Sentence examples for straightforward despair from inspiring English sources
People were not just willing but eager to speak, and in the most casual encounters — with a trishaw driver in Mandalay, my seatmate on a domestic flight — ordinary Burmese offered their views unprompted, with the calm, straightforward despair of people long used to going unnoticed and unrescued.
(It was expatriates who were reticent especially the scholars, who fear losing their access). People were not just willing but eager to speak, and in the most casual encounters with a trishaw driver in Mandalay, my seatmate on a domestic flight ordinary Burmese offered their views unprompted, with the calm, straightforward despair of people long used to going unnoticed and unrescued.
Reisman began to despair.
Its music tossed together country and ska, punk and klezmer, while Mr. Lowery sang in a straightforward, workaday voice about surreal visions or moments of despair.
One of my friends said this to me when I was in complete despair, and it was exactly the kind of straightforward, no-nonsense advice that I needed to hear at the time.
His first movie, "Orchard Street" (1956), was a straightforward observation of Lower East Side life; the films that followed, many starring the wildly uninhibited Jack Smith, used Manhattan streets, rooftops and dumps as the backdrop for sardonic minidramas of social despair.
It goes like this: Despair, destruction, despair.
