Sentence examples for growing despondency from inspiring English sources

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This play his only prose work shows Tennyson's growing despondency and resentment at the religious, moral, and political tendencies of the age.

Stock markets have remained steady over recent months, but bond markets have smelled the growing despondency in political circles and rushed towards safe havens.

The number of Turkish applications for the annual "green-card" lottery to win a residential visa to the United States has jumped fivefold this year.With growing despondency at home, it is perhaps surprising that unrest has not broken out.

His growing despondency about the direction of world politics is the flipside of an undiminished commitment to that goal, in which he has invested some £2.5bn, much of it in setting up open-society foundations in some three dozen countries.

And, odd though it may seem since the recent news of spiralling hospital deficits and sacked nurses has been grim, Mr Blair is in fact serenely optimistic that his health policies are about to come good.It is an optimism that is in marked contrast with his growing despondency about the prospects for his plans for secondary schools.

The latter part of Act 2 is devoted to Anna's growing despondency and eventual suicide, after which soloists and chorus lament a "giorno di dolor" (day of grief) with a brief quotation from "La Clemenza di Tito" by Mozart — Rossini's favorite composer — that seems to have gone undetected by scholars.

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There is a growing mood of despondency about the privacy issue".

When Nadal served out to love for a two-set lead, there was a growing air of despondency in Murray's box, reflected by the player's downcast features.

Concerts were held on Saturdays, and anniversaries celebrated, but there were growing feelings of despondency as time passed with no sign of the ship.

Roosevelt's conviction that a vigorous government could lift the nation from the slough of despondency found growing support.

Among administration aides who wanted Trump to stay in the agreement, there was growing frustration, bordering on despondency, that they had been unsuccessful in their effort.

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