Sentence examples for despairing feeling from inspiring English sources

But asking for information that is too obscure leaves them despairing, feeling as though there's no point in trying.

Pretty despairing feeling, isn't it?

My despairing feeling is that, in the case of Iran, we should admit that it's checkmate, as they say in Persian.

Regardless of what you think of Romney, or his health care innovation, we think that if you endeavor to walk a mile in his shoes -- the shoes that have been worn down from having to flee his biggest accomplishment -- you'd probably get a despairing feeling down in your guts.

One minute Betty is despairing, still feeling trapped in her marriage, and the next she's pressing her face against her husband's shirt, thinking how much she loves him.

Anti-American rebels loyal to Saddam and even Sahwa people may have joined ISIS out of despair, feeling that Mr Maliki would never give them a fair deal.

As one of the Guardian's correspondents in Moscow during the coup, I reminded Gorbachev that Yeltsin's call for a general strike went unheeded and many Russians were in despair, feeling the coup would succeed.

"But fado also has something in common with the blues: a sense of fatalism and despair, the feeling that everything is going wrong and also a sense that the very act of singing about that will somehow improve the situation".

I cannot describe in just a few lines the suffering and the torture; but the worst aspect of being at the camp was the despair, the feeling that whatever you say, it will never make a difference.

They guard me from despair, from feeling there's nothing better in the world than what I see, nothing better than me! … Sontag found her own models of cool remoteness and control in the movies.

In their place, the new politics promoted the idea that any injustice produced by urban transformations could be accepted as long as citizens were provided with the opportunity of forgetting their despair, by "feeling good" in a new park or a regenerated public space-although temporarily.