Sentence examples for convey despair from inspiring English sources

His melancholy numbers, like "Say Valley Maker" and "Riding For The Feeling", convey despair without falling into hopelessness.The film offers a few glimpses of the other, more animated, man.

Chao, forgoing the shouting, provides a supple melody and verses that alternately convey despair ("Today I am so empty, like a little machine in the great city") and hope ("One day, on the way out, a good man will come to find me, for the rest of life, and without paying — my heart is not for rent").

At the base sits an older woman, her upper body wrapped in a red shawl, whose face conveys despair and defeat.

Crolla shakes his damaged head as he searches for the right words to convey his despair.

Mr. Papavassileiou's extraordinary achievement here is to convey the despair of a king whose destruction is particular to political circumstance, and at the same time to present a universal mirror as bleak and unsparing as Samuel Beckett's.

These words, shouted over and over by Black Lives Matter activists over the last few years, convey the despair of a society where racially targeted policing is not an aberration but a norm and where a black person is shot every two days by the authorities.

Set thousands of miles from the Balkans, it unforgettably conveys the despair of the region.

Arnold Bezuyen as Erik was equally uneven but conveyed his despair with some blistering high notes.

In the opening moments, for example, Jan Maxwell, something of an expert in conveying quiet despair beneath the placid surfaces of her characters, keeps lapsing into silences that too plainly bespeak Mrs. Smith's anguish.

Mr. Bostridge's expressive, nuanced and clear voice is also ideal for conveying the despair and amorous longing of Schubert's songs, which have been a focal point of his career.

This, however, disguises some ugly emotional truths, as she conveys the despair of a bereaved parent in "Little Life" ("Can you tell me why this little life goes so fast?"), and in the title track employs an extended metaphor about the painful memories accumulated in an elephantine memory: "How dare you send me that card?.