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Example sentences for: despair

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Substitute the word "depression" for "despair" and you have a cornerstone of modern psychotherapy.
Part of what Nolte conveys is the struggle of a clay man to convey a lot of elusive thoughts--a hopeless prospect that only leads to rage and despair.
They reach out to each other like a couple lost in the wilderness, one upright and confident, the other one slouched down in despair.
William Cowper, an 18 th -century Protestant, may be best known for tormented, eloquent poems of religious fervor and despair.
Later, according to the Newsweek book, Stephanopoulos, James Carville, and Mandy Grunwald were so demoralized by Clinton's lack of candor that they crashed on a bed together, "too numb with fatigue and despair to speak."