Sentence examples for Driven by despair from inspiring English sources

Driven by despair at the abuse, especially the political abuse, of language, at the distortions that result when words are permitted to drift away from the world, Oppen's poetry proceeds almost literally one by one; very short lines placing words with the kind of deliberation and care that he felt was necessary if they were to communicate truth.

Among commentators on the right, the reaction has been less driven by despair than by anger.

For outsiders, meanwhile, large parts of the city are unsafe, even by day.Increasingly, the violence is also driven by despair.

He may have Alzheimer's but it is clear that his death wish is driven by despair over revolutionary failure: as a union man, he fought for a guaranteed annual income for longshoremen only to find it never achieved the radical change he longed for.

The focus of media, policy and research on irregular migration, smuggling, trafficking and the high death toll amongst trans-Mediterranean 'boat migrants' reinforce the impression that African migration is essentially directed towards Europe and driven by despair.

All the others were apparently driven by economic despair.

Leonard, Block and their colleagues are being driven by their despair at what their sport has become.

The further challenge for Trump is this: as abhorrent as the use of political violence may be, it is ultimately driven by political despair.

But the new work makes clear that guns' worldwide death toll actually is driven by personal despair, interpersonal conflict and carelessness.

The Post even trivialized Manning's motive for leaking the material, suggesting that he was driven by his despair, thinking "that by sharing classified information about his government's foreign policy, he might 'actually change something.'".

I spoke about this with a senior government minister, Vincent Meriton, who saw the root cause of piracy in the fact that Somalia has virtually no effective government, and who argued that unless order is restored to Somalia with international help, the pirates — driven by poverty and despair — cannot be eradicated.