Sentence examples for battle despair from inspiring English sources

On one painful day in 1912, Edmund Tyrone learns that he has tuberculosis, and his mother, Mary, falls back into her morphine addiction after the latest effort at a cure; her husband and sons battle despair as she flees from her loneliness.

A tremor of hope that a miracle would occur moved through my wife and me, battling despair as the alternative scenario.

"Sounding Beckett," which completes its short run at the Classic Stage Company on Sunday, is a far cry from "Waiting for Godot" or "Happy Days," that playwright's cheerfully absurdist midcentury tributes to the battle against despair.

She misreads the books and mistakes their tone: convinced that Defoe's characters are thoughtless, go-getting profiteers, she overlooks Robinson Crusoe's battle against despair, the nonchalant fatalism of Moll Flanders, and the ghostly detachment of the narrator who wanders at night through a stricken city in A Journal of the Plague Year.

He never achieved it, battling alcohol, despair and some very powerful producers.

Americans went into battle armed against despair with the common conviction that the country that sent them there was worth their sacrifice.

A London-based antiques dealer visits his sister and her lover, disrupting their idyll, and the dealer's interest in a nearby country house triggers a property battle between a despairing alcoholic and his sister, who refuses to be pushed off her land.

An estate where decency fights a losing battle against degradation and despair.

But the reprieve was always short-lived, and within an hour of her departure I was back to staving off despair, doing battle with the usual furies.

Last week the Tory leader, David Cameron, visited Dewsbury Moor, where Shannon Matthews lived, to apologise to residents for claiming the estate was "a place where decency fights a losing battle against degradation and despair".

The political elements of the story (which finds the judicial system in the pocket of a dissolute, corrupt businessman) connect with another, more pervasive, more universal, and, ultimately, more radical vision of generational battles that arise from existential despair: the struggle to reconcile oneself to a broken world that draws on the past to harness the virtuous to perpetuate the evil.