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
Mr. Hardy's love-poems belong to the literature of downheartedness.
From Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd
There is no more pregnant a "reviver" of downheartedness than letters from the old people, nor is anything more liable to inspire the "pip" than the absence of such personal touches with familiar scenes.
From Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry by A. Stanley Blicq
At these words all Lisbeth's downheartedness vanished, and she felt only how festive and cozy it was to be at home again.
From Lisbeth Longfrock by Laura E. (Laura Elizabeth) Poulsson
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
