Despair settled over the room.
When Trump won, a new kind of despair settled over climate activists.
IN the days when Tea Party activists were crowding town hall meetings and Glenn Beck's fans were thronging the Washington Mall, a kind of existential despair settled over the American left.
The discontent and frustration of the late 1980s, which led to the rise of the Islamic Salvation Front FISS) and eventually to war, has settled, for many, into despair.
After all the dust of despair had settled and I found my stride on the survivor's road, I needed to resolve myself to embrace trial and suffering as teachers rather than tormentors.
On one such afternoon, my sister and I woke from a long nap, our limbs heavy with hunger and despair: the early dusk of winter had settled in.
While America settled into its mold of patriotic vulgarity, I began to despair, for everything reminded me of Bosnia in 1991.
And Ford made them pay when, after the dust had settled on Hartley's dismissal, he further increased the Saints's despair by placing his penalty between the posts to hand his side an 11-point lead at the break.
And when, through the faults of our own or out of unforeseen circumstances, that friendship is abruptly cut off, a chilling, confusing sort of terror sets in -- a despair that settles like a discordant cloud of Saks perfume samples at a CUT Fitness soiree.
She tried religion, but it didn't take, and settled instead on socialism, finding in its theories a means of countering the despair of the Nazi period.
Had Laidlaw settled for three, Scotland could have been heading out of this World Cup, in shock and despair.
