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Example sentences for: despair

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Gore's central claim--that the environment is at risk of being irrevocably despoiled--is merely a displacement of his personal despair.
After gaining independence from Western powers following World War II, the Arab Middle East followed an arc from initial pride and optimism to today's mix of indifference, cynicism, and despair.
His private pictures from the time include some classics, but they are classics of despair.
Anyone who wants coffee must sit languidly in a cafe, gradually feeling overcome with lethargy and despair.
The Nationalists, in despair, fell back and finally fled the country, moving the Nationalist government and countless national treasures to the island of Taiwan, pledging to fight their way back one day.