Sentence examples for personal despair from inspiring English sources

"Bowling alone" is our shorthand for personal despair and social disintegration.

Cobain presented his suicide as an act not just of personal despair but artistic defeat.

In other cases, politics may be a cover for personal despair or rage against a loved one.

His personal despair mounted; his marriage was in peril; and at last, while in New York City and far from his Welsh home, he died.

Other Republican candidates would rather criticize Michele Bachmann for her migraine headaches than repudiate her statements in 2004 that homosexuality is "personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement".

"Nox," by contrast, investigates areas of personal despair and pain, with many images that suggest different aspects of trauma, loss and psychological disturbance.

The 20th century and the 21st century associate Art with an expression of personal angst, despair, nihilism and/or radical social activism coupled with a slavish devotion to innovation.

I thought of it as a story about despair: personal, political, historical, and cultural despair.

Similarly, personal and political despair contributed to the July death of Mahmood Salem.

Sometimes Jarosinski goes along with the image, indulging a personal tendency toward despair, and sometimes he undercuts the image with bursts of silliness and romanticism.

As I watch pictures of the tanks trundling through Gaza City and the bombs pounding relentlessly, each destroying the City's infrastructure, I have an extra, personal sense of despair.