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Example sentences for: despair

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They reach out to each other like a couple lost in the wilderness, one upright and confident, the other one slouched down in despair.
Anyone who wants coffee must sit languidly in a cafe, gradually feeling overcome with lethargy and despair.
Up until the 17th century you could call yourself anything you liked in France (which makes you wonder what the ancestors of today's Bastards and Turds were thinking of), but in these more prosaic and regulated times a number of ordinary everyday factors is gradually eroding this part of the patrimoine . The French, to the despair of every government since the Revolution of 1789, are notoriously good at not having babies, and even then half the production at any given time are girls who do not usually pass on their names when they marry.
Rejoicing in France; despair in Ireland.
I think school massacres and teen-age girls killing their infants are ultimately about despair and fatalism.