Sentence examples for a total despondency from inspiring English sources
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.
It's poignant as it's maybe one of the few scenes viewers can directly relate to in a world of bleak despondency turned horribly upside down: perpetually grey skies, the rumble of earthquakes underfoot, distant fires roaring on the horizon and a total absence of organic life.
There was a despondency, a sorry defeatism in him.
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.
"You can feel in its pages a certain… despondency," he said.
Here, six months later, and there is a growing despondency that those who can find good work again already have.
Well, as a News Limited article claimed, "a sense of despondency has engulfed Australia".
In 1823, in a fit of despondency, Saint-Simon attempted to kill himself with a pistol but succeeded only in putting out one eye.
