Sentence examples for approaching despair from inspiring English sources

But before the happy ending there was hardship, even something approaching despair, both for the Giants, who were nearly seven games behind the San Diego Padres with just over a month to go in the season, and for Lincecum.

Devine was approaching despair when – in an episode that has become one of the theatre's founding myths – he stumbled across John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, a fiercely unsentimental representation of those who had supposedly never had it so good.

This document was written by officials who are in something approaching despair at the state of the institution to which they have devoted their working lives (a feeling that many doctors or teachers may recognise).

Hard to think that this was a city I first came to in a state approaching despair.

Just below the movie's attitude of pep-rally cheer is a mood that approaches despair.

Seumas makes the most cynical observations about his compatriots, but when Mr. Buggy speaks those lines, they echo with a renewed relevance and the character's cantankerousness approaches despair.

While those cases are "extreme," Mr. Cao said, they reflect how some people "are approaching a point of despair".

But the victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg had changed the mood in Libby from grim despair to something approaching playfulness.

To USA Today columnist Claudia Puig, Fincher captures the "menace and grim despair in the frosty Scandinavian landscape" by carefully approaching its most gruesome features.

But for others, who have spent a lifetime withstanding queue after queue without succumbing to despair or blinding rage, something beyond mere resignation and approaching appreciation takes root.

Moynihan despaired that the illegitimacy rate for Negro babies was approaching twenty-five per cent.