Mr. Bloomberg has openly despaired about the aptitude and readiness of this year's field, so much so that he has repeatedly tried, but failed, to recruit what he felt were better-qualified outsiders, like Hillary Rodham Clinton and Raymond W. Kelly, to jump into the race.
By the time of his death in 1946 Wells openly despaired of the state of the world in which he found himself; but in the golden years before the first world war, he was merely exasperated, confident that a little more collective action, a little more personal resonance, could change things for the better.
Siniora, a Sunni, had criticized Hezbollah, but was openly in despair about the lack of U.S. support for a ceasefire; in Rome, he called the air war "barbaric".
Mr. Song was willing to risk their wrath by talking openly because he said he had despaired of finding other ways of spreading word of how his community was being poisoned by rare earth mining.
Sims openly admits the despair of six semi-final defeats throughout his career still motivates him, but halfway through what has become a three-year stay with Warrington, after an extension to the two-year deal he initially signed, the 31-year-old's focus is shifting from his personal desires to helping usher in a new era at a club that has quickly captured his heart.
After a draining week of shock and despair, those who worked openly to promote the party, by some estimates 200, are pondering the next steps for the movement and for themselves.
Both before and after Stonewall, countless men and women died by their own hands in despair because they were unable to openly be their true homosexual selves.
He did not forget his mission, however, which was to negotiate the peace between Spain and France sought by Urban VIII; hence it was with despair that he watched Richelieu bring France openly into the Thirty Years' War in May 1635.
