Sentence examples for mild despair from inspiring English sources

Steely Dan could mean anything from measured optimism ("Can't Buy a Thrill" era) to mild despair ("Katy Lied").

If she offers any resistance, it's only to express mild despair that her life might be turned into somebody else's glib narrative.

The inference is that – as Benn has with his own son Hilary, now also in cabinet – she has pulled off the trick of remaining close to her children while regarding the government of which they are part with mild despair.

These are the months of an annual mood swing from euphoria (or at least mild satisfaction) to despair (or at least mild dyspepsia).

"Viewing this play," it might run, "may cause severe headache, dizziness, nausea, anxiety, mild depression, suicidal thoughts, despair over the state of the contemporary theater, despair over the misuse of middle-aged actresses in Hollywood, or garden-variety existential despair.

Nesbitt graduated rapidly and convincingly through mild concern, disbelief, shock, despair to existential desolation.

Is it too much to say that gender-reveal parties are a mild symptom of cultural despair?

All For One may have been rush-released in May to a reception of mild deflation rather than despair, but it sounds more robust here, and with Gary Mani' Mounfieldd's bass pumping it along, unexpectedly joins the ranks of the mass sing-alongs.

Depression is described as "an alteration in mood ranging from a mild sadness to overwhelming despair.

The main symptoms of depression include weight loss, despair, anhedonia, diminished motivation and mild cognition impairment, which could influence the ability of reward-related learning.

For many, these range from mild dismay to out-on-a-ledge despair.