Sentence examples for despairing mood from inspiring English sources

Images of defiant "broom armies", gathering spontaneously to clear up the debris, helped lift an initially despairing mood.

Brahms wrote the first book while infatuated with Julie Schumann, the beautiful daughter of Robert and Clara Schumann; his distress over her marriage imbues the second book with a more despairing mood.

There wasn't a particularly despairing mood around the house.

Now, in a despairing mood, they are ready to change.

He left Iraq in June, 2004, in a largely despairing mood, not long after Sadrist militiamen had besieged the C.P.A. compound with mortar fire for three days.

The slow pacing and gloomy tones of Mr. Burns's camera create the despairing mood, which precludes any notions of whistle-blowing by Timofey.

That diffuse, hard-to-pin-down mood — despairing or resolute, and, yes, sometimes simply angry — will be transmuted into the black-or-white binary code of win or lose on Election Day.

Underlying mood: despair at the wretchedness of the Arab condition.

A second poem, about his father mowing their large lawn with a mixture of "pride and despair", lightened the mood.

With a boot cast on his foot, and despair in his mood, Ewing watched from the bench in a suit.

Sufferers of that most Kafkaesque mood, "despair," here grow "despondent". It is sad that Schocken Books, Kafka's own publishing house -- it owns the world rights -- could not do better.