despairingly

"We have no place to stay, 90% of the houses are destroyed," one father told us despairingly as he picked his way through the new piles of rubble.

“Texas has produced no major writers or major books,” wrote Larry Jeff McMurtry, rather despairingly, in 2011.

"We trust Pope Francis, but we don't trust others to listen to the voice of peace," he says despairingly.

At one point, he despairingly lists a spate of racist incidents to Hillary after an ugly encounter with an aggressive patron.

He speaks lyrically about winter rains, when the trees grow right out of the rising lake, and despairingly about the recent drops in water levels.