Sentence examples for despairing in from inspiring English sources

Though he usually maintained a buoyant tone in his broadcast, he was more despairing in his diary.

"In truth, my kids are there and the messages that I get back are relatively despairing in terms of prospects for young people.

Around them is poverty's familiar cavalcade -- naked children wallowing in mud, grown men despairing in idleness, chickens foraging in garbage heaps, sewage odors spoiling each breeze.

His much younger competitors came close to despairing in the searing heat of Buenos Aires, with drivers taking turns to drag themselves round the course and over the finish line, including the unequal triumvirate of Hans Herrmann, Karl Kling, and Stirling Moss, who switched places the wheel of a W 196 under harrowing conditions.

Besides the political causes of the war, Thucydides was interested in and emphasized the conflict between two types of character: the ever-active, innovating, revolutionary, disturbing Athenians and the slower-moving, more cautious Peloponnesians, especially the Spartans, "not excited by success nor despairing in misfortune," but quietly self-confident.

The cardinal presided over a Mass dedicated to the men who serve the Roman Catholic Church, and he spoke of the sacrifices they make every day in poor neighborhoods, in ministering to the despairing, in working with little rest and sometimes with sparse resources.

Amnesia leads to despair in many ways.

"You never despair in this business.

Many survivors and observers read only despair in its ruins.

The undercurrent of despair in his posts was real.

"Only women in despair, in desperate situations, would do this.