Sentence examples for black despair from inspiring English sources

… On every brow sits sullen, scorching, black despair".

Vocalist Shane MacGowan eventually relocated the story to New York, city of emigrants' dreams, giving the lyrics' mix of black despair and romantic resilience a global resonance.

It is the moment when the mood of Björk's ninth solo album finally shifts a little, from black despair to something close to battered optimism.

Almost every week his pleasant, pastoral sojourn with his nice, even-tempered wife would descend into black despair at the mention of the word black.

"Those who care for such people are all too familiar with the moments of black despair that prompt those words, 'I would be better dead, so that you could get on with your life'".

Anyone who knew Merce in the earlier years of struggle was familiar with those times when he would descend into a mood of black despair and anger (I often wondered how Cage dealt with those moods).

The vocalists of Exaudi intone and moan screeds of largely indecipherable automatic writing while baritone Mark Stone exhorts Myers' anxieties on the passage from life to death in tones of blackest despair.

The poem's pitch-black despairs are leavened by the knockabout portrait of a workingman's pub (reading the scene aloud, Eliot was mordantly hilarious), the cynical rendering of the typist's sleazy liaison with the house-agent's clerk, and the mortal comeuppances dealt to Phlebas and others.

At a time when blacks despaired at the intransigence and violence of whites who barred them from voting, from most city jobs, from whites-only restaurants and from owning property in white neighborhoods, Dolphus Shields served as a rare link between the deeply divided communities.

"Dust" (the title also appears on the piece in Urdu script), somewhat mysteriously, is represented by a black rectangle; "Despair," unnervingly, features two clusters of vertical lines that bring to mind fingernails clawing at a wall.

The once corporate 02 Arena has become a gloomy pit of black-clad despair and, for a self-confessed 'Metalli-virgin' like me, it's hard to go into this with a completely open mind.