How To Use Despond In A Sentence
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‘Maria Maria Maria’ is simply gorgeous - a dark, reverb-soaked slab of despondency with a lyrical combination of absurdism and sincerity that could only have come from Merritt.
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She seduces the despondent radical with whispers about the bleakness of mankind.
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This is not someone who views the way ahead with gloom and despondency.
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Practice periods that end in gloom and despondency must be avoided - they have the opposite effect of reinforcing or "conditioning" helplessness.
The Secrets of Musical Confidence
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D.H. Hill's division was at White Oak Swamp Creek, a slough, and one of "despond" to us, draining to the Chickahominy.
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I fretted as we trundled slowly home in a rather despondent way.
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Diana took the criticism to heart, avidly read what was being said about her and became depressed and despondent.
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He loves spreading alarm and despondency.
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Her angry tone had changed into a kind of desponding complaint before she had ended her sentence.
Wives and Daughters
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We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.
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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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Their memories of the past will necessarily be plural as well as conflicting, bringing with them both joy and sorrow, both rejoicing and mourning, both happiness as well as despondency.
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She received, also, a little, though mournful, reprieve from terror, by a letter from Lisbon, written to again postpone the return of Mrs. Tyrold, at the earnest request of Mr. Relvil; and she flattered herself that, before her arrival, she should be enabled to resume those only duties which could draw her from despondence.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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Inhalation of mercury vapor over a long period may cause mercurialism which is characterized by fine tremors and erethism" "" Erethism may be manifested by abnormal shyness, blushing, self-consciousness, depression or despondency, resentment of criticism, irritability or excitability, headache, fatigue and insomnia.
THE MERCURY MISCHIEF: As Obama Warns of Hazards, the FDA Approves Mercury Dental Fillings
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And then I have to push through the self-doubt what I call the Slough of Despond and emerge from the other side.
Interview: Pat Murphy
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But in spite of his melancholy bearing and despondent expression, there were few who could say that they had ever seen a man of more distinguished presence.
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I mean, to say they were depressed or despondent is too light.
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Providence in mercy permits the union of families long to remain unbroken; and, at length, in _mercy_ too -- whatever the suggestions of despondency -- dissolves it.
Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I
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Ephram is despondent when he is disinvited to a party by Amy's popular friends, and Delia struggles with the school bully.
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I believe there is nothing more to be said or done to-night, "responded the duke, in a desponding tone -- for it _cannot_ be an exhilarating anticipation to have to get up in the morning and stand up to murder, or be murdered, even where the duellist is the bravest of men, backed by the serenest of seconds.
The Lost Lady of Lone
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Don't become despondent just because it seems that your employer is keen to drive a hard bargain.
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DadBoner, who is either a real person or a profound literary construction, the despondent American post-marriage male persona nonpareil, Homer Simpson's Kafkaesque better.
Aaron Belz: Literary Twitter: @DadBoner
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A woman was sitting in the house one night feeling despondent.
Christianity Today
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By the quantity of provision which I had consumed I should guess that I had passed three weeks in this journey; and the continual protraction of hope, returning back upon the heart, often wrung bitter drops of despondency and grief from my eyes.
Chapter 7
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The first of these seems to have caused a sense of gloom, despondency and weary hopelessness to descend on the author as he sat down to put his book together.
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We are set homework each day and I spend a lot of time on it, feeling despondent at my lack of ability.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm feeling pretty slothful and despondent today, so I've took the lazy option of filling a bit of blogspace by copying down one of those questionnaires that I so detest.
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The acute sense of grief and despondency led to a deep depression of spirits that might ordinarily be expected to break the will and deflate any inspirational talent.
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UPDATE: The NYT reports that the man, Leeland Eisenberg, now in custody, was said to be "despondent," because he was facing a divorce, and that he'd been on a drinking binge.
"A man has just walked into the Clinton office, opened his coat and showed us a bomb strapped to his chest with duct tape."
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But you, my dear Frankenstein, wherefore are you desponding and sorrowful?
Chapter 1
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I wandered despondently along, trailing my new sports bag through the dog-ends and sweet wrappers that littered the concrete of the playground.
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Aleila looked at the desponding bandit, and even though he had brought this misery on himself, she couldn't help but feel sad for him.
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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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What visitors fed on the tabloid media diet of gloom and despondency might find surprising are the smiles and laughter they will encounter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Did perhaps their hearts despond, because lonesomeness had swallowed me like a whale?
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This range of moods, from exaltation to the slough of despond, is entirely appropriate for the 24 Preludes and Fugues — a kind of expressivity rarely matched by the Russian pianists who recorded excerpts from the work, from the overimposing monumentality of Sviatoslav Richter to the dignified, restrained lyricism of Emil Gilels.
From Despair to Delight
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Elizabeth was sad and desponding; she no longer took delight in her ordinary occupations; all pleasure seemed to her sacrilege toward the dead; eternal woe and tears she then thought was the just tribute she should pay to innocence so blasted and destroyed.
Chapter 9
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I'm still not what you'd call perky, but now there's a sense of the ridiculous in my sublime despondency.
Trinityboy Diary Entry
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However, those who have a history of repeated failures may give up, which can lead to depression and despondency.
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The cancellation of agricultural shows because of the impact of foot and mouth disease, is adding to the gloom and despondency of the tourism industry.
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The funny thing about all this is that just last week I was having despondent ‘I've hit my peak in this damned career!’
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His self-penned songs track his career from despondent dreams of stardom to the travesty of having achieved them.
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Europeans, on the other hand, are in a despond of high unemployment and economic sclerosis.
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Despondence, which is manifested in the disordered and disrupted rim vestured by darkness, sets off and contradicts to the extravagance behind it.
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despondent about his failure
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Oblivious to cues, devoid of gaydar, I shuffle through my days, despondently convinced that no one could possibly find me attractive.
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And finally Atalanta who I think will already be relegated. there are still three matches left. why have roma already conceded the title. players with tears, all round despondency is not going to help them. if they want to win the title surely they need to be mentally stronger
The Guardian World News
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There are times when it is hard not to feel despondent.
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Despondency and political apathy are not characteristic of people in the grip of nationalist zeal.
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A combination of still-residual despondency and distrust of the new coach combined to curb the normally boundless enthusiasm of the nation.
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But we have compensations - we have tourism and the associated factors so we need to build on that and not be despondent.
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Your note, I can scarcely tell why, hurt me, and produced a kind of winterly smile, which diffuses a beam of despondent tranquillity over the features.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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He was lying on a table looking despondent, but he was still so happy with the result.
Times, Sunday Times
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Against that has to be weighed the tired limbs of an unusually arduous season and the traditional role of the eternal unfulfilled that may once again drag them down into a familiar despond.
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The crew were polite, but looked exhausted and despondent as they tried to sell us scratch cards.
Times, Sunday Times
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For me this began just two minutes after the final whistle, with despondent Lundoners in the street muttering into their handies about sensorily challenged linesmen, crap refereeing, and unforgivably bad playing by the England side.
Francis Sedgemore
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Jason cast a despondent look in my direction and allowed himself to be dragged away.
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Many people have given way to despondency and helplessness, having lost faith in leaders and politicians.
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After a good few years of success supporters got very despondent for a while as the team faltered in mid season and the manager came under fire.
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Well, as you can see, the story will be that Pan Xo, despondent over the loss of his illicit lover to the arms of another man, took his own life by slashing open his own veins, but not before dispatching his lover and her dallier in a more, shall we say, dramatic fashion.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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It should have brought a pall of despondency to a wine industry that many claim is on the verge of glut.
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It seems to be intrinsic to domestic politics of every variety that a certain dismal downward trend emerges, characterized by sloth, despondency and complacency.
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The morning of June 8th, he rose late because ‘I was desponding, owing to a little difference between my wife and me.’
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It was a break they both needed as both had been depressed and despondent.
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But for rugby at any rate, it looks as though there is a chance that Scotland may soon exit from the slough of despondency in which we have recently wallowed.
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He didn't become despondent but realised he needed to make changes to his squad and did that last summer.
The Sun
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As in husbandry the sower may cast his seed in a dry and parched soil with desponding fears, so those shall reap abundant fruit who toil in tears with the prayer of faith.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Like a bucket of cold water the harsh realities of life drown your sunny optimism leaving you feeling despondent.
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Until recently, such fantasies were expressed mainly by the far right, or in the laments of despondent Oxbridge dons.
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An air of gloom and despondency settled over the household.
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It soon turned out to be a deserved rebuke to any who desponded, along with myself, and finally prophetic.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
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He became/grew increasingly despondent when she failed to return his phone calls.
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Gradually he became despondent and pretty much stayed in his room for eight weeks, busy discovering the wonders of opiates, hashish, and lysergic acid diethylamide.
Full Frontal Nudity
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Ledyard never desponded -- no sooner was one of his castles demolished, than he set about building another.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 328, August 23, 1828
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‘The UFOs never landed,’ Asencio says despondently, as though those deep-space deadbeats were ever supposed to be reliable.
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Her fellow nuns, who say Ms. Palden loved to sing and often serenaded them with Tibetan folk songs of the Dalai Lama's return to Tibet, describe how she had sunk into despondency.
Resistance on Tibet Is Conundrum for China, Dalai Lama
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It means to be aware that the spread of frustration, despondency and despair is actually a process in which all parties are losers.
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How did this afternoon become so wonderful, she asked herself, when a couple of hours ago I was in the slough of despond?
PROSPECT HILL
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How did this afternoon become so wonderful, she asked herself, when a couple of hours ago I was in the slough of despond?
PROSPECT HILL
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It is estimated that 3,000 tickets were sold, leaving many supporters, ticketless, despondent and very angry.
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I had too much experience of my father's pertinaciousness ever to hope for a change in his views; yet the bliss of living with my aunt, in a new and busy scene, and in the unbounded indulgence of my literary passion, continually occupied my thoughts: for a long time these thoughts were productive only of despondency and tears.
Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist
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Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panelling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with a softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 2 The First of the Three Spirits | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
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She selects a despondent boy and gives a note fished from the depths of her handbag.
BAG LADY BLUES • by Mark Dalligan
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And he said unto me, This miry slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run, and therefore it is called the Slough of Despond; for still, as the sinner is awakened about his lost condition, there ariseth in his soul many fears, and doubts, and discouraging apprehensions, which all of them get together, and settle in this place.
The Pilgrim`s Progress
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So having secured the barrico (and with no small to-do) I hove it ashore and got myself after it, and so came mighty despondent where sat Sir Richard as one deep in thought, his gaze on the sea, his shrivelled hand upon the head of the dog Pluto crouched beside him.
Martin Conisby's Vengeance
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I had kept up my spirits when many a more vigorous frame had sunk, and many a maturer mind had desponded; but the perpetual recurrence of the same dreary spectacles, the dying, and the more fortunate dead, covering the highways, the fields, and the village streets, at length sank into my soul.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
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That is making it nearly impossible to craft monetary policy that is both hawkish on inflation, and doesn't throw huge economies deeper into the slough of economic despond.
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And she had affected so many people so deeply, that her loss on the negative side took them much deeper into grief and despond, I think, than anybody had ever experienced.
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Credo edepol, ubi mentionem ego fecero de filia mi ut despondeat, sese a me derideri rebitur, neque illo quisquam est alter hodie ex paupertate parcior.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
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Mexico's ambassador, Fernando de Mateo y Venturini, speaking in English, said he had learnt a new word last week -- "despondent" -- though maybe "angst" was more appropriate.
Insurance Journal
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Although one could perceive her actions as upright, correct, and admirable, it is obvious to the viewer that she is overly castigatory and despondent.
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These friends also characterize the young writer as "despondent" over the recent revelations.
Tina Brown's Contract Negotiations at The New Yorker
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She has been dreadfully out of sorts lately, and she has sunk into a kind of despondent state.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
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The story line is fast-paced from the opening sequence of three years ago when a despondent Shade thinks his brother died and never slows down as Roag spellbinds them as lifemates to destroy his sibling.
Desire Unchained-Larissa Ione « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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Your note -- I can scarcely tell why, hurt me -- and produced a kind of winterly smile, which diffuses a beam of despondent tranquillity over the features.
Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Yet fewer still are - in private - able to hide their sense of gloomy despondency.
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The bright sun today has made a great deal of difference to my mood though - if today had been like yesterday, I think I would have finally sunk into a pit of despondency.
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He was then told he looked a bit despondent.
The Sun
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It was the last expression of the despondency of a broken spirit.
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In matches, I was not competing at all and feeling despondent on court.
Times, Sunday Times
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A lot of us over here get desponded about this place sometimes.
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I remember how despondent and disheartened we were as the doctor's findings were reported.
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Vaca disputes that claim but acknowledges that despondency over years of abuse had affected his ministry.
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So, the Bride had mounted into her handsome chariot, incidentally accompanied by the Bridegroom; and after rolling for a few minutes smoothly over a fair pavement, had begun to jolt through a Slough of Despond, and through a long, long avenue of wrack and ruin.
Little Dorrit
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I should guess that I had passed three weeks in this journey; and the continual protraction of hope, returning back upon the heart, often wrung bitter drops of despondency and grief from my eyes.
Chapter 24
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God knows, nothing of this kind was ever in my thoughts; but I have entered very deeply into your affliction with regard to your Mother; and while I was wishing, the many poor souls in the kind of desponding way she is in, whom I have seen, came afresh into my mind; and all the mismanagement with which I have seen them treated was strong in my mind, and I wrote under a forcible impulse, which I could not at that time resist, but I have fretted so much about it since, that I think it is the last time I will ever let my pen run away with me.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
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How did this afternoon become so wonderful, she asked herself, when a couple of hours ago I was in the slough of despond ?
PROSPECT HILL
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Other resources were in short supply as well: in 1887 the journal of the National Museum in Rio reported despondently on the difficulties of obtaining Indian skulls for phrenological research.
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I find myself sat despondently at my desk, trying to come to terms with the fact that I actually have to work for living.
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Astronauts, it seems, don't get enough natural light up there, and can become too despondent to moonwalk.
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When you are feeling particularly despondent, you might reflect that this illness is preferable to heart disease or cancer.
The Allergy Handbook
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Far from protecting the health of the population, the result is a wave of panic and a pervasive climate of anxiety and despondency.
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Xiao Ming is quite despondent, for he lost his beloved bicycle.
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But, in the meantime, he was dragging Greenock up from a slough of despondency and defiantly offering no apologies for snapping up the best available talent.
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She started to feel despondent about ever finding a job.
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He saw them, one by one, leave their cotton at the ginhouse, and trail despondingly off to their cabins.
Winter Evening Tales
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Each was intent on spreading alarm and despondency about the effects on safety of the cost-cutting regime.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though he had failed, he did not despond.
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An air of gloom and despondency settled over the household.
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Failure to do so will lead to a legacy of isolation, despair and despondency.
Times, Sunday Times
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I agree - I felt like I was in the Slough of Despond wading through some of the battle passages and pages and pages of description.
Iconoclasm
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These… these are things that you needn't despond over at your age.
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We're all a bit despondent this morning, anyway.
Times, Sunday Times
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English cully, who was so easily disheartened, and hung his ears in manifest despondence, rather than rather than run the risk of making a voyage that should be altogether unprofitable, resolved to practise her charms upon the Dutch merchant.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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Back at your desk, look utterly despondent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every day during question time we see the look of despondency and despair on the faces of Government members.
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He was becoming increasingly despondent about the way things were going.
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As you can imagine, we were all a bit gutted and despondent.
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There's a mood of gloom and despondency in the country.
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I met Pilgrim's Progress there, and I'll always associate the Slough of Despond with the beach on a rainy day and my parents trying to explain why Judaism doesn't need such a concept.
Even in a little thing
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[28] "The slough of despond which we call the eighteenth century" ( "Hopes and Fears for Art," p. 211).
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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My father calmed me with assurances of their welfare, and endeavoured, by dwelling on these subjects so interesting to my heart, to raise my desponding spirits; but he soon felt that a prison cannot be the abode of cheerfulness.
Chapter 4
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I have sometimes desponded, and almost despaired, because there was no one to whom to read a line, or of whom to ask a counsel.
The Life of Charlotte Bronte
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He was up for a time and then, without warning, despondent again.
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Many of the small and shrinking group of health researchers in Pakistan work in a state of perpetual despondency, frequently with little access to policymakers and planners.
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Practice periods that end in gloom and despondency must be avoided - they have the opposite effect of reinforcing or "conditioning" helplessness.
The Secrets of Musical Confidence
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Lack of the ability to sexually express oneself is often associated with despondency and depression.
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I feel despondent when my work is rejected.
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Coleridge, who had desponded at the fate of Middleton, after the unsuccessful attempts he made to obtain a fellowship, lost all hope of procuring an income from the college, and as, through the instrumentality of Frend, with whom an intimacy had now taken place, he had been converted to what in these days is called Unitarianism, he was too conscientious to take orders and enter the Established Church.
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
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Many who have done physical work all their lives will be utterly despondent.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the other tenants become despondent.
Times, Sunday Times
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But his despondency goes deeper than politics.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even such a disaster as had overtaken them at Kup caused no despondency among the Sikhs.
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There are times when it is hard not to feel despondent.
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We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.
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What visitors fed on the tabloid media diet of gloom and despondency might find surprising are the smiles and laughter they will encounter.
Times, Sunday Times
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The web site reports that a relative said Trevino, a 26-year-old MMA fighter, was "despondent" after breaking up with Perry, a 23-year-old model.
Kenny Trevino & Tiffanie Perry Dead From Apparent Murder-Suicide (PICTURES)
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Each day he felt himself slip a little deeper into despondency, surrounded by these strange, crazy, people.
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I have a particularly clear memory of one soldier sitting on a step looking despondent.
BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
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Daylight the centre of it and the animating spark, with quip and jest and rough merriment rousing them out of the slough of despond in which he had found them.
Chapter 1
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Wouldn't they have spread alarm and despondency?
Times, Sunday Times
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It touched me deeply to note with what painful care she set herself to correct the grammatical errors and roughness of her speech; often she would fall to a sighful despondency because of her ignorance and at such times it was, I think, that I loved her best, vowing I would not change her for any proud lady that was or ever had been; whereof ensued such conversations as the following:
Peregrine's Progress
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If you are in that job-hunting slough of despond, I welcome you to log on to OurPrayer.org and let your need be known.
Rick Hamlin: Pray For The Unemployed
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Owen desponded about ever getting done; Morgan grumbled at what he called the absurd difficulty of writing nonsense.
The Queen of Hearts
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Even though my health isn't great, he's making sure I don't descend into a slough of despond by demanding we play a bit each day.
Still sick, but ...
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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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It's a day-to-day news story and he hasn't entered the stage yet in this financial opera ... but the Slough of Despond can become a reference point to you all.
The reasons for the Global Financial PANIC 2007
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He went on to say that the swelling optimism among pioneers of the forties, fifties and sixties had given way, in some cases, to mild despondency.
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Baby's disposition or the behavior may have the change, if the fall in the blues, is despondent and is restless, some are agitated testiness .
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They plodded aimlessly and despondent through the subpolar surroundings.
Parlor Games
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The despondent manner in which Ray walked towards the dug-out said it all.
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The former attitude mollifies arrogance and conceit while the latter prevents excessive despondency, de-motivation and self-pity.
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From this slough of despond, James ascended to become a central figure in the canon of American and English literature.
The Afterlife of the Lion
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Why were you then comfortless and despondent, when I was escorted by the guards into the jail?
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Nearly everywhere there are signs that the prodigal economy is staggering home from its three-year slough of despond.
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Coming back to reality is no fun and it could make you feel angry, despondent and helpless.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the despond deepens, some News Corp shareholders would like a more ordinary, conventional company to invest in.
Plc? No thanks. Papers are best as family businesses
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With all its beauty and comfort it would become to him almost inevitably a slough, both of "despond" and of dissipation -- dissipation of the worst and most hopeless kind, wherein the victim's ruling motive is to get rid of self.
A Knight of the Nineteenth Century
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They'll still be despondent after going so agonisingly close, but that historic first title might not be too far off now.
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He was not too despondent after his defeat and believes he can launch a stronger bid when he has gained more experience.
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Maggie takes in the despondent Victoria, a bright and sensitive girl whose life is on the brink of total meltdown.
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This is aimed at giving the young people a positive outlook on life and persuading them to become productive rather than give in to despondency, cynicism and decadence.
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Liam's voice, even though it is distinctive, it's different for the lone fact that no one else could sound as whiney, grainy and completely despondent with everything.
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Frankenstein, who appears lost in desponding reverie.
Act III
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The supporters of the Presidential candidate desponded when they learned the early results of the election
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Our curate is a young gentleman of such prepossessing appearance, and fascinating manners, that within one month after his first appearance in the parish, half the young – lady inhabitants were melancholy with religion, and the other half, desponding with love.
Sketches by Boz
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The lads are so despondent but they did really well, especially in the first half, and the effort and commitment was what we have been asking for.
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I became the victim of ingratitude and cold coquetry — then I desponded, and imagined that my discontent gave me a right to hate the world.
The Last Man
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He was depressed, despondent, and in total despair.
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A man is sometimes despondent from disappointment, is gloomy, and has no courage to work.
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There were reports that classmates felt he had seemed despondent.
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Fingers, a composer facing writer's block when it comes to his symphony, is despondent.
Michael Giltz: Theater: New York Musical Festival (NYMF) Roundup
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Sometimes it manifests itself in the milder forms of hallucination, or monomania, but in the majority of cases, the patient sinks into a despondent hypochondria, which is many times followed, sooner or later, by a raving mania.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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A visit from Canterbury certainly cheers up hard-pressed and often despondent clergy and congregations.
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The mood through the great depression of the 1930s was usually one of deep despondency in the face of mass unemployment at home and the spread of fascism abroad.
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It's all too easy to feel despondent about modern life.
Times, Sunday Times
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You may be too easily irritated or despondent, exasperating friends and family with exacting demands and finicky attitudes.
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Conscience now suddenly took the reins from the hands of imagination, and a mist was cleared away that hitherto, obscuring every duty by despondence, had hidden from her own perceptions the faulty basis of her desire.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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“Thus deserted, I retired with my unfortunate family to an obscure quarter of the town, where I remained near two years in a kind of desponding apathy, brooding over my misfortunes, without exerting myself to shake off the burden of them, and barely existing on the trifles which had escaped the general wreck, and some few receipts of small, and almost hopeless, debts.
Francis, the Philanthropist: an unfashionable tale
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This seemed to throw the therapists a bit of a curve; the more despondent the client got, the less the therapists asked her questions about what that was like.
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The lessons of self-distrust, of the nearness to one another of the most opposite emotions in our weak natures, of the depth of gloom into which the boldest and brightest servant of God may fall as soon as he loses hold of God's hand, never had a more striking instance to point them than that mighty prophet, sitting huddled together in utter despondency below the solitary retem bush, praying his foolish prayer for death.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
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Of course, he may have been despondent for personal reasons having nothing to do with any of this.
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The first of these seems to have caused a sense of gloom, despondency and weary hopelessness to descend on the author as he sat down to put his book together.
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That is making it nearly impossible to craft monetary policy that is both hawkish on inflation, and doesn't throw huge economies deeper into the slough of economic despond.
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A man is sometimes despondent from disappointment, is gloomy, and has no courage to work.
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But before I leave what I call the desponding epoch of my schoolboy days, I must not omit to mention a species of impious barbarity, that had well-nigh alienated my heart for ever from religion, and which made me for the time detest the very name of church.
Rattlin the Reefer
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What visitors fed on the tabloid media diet of gloom and despondency might find surprising are the smiles and laughter they will encounter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mark Dery's Literary Spam
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He started to feel trapped, despondent and depressed.
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If we had a few more sportsmen and women who were utterly despondent about coming second, we might win a few more things.
The Sun