Sentence examples for somewhat despairing from inspiring English sources

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(They'd make a riveting, if somewhat despairing, double bill).

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Martin Wolf has a somewhat despairing-sounding column this morning, in effect pleading with the Cameron government to admit that the laws of arithmetic must apply.

Or despairing.

Etelin described Merah as "by no means rigid or fanatical", and said he could never imagine him committing crimes of such "hardness and extremity … If you could say anything, it was that he was polite and courteous … quite sweet actually". He also said Merah's mother — and his elder sister, to whom he was close — despaired of him somewhat.

People who wind up writing books about ways to cope with loss have usually figured a way to be graceful or positive, emerging from the depths of despair somewhat even, perhaps, arriving somewhere with a new perspective.

Don't Despair!

Now, gradually, that term of despair has lifted somewhat and yielded up its survivors.

From these and similar response patterns, dropouts seemed to have lives tinged by despair by a margin somewhat larger than repeaters.

"Dust" (the title also appears on the piece in Urdu script), somewhat mysteriously, is represented by a black rectangle; "Despair," unnervingly, features two clusters of vertical lines that bring to mind fingernails clawing at a wall.

But in war, photography had become somewhat oppressive, tainted as it was by death and despair.

In a somewhat more measured reflection, Ezra Klein captured the broader sense of despair that the speech dust-up must have triggered in many citizens: [I]n the parlance of Washington, Boehner "won".

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