In some ways, the zombie genre is a despairing fiction for despairing times.
More than two-thirds of British Jews have a "sense of despair" every time an expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is approved, and three-quarters think that Israel's approach to making peace with the Palestinians is damaging its standing in the world, according to a new poll.
Dentists and dental hygienists despair every time they are confronted with a patient who has been told they are suffering from gum disease (gingivitis) or are at risk of decay, and three or six months down the line when they are recalled, they've not acted on our advice.
I feel sadness, even despair at times, but my son has given me unexpected gifts.
Squealing "Mr Grimsdale!" to his despairing boss time and again, he also coined a catchphrase that would enter comedy history.
And for that reason, the hope in his writing is rigorously matched with despair; at times outmatched.
It was a typically roller-coaster performance from Robson whose inconsistency drove her to shrieking at the heavens in despair at times.
"There were so many emotions out there: hope, frustration, worry, despair at times when it didn't look like we were going to take a wicket.
Self-love as a survival mechanism: the unflinching narcissism of men may send women into despair at times, but it has saved their sex for the next 5 million or 10 million years.
In Peter Biskind's recent book "My Lunches with Orson," the late auteur despairs of time periods like the nineteen-twenties ever being depicted properly in film, saying — quite accurately — that if a fifties film attempts to portray the twenties, it looks like the twenties in the nineteen-fifties.
