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Sentence count:251+30Posted:2017-01-03Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: give updesirehopeSimilar words: pairimpairrepaira pair ofthomas paineimpairmentdespitedesperateMeaning: [dɪ'speə]  n. 1. a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly 2. the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well. v. abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart. 
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(181) For Simon Peter, Paul's position is a viable alternative to despair.
(182) I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death. Nelson Mandela 
(183) Inspiration moves one from pessimism to optimism, from doubt to faith, from despair to hope, and from darkness to light! RVM 
(184) I leave the gym, enveloped in a thick black cloud of despair.
(185) Mr Kemp said the atmosphere of despair which swept the homes after the closure announcement on January 9 had now gone.
(186) On May 28, ten days after they had lost contact and close to complete despair Bonington gave up the search.sentencedict.com
(187) I could see hunger, exhaustion and despair in their eyes.
(188) Were it not fur her, I dare say Edward Plantagenet would long since have succumbed to ennui and despair.
(189) And a certain kind of heroism, a tone of valiant despair, colors the choreography.
(190) I tried to keep despair at bay, telling myself that some sort of mistake had been made.
(191) At times like that do you despair, turn to drink to try and coax back the muse?
(192) It is for this reason that we find concepts of such value and that I introduce here the concept of despair.
(193) Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, it has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Nelson Mandela 
(194) They often remain in a state of despair that the world at large and their nearest friends and relatives treat them so badly.
(195) Evening found her in despair at the crude grey mass.
(196) Urquhart looked to the ceiling in a gesture of comic despair.
(197) She rebuked herself, feeling deeply ashamed, for having given way earlier to despair and self-pity.
(198) Amy tried confronting her rival but was thrown into despair by her youth and beauty.
(199) Once, in a moment of despair, he snapped his Bible shut and squashed them to a paste.
(200) Just when she had been on the brink of despair, one of her rich customers had given her a handsome order.
(201) Getting moving here won't mitigate the despair; but it would at least show some capacity to think beyond the sourly inescapable.
(202) Those who no longer wish to disregard the insidious pollution and degradation of the environment are driven to despair.
(203) The condition of humankind to which the creation story belongs is the despair of sin.
(204) They felt that the despair long antedated the neoplasms and that their becoming fatally ill merely confirmed what they already believed.
(205) Seeing only these two possible alternatives, she was filled with a deep despair about ever having a life worth living.
(206) As noted above, the Potion of Healing and the Amulet of Coal can also cause despair.
(207) It seems that he had reached the depths of despair, and he finally took his own life.
(208) With every new day, her despair only seemed to deepen.
(209) Labour supporters must be in despair at not being able to race away from the Tories in the run up to the election.
(210) Ruth cried out in despair as his mouth and tongue teased her feminine core.
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