Many people have given way to despondency and helplessness, having lost faith in leaders and politicians. |
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Lack of the ability to sexually express oneself is often associated with despondency and depression. |
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Just as it's right that we avoid smug complacency, so we shouldn't tumble into despondency and despair. |
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On the right, there is deep despondency mixed with spurts of cheerleading for the next election. |
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It should have brought a pall of despondency to a wine industry that many claim is on the verge of glut. |
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She kept up appearances but, on the inside, she reportedly swung between acceptance, resentfulness and despondency. |
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The same course of illness, however, may also give rise to the temptation, if we succumb to despondency or take an attitude of devil-may-care. |
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When love is functioning properly in our lives it dispels discouragement, despondency and despair. |
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The former attitude mollifies arrogance and conceit while the latter prevents excessive despondency, de-motivation and self-pity. |
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We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. |
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Just as his good humour can transform the mood of a room, so too, it transpires, can his despondency. |
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As such it is effective in changing symptoms of depression and despondency to those of cheerfulness and hopefulness. |
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Even such a disaster as had overtaken them at Kup caused no despondency among the Sikhs. |
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Each day he felt himself slip a little deeper into despondency, surrounded by these strange, crazy, people. |
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I explain in my book that you don't really make a low in any market until there's huge despondency and despair. |
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A combination of still-residual despondency and distrust of the new coach combined to curb the normally boundless enthusiasm of the nation. |
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Every day during question time we see the look of despondency and despair on the faces of Government members. |
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According to them, a new sense of despair and despondency is already perceptible among these women. |
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Muddy lanes surround dismal tin shacks and there is an aura of despondency and despair, which even the myriads of children do little to dispel. |
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It means to be aware that the spread of frustration, despondency and despair is actually a process in which all parties are losers. |
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However, those who have a history of repeated failures may give up, which can lead to depression and despondency. |
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Yet the birth of a new year is not the time for despondency, for hope springs eternal in the human breast. |
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Far from protecting the health of the population, the result is a wave of panic and a pervasive climate of anxiety and despondency. |
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This is aimed at giving the young people a positive outlook on life and persuading them to become productive rather than give in to despondency, cynicism and decadence. |
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It seems to be intrinsic to domestic politics of every variety that a certain dismal downward trend emerges, characterized by sloth, despondency and complacency. |
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But, in the meantime, he was dragging Greenock up from a slough of despondency and defiantly offering no apologies for snapping up the best available talent. |
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But for rugby at any rate, it looks as though there is a chance that Scotland may soon exit from the slough of despondency in which we have recently wallowed. |
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This is not someone who views the way ahead with gloom and despondency. |
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The first of these seems to have caused a sense of gloom, despondency and weary hopelessness to descend on the author as he sat down to put his book together. |
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The mood through the great depression of the 1930s was usually one of deep despondency in the face of mass unemployment at home and the spread of fascism abroad. |
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The acute sense of grief and despondency led to a deep depression of spirits that might ordinarily be expected to break the will and deflate any inspirational talent. |
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He went on to say that the swelling optimism among pioneers of the forties, fifties and sixties had given way, in some cases, to mild despondency. |
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The cancellation of agricultural shows because of the impact of foot and mouth disease, is adding to the gloom and despondency of the tourism industry. |
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On the matter of undesirable emotions, I had experienced them all-anger, despondency, fear, criticalness, uncertainty and grief. |
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The meeting ended in disorder, despondency and an accord that tacitly admitted the world could not work in cooperation. |
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Hesitancy, despondency and a lack of courage are fatal when you're trying to resolve problems. |
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For those who are easily discouraged and for the relatively mild downheartedness and despondency that follows when something has gone wrong. |
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Joy plants seeds of hope in those areas of our life where there was only despondency and dejection. |
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Seif's despondency is echoed by her brother, who sent a letter from prison on Christmas Eve. |
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You can't get out of a crisis if there's despondency, and then it was different, everyone was trying to pull themselves together. |
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The volte-face was greeted with despondency and dismay by international campaigners. |
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For any people, indeed, living under such circumstances would necessarily breed a sense of desperation and despondency for the future. |
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For part of the population these difficulties are combined with an attitude of despondency, or indeed alcoholism, destroying all family links. |
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The aim is to fight against a general climate of despondency by mobilizing everyone concerned. |
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If you think that a hospital is a place of nothing but despondency and sadness, you'd be wrong. |
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It is unfortunate, however, that further bloodshed and despondency opened the new century and the new millennium. |
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Call this a battle in a culture war, however, and you'll find yourself accused of spreading alarm and despondency. |
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This, however, does not mean that we should give up or allow despondency to rule our thoughts and deeds quite the contrary. |
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Madam President, in relation to Iraq I have swung from anger, through despondency, to determination. |
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Many of the small and shrinking group of health researchers in Pakistan work in a state of perpetual despondency, frequently with little access to policymakers and planners. |
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His vocals on the verse are some of his most affecting and emotional yet, while the anthemic chorus provides a break of desperate hope amid the quiet despondency. |
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Ever increasing amount of paper work after working hours leaves less and less time to go ashore, hence more fatigue and despondency. |
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It is a long fight back from the despondency of the ultimate darkness, but many, if not most, of those who are stricken do make the grade, and some do so with a sense of exhilaration. |
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Yet, just as Johnson was plunging into another trough of despondency, the reputation of the Dictionary at last brought reward. |
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Chronic Effects: Mercury can cause personality changes such as: depression, despondency, fearfulness, restlessness, irritability, timidness, indecision and embarrassment. |
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I am not just talking about moral depravity and ethical despondency here. |
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It is indispensable to address the frequent underlying socio-economic factors of the problem, which tend to thrive in a context of economic despondency and high unemployment. |
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From despondency in the wake of Mr Obama's victory at the end of 2008 they bounced back last year with big wins in governors' races in New Jersey and Virginia, and last month with the stunner in Massachusetts. |
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As his health began to give way, he began to age prematurely and fell into fits of despondency. |
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The participants might voice a range of feelings such as anger, indignation, despondency, inadequacy, hurt, determination to go forward, and motivation. |
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Unfortunately, it is burnout that always gets noticed and people with boreout usually don't do much about their state of despondency. |
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The Ebers Papyrus, one of the world's oldest medical documents from ancient Egypt, describes a condition of severe despondency that is equivalent to our modern definition of depression. |
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We are meeting here at a time of considerable despondency arising from a decade-long paralysis that has all but drained the life out of this very important forum. |
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In our prayers we yearned to God that we may all overcome the anguish of being in a world shattered with the debris of despondency together with people of other faiths in our plea for the grace of compassion. |
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Living My Life is texturally close to the uplifting bleeps and beats of Seattle's Postal Service, yet lyrically it snaps with despondency. |
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That produces frequent frustration and occasional despondency. |
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Within the Victora Men's Centre also we are very conscious of the level of pressure on men during divorce and the despondency and feeling of hopelessness that can arise. |
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Four days in and a sense of dejection and despondency is seeping through the halls. I'm jealous because an Australian journalist managed to get into the negotiating chambers yesterday. |
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