Sentence examples for a slough of from inspiring English sources

I sunk into a slough of despond.

The DPJ, in a slough of despond, criticises Abenomics while offering little alternative.

THE United States has of late been in a slough of despond.

He instigated a series of ethics reforms to clean up Louisiana's reputation as a slough of corruption.

But even by their usual gloomy standards, Britons seem to have got themselves into a slough of despond of late.

But, as I sank into a slough of middle-aged insouciance, I wore sandals, clogs, loafers -- anything I felt like.

Mapplethorpe's many alter egos, explored over the years in a variety of self-portraits, hardly signal a sloughing off of the constraints of the Catholic religion he was raised in, as one might assume.

Accordingly, all versions of Mr. Wooley's "Seven Storey Mountain" involve a sloughing off of conventional technique in favor of esoteric sounds, and a sensation of slow, steady ascent through mysterious terrain toward a distant peak.

"I can feel a shift toward hopefulness in these songs," she said, "a sloughing off of the pain of other years -- relationships, drugs, whatever.

Creative artists who continue to work late in life so often seem to undergo a sea change: a distillation, a new intensity, a sloughing off of excess and ornament in favor of deep essentials.

The diagnosis of Fanconi syndrome was confirmed by a renal biopsy that showed extensive lesions of proximal tubular epithelial cells with vacuolation of these cells and a sloughing of the brush border.