Sentence examples for atmosphere of despair from inspiring English sources

AN ATMOSPHERE of despair prevails in the village of Shinwari, close to Nangahar province's border with Pakistan.

Egyptian political élites, unlike the makers of street opinion, do not suggest that Israel, either alone or in concert with American extremists, carried out the attacks, but they blame Israel for creating an atmosphere of despair which leads to terrorism.

The chaos after the abduction in which the Administration of Goodluck Jonathan, who was then the President, failed to publicly acknowledge the kidnapping until two weeks after it happened and Buhari's failure to locate them despite a campaign vow to do so have created an atmosphere of despair, confusion, and suspicion.

And here, too, at the heart of the Telegraph's report of stark choices at Harrogate, was the observation that a record attendance and Michael Howard's performance stood "in stark contrast to the atmosphere of despair that gripped the Tories under Iain Duncan Smith".

This only adds to the atmosphere of despair in the comic.

Children squatting alone, sad and silent; raucous games of football with a makeshift ball, and that atmosphere of despair and optimism at the same time.

The buy-or-die spirit of Russia's new market economy doesn't adapt any better to the atmosphere of bleak despair in these novels.

Mr. Rifkin, who also wrote the screenplay, has a gift for creating the atmosphere of grimy despair his subject requires, and for leavening the grim proceedings with touches of grotesque humor.

This season, her frothy slashed dresses conjured an atmosphere of romantic despair; you got the impression of a woman done badly wrong, and all too prepared to be done wrong again.

Guantánamo, he says, is like Kentucky Fried Chicken, since both keep their inmates in small cages, are staffed by ignorant teenagers and have atmospheres of total despair.

Bergelson's characteristic atmosphere of futility and despair is vividly present in the novella In a fargrebter shtot (1914; "In a Backwoods Town").