Sentence examples for bleak despair from inspiring English sources

The piece begins with a nerve-rackingly long, slow-paced dance of bleak despair.

Comedy as a savage weapon, comedy as bleak despair, comedy as wry observation and as warm humour and affection.

She talks in vague terms of having "down days", and only acknowledges a paralysis of overwhelmingly bleak despair when I probe gently for details.

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.

But before, during and after the war, Monet was also a public citizen, keeping in touch with his friend, the war leader Georges Clemenceau; offering works to the State; producing paintings of bleak despair (his weeping willows) and then of triumphal joy, and engaging in the negotiations which led to the huge cycle of 'Grandes Decorations' housed in the Orangerie in the centre of Paris.

Given the bleak despair expressed in many of Cohle's nihilistic rants, the ending that lets both detectives live to hobble off together in a "beautiful friendship" like Bogart and Rains at the end of Casablanca is too damn cheerful.

Irvine Welsh, one of hundreds of leading writers campaigning for Fayadh's release, said of the poem: "It is a bleak, despairing piece of work, and the only thing that mitigates against the hopelessness of its message is its existence – that he was able to produce it and can share it with the world".

Rosamund isn't making a stand for her maiden autonomy – at the time she's just embarrassed, feels a "bleak apologetic despair".

The 1970s Black Sabbath channelled the bleak, existential despair of a post-Vietnam, post-Altamont, pre-punk generation who felt vaguely alienated by the world – and had some pretty cracking tunes.

And Wallander's bleak but unresigned despair is reflected in wind-swept, fog-choked Ystad, a Baltic seaside town near Malmo.

"Unless," Gardner writes, "the Arab countries and the broader Middle East can find a way out of this pit of autocracy, their people will be condemned to bleak lives of despair, humiliation and rage for a generation, adding fuel to a roaring fire in what is already the most combustible region in the world.