Sentence examples for quiet despair from inspiring English sources

School report without note of quiet despair at exam prospects.

Fifteen hundred miles away, we looked at each other in quiet despair.

With time Naruse became a great poet of stoicism and quiet despair.

Then the Sparta goal came and the mood changed to one of quiet despair.

Quiet despair grips those who see it happening, but where is the voice of real outrage?

Likewise the scene between Mary and Granny, where Dame Maggie's quiet despair was beautifully done.

Every bereavement or separation that follows is met with disorientation, a quiet despairing and a shrinking from and of Tess's world.

Lost amidst billionaires throwing themselves under trains or slitting their wrists with box-cutters is the quieter despair of arts organizations and artists all over the country.

Could the lack of rage and the quiet private despair be explained by a refusal to admit that we harboured hope in the first place?

Sue Johnston also lends Gerard's mother a wonderful beaky, querulous resilience that leads her to proclaim, in her final years, "I don't want to die, I want to take part", while Lindsey Coulson conveys all the quiet, pinafored despair of her child-ridden neighbour, tethered to an unseen brute.

The poetry that results from that uncertainty is an essential ingredient, and also a reminder of Ai Weiwei's quiet, Postmodern despair.