Sentence examples for hopeless reflection from inspiring English sources

I could not let Megan Liberman's post from Monday on Emily Rapp's "Notes From a Dragon Mom" inch down the screen without flagging another — admittedly far less hopeless — reflection on maternal loss that I read some days ago in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

There is one key difference between hopeless rumination - the kind of thought that awakens you at 2 am and keeps going until you finally drift off again at 4 am - and useful reflection.

All hopeless.

Contemplative reflection?

For reflection?

In a moving series of reflections, he reveals just how terrible doctors are at telling patients when treatments are unlikely to work, and how hopeless they are at estimating how much time their terminally ill patients have left.

"Hopeless," Renshaw said.

Neither assumption is hopeless.

But it's hopeless.

"It seemed so hopeless".

Howl in hopeless despair?