Sentence examples for very despairing from inspiring English sources

"That is such a powerful driver for people who feel very despairing".

Hazlitt, however, in the view of John Kinnaird, goes beyond Lamb in maintaining that it is Lear's very despair, by which "all the powers of thought and feeling" were elicited and intensified, that gives him tragic "strength and grandeur".

But Alberta Cross sets aside those American bands' redemptive undercurrents of blues and gospel; instead, it plunges into the very English despair of bands like Pink Floyd.

Right now, the responsibility to help ensure the survival and prosperity of those weakened by the storm -- of those experiencing the very same despair I felt when I thought I'd lost everything.

"I felt real despair".

Here despair (Fortvivlelse) is to let one's life depend on conditions outside one's control (and later, more radically, despair is the very possibility of despair in this first sense).

I won't repeat that here, but I do want to emphasize that, although I'll vote for Hillary Clinton in November, neoliberal elites in her corner who not-very-secretly despair of democracy have lost the ability and credibility to govern even themselves, let alone the people they've actually helped to degrade and about whose desperation and myopia they're now shaking their heads, just like Sullivan.

In its very bleakness and despair, it was immensely reassuring.