Sentence examples for human despair from inspiring English sources

We also need to intensify our efforts to fight criminal networks exploiting human despair".

"It's a horrendous portrayal of the collapse of civilised life and of human despair.

In La destrucción o el amor (1935; Destruction or Love), he evoked human despair and cosmic violence.

The result was a phenomenal piece of acting: one that united the pub-entertainer side of Olivier's personality with his gift for excavating the depths of human despair.

Short of visiting a torture chamber, there's probably no more reliable means of capturing the drama of human despair than sticking a camera in a children's hospital.

Mr. Ginkas's tactics are presumably meant to bring you into a more intimate confrontation with the depths of human despair epitomized by Katerina Ivanovna's plight.

As we saw last week, Kierkegaard identifies a certain mode of suffering as fundamental to human life: despair.

Those in the lifeboats were horrified to hear the sound of what Lawrence Beesley called "every possible emotion of human fear, despair, agony, fierce resentment and blind anger mingled – I am certain of those – with notes of infinite surprise, as though each one were saying, 'How is it possible that this awful thing is happening to me?

The potato revolution challenges her logic, leading the humans to despair.

The scientifically literate French novelist Michel Houellebecq has managed the cunning paradox of espousing a violent anti-humanism while bringing to bleakly vivid life real human pathos and despair.

Human rights advocates despair about Congo and say this election especially worries them.