Sentences with phrase «gripped by despair»

Gripped by despair, Chen raised his eyes, wanting the last thing he saw to be the ice blue beauty of the heavens.

A Society Gripped by Despair Surely the frenetic busyness and dynamism of our modern culture is diametrically opposed to the sullen inertia that usually characterises depression and despair.

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By all reports, pessimism and near - despair grip liberationists today, who see on the horizon very little indeed that offers hope of a better life to the poor of Latin America.

Worst of all Ozil claimed to have been «out with the boys» but it was clear the photos were taken by just one person, quite possibly his mum, as he sank ever more visibly into the lonesome despair that grips a man when he realises, like a captain on the titanic, that he's the last player at a sinking club.

Poetry is his medium for instruction, and by establishing an unexpected but deeply desired connection with his students, themselves gripped with despair from parental woes, he makes the art of language come alive for them.