How To Use Despairing In A Sentence

The adventure had a final despairing twist.
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
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
The last despairing effort had seen the Nationalists gain a decisive victory. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
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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Anne is miserable, alternating between laughing and despairing.
It recalled the despairing Congregation to a mood of resolute trust and hope. John Knox
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
He skipped past the defender's despairing lunge.
I was also despairing as a teen because of my weight.
She is confused, bewildered and despairing. Times, Sunday Times
One is no longer the hopeful or the despairing guest: one is host in the house of oneself.
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
She gave no answer to my reproaches, save to gaze at me with a sort of wild, despairing look in her eyes.
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.
No one seemed angry, or happy, or despairing; you just sensed that this was what we had to do.
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.
No exuberant celebrations or despairing shows of emotion. Times, Sunday Times
Upon waking, he realized he was in the same frustrated and despairing state once again.
Despairing eyes, and a skin with as many lines as iron filings around the north and south ends of a magnet, made a vision under the light. THE OPEN DOOR
He said this in a despairing tone, for the dugong, which is the The Castaways
I’m with you in despairing as to the abilities of these morons. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » ACORN Relief Act
Don't project dark imaginings into the future or become hopeless and despairing. Times, Sunday Times
And when I am despairing, I shall recall these wonderful words of HPL, quoted in the Guardian today: I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales, but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do any thing so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick. Hot 'n Humid
His loveless, routine marriage (to an unrecognisably frumpy Cameron Diaz) is little consolation and, despairing of making a living in his chosen career, he takes a job as a filing clerk.
Apparently, they've all been moved to a basement "warren" called "Cubicle City," where the conditions are cramped and crowded and despairing, like life on board the Battlestar Galactica: Ousted Legislators Sent To Gloomy Basement 'Cubicle City'
On his way to Damascus, Maritain was knocked off his despairing pretensions and turned toward sainthood.
The voice that was praying for me faltered and sank low -- then rose on a sudden, and called affrightedly, called despairingly to me to come away. The Woman in White
When his sectioning was renewed, Henry would scratch his arms, bang his head against the wall, go barefoot, refuse to wear underclothes, and then, just as we were despairing, he would rally and become calmer and more rational. Henry’s Demons
His despairing family thought that he had ceased to live.
Given the healthy advance booking, the play knocks on the head the cynically despairing argument that all the London public wants is musicals and movie stars.
It also serves to mobilise despairing layers of society for a right-wing programme and garner support for the government with populist demagogy.
It can change a person from being prayerful and hopeful to one who is despairing.
Yet the prevalent mood at the end is not pessimistic or despairing but upbeat, in spite of the devastation.
Underlying it all is the threat of being melted down - which, at one despairing point, Jacie herself desires - and the androids' lack of sexual organs and what this betokens for our lovers' future.
Don't project dark imaginings into the future or become hopeless and despairing. Times, Sunday Times
Once she glanced at her watch and, with a despairing sigh, realised it wasn't even midnight yet.
She sat high, straitening her despairing posture.
She is still the same efficient and self-obliterating mainstay of the kitchen that she ever was, but she grows more "sot" in her ways, more averse to any change in her daily routine, and more despairing of ever finally and completely capturing that canny old Scotsman whom we still so affectionately designate as The Prairie Child
Most of the rioters could never have expected the riots to bring about any specific political reforms, but instead engaged in them simply as a staging of anguished, despairing, and defiant political street-theater, the value of which inhered in the unmitigated violence through which the dialogue was communicated to a national audience. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
Unable to resist a look in the mirror, she gave a despairing sigh.
Cassian himself dwells on the horrible liability of the monks to the principal vices which infest human nature — gluttony, uncleanness, avarice, anger, vainglory, pride — above all, that despairing and unaccountable melancholy which they call acedia, and describe as “the demon that walketh in the noonday.” Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
Lily had come through the rip in the fabric to cast judgment on her weak traitorous aunt, that fearful and despairing wretch. LOST BOY LOST GIRL
He received the news with a despairing sigh.
We are not to strive, become impatient with ourselves, or grow angry or despairing when we find we are bound by some uncleanness.
It was remarked which these final scenes with Enobarbus raise Antony's impression in a minds, given his mostly cynical, witty, unsparing censor is so despairing during withdrawal his master. Archive 2009-11-01
Some people have given up and reached various despairing conclusions.
Charlie collapsed in a chair, giving a despairing little sigh.
They are bereft, insecure and despairing immigrants left in the street to beg.
Being past hope," or despairing, is the reading of the Vulgate; though not so well supported as English Version reading, "past feeling," which includes the absence of hope (Jer 2: 25; 18: 12). given themselves over -- In Ro 1: 24 it is, "God gave them up to uncleanness. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
a despairing view of the world situation
Something earth-shaking must have transformed the despairing disciples.
If it had been anyone else -- _anyone_ -- "His words seemed to choke him, and he made a despairing gesture with his hands. The Alaskan
: Marked "Allegro appassionato," a tremendous discharge of despairing passion, concluding with three foreboding D's from the bowels of the piano. Chopin's Small Miracles
Which words being ended, she withdrew her selfe towards the middest of the Tarras, despairing of escaping (with life) from the heates violence; and not once onely, but infinite times beside (among her other grievous extreamities) she was ready to dye with drought, bemoaning incessantly her dolorous condition. The Decameron
We fled from him right and left and he saw us not, for his sight was altogether blent; but we were in terrible fear of him and made sure we were dead men despairing of escape. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
This is a darker, more despairing film than the other two.
I shook my head despairingly, thinking about my own pitiful form of transport and felt deep pity for my feet slaves.
And once again his shot was true, arrowing past the despairing McKenzie.
Sometimes she could be seen with a despairing expression scribbling rapidly in her lock-up dairy. Within the Tides
Her voice broke despairingly, as the depression of the last few days threatened to overwhelm her again.
She is confused, bewildered and despairing. Times, Sunday Times
The world seemed dull and colorless, and gray as Paula's despairing heart.
Hullo, is that you, Kate?" called a despairing voice. Miss Billy's Decision
Your impossible task leaves you feeling frustrated, angry and despairing.
‘The structural problems I set for myself in writing, in a long, snarled, frustrating and sometimes despairing morning of work,’ she says, ‘I can usually unsnarl by running in the afternoon.’
Cazaril lay back down upon the hard boards, curled around his bellyache, for half the turning of a glass, exhausted, despairing. THE CURSE OF CHALION
An unconforming child rejected by his conservative and despairing parents, Van Gogh was a maladjusted youth and a desperately unhappy man.
The music soothed her for a while but the needle stuck in a groove suddenly and she wept in response, despairing.
Coady creates grace in even the most despairing moments.
Of the same kind was that late dreadful epiphonema [21] of a despairing Italian, related by Mersennus, A Dissertation on Divine Justice
The last despairing effort had seen the Nationalists gain a decisive victory. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
Farmers in Gambia are despairing as a shortage of rain is causing new seedlings to wilt and die off.
I am disgusted and despairing, and I hate myself for my indiscipline, but I just can't make myself diet and exercise.
Less than two years ago, York Wasps ended their season with a 70-8 hammering of a despairing Oldham side at Huntington Stadium.
About three of their forwards scrambled the ball past our despairing goalie.
He flashed her a despairing glance.
Dada took its momentum from this fractured, despairing kind of environment.
Many doctors are despairing that this could be too long for some patients.
The world seemed dull and colorless, and gray as Paula's despairing heart.
I hear a collective gasp of anguish and witness a row of black-haired heads drop into despairing hands.
She flashed him a despairing glance.
Huger had the look of a man prematurely aged, and his slowness may be explained by the despairing term "arteriosclerosis. LEE’S LIEUTENANTS
I went to East yesterday and came away empty-handed, gloomy but not despairing. Jean's Knitting
The last despairing effort had seen the Nationalists gain a decisive victory. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
She is confused, bewildered and despairing. Times, Sunday Times
In 1891, broke and despairing of recognition as an artist, Gauguin sailed for the South Seas, seeking liberation, as he famously said, "from everything that is artificial and conventional. Tate Modern Exhibition Makes a Fresh Case for Gauguin
It is now time for local and central government to listen to its despairing critics.
The play's portrayal of despairing men and women losing themselves in drink is reinforced today by alcohol consumption surveys.
Her chin sank onto her chest, and she looked despairing.
Don't project dark imaginings into the future or become hopeless and despairing. Times, Sunday Times
Are you despairing over the size of the task that God is calling you to do?
He was a gradualist, and that was because he was historically pessimistic, but not despairing.
‘The laddish culture is alive and well in Scotland and it is not doing young people any good at all,’ said a despairing Armstrong, a former GP.
Miss Neilson, please," called the despairing voice of one of the earth-bound fairies; "Miss Neilson, you are there, aren't you? Miss Billy's Decision
The ball hit the right-hand post and rebounded into the net, far beyond Butler's despairing dive.
That delicious uncertainty has been replaced by despairing, hopeless inevitability.
But while clothes shoppers are revelling in the dozens of new alleys open to them, manufacturers are despairing as they try to second-guess the kaleidoscopic public mood.
Tenderfeet, with ten pounds of Colt's revolvers, cartridges, and hunting-knives belted about them, wandered valiantly up the trail, and crept back softly, shedding revolvers, cartridges, and knives in despairing showers. CHAPTER I
the last despairing plea of the condemned criminal
From this despairing state Wittgenstein was rescued by two developments.
Wie a normal head o 'water, the lads'll move them, but wi' the wee drappie we have the noo --" He threw up his hamlike hands despairingly. The Valley of the Giants
I knew it," mumbled the visitor despairingly into his beard, "I _knew_ this would happen. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions
She is confused, bewildered and despairing. Times, Sunday Times
We'll miss both hopeful rallies and despairing selloffs," said Mr. Arbess, who said he has assumed a "neutral" position, despite what he calls "attractive" stock and bond opportunities. When Timing Is Everything
He looked up, thought about it for a moment and then blazed the ball into the far corner beyond the despairing fingers of O'Malley.
Justified or not, the National's extreme solicitousness about nudity might not be unrelated to a growing adult panic about premature sexualisation which, despairing at the tide of pornography, repeatedly fixates on banning or suppressing the wrong or most trivial things, from lurid stories to slutty dollies and trashy children's clothes which enrage parents who would never buy them anyway. Teenagers won't be shocked by a naked man on the stage | Catherine Bennett
Who would present this groundbreaking initiative to a despairing public?
In such a despairing context, what is the young Palestinian to do?
Where once she was smug and funny about her career and marriage, now she is feisty and despairing.
And some have said, that Judas sinned more in despairing of the mercy of God, than in betraying his Master's blood. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
`Why can't you understand?,' she asked despairingly
In these and hundreds of other cases he uses remorse almost as promiscuously as the adjective "awful" is now often popularly used where a much milder word would do, and in his employment of it in relation to his dead wife, it is his sense of profound and unavailing sorrow that he desires to convey by it or his despairing consciousness of his own unworthiness of the woman he had beatified. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Edwards's uncle Joseph Hawley in distress searched his soul until the devil sent a despairing thought.
The despairing, faithless, gaping, horrified wife looked down at her lover, and knew that he was dead.
She is confused, bewildered and despairing. Times, Sunday Times
The voice that was praying for me faltered and sank low — then rose on a sudden, and called affrightedly, called despairingly to me to come away. The Woman in White
The ball hit the right-hand post and rebounded into the net, far beyond Butler's despairing dive.
Who would present this groundbreaking initiative to a despairing public?
Neruda: Happy despairing "you like my soul, in an my dream butterfly, you are similar to the melancholy this word.
I find myself despairing and crotchety about aspects of modern life.
Despairing, however, that he would only be remembered as a political satirist and not a genuine artist in his own right, he changed his subject matter to romantic landscapes or apocalyptic visions of the future.
That delicious uncertainty has been replaced by despairing, hopeless inevitability.
Politicians have been warned repeatedly that overpopulated prisons cannot deal adequately with depressed, despairing inmates.
So we can remain stuck there, despairing and hopeless, or we can live into a different reality.
Ironically, the despairing quest of the Solitary has been validated by her Companion.
She is confused, bewildered and despairing. Times, Sunday Times
Jim raised his hands in a despairing gesture.
So, based on my own stumbling, fumbling experience, I offer the following list of things I would strongly advise aspiring and despairing writers not to do.
Apparently, they've all been moved to a basement "warren" called "Cubicle City," where the conditions are cramped and crowded and despairing, like life on board the Battlestar Galactica: "We have 82 members who do not have an office," said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer D-Md. Ousted Legislators Sent To Gloomy Basement 'Cubicle City'
I can't remember the last time I wrote a story which could be described as despairing, he said. Archive 2006-02-01
The screams of terror, cries of agony, were now replaced by despairing wails and echoing voices of mournful weepers.
No exuberant celebrations or despairing shows of emotion. Times, Sunday Times
I drive around today, gently despairing at some of the abysmal shapes that litter the roads.
Some are hopeful, some are despairing and some are poignant.
Her chin sank onto her chest, and she looked despairing.
Its administration is confined to that pauperism which is so despairing as to allow itself to be caught and detained. Selected Essays
Result the ethical behavior had three prominent character: anxious period illusional period despairing period.
And now, here we are, a couple of days from the next election and like most people I know, I'm despairing.
And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revels, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 11: Dumb Luck
The rotten bark gave way under his feet, and with a despairing yelp he pitched down the rounded crescent, smashed through the leafage and stalks of a small bush, and in the heart of the bush, on the ground, fetched up in the midst of seven ptarmigan chicks. The Wall of the World
She delivered the long despairing monologue that closes the work with great poignancy.
I'm sorry for that, but weekends like I've just had make me nostalgic, self-pitying and sort of despairing once they're done.
She is confused, bewildered and despairing. Times, Sunday Times
Others were simply despairing, sighing that it had lost its magic, that it had sold its soul to charter flights and overdevelopment.
It is a bleak, despairing admission.
Naturally, being British, I chose not to complain, but instead stood there quietly tutting, sighing, and looking despairingly from my watch to my fellow queuers.
She is animatedruns and tries to force the door, but ineffectuallyagain despairing, is crossing the stage, her hands clasped together, and uplifted eyes, observes the key hanging at the top of wing, R.H. Convinced of its being the key, runs towards itfinds it impossible to reach itsteps upon the chair, and upon the tablestill finds she cannot reach itturns for the ladder, finds it secured. Obi Pantomime Act II, Obi, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles
When the Bow Begum, despairing of redress from the Nabob, addressed herself to Mr. Middleton, and reminded him of the guarantee which he had signed, she was instantly promised that the amount of her jaghire should be made good, tho he said he could not interfere with the sovereign decision of the Nabob respecting the lands. At the Trial of Warren Hastings
Miss Ophelia looked despairingly, as her cousin took all her treasures from her.
The drift of our conversation was cynical and despairing. Times, Sunday Times
From the partial representations of narrow-minded bigots, who paint the Deity from their own gloomy conceptions, the young are too often frighted from the paths of virtue; despairing of ideal perfections, they give up all virtue as unattainable, and start aside from the road which they falsely suppose strewed with thorns. The History of Emily Montague
The Tory revival is a phantom, the imagined product of a media despairing of another utterly predictable election result.
And it is my duty to caution you that the estate won't stand it -- to call that an estate, "he divagated, with a kind of despairing sniff," which is already, by the extravagances of your ancestors, shrunken to scarcely more than three acres and a cow. The Lady Paramount
He was truly despairing, but the muted female voice was firm, but understandably wary.
The drift of our conversation was cynical and despairing. Times, Sunday Times
Cazaril lay back down upon the hard boards, curled around his bellyache, for half the turning of a glass, exhausted, despairing. THE CURSE OF CHALION

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