Sentence examples for passive despair from inspiring English sources

Watch here In the bedroom pas de deux, Haydée's Juliet has visibly matured, her initial passive despair at Romeo's departure giving way to a whipping rage of pirouettes (3.30) that send her hurtling through the low, travelling jeté (at 3.50 and 4.05) with lethal force.

And if enough people did it, the carriers would be forced to compete on quality and improve their pricing, rather than rely on their customers' passive despair.

However, the "Reds" operated within the Labour Party and had little influence in Parliament and the mood changed to passive despair by the late 1920s.

However, the "Reds" operated within the Labour Party and had little influence in Parliament; in the face of heavy unemployment the workers' mood changed to passive despair by the late 1920s.

For this subtype, consideration is given to the suitability of treating not only the feelings of despair, passive coping and inefficacy that characterise it, but also of intervening in the actual contingency system of the organisation, directing its influence as much as possible towards developing commitment to tasks and encouraging the establishment of a social support network.

It jolts us out of a passive voyeurism and, in despair, leaves us (in the words of Handel) crying over cruel fate.

This mantra is a voice of despair, anxiety, and passive inaction.

As Peter Baker wrote in The Times, the president is finding himself increasingly "frustrated" by the defiance of Democrats who are despairing of his passive, reactive leadership.

Occasional cries of existential despair frequently masked by a passive aggressive simpers but sometimes unleashed in emotive boomlets.

"I am not asking you to be passive, but you must put down the weapons of despair".

The "worn-out" subtype presents a profile of passive coping that could benefit from interventions directed at treatment for despair and increased confidence through the regaining of control and the perception of self-efficacy.