disconsolation

Example Sentences

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In London the Council of Foreign Ministers achieved only the disconsolation of all in the world who desired peace, not power.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her graceful head was bowed down by the sharp stroke of the humiliation which had just stricken her, and her whole attitude was that of hopeless disconsolation.

From Joseph II. and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

The question is to seek consolation in disconsolation.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

A vast lassitude was weighing upon her, body and spirit were faint in the enervation of an inexorable disconsolation.

From Red Masquerade by Vance, Louis Joseph

He was a thin, youngish kind of man, I should say past fifty, sort of French-Irish in his affections, and puffed up with disconsolation.

From Cabbages and Kings by Henry, O.