How To Use Hopeless In A Sentence

And I feel hopelessly undereducated, with all the MAs around me.
My job was often actually throwing the dart out of sight, since they were hopeless at aiming. Times, Sunday Times
It is no more a sign of weakness to change leadership in wartime if success depends on it than it is to remove a baseball pitcher who is getting shelled in order to prevent the game from becoming hopelessly lost.
Welcome the hopeless odds of meeting highly trained soldiers face-to-face. CONFESSIONAL
His eyes were black too, but had nothing of fierce or insolent; on the contrary, a certain melancholy swimmingness, that described hopeless love rather than a natural amorous languish. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1

No days off and telling the world his players were hopeless after another hiding. The Sun
The news orgs, by contrast, are doing this out of laziness and a hopeless addiction to portraying lefties as a kind of perennially-disappointed lost tribe who will never, ever find their way out of the wilderness. News Orgs: The Left Is Upset With Obama -- Even Though It Isn't
There was not the same sense of hopelessness that prevailed in previous conflicts.
So why has Polly come up with what is, even by her notoriously moronic standards, an outstandingly hopeless argument?
What is tragically evident from the Harry Read Me file is the picture it gives of the CRU scientists hopelessly at sea with the complex computer programmes they had devised to contort their data in the approved direction, more than once expressing their own desperation at how difficult it was to get the desired results. Coyote Blog » 2009 » November
Sometimes we throw our seeds to them, but our efforts seem hopeless since their soil is barren, empty and dead.
This week, we got the clue about the French Protestants of the Reformed Tradition, and the one about St Paul's Letter to the Galatians, but got hopelessly stuck on the clue that simply said "discombobulated". Archive 2008-02-01
They can lose a hopeless case but quite legally claim their huge costs. The Sun
I'm hopeless at talking about money, I give it away rather than deal with it.
From that moment, he anchors his existence in the hopeless need to share an affective contiguity with this random female acquaintance by changing the time of every clock and watch he encounters to Paris time.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure will turn to glorious success.
From that moment, it was doomed to become a huge, sprawling, one-story conurbation, hopelessly dependent on the automobile.
They took cover in a farm house but arrival of an enemy platoon made the situation hopeless. Times, Sunday Times
In their opening and closing games England's lumbering back four were hopelessly outmanoeuvred by bursts of fast, mobile, unpredictable attacks, like tankers anchored as speedboats darted around them.
Some protest that this affirmation comes at a cost: you cannot receive it unless you first abase yourself as a hopeless and helpless sinner in need of redemption.
Paradoxically, the political situation is so desperate, so apparently hopeless, that everyone understands the responsibility of casting their vote.
I was hopelessly out of my depth in college chemistry classes.
At the bottom of Rover's long-term failure is a hopelessly crude conception of what constitutes enterprise and business success.
In 1910 it was the home of 18, 182 souls, a dead and hopeless outlook ahead.
I'm a hopeless dancer. I've got two left feet.
My friend looked and walked like an exceedingly tall, lame ostrich with his legs hopelessly entangled in brightly colored cloth.
See now, rounding the headland, a forlorn hopeless bird, trembling black wings fingering the blowy air, dainty and ghostly, careless of the scattering salt.
Most of the students are making good progress, but Michael is a hopeless case.
You're a hopeless/incurable romantic.
Although you are in a seemingly hopeless situation, keep thinking and get your priorities right.
When a cow assumes the appearance of what we term a regular buller -- when she is running every day, or every second or third day, or when one or more retire from the herd and assume the habits of the male -- then, and not till then, does the case become utterly hopeless. Cattle and Cattle-breeders
An abandoned circus wagon with peeling paint is in the background, in it a hopeless dark woman imprisoned behind bars.
He stumbles through the movie wearing the glazed expression of a hopeless drunk.
Yet his hopelessness in the 1994 film did not dissuade one family from buying into the dream. Times, Sunday Times
You are stuck here sharing in the hopelessness and breathing the putrid air for the next seven days.
The internal struggles of the group are hopelessly dramatised, reading off like the plot mechanisms that they are.
Fresh information revealed that the French were fully prepared to meet an attack on Rochefort, and a council of war decided that any attempt to take it by escalade would be hopeless.
A few comments say our view of the new Alpha roadmap is either hopelessly optimistic, or unfairly negative.
There's a chance you might decide to start to strut around like some kind of hopeless mockney wideboy after you've seen it, though.
And if you do not, then young people face unemployment and the hopelessness it brings. Times, Sunday Times
The narrative does not slacken with the news of Daniel's death and the widow's hopeless grief.
Now that he wants to rejoin society no goal seems more quixotic and hopeless. Times, Sunday Times
The aircar was a hopeless wreck, but its radio was still functioning. The Cosmic Computer
Yet he tries to find common factors which unite Indian cooking - perhaps a hopeless task.
No matter how hopelessly demode it may seem, it will come back again, eventually. Times, Sunday Times
The notion that on-the-spot 100 fines will bring sanity and serenity is hopelessly naive. Times, Sunday Times
The lawyers must have known their lawsuit was hopeless.
The woman's face melted into a gooey, hopeless romantic expression and her eyes remained focused on me.
This week my graduate seminar students (at Parsons Fine Arts MFA) and I had a great discussion leading from Robert Smithson's writings on entropy to issues of pessimism about social change and what might be the point of human intervention towards ideals of progressive social activism in an entropically irreversible situation: interesting in this light to read Bob Herbert Op-Ed piece in the October 26, 2010 copy of The New York Times, "The Corrosion of America": do we just go along "haplessly"/hopelessly with the flow of entropy and the corrosion and ruin of our infrastructure (a ruin which is in a sense "always already" from before its inception, in Smithson's example of "The Monuments of Passaic") creating or suggesting an art which does not try to impose an idealist order or moral value to an entropic situation of urban and suburban decay, or do we believe enough in human labor despite ultimate futility or mortality to make the investment in our near futures by fixing the infrastructure? Mira Schor: Corroded infrastructure 2010/Robert Smithson's Writings on Entropy, 1966-67
We are not goddesses, divas or supermoms any more than we're bitches, shrews, sluts or nursemaids, and the damage of getting it wrong has been accumulative, making the picture of a woman's role seem quite grim and hopeless when it's really far from it. Chauncey Zalkin: A Better Way To Represent Women
He was impatient with bores, sooks and nags; he was full of ideas and energies, and hopeless at small details.
The currency was hopelessly debased, the government corrupt, the armies more interested in plundering the provinces than protecting them; many people believed the dissolution of the empire was at hand. Superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism
The responsibility for unrelenting global crisis and hardship lies more appropriately with a rudderless global financial system drifting hopelessly without a solid anchor.
A noisy, brash American, he never knew he was beaten and gave absolutely everything on every point of every game, no matter how apparently hopeless the cause.
The snow cruiser proved hopelessly unsuited to Antarctic conditions.
Musharraf spent much of his time talking about what he called the desperation, hopelessness, and powerlessness of Muslims around the world, who see disputes like the one over Kashmir and the Palestinian people going unresolved. CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2001
Was it all a reaction to her hopeless love life? The Sun
I look at myself in my twenties, pathetically cyclothymic, my judgment hopeless, my competence all over the map, and I wish I could give that smooth-skinned young self some of my own wry strength. Yatima » 2009 » April
Winning then taught me that there is no such thing as a hopeless case. Times, Sunday Times
The phrase is not stronger than that with which the Grammar of Science challenged the fight: Anything more hopelessly illogical than the statements with regard to Force and Matter current in elementary textbooks of science, it is difficult to imagine, opened Mr. Pearson, and the responsible author of the elementary textbook, as he went on to explain, was Lord Kelvin himself. The Grammar of Science (1903)
Update: I hope the hopelessly "overstuffed" Po Boy Preservation event didn't factor into the Presidential Debate committee's unfortunate decision. Archive 2007-11-01
It is not hopeless, it is not undoable, we have only to marshal the will to start paying attention.
People are dying, mainly Muggles, but also Mudbloods, and any whose bloodline is tainted with that of the non-magical, leading to a growing world that hearkens back to the time of the Third Reich in Nazi Germany, as well as echoing the doom and hopelessness of 1984. 2010 March 01 « The BookBanter Blog
I had in my thought to speak of these new inhabitants as workers, but that word has in it too much of the suggestion of endless, hopeless, playless labor. The French in the Heart of America
These ‘comic’ stereotypes, regressive even in 1968, make the show seem not so much offensive as hopelessly dated.
Nevertheless, he set about the seemingly hopeless task of making a bankrupt Command a going concern.
Do you remember how hopeless Mummy used to be at impromptu visits? Times, Sunday Times
We found ourselves hopelessly outnumbered by the enemy.
Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they're going through.
He is, however, quite impatient with the clods and dullards who do not find the tradition hopelessly retrograde.
Society became flooded with well-meaning do-gooders who bumbled about in the most hopeless manner.
The Spanish were hopelessly outnumbered in the battle.
He was thirty, but looked fifty, with pale skin, hopeless eyes and an emaciated body, covered in sores.
The utter hopelessness of attempting to gain sleep while shuttling to and fro inside a coach is almost impossible to communicate.
Both stories capture the hopelessness and desperation of grinding poverty, but in very different ways.
She struggled, kicking out hopelessly, and her heart almost burst with panic.
The hopeless yelpings of the untalented are reliably entertaining; there are two helpings tonight. Times, Sunday Times
There was a time when the man could crack a joke, though there was never anything he found funnier than man's futile quest for meaning in a hopeless, senseless world.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure will turn to glorious success.
Kenji's tennis shoes dragged against the ground hopelessly.
As you push yourself to overcome inertia, you need to work against the tendency to feel discouraged and hopeless.
Even the television ads for these magazines celebrate the hopeless stupidity and superficiality of the male.
I'm sitting here almost in tears, drowning in a sad mixture of melancholy, confusion, hopelessness, and self-pity.
In the worst cases angina had a devastating impact on quality of life, leaving patients in a state of ‘hopelessness and pain’ and also severely burdening families and health services.
February 17th, 2010 at 7: 29 pm tombaker says: harmando thinks using teenage girl text-message acronyms is awesome, because he’s a sober and serious, intelligent grownup, and not a hopeless poser loser waving his boogerfinger around in territory that does not welcome him or his “ideas”. Think Progress » Confused Karl Rove Falsely Accuses Obama Of Having ‘A Little Bit Of Confusion’ About Stimulus Jobs Numbers
I'm homophobic, I actually don't read well enough to get this book, I hate (insert virtually anything here), I am a hopeless snob who gratifies my ego by posting bad reviews. "Chain, chain...every shadow, every face."
Annie's touchy pride, mingled with what Vassie frankly called her "impossibleness," made the situation hopeless, for the former quality would not let her efface herself, and the latter prevented her daughter being called upon. Secret Bread
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.
He had clung to it when times seemed desperate and hopeless, but he had refused to think he and his sisters deserved what they got.
But to look for reasons for love was a hopeless quest, au fond. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
The public transport system was absolutely hopeless.
Now hopelessly swamped in scandal and corruption, high taxes, firearms boondoggle, sponsorship scandal, etc, they are again using bribery as their last resort.
The first telephoned his employer saying that it was hopeless, because no one wore shoes!
Sees a lion's hopeless chase of faster topi. Times, Sunday Times
Is the party secretly run by people who are giggling hilariously as they instigate one hopeless fight after another while they cruise through every election essentially unopposed?
As early as 1984 I can remember working on a highly-innovative, game-based videodisc for pharmaceutical reps, that used all sorts of fab video effects including a nevigatable 3D mock-up of a hospital, that won an industry award, appeared on the BBC, but which was hopelessly off-beam in terms of its application. The big question for January: quality v speed
The rule which I have tried to follow has been this: when the word has been hopelessly Latinised, as 'Phoebus' has been, I have left it as it usually stands; but in other cases I have tried to keep the plain Greek spelling, except when it would have seemed pedantic, or when, as in the word 'Tiphus,' I should have given an altogether wrong notion of the sound of the word. Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
May one say that this is so without sounding hopelessly snobbish?
Cavalry engagements fought in mud proved very costly and from a military point of view, hopeless.
She was a hopeless romantic, always convinced that one day she would meet the man of her dreams.
He has always lived his life by a hopelessly quixotic code of honour.
Raúl experiences a stifling home life in what already feels like a hopelessly backward and decadent society. The Times Literary Supplement
At school I was quite good at arts, but hopeless at science.
We need to raise expectations in this country for those who experience hopelessness.
It was a hopeless love that could not possibly be reciprocated.
Finally, never leave the examination hall in despair, however hopeless things may seem.
Englebert's own songs seem to emerge from the angst of a man who is unashamed of confessing he feels hopelessly miserable without love.
What had she thought, that their purpose led to another hopeless middle-class trap.
I'm hopeless at physics, and it's the same with chemistry - I get it all wrong.
May be it was just because of her bad mood and hopeless situation but it seemed as if they were laughing sinisterly and mocking at her.
He sighed hopelessly as he slowly began to walk back towards the direction he came from.
To take advantage of the hopeless is truly despicable, but to prey on the helpless, whether directly or indirectly, is criminal.
On the train back, Steve and I raced each other to do the puzzles in consecutive issues of Metro, but I'm hopeless at crosswords and got stuck on mine after two clues.
Grimness, in its suggestion of a dire situation, of even a hopeless one, makes it pretty difficult to take issue.
Ian was a hopeless innocent where women were concerned.
Following a motorbike accident Will is left in a wheelchair and feeling hopeless about his future. The Sun
The Bible once received, science can furnish abundant illustrations of the attributes of the Being therein revealed; but even with all the illumination which has been the immediate or secondary result of Christianity, man is hopeless without its authority, and I would not give the slightest shadow of support to that irreverent presumption which, guided by what it calls the unaided light of nature, would construct a system of religion out of passions, intuitions, and I know not what absurdity. Religion and Chemistry
Of course they were all utterly hopeless at doing something practical that requires a bit of elbow grease and failed miserably in the first basic cleaning task. The Sun
None of her propeller shafts could be turned, and the port rudder was hopelessly buckled. Times, Sunday Times
There are unlosable cases, winnable cases, arguable cases and hopeless cases. Times, Sunday Times
This chick lit Cinderella caper is a fun tale especially when the lead character seeks advice from her friend and pros like a hooker instead of a guidebook like THE HOPELESS ROMANTIC’S HANDBOOK. The Importance of Being Married-Gemma Townley « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
Winning then taught me that there is no such thing as a hopeless case. Times, Sunday Times
The rest were made up of unfortunate women of the vilest and most ragged description, aged itinerants, with features seared with famine, bleared eyes, dropping jaws, shivering limbs, and all the mortal signs of hopeless and aidless, and, worst of all, breadless infirmity. Pelham — Complete
Women use them as a yardstick for measuring their own attractiveness, thus arriving at a warped perception of their own physical attributes as being hopelessly deficient.
To them he was a hopeless case. Man of Honour
A doctor is there to treat and to cure, not to dismiss anyone as a hopeless case.
We have to charge off the debt as hopeless.
Although the men fought doggedly on, a sense of hopeless despair engulfed them.
She never gets anywhere on time. She's hopelessly disorganized.
Another 5 per cent said they were just hopeless at cooking. Times, Sunday Times
I am sorry to have to confess to so much ungallantry; but the only effort which I made, in common with the others, was to avoid her -- she was so hopelessly dense. A Boy's Voyage Round the World
From the sensations I then had, I felt an inner conviction of the liveliest kind, that without some powerful and reviving stimulus I should either have died on the spot, or should at least have sunk to a point of exhaustion from which all reascent under my friendless circumstances would soon have become hopeless. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
A tripping, folkish vocal stitched to a coruscating harmony produces an endlessly pleasant bump that has simplicity written all over it, but is still hopelessly infectious.
The student who enters grad school intent on becoming a traditional humanist is the student who will be labelled as hopelessly unsophisticated by her peers and her professors.
Majesty defamed, the honour of Parliament depraved, the writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly imprinted; complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations. On The Art of Reading
Your youngster may feel it is hopeless to try to be good, that he is doomed to be uncaring like the father, or selfish like the mother.
Life in the tumbledown bathhouse seems hopelessly anachronistic.
It would be ironic if courts, seeing opposing expert witnesses giving odds of correct identification differing a million-fold (105: 1 versus 1011: 1), were to decide that DNA evidence is hopelessly unreliable, and turn instead to eye-witness identification (odds of correct identification diazonium salt -- couples to enzyme tyrosine groups Archive 2004-12-01
The dialogue was so hopelessly unfunny that it boggles the mind.
An old woman, hopelessly blinded by glaucoma, and her daughter sit together. Times, Sunday Times
She, and all of them, are constrained by hopeless blocking and a lighting design so discrete as to be invisible to the naked eye.
All of which makes me hopelessly unsuited to being the wife of a politician - and a bit of a headache for him indoors and his aides. Times, Sunday Times
I've tried for twenty years, signori, and it is hopeless. "The Morons" by Harl Vincent, part 4
The reader can appreciate her desperation as her love for Macbeth becomes hopeless.
England won a hopelessly one-sided game by an innings and 202 runs. Times, Sunday Times
The night-sisters moved softly to and fro on the beeswaxed boards, smoothing tumbled pillows, adjusting a splint or a bandage, calming the bearded children who fretted because they were hopelessly "out of it. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions
Was it all a reaction to her hopeless love life? The Sun
The sound of rain pattering on the pavement added to my feeling of hopelessness.
The world of international banking is now full of aggressive, bright, but hopelessly inexperienced lenders in their mid-twenties.
I have found myself many times in foreign lands hopelessly trying to refold enormous maps back to their original pocket size.
After forty-five years of the playless life of a serf to blighting seriousness, the wonder is that sourness had not entered to hopelessly curdle all chances for joyous living. Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
The leadership of the family values Right is hopelessly compromised by its long-term adulterous affair with the Republican Party. An Empire of Widows and Orphans
He owned a chocolate-box house that was hopelessly impractical. Times, Sunday Times
He was a wonderful companion but hopelessly impractical.
Father Anshel was good at cantillating the Book of Esther but hopeless at making money.
Ulster's history suggests their plight is almost hopeless. Times, Sunday Times
Like Paris handsome [34] and like Hector brave, but as pious as Aeneas; "a rich fellow enough," with blood hopelessly blue and morals spotlessly copy-bookish -- in other words, a Sir Charles A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
Calling for al-Fatah Islam to act responsibly is hopelessly naiive. Matthew Yglesias » Smearing Human Rights Groups
They show them to us with a hopeless lack of guile. Times, Sunday Times
Don't project dark imaginings into the future or become hopeless and despairing. Times, Sunday Times
Amidst a crew of cut-throats and villainous slave traders, Davie feels that all is utterly hopeless and he despairs of his future alone in the world with no hope of return to his beloved homeland.
When the male-female pairs aren't demonstrating strident misalliance or hopeless anomie, they confront one another as units destined for mutual inscrutability.
This is one of the things that has given nervous diseases such a bad name for unmanageableness and incurableness, and that for years made us regard their study as so nearly hopeless, so far as any helpful results were concerned. Preventable Diseases
The old man shrugged hopelessly and plodded on up the hill. Day of Honey
Also bought a natty little pasta machine today… hopelessly bourgeois!
To reach the unreachable star, it is my quest to follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far.
I think the Democrats are going to help their Republican brethren out, unless President-Elect Obama can beat it out of them, Dems (especially in majorities) are HOPELESS at getting things done. The Shape of Things to Come?
No wonder that in Lydgate's energetic nature the sense of a hopeless misconstruction easily turned into a dogged resistance. Middlemarch
I know that if I start watching a soap opera I immediately become hopelessly addicted.
Originally we were supposed to conduct the interview on bikes (or "awheel" as the British say) but it ended up snowing and I was afraid that, in the event of a fall, Mr. Thurston (coddled, as are all of his countrymen, by free medical care) would find himself hopelessly embroiled in our country's labyrinthine health care system. Keeping it Reeled In: Hope or Delusion?
When the plot is so haphazard, the themes so underdeveloped, the characters so sketchy, such obvious imagery seems to be hopeless compensation for the film's failure to articulate anything else competently.
They went almost hopelessly into the great wilderness of trees where it seemed impossible to find anything.
Hitherto hopeless footballing nations suddenly emerged from obscurity and started to make a bit of a name for themselves.
I wanted to find out just how stupid, reckless or hopelessly innumerate they could be.
“The markedly driven patient who studies constantly and voices dissatisfaction with anything but perfect grades often distresses the parents who recognize the drivenness and hopelessly attempt to persuade the patient to work less and enjoy herself more” Mintz, 1983, p. Clinical Work with Adolescents
The feelings of hopelessness and despair were exactly the same. The Sun
A horror of any kind was no sooner past than it was straightway forgotten, and the facetious animal would advance with arched back and glaring eyes in defiance of an incursive hen, or twirl in mad hopeless career after its own miserable tail! Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
Preaching hopelessness, defeat, and doom for seven years... preaching unfaith in the democratic process itself... The lovely and expressive Michelle Obama spoke in Madison, Wisconsin today.
“J.R.G.,” as we loved to call him, took up my efforts with the warmest encouragement, tempered, indeed, by constant fears that I should become a hopeless bookworm and dryasdust, yielding day after day to the mere luxury of reading, and putting nothing into shape! Writer's Recollections
You are a borderline hopeless case and unless you take action now you could be living on the breadline come retirement.
Dormer suggested that she had become hopelessly entangled in the brush, which he called a "tough, desolate, tangled mess. Long Island Serial Killer: Remains Of Shannan Gilbert, Missing New Jersey Prostitute, Found Near Oak Beach
I am hopeless at these things, but hopefully it will tax someone else.
I guess I'm hopelessly naive, but what are dichondra? Our dichondra seeds need a car ride
To them Montreal is a convenient sea-wharfing spot to conduct big business; otherwise a French Canadian city and so, hopeless. The Masques of Ottawa
There are millions just like them, inhabiting the depths of poverty and hopelessness, suicidal and desperate.
Shame the only thing holding DADT together (at least as a social issue) are these fundie idiots who still think that every gay man or gay woman who sees them will fall hopelessly in lust with them, and fall over themselves with their crazed lust to try and have their way with the fundies. Think Progress » Gordon Brown Calls On America To Repeal DADT, Calls UK LGBT Soldiers ‘The Pride Of Our Country’
Another 5 per cent said they were just hopeless at cooking. Times, Sunday Times
Zoole, a hopeless kvetch, has good reason to complain.
The firm had to charge off the debt as hopeless.
You're a hopeless romantic.
In other hands it would dissolve into a hopeless muddle of ideas.
Merlin, Jo and Ollie are siblings; waifs and strays with an absent father and a hopeless mother who locks them out of the house for long periods.
Now their team are a pale imitation of the great sides of the past, losing 4-1 in a friendly to Italy and with a hopeless manager at the helm.
Feeling hopeless and helpless? The Sun
He often experienced the self not as infinitely removed from particulars but as hopelessly enmeshed in them.
Twelve had undergone lasting personality change, leaving them hostile and mistrustful, socially withdrawn and plagued by feelings of emptiness and hopelessness.
Finally, never leave the examination hall in despair, however hopeless things may seem.
The sight of the hopeless little boy aroused her maternal instincts.
Here again, he fears, his preferences are hopelessly at odds with popular tastes.
I kept on struggling forward, even though I knew it was hopeless .

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