Sentence examples for slightly hopeless from inspiring English sources

By the time I left, at 4am, I felt very sad but also slightly hopeless.

Again, it is realistic that everyone in the film is slightly hopeless rather than being a fully-fledged hero or villain – but people being slightly hopeless isn't that thrilling to watch.

Labour feel weak and slightly hopeless, able to define themselves only by what they're not – namely Conservatives.

At one point, an actress, looking desperate and slightly hopeless, pipes up, "I'm afraid that I'll do the same as everyone before me like my parents".Of course she will and that's a subtext of this deliberately repetitive show.

Crook has, of course, made a career out of his "comic" looks, first as Gareth Keenan, the geek with a mean streak in the BBC sitcom The Office, and then as Ragetti, the one-eyed, slightly hopeless pirate in the Pirates Of The Caribbean films.

Joel leaves Julia without saying word, ending the episode on a slightly hopeless note.

One was that, thereafter, I knew I'd always feel slightly adrift, hopeless sometimes, for not engaging properly in the world of money, as many of my friends, and just about everyone else, seemed so keen to do.

He feels the pointlessness of inactive hope only slightly more keenly than the humiliation of hopeless action.

The heroine is a hopeless prig, unredeemed by anything even slightly compromising in her character, and the villain's villainy isn't very interesting: he's uniformly awful to his father, his wife, and his mistress.

"It started from a place of kind of hopeless rage," she says, but grew into a more triumphant, celebratory even slightly menacing piece.

A little later he heard that another young Wetzlar lawyer he had slightly known, Carl Wilhelm Jerusalem, had shot himself; it was rumoured he had done so out of hopeless love for a married woman.