Sentence examples similar to had been despair from inspiring English sources

To have been despairing is in a way freeing; it reduces you to a fundamental place where you ask what you really want to do.

Now the neighbors in the Walk must have been despairing at the incursion of wilderness into their sanctuary: rusty dock and nettle stood waist high, bramble was advancing in the tall grass.

Depp has been despairing of America's trashy culture and violence for as long as I can remember, and France is so central to his identity as a discerning sophisticate that I assumed he would never return to the US.

Had we not had this I think we would've been despairing over the complete void of entertainment over the weekend.

Finally, people who have been despairing of ever seeing an end to Israeli human-rights abuses have effective grassroots tools to force governments to act morally.

The incandescent electric light had been the despair of inventors for 50 years, but Edison's past achievements commanded respect for his boastful prophecy.

What had been quietly despairing on the album became anguished and accusatory onstage.

It is no coincidence that employers of economists, who had been privately despairing about the direction of academic economics for years, started to express their concerns more publicly after the financial crisis hit in 2008.

But they take even greater comfort in getting one another out of their respective apartments, where each had been napping, despairing or hip-hop dancing in increasingly significant expanses of time.

He had been raised to despair of the type of people who spread misinformation about the Program.

So he hadn't ceased contact because he had been consumed by despair or had driven his car off one of those devastatingly beautiful Thai mountainsides.