A few days later the interviewer called up, near despair: Ray's voice on the tapes was nearly inaudible.

But smoke or not, there's no way to boil the tobacco water without fire, and at this point they're near despair.

'Oh ay,' said Jamie, and then the clamour began again, for the children were now getting near despair.

After 25 years, I was near despair, ready to give it up and go to sea, when the universe dropped China in my lap.

For some, the frustration of a fruitless search for work is reaching near despair.

"So far, we have lost men, and blood, at every stop since leaving home," Jason groaned, sounding near despair.

I was near despair because I thought all my choices had been taken from me.

His early years at the bar were not successful, and he admitted to being near despair.

The bulletin board was near despair at this point, having convinced itself that 36...b2 would lose to 37.

Every day the screws tightened in a multitude of crises, and Maya often ended up near despair.

At the station it was chaos with Bill Wells in near despair.

With a look of near despair he shut his eyes and buried his face in the pillow.

The near despair is evident at 13 Oktyabrskaya, the address in Beslan with perhaps the most at stake.

Even those with full power restored seemed astonished and near despair.

She faltered, shocked at the near despair in his voice.

But that note of arrogance went oddly with near despair.

Her mother gave her a look of near despair.

Humans could be absolutely clueless at times, he thought with near despair.

Ah, great gods/' Zalazar muttered, shocked and near despair.

I felt the misery and, worse, the near despair.