Sentence examples for close to despair from inspiring English sources

Some diplomats seem close to despair.

Now they seem to be close to despair.

And in those moments, he felt something close to despair.

She was close to despair: "The situation is bad.

"The more we argue, the worse it gets," Jack said once, close to despair.

But they seemed close to despair about defeating the Nimby crowd.

But a close adviser to Mr Netanyahu says that, at this stage, any discussion of Jerusalem is "too problematic"; Mr Kerry has apparently yet to grapple with it in detail.What next for Palestine?For their part, the Palestinians are close to despairing of having a state of their own.

His much younger competitors came close to despairing in the searing heat of Buenos Aires, with drivers taking turns to drag themselves round the course and over the finish line, including the unequal triumvirate of Hans Herrmann, Karl Kling, and Stirling Moss, who switched places the wheel of a W 196 under harrowing conditions.

In these circumstances, sex comes closer to despair than to joy.

Her sense of disappointment – which would perhaps slip into something a little closer to despair were it not for her religious faith – is not uncommon.

By 1809, Godwin's business was close to failure and he was "near to despair".