Sentence examples for sounds despairing from inspiring English sources

Even Gerry Adams, the leader of the I.R.A.'s political wing, Sinn Fein, sounds despairing at the prospect of a new crisis that could return the province to direct British rule.

He often sounds despairing, defeated even.

Morrison doesn't sound despairing.

Tynes was slightly more optimistic but, nonetheless, sounded despairing about the situation.

While Truss says that "despair gave this book its impetus", she does not sound despairing either in print or in person.

Still, what comment there is is cogent, as when Mr. Gibbs cites Schubert's "uncanny ability to make the major mode sound despairing".

The Maple Leafs' fans sounded despairing after hearing of the loss of Mats Sundin, the Toronto captain, who is out for at least four weeks with a broken wrist.

Mr. Panwar sounded equally despairing.

On the phone, Ibrahim sounded furious, bewildered, despairing — and determined.

As the dancers seemed to react to the doom and terror of Britten's sound world – fraught, despairing, broken shapes – so the magnificent set metamorphosed into a shattered and looming presence that spoke of mass destruction and apocalyptic force.

Superficially, this all sounds rather despairing: the only sort of hope Benjamin gives us, in fact, is hope for something that from our present position, at least—seems pretty much unobtainable.