Sentence examples for made hopeless from inspiring English sources

12. I'll venture we mean "Kafkaesque" to denote a sense of suddenly inhabiting a world in which one's customary habits of thought and behaviour are confounded and made hopeless.

Even though she came in last, the race showcased Omar's determination, and seeing her thin physique among the toned, muscled bodies of her fellow runners was inspiring for Somalis made hopeless by decades of civil war.

His early plays discussed sex with unprecedented candor: a woman reminisces about losing her virginity, a man makes hopeless excuses for his impotence, young unmarried couples conduct affairs without a thought for the mores of their elders.

Glorious Misadventures tells of how "Russians make hopeless colonialists," according to Matthews, from Russian and Welsh extraction, whose own complex family history was chronicled in his former book Stalin's Children.

And as all these problems swirled, the matinee-idol mayor became a Democrat and made a hopeless run for president.

To reach this point, China has endured disasters, suffering, humiliation, and a darkness that made people hopeless.

The Republicans made a hopeless move, it also seemed no way Minnesota would flip Republican.That's why they say "never predict, especially about the future".

Along the way he made his hopeless yearning for an Oscar into the longest-running gag in the history of the Academy Awards.

Someone had set up a camera on a tripod, I noticed, but he wasn't bothering to man it; the mist made photography hopeless.

Both books describe their sad journey, first to Paris, then to Brooklyn, where Lagnado's parents fought to find their footing and made myriad hopeless attempts to "rebuild the hearth".

These too proved to be unfounded: there were one or two attempts by telegraph companies to set up news services, but telegraph operators made pretty hopeless journalists, and stringing up wires and operating networks turned out to be a very different business from collecting news.