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Despondently
adverb
In a despondent manner.
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When the election comes and for all the chatter about an early vote, the Tories are unlikely to need the manifesto they are somewhat despondently preparing in the next few months Mr Cameron may be a decisive asset.
"Well, what can you expect?" asked the man, shaking his head despondently: "He was one of them Carter-appointed judges".A recent book by Hank on fathering—"The Boy Ain't Right"—captures his tone of voice.
Every good comedy should have light and shade, and there are moments of real despair—Fred and his estranged wife standing side-by-side, staring despondently into their garden pond under a grey sky; Harriet at home alone as the Family Support Unit once again tells her that her boyfriend's location is classified.
His iron principle of investing was "to buy when others are despondently selling and to sell when others are greedily buying".
Meanwhile, Reynaud had left Paris for Cangé, near Tours; and Weygand, after speaking frankly and despondently to Churchill at the Allied military headquarters at Briare on June 11, told Reynaud and the other ministers at Cangé on June 12 that the battle for France was lost and that a cessation of hostilities was compulsory.
One performance ends with May despondently adding: "I'm here for the rest of my life folks".
Suddenly, those same people were looking despondently at their blown-open umbrellas, their dogs whimpering behind.
With only my memory of a 12-year-old photo on my parents' wall to go on, I paced around the terminal wondering despondently whether various men with beards could be our lift, and whether they would recognise me if they were.
"Isis just don't have a public face we can make a target out of…" said the shooting instructor despondently.
But, cheerfully and despondently, comically and tragically, reverently and heretically, he breaks — because he must be free to break — Fackenheim's fearful commandment.
"Before the war, probably eighty or ninety per cent of Lebanese were against Hezbollah," Mroue said despondently.
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