Sentence examples for if hopeless from inspiring English sources

Various half-eaten packets of snacks are strewn around the room and the scented candle he lights is a touching if hopeless gesture to mitigate the cigarette-smoke fug.

After the outbreak of war with Revolutionary France in 1793, all but the most radical Whigs joined the government, leaving Fox in hopeless, if eloquent, opposition.

Old people thought that they were "better off without diseases," "unfortunate if unhealthy," and "hopeless if [they] fall ill".

The site's future, like its recent past, looked bleak, if not hopeless.

"Intervention," on A&E, holds out the promise that if a hopeless case is confronted by a Road to Damascus moment, he or she would choose the right fork.

The game is inspired by letters sent by soldiers during the war and if the hopeless, sad tone of the voice over doesn't get you then the quiet piano soundtrack and whimpering dog will.

Newton was perfectly well aware that the notion of absolute space is not unproblematic.[15] For instance, if a body's true motion just is its absolute motion, its motion with respect to space itself, then the imperceptibility of space would appear to render any detection of true motion difficult, if not hopeless.

If you have ever felt hopeless, if you have ever believed that all the bad things in your life were beyond redemption, if you have ever felt unworthy of being loved or accepted, if you have ever feared what would happen if people found out whatever it is that haunts you - I get it.

You can still turn things around and have a chance of winning, even if it seems hopeless right now, but if you surrender, you throw all that away.

And if they don't, if they feel hopeless, then we have the sign of a sick society.

In an era in which Facebook has made "friend" into a verb, we often confuse the ambient intimacy of websites with the authentic intimacy that comes with sharing your life's challenges with someone who cares – who will be sad because you are sad, happy because you feel joy, worried if you are unwell, reassuring if you are hopeless.