Sentence examples for state of dejection from inspiring English sources

Jesse Jones moved sombrely to a corner table, at which he sat for an hour in a state of dejection.

As the current England squad returns in a familiar state of dejection 64 years on, Morro Velho still seems a strangely potent image.

In the weeks after Thomas's injury, which he sustained when he slipped during a drill, Thomas sank into a state of dejection, haunted by a cyclone of regrets, doubts and spoiled dreams.

Common among the young and working class in Riyadh, a city he calls "a selective El Dorado where only a handful became rich", this state of dejection generates not merely ennui but a detached indifference which itself can be intoxicating and even revolutionary.Mr Menoret is made to feel tufshan by repeated rebuffs and obstacles to his work.

6 He deceived Cornificius, who was intending to come to the defence of his colleague, making him believe that Laelius had been captured, and after thus throwing him into a state of dejection defeated him; and he not only slew Cornificius in the battle, but also Laelius, who made a sally with the intention of taking his enemy in the rear.

The country does not need to be thrown into a collective state of dejection.

"The general state of society is one of dejection and pessimism," he said later.

The laugh, like a clear little torch-beam, will light up the true and profound state of this young man's dejection.

Study 1 assessed discrepancy between the actual/own self-state and the ideal/own self-guide and between the actual/own self-state and the ought/other self-guide in predicting syndromes of dejection and agitation as well as different types of anger.

Midway through the two-hour show, he dismissed his band and sat down at a baby grand piano for a well-rehearsed bit in which he explained how three of his tunes -- "Still," "Oh No" and "Stuck on You" -- demonstrated the way that Lionel Richie has always been there for lovers in various states of happiness and dejection.

(Connor screws his face into a caricature of dejection).