Sentence examples for despairing state from inspiring English sources

"My travels around the world have highlighted time and again the despairing state many children have to live and grow up in.

(Ms Oates includes fragments of correspondence with friends to help convey her despairing state of mind).

"They're in a despairing state and they'll try anything to get out of it".

He was usually in such an ironic, despairing state that it was rather hard to make fun of him.

Many people occasionally wake up too early with a sensation of ominous dread; that momentary fearful, despairing state may be the closest that healthy people come to depression.

"Why the same year after year?" asked the Rev Richard Coles on Radio 4's An Alternative Christmas, also despairing at the state of seasonal music, though his exasperation lay in the ceaseless renditions of "Oh Come, All Ye Faithful" that come around "as reliably as the winter vomiting bug".

We've despaired of state-building, etc., as we discussed the other day.

With "Pow!", it is not unreasonable to surmise that he despairs at the state of his society, but only as so many of us in other countries despair at the state of ours.

Carey said he was disappointed with Barack Obama – for whom he voted in 2008 – and sometimes despaired about the state of American democracy.

Nathan Rabin, writing for The A.V. Club, called it "a filler-free tour de force" that "confirms Nas' status as rap music's poet laureate of urban despair" and stated, "Though essentially a collection of odds and ends, the disc sounds as cohesive and consistent as any of Nas' proper studio albums".

"Viewing this play," it might run, "may cause severe headache, dizziness, nausea, anxiety, mild depression, suicidal thoughts, despair over the state of the contemporary theater, despair over the misuse of middle-aged actresses in Hollywood, or garden-variety existential despair.