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When we finally left in despair, the casino paid for a limousine to the airport.
The way he'd look at her in despair when she kissed or embraced another actor during a show.
I remember sitting in despair as I felt my ribs crepitate with every breath.
The disruption caused to the hall, added to the cost of replacing the windows has left local people in despair.
Finally, never leave the examination hall in despair, however hopeless things may seem.
He says every morning he begins his work with hope, and every evening he ends in despair.
I've been surrounded by people shaking their heads in despair and wonderment standing over the Irish Times.
The father gives up in despair and then, by a miraculous stroke of luck, he spots the bicycle thief and pursues him into a brothel.
As if in pain, as if in despair, everyone felt the sadness and everyone felt fear as well.
He lived for another 23 years but many of those were spent in despair and disappointment.
It's way more punk, way more lyrical, but more than all, it's rooted in despair and sheer rage and pure joy in celebrating humanity.
An insanely jealous Italian farang is in despair after hiring a local private detective to follow his wife.
In the immediate aftermath just the sound of a train left the experienced driver in despair.
This leaves thinking people intimidated and in despair for the decencies they revere.
We can know ourselves well enough so that we don't overinvest and then sell in despair when the market gets kneecapped.
These broken people who may never have the chance to lead normal and fruitful lives are not completely in despair.
Caudwell throws up his hands in despair at the extravagant profusion of theories.
The lad was in despair, but when the cat heard this, he pricked up his ears.
However, assessing her own life with the same unblinking honesty has often left Aherne in despair.
Harry looked at me in despair, sighed, and wandered off to find somewhere quiet in the study to doze in safety.
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Our security increasingly depends on the hope and progress of other nations now simmering in despair and resentment.
Many others have tried it but given up in despair at mastering technology that almost comes naturally to children.
To his utter dismay and much in despair, he was viewed in Cameroon with suspicion and mistrust.
Some Blairites are in despair, arguing people around the chancellor have got a victim complex.
Norma was just the latest in a long line of partners who had abandoned me in despair.
If your situation really looks hopeless and your debts leave you in despair, it's best to get professional help.
He has displayed at large the advantages of equality, and then quits the subject in despair from an opinion of the incorrigibleness of human depravity.
Into the dark and unfriendly ocean of forsakenness my spirit sank in despair as my shattered life lay before my eyes like a horror too incomprehensible to understand.
She groaned inwardly and put her hand on her head in despair.
Siegler and Gruber struggled repeatedly to apply logic to the debate and eventually threw up their hands in despair.
Whenever disaster strikes the poor prima ballerina, she hangs up her dancing shoes in despair until some devastatingly handsome boy shows her that she was made to dance.
We are afraid to be left alone, to have nobody and nowhere to turn when we are in despair and when the storms of life seem to consume us.
You may feel like throwing up your hands in despair of finding the exactly right slant or the perfect array of words.
Finally, the shipwrecked man got close to some kind of life buoy that had been thrown to him in despair.
An important victory can result in happiness and joy, and a crushing defeat may result in despair and disappointment.
If I was a copper, which thankfully I am not, I'd be in despair at the attitude of senior Law Lords who are encouraging the idea that burglars should no longer be locked up.
The doomed American infantrymen looked on in despair as their last hope started to plummet to earth.
The overall effect thus becomes dramatic and tragic, as the piece which started so good-naturedly ends in despair.
Till then we continue, schizoid, half in despair, half in hope.
As we know the list is endless, but that in itself should not cause us to throw up our hands in despair.
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The day of the attack brought images of people in despair, people who were disorganized and could never have imagined what was happening to them.
She was in despair and told us all about this at a rally at Nathan Phillips Square only yesterday.
This was in 1965 and his professors were in despair as William gradually stopped coming to classes.
The growth of this false consciousness is rooted in despair and the lie that class struggle and authentic communism are old hat.
We need to shed light on the lives of those who remain in despair and poverty.
She jumped over a familiar log, yowling in despair as realization hit her.
But how many of us, thus sunk in despair, have not been vaulted back to equilibrium by another look at Groundhog Day?
He, too, could be plagued by the black dog, but somehow those dark moods became curses that brought benefit to his team even while he was in despair.
Should you give up in despair that this is one more thing the rich have managed to monopolize?
Peruvian businessmen are in despair and have called for an aggressive resumption of privatizations.
Every year, for the past 10 years, and that is a long time to say, deliberations in this chamber have always started with high hopes at the beginning of every new session, only to end in despair at year's end.
Are we not all accountable for this, not only to those in despair due to poverty, hunger, diseases or natural calamities in today's world, as well as to the next generations?
University of Guelph professor Barry Smit, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Change at the university, urges people to stop throwing up their hands in despair, and deal with it.
At last, in despair, we turned tail, ran out to sea, and sailed clear round Bassakanna.
I had just left the library in despair, when I met the delightful acting-manager of our National Academy, who stood chatting on a landing with a lively and well-groomed little old man, to whom he introduced me gaily.
We deck our flags with white ribbon for the funeral of a Salvationist, a powerful sign that though we feel keenly the pain of loss we do not wallow in despair for we know about Heaven.
Congress moved inland and abandoned Philadelphia in despair, although popular resistance to British occupation was growing in the countryside.
Before you quit in despair, remember that a magazine subscription is a continuity product and once you acquire a new customer you have a good chance of selling him or her a subscription year after year.
From one year to another, la Maison d'Hérelle adjusts itself and seeks to answer the needs of a clientele that is more and more diverse and in despair.
We also call on those generous nations that have pledged support and assistance to expedite the much-needed resources required to sustain and rebuild the livelihoods of those in despair.
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Rowling was left in despair after her estranged husband arrived in Scotland, seeking both her and her daughter.
Home players puffed out their cheeks in despair.
However, Mr Poulose's brother, Sinto, believes the 30-year-old took his own life in despair of his crumbling marriage.
The Capetonian has played in five World Cup tournaments, which all ended in despair for South Africa.
His departure oppressed me with melancholy, and, re-entering the dwelling, I threw myself almost in despair upon the matting of the floor.
She respects me, no doubt, but has no longer any passionate feeling for me, and my death will distress her without plunging her in despair.
Amidst the trials, without elevated ideals, he sinks into materialism, and without strength to withstand a disappointment, he gets lost in despair or vice.
It remains to be seen whether this can be done by patiently teasing out its several strands or whether one must, in despair, use a sword to cut the Gordian knot.
So is McDougall a paleoconservative in despair like Poe, despondent like Melville, or cynical like Twain?
Mr. Brandon shook his head in despair at the unbusinesslike methods of his patron.
In 1261, Henry revoked his assent to the Provisions of Oxford and Montfort, in despair, left the country.
The outrageous assortment of hungry, pesty beasties devour every possible confection she creates, so in despair, Ma MacDonald sells the farm and flees with her lifemate, Old.
I've watched in despair as ancient forests of giant eucalypt, myrtle, sassafras, blackwood and celery-top pine were felled, the great trees crashing to earth.
Football fans will be shaking their heads in despair today at the news that the manufacturer of Bovril is to remove the beef in a bid to woo the vegetarian market.
Columbus was leaving town by mule in despair when Ferdinand intervened.
Examples from Classical Literature
Lucile was just about in despair when, at the far end of the platform, she descried her.
Others, in despair, flung themselves from the walls, and for the most part perished.
At last in despair he relaxed and in an unconscious gesture rubbed his eyes with his forefingers and thumbs.
He came to me in despair and begged me to rid him of his passion by hypnotism.
On several occasions Father Hennepin, while traversing the broad bleak prairie, was quite in despair.
He makes a frantic endeavour to unpick the stitches, finally giving it up in despair.
But doth not Horatio doat on me, and may he not in despair break his heart if I abandon him?
The Angevin, in despair, crept as softly as possible to pick them up, but his persecutors were not yet weary of the sport.
Arachne, humiliated by the blow, and unable to avenge it, hanged herself in despair.
The Margrave was astounded, the people in raptures, and the cousins in despair.
Augustinus is in despair for the sin he has committed in turning to look after a dog who was running.
Edouard was in despair, and Lampin was cudgeling his brains, swearing that they should not take him alive.
At length in despair Cleinias and Socrates turn to the 'Dioscuri' and request their aid.
And so it was that Braden, worn and disspirited, gave up in despair and prepared for his return to London.
Salim was in despair because this Haleema had chosen to wed Jimmie Brady, 67 the truckman.
She was nearly in despair, and, metaphorically speaking, went on her knees to me.
The English overdo or underdo everything, and are either drunk or in despair.
For the despots in the peloponnese were in despair at the death of Demetrius.
Izates, however, was successful, and abia killed himself in despair.
Then he tried to push through, but it grew thicker and thicker, and he was in despair.
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The pen of the present writer portrays her in despair by a series of negatives.
The Elector, watching all this from just beyond the lech, was in despair.
The old man was in despair about the unbending resolutions of his sons.
Hope looked round in despair, then glanced at her own disordered garments.
Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits,, and handed them round as prizes.
I cried, in despair, for I heard the steps of the Superior and Mr. Stowe.
Then, at last, as if in despair, I mentioned this bit on bonanza.
After college, his father, in despair, sent him among the cow-punchers of a Wyoming ranch.
The rehearsals were so bad that Duquesnel and chilly were in despair.
Updike gives Buck an Ann Rutledge of his own, Anne Coleman, who takes her life in despair over her suitor's lack of ardency.
Marija was in despair, for there was still no word about the reopening of the canning factory, and her savings were almost entirely gone.
But on it went again, to our great surprise and mortification, till we gave it up in despair, and all wished ourselves at Jericho.
I know how things stand, for you have said that last in despair, and therefore, truthfully.
The tall one, red-faced, swallowed another sandwich as if taking poison in despair.
Endless talk about filthy lucre, the budget deficit and national debt, and an almost daily bribe from at least one of the parties has left me depressed and often in despair.
Norah, whose fondness for reading had passed into a family proverb, took up book after book from table and shelf, and laid them down again, in despair of fixing her attention.
She looked at him in despair and implored the Holy Ghost, and it was this way that she contracted the idolatrous habit of saying her prayers kneeling in front of the bird.
But while he was seeking with thimbles and care, A Bandersnatch swiftly drew nigh And grabbed at the Banker, who shrieked in despair, For he knew it was useless to fly.
Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.
But the hostile fleet met with so many disasters and losses by storm and shipwreck, that the Duke d'Anville is said to have poisoned himself in despair.
