Sentence examples for despair overcomes from inspiring English sources

"From nowhere," the man recalls, "a despair overcomes me … right now, all I can think is that I want to be amongst them, of them, and I know I can't.

He writes about the first time depression struck, in the early 1980s, in a way that resonates powerfully: he is on a road trip with a friend, stopping at a small-town fair, when, "From nowhere, a despair overcomes me; I feel an envy of these men and women and their late summer ritual, the small pleasures that bind them and this town together.

A rush of frustration, humiliation and despair overcame Kutil's usual reserve as she began to cry before the court.

It can be tempting for people to turn away in despair, overcome by the fathomless evil in the universe.

When Bich Van Nguyen learned she had lymph node cancer last year, powerful waves of shame and despair overcame her.

With a party-hearty widowed father for an example, Black Cloud could easily fall victim to the alcoholism and despair that overcomes so many Native Americans.

But Themistocles, it is said, abandoning all hopes of compassing his designs, very much out of the despair of overcoming the valour and good fortune of Cimon, died a voluntary death.

They did "mirror work," looking at their own reflections and offering words of forgiveness and encouragement, letting go of guilt, overcoming despair.

These stories of hope defeating despair, of imagination overcoming painful reality, find a natural home in such a visually arresting technique.

We envision extending the power of distance education to the grim depths of the Jamaican prison system, collaborating with the correctional staff and prisoners themselves to perpetuate change, overcoming despair with discipline and hope.

To be precise, it ends with Daniel Craig wearing a dark-blue three-piece suit and toting a machine gun, which is the best, though not the most cost-effective, way to overcome despair that he can think of.