despair

If despair is weighing you down, Miyazaki’s films and inheritors like “Avatar: The Last Airbender” are powerful antidotes.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

Argentina's great sporting icon had been captured on the giant screens looking up in despair as the holders trailed Egypt 2-0 with less than 20 minutes left.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

"There wasn't a single ray of light coming through a crack in the rubble; despair threatened to overwhelm me," Cordido told AFP from his daughter's house in Caracas.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

“The American Crisis,” Mr. Kelly writes, “spoke to citizens’ fear and despair, but also to their anger, their sense of family, their feelings of manhood, duty, and pride.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Then I rose up on my curtainless bed, trembling and quivering; and then the still, dark night witnessed the convulsion of despair, and heard the burst of passion.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Marriage is the main topic, both the joys and despairs, in numbers that make ambivalence energizing, fun, poignant and, most important, resonantly true.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2024

Kakar despairs at the plight of Afghans who remain in Pakistan.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024

Then Isabel’s despairs stack, pressing her to expand her inquiry beyond the United States and diagnose history’s gravest injuries.

From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2024

Mr Jones said he "despairs" when visitors in north Wales are "let down" by the train network, and said that it was a "big, big disappointment".

From BBC ● May 30, 2023

Mr. Corcoran swung to and fro between euphoria and the wildest of despairs.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Still, he kept laboring toward a perfection he didn’t always reach but never despaired of reaching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

But closer to the high-security perimeter, a crowd of worshippers despaired as police officers blocked their route.

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

You despaired because buying merchandise—both Fanatics’ own and products it retails—did not satiate your appetite to do e-commerce with this company.

From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2025

I’ve long despaired about the homelessness crisis in particular.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024

Matt despaired of getting her to listen to reason.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

That cruel realization haunts the cash-strapped protagonist of English filmmaker Mark Jenkin’s transfixing, increasingly despairing “Rose of Nevada.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

With the tiring Sale defence in disarray, Malins fed Calouri on the wing to dive over Warr's despairing tackle to leave Sharks boss Alex Sanderson with much to consider at the break.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

As wars multiply, Pope Leo’s aides aren’t despairing about the possibilities of diplomacy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026

But Nina soon found herself despairing, once she realized she could not leave her hiding place.

From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026

They and the coyotes lived clever, despairing, submarginal lives.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck