Sentence examples for emotional despair from inspiring English sources

Ms. Gunstone presses her head against the floor, the tension in her shoulder blades registers the physical pressure of emotional despair.

(This definition may not turn up in any current dictionaries, but literary license isn't a sin yet. And if giving in to emotional despair isn't one, it should be).

Everyone seems to be unhappy, the country is in deep emotional despair and the air has a constant stench of fear in it, coming from the direction of Washington.

It was also denied the crushing ubiquity of a CD release, so instead, Andy Abraham, Very Best Of is download-only, a format that negates any future emotional despair should the newly re-employed dustman have to launch bin bags full of his own CDs into landfill.

Despite, or because of, their attempt to capture our emotional despair, these headlines were misleading.

Guns in the home just make it too easy for a person, in a moment of emotional despair, to commit suicide.

The spectators love the emotional extremes: despair, manic exhilaration, rage and a longing for miracles.

The cascade of misfortune has triggered an emotional reaction – despair, fury, denial – and more self-reflection than usual in a country that is perpetually grappling with questions of state, ideology and national cohesion.

But the protagonists' emotional vulnerability and despair are fully plumbed.

The humor of the "Cloth Paintings," from a moment when minimalist doctrine was declaring all painting obsolete, is shadowed by emotional tones of despair and defiance.

According to Durkheim, such a society produces, in many of its members, psychological states characterized by a sense of futility, lack of purpose, and emotional emptiness and despair.