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Example sentences for: despair

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(Rainy-Day Fun: Match your favorite New Yorker writer with his/her body type and look of despair.
will have taken on a grim new tone for us all, becoming not an anthem of celebration and joy but a somber dirge of melancholy and despair across the land.
A piece argues that smaller schools might be an antidote to the gargantuan high schools where adolescents anonymously drift into deep trouble and despair.
The music preceded the title, he insisted, and it would be wrong to hear nuclear-age despair in the clangor of bows being bounced and scraped on the strings, of fingers tapping on wood, or of the siren wails produced by floods of sliding glissandi.
Its real name is despair, that central human emotion in the face of overwhelming odds of which tragedy is made.