Sentence examples for a despondency from inspiring English sources

A despondency overtookIndian Islam.

There was a despondency, a sorry defeatism in him.

With a despondency around the prospects for the coming parliament, voter turnout is expected to be low – as was the norm before the 2011 revolution.

Many presume that Mr. Josephs's 35 months of unemployment contributed to financial pressures and fed a despondency more common in upper-crust suburbia than might be suspected.

As chair of the UCU anti-casualisation committee, I am regularly contacted by desperate people with brilliant minds and outstanding work who are ravished by depression, hunger and a despondency I recognise from my own history.

With his sliding chords and sudden juxtapositions of recognizable material, Mr. Schnittke picked his way through historical ruins; implied is a despondency about the present, not to mention the future.

In one of the hundreds of self-portraits that Mills posted on her blog, she stands just to the right of the center of the frame, wearing black lace underwear and a black bra, holding herself tight in a gesture of despondency, a bright yellow Forever 21 bag covering her face in a way that unfortunately recalls the infamous photos of prisoners in Abu Ghraib.

In the shadow of all the material changes that might soon come, talking about culture can feel like a waste of time, a momentary distraction on the way to a total despondency.

Its post-Olympics euphoria has subsided into a new despondency; the search for scapegoats is on.

Has a curious despondency over the point of human existence enveloped your soul?

But there is a corresponding despondency when things don't work.