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
Fortune once more takes us into her good graces, and we are scarcely able to understand our past downheartedness in view of the new happiness to which we have fallen heirs.
From The Moral Instruction of Children by Felix Adler
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
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
Mr. Hardy's love-poems belong to the literature of downheartedness.
From Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd
