Sentence examples for one despair from inspiring English sources

Above all, it makes one despair.

It makes one despair of democracy to hear their speeches.

Without culture, we are impoverished; it makes one despair.

Reb Berish shook his head, as if in agreement with an old truth, which, although one may doubt it, still makes one despair.

The resurgence of violence in Northern Ireland, sectarianism in Scottish football, the coalition and so many other things make one despair of the United Kingdom but at a time in history when everything everywhere seems to be getting worse, should it be broken up?

But as things stand, with the Democrats clearly more popular than the nearly universally loathed Republicans (the 18% approval rating for Congress is really astoundingly bad), the fact that they still won't stand up even to a nominee this egregious makes one despair.

The first prose work I read by Robert Walser was his piece on Kleist in Thun, where he talks of the torment of one despairing of himself and his craft, and of the intoxicating beauty of the surrounding landscape.

And if one despairs — as who has not?

"There were times when one despaired," Pääbo told me.

Some kinds of perversity are so bizarre that one despairs of ever understanding them.

One despairing reporter finally asked how she and her colleagues were ever going to know Mrs. Truman if they never had a chance to talk to her.