Hope then became despair.
Sadness becomes despair, and with it comes exhaustion, paralysis, and the grey enveloping mist that alters the shape of things.
In his speech, Mr Holder said of the 1963 demonstrators: "They marched in spite of animosity, oppression and brutality because they believed in the greatness of what this nation could become and despaired of the founding promises not kept".
Incorrigibly feckless, he becomes the despair of his mentor, Leslie Shepherd, a Germanophobic music critic who is the novel's first-person narrator (unreliable, naturally, like all self-respecting narrators in modern fiction).
This did not, however, prevent him from having a brilliant career conducted wholly from Urbino, although, given the restricted number of hours he could paint each day, his delivery times became the despair of his princely and ecclesiastical patrons who nonetheless clamored for his work.
Our struggle to accept divine forgiveness can become mired in despair, including the second-order despair over the impossibility of forgiveness of our sins and the demonic despair of defiance in which we refuse to accept forgiveness.
Some of the wounded will move to refugee camps in the region, which have become incubators of despair.
In the face of daily threats of suicide and self-harm, the guards struggle as amateur psychologists and social workers become connoisseurs of despair.
If we truly stopped to think about what each such death meant for victims and their families we would surely become overwhelmed by despair.
For many soldiers, they have become warehouses of despair, where damaged men and women are kept out of sight, fed a diet of powerful prescription pills and treated harshly by noncommissioned officers.
