Sentence examples for intense despair from inspiring English sources

Before they met, Macheath knocked up a woman named Lucy Brown Lilli Cooperr, perfectly cast); another of Macheath's lovers, Jenny Sally Murphyy), feels intense despair whenever she's alone or in his presence.

Professor Danuta Wasserman of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has devoted her entire career to understanding what drives people to such intense despair, and how to prevent such tragic events occurring.

Over coffee, he remembered the intense joy of those early days as well the intense despair that followed, particularly when neo-Nazis killed one of his close friends.

Throughout, Portia responds to McDermott's intense energy and despair with stoicism.

Around the time he was composing L'Orfeo, Monteverdi experienced intense grief and despair at the loss first of his wife Claudia and then shortly afterwards of his 18-year-old star soprano, Caterina Martinelli who was his ward of court.

Over these chords, singers and orchestra repeat downward motifs of lamentation, building to such an intense articulation of despair — "They plunder and burn / Our Ukraine is lost / All is lost!" — that listeners may end up thinking not of the events of 1917-18 but of the Ukrainian "terror famine" of 1932-33.

Beckett's intense staging of despair delivers its big shots in the first images: the parents stuffed into the bins, the underling slipping up and down the ladder, the blinded figure stranded on a throne mopping his bloodied brow; the windows which offer no prospect.

Some people experience situations in life that fill them with intense anger and despair.

We got through security and were met by our friends, who had confetti canons, which didn't help with the intense feelings of despair.

If you experience intense moments of despair, where you are on the brink of letting go, scream if you have to" "No!

This effect of his exile is as intense as the excitement, despair, reflection or disconnect in Ms. Akerman's previous, personally felt studies of travelers abroad, from "Les Rendez-Vous d'Anna" and "News From Home" to "D'Est" and "Là-bas".