Sentence examples for despair of him from inspiring English sources

"At that time I was starting to despair of him.

"At that stage," said Ferguson, "I was starting to despair of him".

I used to despair of him and celebrate him in equal measure.

Meanwhile, to those who despair of him, traingate exemplifies something completely different: Mr Corbyn's almost comical hopelessness as a leader who is taking Labour into the wilderness.

The no-nonsense, anti-showbiz Alex, whose elegantly damning chapter about David Beckham ("I was starting to despair of him … I could see him being swallowed up by the media or publicity agents") confirms how much he loathes the modern celeb whirl and its inevitable intersection with his sport.

That's news, because he's been negative on it since the early 1990s right through the bull market to the great frustration of some subscribers who began to despair of him ever prizing himself out the permafrost.

Many White House staffers were despairing of him.

Presumably a lot of those who despaired of him have left.

His fans back home occasionally despaired of him, but he never gave in to the blandishments that were offered.

Van Gogh was born in 1853, in Zundert, in the Netherlands, the son of a cultured clergyman and a mother who seems to have despaired of him.

Last year, just as it seemed to be despairing of him, the party was galvanised by the financial crash convinced, suddenly, that it had rediscovered its purpose.