downheartedness
Example Sentences
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This spring’s blighted crop of dystopian novels is pessimistic about technology, about the economy, about politics, and about the planet, making it a more abundant harvest of unhappiness than most other heydays of downheartedness.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2017
When the first days of downheartedness were over, and at sight of the danger which threatened Lille and the remains of the Flemish army assembled within its walls, all Flanders rushed to arms.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Robert Black
A strange moodiness had come over her, and even with him at home she had at times given way to fits of downheartedness which seemed altogether alien to her nature.
From The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West by Robert J. C. Stead
The psychological effect of a slight increase in the rations soon neutralized any tendency to downheartedness, but with the high temperatures surface-thaw set in, and our bags and clothes were soaked and sodden.
From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
Could Ernest have known Mr. Kurtz's true state of mind, he would have had less reason for downheartedness.
From Miss Theodora A West End Story by Helen Leah Reed
