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Example sentences for: despair

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of, relating to, characteristic of, or resembling the late-19 th -century literary and artistic climate of sophistication, escapism, extreme aestheticism, world-weariness, and fashionable despair.
His private pictures from the time include some classics, but they are classics of despair.
The war in Yugoslavia continued to eclipse all other news across Europe Wednesday, with the Guardian of London leading its front page: "Day 21: more bombs, more death, more despair."
And when you hear that the anti-Microsoft side has retained the services of that economic and technology expert Bob Dole, you start to despair.
There isn't even a Dostoevskian Grand Inquisitor to tell us why humans need so many rules and regulations to keep from following their animal natures into despair and anarchy.