Sentence examples for bordering on despair from inspiring English sources

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He expressed resignation bordering on despair.

Bordering on despair, I sought help from four productivity gurus.

Cheerleading may be the intention, but resignation, bordering on despair, is finally the effect.

Living at home, bordering on despair, and not wanting to ring the job centre or rely on anyone but myself for my own welfare.

Pundits are predicting the loss of the House and maybe even the Senate to the Republicans, and polls are showing a level of disenchantment among voters that is bordering on despair.

The Lyndon B. Johnson biographer Robert Caro noted that Johnson, then vice president, displayed a fury bordering on despair at being seated at the "loser's table" at Robert F. Kennedy's Virginia estate.

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Like those Panahi titles, "Tehroun" — as well as "Women Without Men," which is being shown on March 30 and 31, and the April IFC release "No One Knows About Persian Cats" — is marked by a sense of despair bordering on fatalism.

His plays are distinguished by a deep sense of melancholy and pessimism and are threaded through with a fervent religious strain which, faced with the transitoriness of earthly things and the fight for survival in the ravaged Germany of the time, borders on despair.

While we're on the subject of incarceration at Christmas, let's please innovate a bipartisan end to the cruel abuse and incarceration of people in offshore limbos because they committed the unlisted crime of hope, a hope so brave and so tenuous that it borders on despair.

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This is bordering on abuse.

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