mood of despair

It would be so easy to fall back into her black mood of despair.

With an effort,Hal shrugged off the black mood of despair.

But the mood of despair that had laid itself over our home depressed them.

There was a mood of despair inside Michael that he found difficult to dispel.

There was a mood of despair in the coffee room after the company announced they would be laying off 40 staff.

There was a mood of despair in this Chamber when we debated these matters, and with good reason.

While he waited for his watch to begin, Cato sank into a mood of despair.

Its loss produced temporarily a mood of despair in all of us.

One historian has called this 'a mood of despairing hope'.

The letters of those people reflect a mood of despair brought on by the recession.

A nihilistic mood of despair washed over him.

The mood of despair was shortly lifted by the splashy return of Rubio.

These musical elements help convey moods of despair and dejection that reflect the album's subject matter.

The Senate in a mood of despair prepared to mobilize the last of the Roman forces.

In this mood of despair she let herself into Orcadia Cottage and went straight upstairs.

It was not humanly inhabited; the name had been bestowed in a mood of despair at ever comprehending the natives.

Slowly he walked towards the eastern woods, drawn by the pulsing mood of despair emanating from the young priests.

At the end, in a mood of despair Ivan reflects that the pillars of a stable, moral community are threatening to collapse.

In Sulaimaniya, the Patriotic Union's last major stronghold, there was a mood of despair tonight.

The heavy boughs and dark leaves of the copper beech that spread over the drive perfectly suited her mood of despair.

As if recalled by his mood of despair, the pain in his arm returned, and he felt weak and old, and the sunlight seemed thin.

It is now as darkly divided as Belfast, with concrete street barriers and neighborhood enmities setting a mood of despair.

I've been under some sort of black cloud, a peculiar mood of despair and strange ennui, and then along came your note.'

We made a turn and had to come to a stop to wait for a funeral procession to go by, something that accented my sudden mood of despair.

At the thought he feltagain that enervating mood of despair, but determined not to lethimself capitulate to it.