Sentence examples for impending despair from inspiring English sources

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The burgeoning romance carried a sense of impending despair, as well.

As his latest desultory affair atrophies, with only his increasingly wary dog, Max, for company, Hendricks has an overwhelming sense of the profound unreality of his own existence, and of impending despair.

Something else: There seems to be a sense of impending despair about the car business.

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It's nearly impossible to suppress a few distorted facial expressions and gurgles of horror while reading about a jellyfish whose stings leave its victims with "shooting spasms," a creepy feeling in their skin "as if worms are burrowing through it," and a sense of despair and "impending doom".

Stoppard ends his monumental play in 1868, on a note of despair and futility and impending disaster.

Fortunately, those anvils of despair, of Don's endlessly impending doom, were in the background in this episode.

You can't detect in Beethoven's cheery, carefree Sonata in A (Op. 12, No. 2) the despair of a composer struggling with impending deafness, but you can admire his ability to put on a brave compositional face.

Too few results and an impending thesis submission date may throw PhD students into despair.

Is it her visit to buy insanely expensive spring clothes juxtaposed with impending international horror that she questions as absurd or some Sartre-like despair she's referring to?

True, Williams's Deep South saga has its comic moments, especially when the dramatist brings onstage caricatures of inheritance-hunters and their awful children; but neither the impending death of the object of their greed, Big Daddy Pollitt, nor the despair of the old man's favorite son seems particularly hilarious.

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