Sentence examples for philosophical despair from inspiring English sources

That movie is an expression of philosophical despair: the truth can never be known.

And to all this he brings an exacting eye and a sort of broad philosophical despair.

It's not only that Mr. Lydon's observations are more sociologically pointed (describing the Thatcherite policies he sees as the source of punk's philosophical despair, he says of his contemporaries, "You would not be capable of questioning your future because you didn't have one").

It makes some arresting imagery possible, as when Prince Andrei sees Natasha, the beautiful daughter of Count Rostov, at her bedroom balcony in the opening scene and in melting phrases wonders whether this young woman might rescue him from his philosophical despair about life.

Everything about them - that they were the children of mixed-marriage vaudevillians, and performers themselves as genius whiz kids on a radio game show - was absolutely right; of course they were too perfect, with all their sensitivities, their Buddhism, their philosophical despair and their family bondings, but that's why we responded as we did.

Rilke begins the first elegy in an invocation of philosophical despair, asking: "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the hierarchies of angels?" (Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?) and later declares that "every angel is terrifying" (Jeder Engel ist schrecklich).

If you did not care about the philosophical problem of existential despair, then you would not experience existential crisis because the impossibility of absolutely proving anything would bore you.

But no one who saw his show – a lyrical, philosophical monologue full of existential despair – could easily imagine what a delighted Williams might look like.

Drawing on in-depth historical research and testimonies of contemporary patients and therapists in Morocco, "Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam" offers both an ethnographic journey through madness and contemporary formations of despair and a philosophical and theological exploration of the vicissitudes of the soul.

Saul Bellow, a canny observer of human foibles, not the least his own, was acclaimed for writing in a distinctive voice that mixed the streetwise, the exuberant and the philosophical in proportions that could be funny or despairing.

For the next few years he travelled between Bologna, Recanati, Pisa, and Florence and published Versi (1826), an enlarged collection of poems; and Operette morali (1827; "Minor Moral Works"), an influential philosophical exposition, mainly in dialogue form, of his doctrine of despair.