Sentence examples for like despondency from inspiring English sources

There is, on the one hand, a universal figure that symbolizes childlike fun, but they display various attitudes like despondency or mental fatigue.

In times of disorder, illness or general despondency, I return like a homing pigeon to Cold Comfort Farm: to its hapless, hoof-dropping cattle, encrusted porridge and erotically flowering sukebind, and to the riotous conflict of cool, sophisticated urbanite Flora Poste with her untowardly passionate rural relatives.

There's nothing like listening to somebody else's despondency to make the time drag.

"Hallelujah," which was released by Cohen in 1984, has been covered so relentlessly that it now feels like a shortcut for conjuring feelings of despondency.

The post-production process inadvertently helped him avoid the feelings of vacuity and despondency he had warned volunteers like myself during rehearsals that we might come to experience once the event was over.

I had known for a while that things weren't quite right upstairs but I quite liked the belated states of euphoria that followed the surges of despondency.

She lights up with joy when she smells the raw bird coming home, and then gives a look, when she doesn't get any, of utter despondency: I'm the one creature in the family who likes meat most, and gets it least.

But at the peak of our despondency we saw it: the lift, rising like a mirage out of the timber woods, its four dark cables striping the red sunset.

General Musharraf has not yet said whether and when democracy will be restored (a statement is expected soon), but there is every reason to wonder whether another bout of rule by the army, even if through civilian proxies, will finally establish the rule of law in Pakistan.Pakistanis do not like military rule, yet there is more relief than despondency about the takeover.

That such a victory would also represent the Democrats' best hope illustrates a descent into despondency that makes the excitement of two years ago seem like it belonged to another country.

In the shadow of all the material changes that might soon come, talking about culture can feel like a waste of time, a momentary distraction on the way to a total despondency.