Sentence examples for sin of despair from inspiring English sources

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The sin of despair is compounded when the sufferer is a hedonist.

But Agatha Christie receives two pages of adulation, mainly for her novel "The Hollow," in which she makes clear that she understands "the sin of despair".

Mother Teresa is called on to invoke Thomas Merton and the sin of despair; Sigmund Freud weighs in with an insanity plea; Simon the Zealot explains that Judas' act was a way of goading Jesus to action ("Get it on and start kicking ass like He was supposed to").

O'Brien was a philistine as well as a consummate prose stylist, an artist who threw away his talent, a Catholic who allowed himself to drift into the sin of despair, and a great comic sensibility thwarted and shrivelled by emotional self-denial.

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He will end conversation by warning that those who do not climb aboard God's boat of salvation "will drown in a sea of sin and despair".

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The high court may have ruled in favour of native title, but the original sin of dispossession and the subsequent despair and poverty casts a dark, menacing and long shadow.

In The Sickness Unto Death, this account of despair is offered as an interpretation of the Christian doctrine of original sin.

"The grocer of despair".

These are statements of despair".

Decades of despair disappeared.

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