despondence

I can only plead exhaustion and a certain amount of despondence.

There was a general atmosphere of despondence after the euphoria earlier in the year.

Going slowly produces impatience and despondence but moving quickly is simply impossible.

Theo came on a visit, alarmed by the growing despondence of his brother's letters.

At first, he had permitted himself to experience the despondence that his wife's death had caused within him.

People at the meeting, held in a living room near the governor's office, say the senator's mood shifted from determined optimism to despondence.

He looked up, despondence inscribed upon his once-jovial features.

Since then, he had alternated between barely repressed fury and a darker despondence.

My despondence grew with each passing moment.

"Then one day I read an article that lifted me out of my despondence and gave me the courage to go on living.

So saying, the moody Brehon slipped once more into his gray despondence.

What Moore saw only intensified his despondence.

"She saw it so clearly," Anichent whispered, the despondence behind his words almost palpable.

The combination of despondence and daredevilry concerned Spock.

If she'd finally taken that last step into the open air... I kept picturing her throwing herself off the balcony in some fit of despondence.

As she walked along, seemingly incommoded by the burden, a young man met her, whose countenance expressed a deeper despondence.

Bateson eyed him suspiciously from inside his despondence.

Steven wasn't thinking clearly, he..." Rowe shook his head in complete despondence.

The Muslims dispersed in joy and happiness after their days of despondence over the news of Muhammad's illness.

Few, if any, of her intimates had ever had such sound reasons for despondence as bond-sundered Andorians.

Despondence veiled her normally affable countenance as she grappled internally with the implications of the revelations.

Alarm vanquished Elizabeth's despondence instantly.

Despondence lay over them like sheets, and outside the barricades the ponic tangle made inroads on the clearings.

The lamenting of Polyphemus is marked by the statement of her rejection of him and his consequent despondence.

And yielding to despondence on account of his sons, which he felt not upon his own, the father rested his head upon his hand.