Sentence examples for inner despair from inspiring English sources
Rothko's fascination with Tolstoy's last days reflects, she comments, "his growing inner despair, the void looming behind the shimmering surface of his pictures".
Barely three months ago, Lost in Showbiz declared Simon Cowell a sort of reality TV Oz, a fearsome public presence who is in fact a diminutive man behind a curtain, working the levers of public taste with a mixture of enthusiastic opportunism and gnawing inner despair at how easy it is.
When she is not pointing out the sights, O'Faolain, who has a streaked mop of hair and striking gray eyes that have a slightly Oriental tilt to them, analyzes the tragically flawed national temperament -- disfigured by drink," as she puts it, "and a feeling of inner despair".
Will one mistimed child teardrop in episode three be the Toto that pulls back the curtain, finally revealing that the great karaoke wizard is in fact nothing but a diminutive man working the levers of public taste with a mixture of enthusiastic opportunism and gnawing inner despair at how easy it is?
It used to be generally accepted that overblown levels of domestic perfection were merely a shorthand for inner despair.
Chesterton's quote not only asserts the inner despair of modern life, he also claims that within the "ethical abnegations" of Christianity lies "pagan freedom".
In the title story, the narrator remembers his childless, rich Uncle Peter, a plantation owner who was kind to the boy and knew "the way of things" but whose binge drinking and dread of water betrayed an inner despair-- the high lonesomes". In his youth, he hadespair-- then.
She alone can reach through the carapace of forced politeness that covers his inner rage, despair and turmoil.
While balloons don't conform to the hippy-drug archetype, they also don't fit the inner-city despair we associate with heroin or crack.
"Chicago" is the longest section of his memoir, and in many ways the bleakest, for it tunnels deep into the bedrock of inner-city despair and inadequate politics and black selfdestruction.
The American society, as a whole, can never achieve the outer reaches of its potential so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
