Sentence examples for sliding into despair from inspiring English sources

I spent each afternoon sitting with Fangfoss on my back steps, watching the world undulate and sliding into despair.

She feels herself sliding into despair.

In a qualitative study of 17 family caregivers of persons with dementia, the participants described hope using the metaphor of a knot, as it kept them from sliding into despair [ 18].

The 16-year-old boy began to slide into despair.

This Maggie is such a spark plug that when she begins her slide into suicidal despair, you keep expecting her to pop right back up into fighting form, like a glamour-puss Rasputin.

Even as he slides further into despair, his perception warped by grief and drug addiction, Charlie wryly observes his own wretchedness noting, for instance, the way he has holed himself up in "the kind of nest in which a rat would live".

But during the Great Depression, she might have been all that prevented the struggling city of Chester, and the equally hardscrabble neighboring town of Newell, from sliding into the Ohio River in complete somnolent despair.

I'm not sliding into any pulsating, gaping void of despair.

Details about Mr Edwards' slide into despair began to emerge as he talked.

I suppose you could argue that Mr. Dunster's women are given the upper hand, since both men embark upon variably abject slides into despair, or worse.

This is, surprisingly, not a depressing book at all, in part because its descriptions of Evan's slide into despair are so simple and lucid and particular.