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

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 Reed, Helen Leah

Mr. Hardy's love-poems belong to the literature of downheartedness.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert

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 Stead, Robert J. C.

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 Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir