For an hour our feelings alternated between hope and despair.

The rest of the equity department was tossed between despair and confusion.

Over the years, they have been subject to swings between euphoria and despair.

He stood by the bed, trembling, caught between anger and despair.

She made some little sound, a sound caught between despair and relief.

He had been a different man then, torn between elation and despair over what might be expected of him.

They described their thoughts as shifting between hope and despair.

Unfortunately people are in a state of somewhere between poverty and despair.

Come another day, that knowledge might be the difference between hope and despair.

A small word that can mean the difference between happiness and despair.