How To Use Despondency In A Sentence
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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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When the atrabilious humour is in too much abundance melancholia, characterized by aversion to food, despondency, sleeplessness, irritability, restlessness and depression could result.
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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 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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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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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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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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The former attitude mollifies arrogance and conceit while the latter prevents excessive despondency, de-motivation and self-pity.
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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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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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So it is with the man himself: an essential sweetness of nature pickled in a brine of gloomy despondency.
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Wouldn't they have spread alarm and despondency?
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.
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Even such a disaster as had overtaken them at Kup caused no despondency among the Sikhs.
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But his despondency goes deeper than politics.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lack of the ability to sexually express oneself is often associated with despondency and depression.
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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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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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Each time he came close to giving up he was jolted out of his despondency by a fresh physical ordeal.
Times, Sunday Times
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The same course of illness, however, may also give rise to the temptation, if we succumb to despondency or take an attitude of devil-may-care.
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So the Jews first laughed at God's threats, confident that they should speedily return; then, when cast down from that confidence, they sank in inconsolable despondency. expected end -- literally, "end and expectation," that is, an end, and that such an end as you wish for.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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On the right, there is deep despondency mixed with spurts of cheerleading for the next election.
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When love is functioning properly in our lives it dispels discouragement, despondency and despair.
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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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His vocals on the verse are some of his most affecting and emotional yet, while the anthemic chorus provides a break of desperate hope amid the quiet despondency.
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An air of gloom and despondency settled over the household.
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According to them, a new sense of despair and despondency is already perceptible among these women.
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Since so many of us give in to despondency, when faced with an unfit preference.
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There's a mood of gloom and despondency in the country.
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As such it is effective in changing symptoms of depression and despondency to those of cheerfulness and hopefulness.
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Now, Kirov had suddenly injected a chilling air of despondency into that pleasant ambience.
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The sections explore grace in relation to problems like anxiety, impatience, covetousness, despondency and lust.
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The combination of the new dark decor style and the dark mutterings of some commentators is spreading despondency.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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This is not someone who views the way ahead with gloom and despondency.
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M. de Rambouillet's face reflected none of the gloom and despondency which M. d'Agen's exhibited in so marked a degree.
A Gentleman of France
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I explain in my book that you don't really make a low in any market until there's huge despondency and despair.
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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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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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Despondency and political apathy are not characteristic of people in the grip of nationalist zeal.
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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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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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However, those who have a history of repeated failures may give up, which can lead to depression and despondency.
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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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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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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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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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Many people have given way to despondency and helplessness, having lost faith in leaders and politicians.
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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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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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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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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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Just as it's right that we avoid smug complacency, so we shouldn't tumble into despondency and despair.
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We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.
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He loves spreading alarm 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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This is not someone who views the way ahead with gloom and 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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Every day during question time we see the look of despondency and despair on the faces of Government members.
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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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An air of gloom and despondency settled over the household.
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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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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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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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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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Vaca disputes that claim but acknowledges that despondency over years of abuse had affected his ministry.
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It was the last expression of the despondency of a broken spirit.
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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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Yet fewer still are - in private - able to hide their sense of gloomy despondency.
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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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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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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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An air of gloom and despondency settled over the household.
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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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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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It should have brought a pall of despondency to a wine industry that many claim is on the verge of glut.