Sentence examples for despondency on from inspiring English sources

"despondency on" is not correct and not usable in written English
Instead, you can use the phrase "despondency over" to convey a feeling of extreme dejection due to a certain situation. For example: The workers felt a deep despondency over the loss of their jobs.

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It does not resolve into pure despondency, on the one hand, or redemptive hope, on the other.

But there would be no miracle, only relief on one side and utter despondency on the other.

The Federal Reserve's emergency cut in interest rates failed to soothe despondency on the markets.

The black-metal band Liturgy, from Brooklyn, exuded convincing, mercurial despondency on last year's "Aesthethica" (Thrill Jockey).

"I confess to an initial despondency on being asked to review this book," wrote Dominic Lawson in the Sunday Times.

So he paid for a companion - Darwin - to help keep him from despondency on the five-year trip.

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This book meets disillusionment and despondency head-on, in ways that tap into hope.

Just when despondency weighs on their hearts, some corporate executives say, somebody comes along to warm them.

It was an appearance on teen soap The OC, together with the sun-dappled despondency of their seventh album, Plans, that changed everything.

First try out simple one which should not lead you to despondency, then work on harder puzzles.

On October 1 they even disclosed their despondency to a meeting of the leaders of all the national political parties, thus undermining the German home front by a sudden revelation of facts long hidden from the public and its civilian leaders.

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