desperation
Example Sentences
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“You can feel the hopes and desperations of the people that lined the Bowery,” he added.
From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2016
Sooner or later the genuine novelist discovers that his bread and butter depends on the quiet desperations that lie imbedded in the lives of most men and women.
From Time Magazine Archive
For A Ship Made of Paper, his eighth novel, Spencer worked with different characters but similar desperations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though Paul Simon, Richard Gephardt and Bob Dole come from neighboring states, they are power dwellers, long gone from the quiet desperations of Main Street.
From Time Magazine Archive
She could not have had any hopes then at all; it must have been all desperations.
From Balcony Stories by King, Grace E.
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