Sentence examples for moral despair from inspiring English sources
Physical hardship and moral despair overwhelmed the society.
"Mr. Fincher creates a persuasive ambience of political menace and moral despair," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times in December.
Using harsh and spooky soundtrack music (by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross) to unnerving and powerful effect, Mr. Fincher creates a persuasive ambience of political menace and moral despair.
For reasons Teju Cole explores in this tantalising near-novel, Nigerians seem to have to leave the country and establish themselves outside its phantasmagoria of moral despair before their voices can gain any kind of authority.
Whereas he elsewhere characterizes our moral commitment as vulnerable to self-interested desires, here he adds as well that our confrontation with "all the evils of poverty, illness, and untimely death" (5:452), could lead to moral despair.
Instead the committee went back to at least one old favorite, nominating previous winner Tom Wolfe for his novel, "Back to Blood," which includes the crashing metaphors in this description of an allegedly aroused woman: "the flood in her loins washed morals, despair and all other abstract assessments away in a cloud of some sort of divine cologne of his".
Here is the Soviet Union as only its citizens knew it -- a junkyard of truncated aspirations, moral degradation, despair and inexplicable resilience, a place at once labyrinthine and explicit, dysfunctional and yet determined to survive.
Manea is not by nature a satirist: he's too moral, too despairing.
His characters are known for their rapid-fire, rabidly profane dialogue, revealing various states of moral corruption and despair.
My daughter will have what it takes to lead this country from the brink of neo-liberal despair into moral prosperity.
Charyn's richly textured portrait captures the pragmatism, cunning, despair, and moral strength of a man who could have empathy for his bitterest foes, and who "had never outgrown the forest and a dirt floor".
