairing yell.
Travels in West Africa
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It is an urgent call to remain steadfast despite suffering, to repent of complacency and compromise, to move from lukewarmness and the middle of the road to heated commitment, and from disillusionment and despair to confidence and hope.
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The actors are uglier, and they swear more, but I still maintain that the Milch-speak of NYPD was more creative, and the 11-year redemption of Andy Sipowicz is a glorious affirmation of hope and positivity which is actually more “realistic” than the acceptance of despair in The Wire, The Shield, and other “gritty, realistic” TV dramas.
Mentalist « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
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This despair was almost total.
The Broken God
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However, while large parts of the world continue to be enclaves of extreme hardship and poverty, despair will take root.
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Out came Dakota farmers who despaired at the meager profits they made growing wheat.
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Maybe it is just some existential despair we all carry with us.
Times, Sunday Times
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Actually, in the scientific community now, a lot of them have kind of despaired of ever being able to stop it at a doubled world.
Vp Remarks On Global Climate Change
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When I learn to despair, you tell me, don't have to pretend!
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The people had spoken in the birthplace of democracy but it felt more like a howl of despair.
The Sun
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I tried to drag myself out of the morass of despair.
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There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair. Charles Dickens
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Why are our professionals still leaving, our services still deteriorating, and our young people in the depths of despair?
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From a Japanese standpoint, she would take to task the gaijin ladies in Japan who refused to comply with traditions with a condescending attitude, at the same time chastising Japanese obatarian who despaired of the big-nosed foreigners.
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He is not a man who becomes prey to despair.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then perhaps I might be urged to higher effort, hearing stories more pitiful than mine, tales of silent courage under ban of excommunion to shame me from the very thought of despair.
Apologia Diffidentis
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Stuart MacGill, Warne's replacement, is a perfectly-good bowler, but he struggled, so much so that his body language often verged on despair.
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She gave no answer to my reproaches, save to gaze at me with a sort of wild, despairing look in her eyes.
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As Elizabeth's cofferer, Bedingfield despaired that he was unable to "avoyde by enye possible mene, butte that daylye & howerlye the sayde Parye maye have & gyve intelligence" on nefarious "enterprises" both to and from Elizabeth by virtue of his necessary daily contact with his mistress.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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The rainforest has become an emblem of human despair.
Times, Sunday Times
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The novel tells the story of a teenager driven to despair by the hypocrisy of the adult world.
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Hard luck, chaps, but don't despair too much.
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The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
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He has much the same look as the old man, the look of deep sorrow and despair.
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Thereupon Shams al-Din despaired of finding his brother and said, Indeed I went beyond all bounds in what I said to him with reference to the marriage of our children.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Already depressed about his marriage, the whispers and false rumours saw Temple plunge into despair, and ultimately suicide.
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I will never forget the despair andanger I felt as it seemed the world was falling apart, nor the small, precious steps we took the next day toward a new normal.
September 11 and September 12 « The Blog at 16th and Q
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I was in the depths of despair when the baby was sick.
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Exilius, for Shame die, let Despair kill thee, thou deservest no less Punishment, for harbouring a Thought so arrogant, or rather impious, in daring to love one who ought only to be belov'd by a King or a Deity.
Exilius
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And it is leaving behind a tragic toll of death, heartache and despair throughout Britain.
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Some cards include cruel jokes about people suffering despair.
The Sun
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Finally, never leave the examination hall in despair, however hopeless things may seem.
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If you decide that your girlfriend was right and you are rather hideous then don't despair.
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When the food was bad he slumped towards existential despair.
Times, Sunday Times
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I say "simply" because there is a tendency to overintellectualize our task or to throw up our hands in despair.
Raising Cain On Values
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This time despair overtook me, but it was tearless.
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Weary, famished and despairing at the end of 1846, the peasants of one of the most famine-ravaged counties in the country hoped for better things in the coming year.
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“You would simply re-form at your memento mori, true, but we have no desire for your honeymoon to end in such despair, so instead we are banning you from—”
Crossed
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Others spoke of moments of utter despair they still felt and of their permanent loss of security.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were times of anger and hurt, and of deep despair when she hated the flippancy of Paris and its inhabitants.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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By doing the unmentionable, the unthinkable, Sethe bears witness to the despair of a black woman slave faced with the threat of having ‘the best part of her… sullied’.
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This inflated conception of the strength of the Republicans is indicative of the despair of many ex-radicals and their prostration before political reaction.
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A low moan of despair escaped her as she realized what had gone wrong.
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Several noddies flew around, leaving me in despair again.
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They allowed themselves to be used by those who wanted to escalate the images of opposition into an all-or-nothing confrontation that is the opposite of democracy and the negation of politics: a symbolism of despair masquerading as hope.
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Efforts to lift the mood of despair on the factory floors began in earnest yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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No one seemed angry, or happy, or despairing; you just sensed that this was what we had to do.
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Forced together in cramped and uncomfortable evacuation centres, there was little of the visible despair and grief which one would expect.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inspiration moves one from pessimism to optimism, from doubt to faith, from despair to hope, and from darkness to light! RVM
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According to the rare reports that emerge from inside, the crumbling cities and towns are blighted by poverty and despair.
The Sun
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He swings from wild optimism to total despair.
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Urquhart looked to the ceiling in a gesture of comic despair.
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But as returning passengers spoke of how they "despaired" of ever getting home, Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended the time taken to reopen UK airspace, stressing that passengers had to be "safe and secure".
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Don't abandon yourself to despair.
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Muddy lanes surround dismal tin shacks and there is an aura of despondency and despair, which even the myriads of children do little to dispel.
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Flora on one occasion had been reduced to rage and despair, had her most secret feelings lacerated, had obtained a view of the utmost baseness to which common human nature can descend -- I won't say _a propos de bottes_ as the French would excellently put it, but literally _a propos_ of some mislaid cheap lace trimmings for a nightgown the romping one was making for herself.
Chance
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But Marguerite Verne listened to her mother's eulogism with a calm despair, and, save the pallor of her lips, no one could tell the suffering within.
Marguerite Verne
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In school corridors and front rooms up and down the country tears of joy and despair were shed this morning.
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To the despair of a generation ‘The Beatles’ were no more and were in a bitter feud, which was never going to be properly patched up.
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His tears of despair in the morning when told he was on the bench turned to unbridled joy at the finish.
The Sun
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She had passed that stage in which a man regards his child with despair; she had passed out of slippery and evasive doughiness into a firm tangibility that made it some pleasure to hold her.
A Modern Instance
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There was no pause for consideration about what he intended to do, hitting the ball crisply and with swerve from his right foot, the ball bending past the despairing dive of Arthur and tucking inside his right-hand post.
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A low moan of despair escaped her as she realized what had gone wrong.
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And then that final despair as her husband raised his hand to a titian ringlet and, laughing, wound it around his finger.
SANDS OF TIME
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Elderly residents in a Maldon street have been driven to the brink of despair by yobs who they say have subjected them to a campaign of terror.
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Riligion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.
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A small flurry of winners brings hope, only for a minor drought to promote despair.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were all bush dogs or wild-dogs, and so small was their courage that their thirst and physical pain from cords drawn too tight across veins and arteries, and their dim apprehension of the fate such treatment foreboded, led them to whimper and wail and howl their despair and suffering.
CHAPTER XVI
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Although the men fought doggedly on, a sense of hopeless despair engulfed them.
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Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness.——R.M.
