Sentence examples for despondence from inspiring English sources

But there exists a despondence; they lack that zest for life they once had.

"Do you have an insider threat programme or the foundation for such a programme?" it asks department heads, adding that they should keep a close eye on the "relative happiness" of workers, because a staffer who displays "despondence and grumpiness" is likely to be untrustworthy.

Another theory posits "Vexations" as the product of romantic despondence.

But there may be a logic, however twisted, in the way that despondence and desperation ferment into vicious malevolence.

Fights broke out, the police were called, and Stravinsky sank into sulky despondence.

Mr. Lugar said he understood that despondence over the economic crisis, a sense that government is more intrusive and a fear that the country's position on the global stage is becoming more precarious "are the underlying concerns" of partisan troubles.

Choosing to wear it, especially in slightly damaged form, bespoke a sort of despondence, a resignation.

In that instant, a new sense of doom and despondence engulfed me.

It's an equal-opportunities kind of despondence: son Orlando, with his entitled whinging about his parents' cyber loft – "Do you want to talk about how your midlife crisis is eroding my inheritance?" – makes you both wonder both at the patience of Al and our fetishisation of youth.

It's with great despondence and trepidation that I look into a future where Josh fails to get his grades.

For Carrabba, who is forty-two, despondence is now buttressed by an almost gospel-like optimism.