Sentence examples for sheer despair from inspiring English sources
'sheer despair' is correct and usable in written English
It is used to describe an intense feeling of hopelessness, gloom, or misery. Example sentence: After realizing the situation was out of his control, he felt a wave of sheer despair.
Her mouth is a broken harp of sheer despair.
Many people in our day go back to the Greeks out of sheer despair.
The modern world's Mona Lisa is a zombie-like face of sheer despair.
"Imagine a man whose health will never be right again, and who in sheer despair over this ever makes things worse and worse instead of better".
I remember very clearly the sheer despair that many people felt as they saw the Ulster Workers Councill strike bring the new dispensation to its knees.
The struggle is to keep from despair and there have been occasions when I thought I would die from sheer despair.
And we are all familiar with the idea of small-town blues, of the contempt bred by familiarity, the despair of flagging industry, the sheer weight of belonging.
Shelley, famously, could not.I think he may well have been seeking death, but out of sheer curiosity rather than despair.
The neatness of the pun, its capacity to make things rhyme, exists at the expense, perhaps, of mess, despair, and sheer human intractability.
The television audiences have of course been huge - but even if you had never been near a TV during the last two weeks, you could have experienced all the joy, despair and sheer exuberant excitement of the games through Twitter, Facebook and the various photo sharing sites.
By all means keep the classy crime dramas coming but give us the romance, the wit, the humour, the despair and the sheer contradictory appeal of humanity as well.
