Sentence examples for age of despair from inspiring English sources

Four science-related events made that list, with the Mars landing at No. 1.In an age of despair over math and science acuity, it appears that what was once considered uninteresting or unfathomable has become cool and exciting.

The novels and related game products are primarily set in the fourth age, The Age of Despair.

And you can see why – in this current age of anger, despair and the proliferation of politics and seriousness through almost every realm of life – comedy with an otherworldly nonsense to it would remain popular.

Baldwin bought a one-way ticket to Paris at the age of 24, despairing of American prejudice against African-Americans and gay people, and was soon adopted into the cultural mêlée of the French capital's Left Bank.

"The Forces Driving Middle-Aged White People's 'Deaths of Despair.'" 23 March 2017.

He suggests that in the modern age, the most common kind of despair is that which is in ignorance of itself.

When I think about that — and this age of death and denial and despair — I can never help but think about that dying, lonely, scared kid holed up like a fugitive in a basement apartment in Adams Morgan.

The Prison Service ombudsman, Nigel Newcomen, described the deaths as "utterly unacceptable" in a modern age and said they reflected the "rising tide of despair" across the prison system.

By the age of 20, I was in the pit of despair, fully entangled in the "beauty myth," utterly confused.

Some of the same signs of despair and breakdown that wore out aging American industrial cities in the 1960's have come to the rural plains.

At that age, an unexpected zit would have sent me into a dither of despair.