Sentences with phrase «of despondent»

A trio of despondent mammals — a monkey, a polar bear and a kangaroo — living in hellish landscapes of deforestation, drought and shrinking ice caps.

You can drive the craggy - edged circumference from Aarhus to Horsens into Vejle County, or continue on the E45, then the 501, inland, through quiet countryside and more fields of despondent cattle.

It's an all - too familiar scenario: cages of despondent animals in shelters with the words «owner died» or «owner in nursing home» on their name cards.

The second disc features a new, 25 - minute documentary, «Remembering Chitty Chitty Bang Bang», featuring Van Dyke waxing nostalgic; the 9 - minute «A Fantasmagorical Motor Car», wherein its actual owner waxes rhapsodic; and three contemporary featurettes that find me waxing in varying shades of despondent.

There are waves of a new era where online and off - line dating services work together to meet the needs of despondent singles.

«I was kind of despondent because it didn't agree with our hypothesis,» Wang says.

Depiction of despondent woman (stock image).

Providing further evidence to back his claim of a despondent NDC grassroot, he said the 2016 election results validate his views.

I'm sure you've been busy sorting through your post lately, what with that letter from Jose and everything, but I hope you'll find a few minutes to absorb the desperate appeals of a despondent fan.

Conjuring visions of a despondent Bridget Jones glugging it from a giant glass, Chardonnay has had a bad rap since the mid-1990s, when the term «Anything But Chardonnay» was coined and people went to great lengths to avoid the grape.

Not exact matches

And how about this uplifting message from Jagmeet Singh after he won the leadership of the New Democratic Party on the weekend: «At a time when people are feeling so despondent, when there is a lack of hope, when it feels like things will only get worse before they get better, Canadians must stand united and champion a politics of courage to fight the politics of fear.»

I can think of a hundred reasons for people to be genuinely stressed, despondent or worse.

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea A despondent mood swept through Russian athletes at the Pyeongchang Winter Games on Saturday, their hopes of being able to fly the Russian flag at the closing ceremony deflated by a second positive doping test.

Those who run the Fed are despondent that despite implementing for eight YEARS an interest rate policy specifically designed to enable Obama to create a totally false illusion of economic «recovery» by massively increasing government spending with trillions of phony, deficit, zero - interest - rate «dollars,» the people saw through the economic lie and defeated the Fed's next intended puppet, Clinton.

And watching Cramer get despondent on CNBC is worth losing 25 % of one's portfolio.

With all the RCC's riches being horded and their hierarchies living in lives of humble luxuries, I'm sorry but I can not rightly commend such religious liars who would rather pilfer and lay sieges upon the emotionally despondent and financially poor... Give all that you have obtained by years of pilferage and give it back to your flocking poor oh pabulum pope... Only then will Christ Jesus find mercies upon your religion's unholiest vespers...

The haughty and disdainful obviously require a different sort of pastoral sensitivity from those who oppositely may be unduly despondent about their own inadequacies.

And when one is despondent about one's own St. John's - by - the - Sea, one can turn again and again from that congregation and its apparent failure to the great fellowship through the ages and find in the thought of that fellowship a cordial for drooping spirits.

The more * we * that are called, try to make sense of this place, the more despondent we can become.

Re-surrection points to what happened to the despondent disciples of Jesus after his death, when all seemed to have collapsed in failure.

All they need do is read one survey or one article about the weakening of the Judeo - Christian vision, and they immediately become despondent.

Sometimes those who do become bitter or despondent or closed to any explanations of God's ways.

In a culture that can often leave us feeling despondent about married life, this biography is refreshing; a reminder of how God's grace can transform lives when we place our trust in Him and open our hearts to His love.

When the two despondent disciples on the road to Emmaus expressed to the stranger their bewilderment that such a powerful prophet as Jesus should have been condemned to death and be crucified, we are told that the risen Christ «began with Moses and all the prophets, and explained to them the passages which referred to himself in every part of the scriptures».6 The story implies that the Scriptures, when properly interpreted, made it clear that the Messiah was «bound to suffer thus before entering upon his glory» 7 When finally they recognized the identity of this stranger as they shared the evening meal before he vanished from their sight, they said to each other, «Did we not feel our hearts on fire as he talked with us on the road and explained the scriptures to us?»

Unless a man realizes this he will spend all his time in this world receiving hardship and troubles and will leave this world bare - handed and despondent, feeling at the moment of departure that he has wasted his life and has not gained anything worthwhile.

Many of us are tired of the debate, exhausted by the relentless and well - funded propaganda pushed by those whose ideas have dominated the official attitudes, and despondent of ever seeing change.

And yet, echoes of the divine can still be found throughout The Goldfinch, even within the often despondent Theo.

Why do we tend to panic or become despondent every time we hear of another story about sexual identity and gender politics?

There is, admittedly, a difference between the elderly terminal patient in horrible pain who wants all pain to cease and the despondent teenager whose pain is one of low self - esteem.

And now, in this desert of despair, despondent enough to be at least talking suicide, someone — thank God for someone — who was it, and who told this someone of my presence here, and of my deathlike discouragement?

Context: Last night I was shooting the breeze with my roommates when one of them brought up religion and how it was a «good thing to grow up with religion because it gives children something to believe in», when I countered that there are many different things children can believe in growing up without having to resort to something like religion, I basically had to sit there for 10 minutes about how atheism ruins lives because it makes everyone apathetic and despondent.

They feed the hungry, they lend shoulders to cry on, they hug the despondent, they work tirelessly and ceaselessly in the name of Jesus.

He wrote and published a Latin piece in Praise of Music: «Music has often stirred me... so that I wanted to preach... Nothing on earth has greater power to make the sad joyful, the joyful sad, the despondent courageous to incline the arrogant to humility and to lessen envy and hatred».

And when I replied that surely he has never been that despondent, the former MVP of the American League smiled weakly and said, «Not lately.»

Two months later, Carvin had become so despondent that he attempted suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.

Then for some reason, it all changed... the players became stale, they became aware of their vulnerability and from briefly regaining a foothold in challenging for the title, they seemed to fall so far from grace that our very best became despondent and started doubting the very source that got them to greatness in the first place.

I was on this forum yesterday reading the article that reviewed the Chelsea game and while the review was balanced as I expected, I could not believe how negative and despondent some of our own fan's responses were.

We Arsenal fans are uaed to piling the pressure on Arsene Wenger, and we have all been guilty of this even our legend Thierry Henry, so as we go to the Bet365 Stadium tomorrow it is good to hear that the Stoke manager Mark Hughes also feels that his fans are pessimistic, and (to be fair) they probably have more right to be despondent than Arsenal fans ever will be.

Sometimes I got despondent of it.

He was despondent during much of the 10 - day trip, but on the return flight he let his guard down and confided as to how he wanted to take his life in a different direction.

Today at 12:00 pm - Here at the Tavern, the Everton fans have been despondent after an inconsistent and disappointing season that promised so much after the flurry of transfer activity in the summer, it set the Toffees up to mount a serious challenge on the top six.

Legend has it, that when Neville Southall started out with Bury, he was banned from training with the rest of the squad because they were getting a bit despondent that he was ruining their shooting practice by saving everything thrown at him.

Yes in the past I know but the manager is still the same person and I always watch games back on the TV after I get home from the match because like anyone the emotion of winning and losing clouds judgement so I re watch the match afterwards and I can tell you wenger is as hurt and annoyed when the team loses especially if they are poor with their basics I have seen it now I will use an example the league cup exit to Bradford now I went to the match and as you can imagine I was despondent and angry after the game yet as always I watched the game back.

If your child seems distressed, despondent or sad for a prolonged period of time, have them seen by someone with diagnostic skills.

«I'm despondent,» Democratic Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, of Westchester County, told the New York Times.

This, it said, redirected the energies of the hitherto despondent youths to more socially and economically viable and productive ventures and consequently lured them away from socially harmful engagements.

One group of Welsh nationalists seem especially despondent.

In the aftermath of a game I am either too delighted, or too despondent — and given current events, I am pleased to say it is more often delight than despondency — to think about anything else, even politics.

Ologbondiyan said, «It is shocking that on the face of the colossal failure of governance leading to hunger and starvation, ethnic division, bloodletting and killings in our land, Mr. President is more concerned about a selfish agenda of foisting himself on a people who have become despondent of his leadership.

First Minister Alex Salmond was pictured looking despondent early this morning as the fate of Scottish independence was sealed.