Sentence examples for despairing statement from inspiring English sources

Taking the Irish poet WB Yeats's despairing statement of destruction – things fall apart – for its title, Chinua Achebe's first novel was a presentiment of what was to come in Nigeria during the end of the colonial occupations and their aftermath.

When, on Hold Your Mouf, Mills delivers the album's most striking line - "I'm a problem for Anthony Blair" - it sounds less like thuggish boasting than a despairing statement of fact.

Diane and I talk about dance, age, and so on, but I can't draw her into any despairing statement about older dancers and the public taste for pyrotechnics.

But, while the EU is drawing up reconstruction plans and has agreed terse resolutions and despairing statements, it has not had any influence on the ground.

It was a statement of despair – angry and unwavering, bold and unmistakably bleak, furious at the world.

On the façade of one of the town's shell-scarred buildings there is a statement of despair, written in white paint.

"I regard what Abbas said as as a cry of anger and despair rather than a statement of intent," said Sir Vincent Fean, former British consul-general in Jerusalem and effectively ambassador to the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967.

Adele's success is built on being an everywoman: her songs are specific enough to sound true, but general enough that they sound less like a personal statement of despair than a hug from someone who knows exactly what you've been through.

Today, Alexander writes that after the government "instantly dismissed" the inquiry, "the review's email in-boxes [were] overflowing with messages not just about the findings that the press focused on – starting age, testing, centralisation – but with expressions of spluttering outrage shading into quiet despair at last week's statement".

It is not a statement of despair to say that making progress on the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, on the damage done by the excessive size of the financial sector, and on the disproportionate size of military spending all require that the special interest funding of politics has to end.

The kidnappers, in their own statement, replied: "Your despair does not have to get out of control.