This knowledge, however, fills me not with despondency, but with joy.' " She read on to the end of the passage: " 'We shall live only in the present, in the here and now and create works for the present age alone.' "I relate that to how I feel about jazz music," she said.
Among those members of the health care team, who are committed to oral health promotion, there is no need for complacency but also not for despondency.
Though his shelves are full of clocks and radios made in China, he blames his enforced idleness on the competition brought by Chinese traders.Zambian and other African consumers do not share his despondency.
But behind the scenes at Scotland Yard and the Independent Police Complaints Authority last night the mood was not one of despondency at the shaming of the police's most senior Asian officer.
The historian Ibram X. Kendi, who received the nonfiction award for "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America," discussed the importance of not falling into despondency, and of retaining faith that racism will one day be extinguished.
In her amber eyes, I see despondency, not fatigue.
Although Western fans may mourn the loss, McCarthy doesn't share their despondency.
Words could not approach the "suicidal despondency" they induced.
Sunday was not a time for despondency though.
The despondency was not just the usual mood when a respected leader retires.
