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

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 Poulsson, Laura E. (Laura Elizabeth)

Spite of her desperate downheartedness, Diana could not help laughing a little at his manner.

From Diana by Warner, Susan

Hussey, with his cheeriness and his banjo, was another vital factor in chasing away any tendency to downheartedness.

From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir

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

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert