Sentences with phrase «swamped by despair»

The former PM may have been fuelled by booze and often swamped by despair, but his determination to «keep buggering on» inspired the country in its darkest hour.

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The book is at its best in its portrayal of a man who, even while being praised as one of the greatest living American writers, was swamped by loneliness and despair.

At the outset, Broecker develops the theme that drives most of the support for geoengineering research in contemporary society, despair over feckless climate policymaking, or as Broecker characterizes it «nibbles by developed countries... swamped by increased energy demand in traditionally poor countries.»