All 50 Uses of
despair
in
Anna Karenina
- "Oh, oh, oh!" he kept repeating in despair, as he remembered the acutely painful sensations caused him by this quarrel.†
Part 1
- She, his Dolly, forever fussing and worrying over household details, and limited in her ideas, as he considered, was sitting perfectly still with the letter in her hand, looking at him with an expression of horror, despair, and indignation.†
Part 1
- What's to be done?" he said to himself in despair, and found no answer.†
Part 1
- Stepan Arkadyevitch could be calm when he thought of his wife, he could hope that she would come round, as Matvey expressed it, and could quietly go on reading his paper and drinking his coffee; but when he saw her tortured, suffering face, heard the tone of her voice, submissive to fate and full of despair, there was a catch in his breath and a lump in his throat, and his eyes began to shine with tears.†
Part 1
- But after spending two months alone in the country, he was convinced that this was not one of those passions of which he had had experience in his early youth; that this feeling gave him not an instant's rest; that he could not live without deciding the question, would she or would she not be his wife, and that his despair had arisen only from his own imaginings, that he had no sort of proof that he would be rejected.†
Part 1
- Levin was wondering what that change in Kitty's expression had meant, and alternately assuring himself that there was hope, and falling into despair, seeing clearly that his hopes were insane, and yet all the while he felt himself quite another man, utterly unlike what he had been before her smile and those words, "Good-bye till this evening."†
Part 1
- And then all at once love turns up, and you're done for, done for," Stepan Arkadyevitch said with weary despair.†
Part 1
- But before the mazurka, when they were beginning to rearrange the chairs and a few couples moved out of the smaller rooms into the big room, a moment of despair and horror came for Kitty.†
Part 1
- But while she looked like a butterfly, clinging to a blade of grass, and just about to open its rainbow wings for fresh flight, her heart ached with a horrible despair.†
Part 1
- But, noticing that Kitty only responded to her smile by a look of despair and amazement, she turned away from her, and began gaily talking to the other lady.†
Part 1
- "But I should be in despair if there were anything serious in it on his side," Anna interrupted her.†
Part 1
- We apologize in due form: we are in despair, we entreat forgiveness for the unfortunate misunderstanding.†
Part 2
- I see a chance of despair, of wretchedness…. or I see a chance of bliss, what bliss!†
Part 2
- "When I was beginning to despair, and it seemed there would be no end—it's come!†
Part 2
- "Not a word more," she repeated, and with a look of chill despair, incomprehensible to him, she parted from him.†
Part 2
- The despair you were unable to conceal at the accident to one of the riders.†
Part 2
- I was, and I could not help being in despair.†
Part 2
- I sent to Alexey to find out how he is, and he writes me he is quite well and unhurt, but in despair.†
Part 2
- Finding instead of peace and rest all these, from her point of view, fearful calamities, Darya Alexandrovna was at first in despair.†
Part 3
- "Just see, now, and you were quite in despair," said Marya Philimonovna, pointing to the ironing-board.†
Part 3
- Yesterday she came up to me after the races and was in despair at not finding you.†
Part 3
- Tears of shame and despair choked her utterance.†
Part 3
- Now what's to be done? what's to be done?" he said in despair.†
Part 3
- No, it was better anyway," she added, touched by his despairing face.†
Part 4
- He forgave Vronsky, and pitied him, especially after reports reached him of his despairing action.†
Part 4
- The nurse, with a gesture of despair, went to it, took it from the wet-nurse's arms, and began walking up and down, rocking it.†
Part 4
- No one else in Stepan Arkadyevitch's place, having to do with such despair, would have ventured to smile (the smile would have seemed brutal); but in his smile there was so much of sweetness and almost feminine tenderness that his smile did not wound, but softened and soothed.†
Part 4
- One thing he could not pluck out of his heart, though he never ceased struggling with it, was the regret, amounting to despair, that he had lost her forever.†
Part 4
- "No, this can't go on!" he said to himself in despair.†
Part 5
- With despair in his heart and bitter anger against all men, against himself, against her, he went out of the hotel and drove to her house.†
Part 5
- I can't suffer alone," he said with despair in his voice, standing before her and looking imploringly into her eyes.†
Part 5
- But in the corridor there was no sign of the person he was looking for and he came back in despair, and frantically waving his hands addressed Stepan Arkadyevitch, who was smoking serenely.†
Part 5
- The bridegroom was expected at the church while he was pacing up and down his room like a wild beast in a cage, peeping out into the corridor, and with horror and despair recalling what absurd things he had said to Kitty and what she might be thinking now.†
Part 5
- There you have technique," he said, addressing Golenishtchev, alluding to a conversation between them about Vronsky's despair of attaining this technique.†
Part 5
- But now, thanks to his wife's presence, that feeling did not reduce him to despair.†
Part 5
- He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer.†
Part 5
- He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer.†
Part 5
- Answering inquiries about the disposition of Anna Arkadyevna's rooms and belongings, he had exercised immense self-control to appear like a man in whose eyes what had occurred was not unforeseen nor out of the ordinary course of events, and he attained his aim: no one could have detected in him signs of despair.†
Part 5
- His despair was even intensified by the consciousness that he was utterly alone in his sorrow.†
Part 5
- At the bitterest moment of his lonely despair she came to him, and without waiting to be announced, walked straight into his study.†
Part 5
- …" he cried in despair through his tears, and, clutching her by the shoulders, he began squeezing her with all his force to him, his arms trembling with the strain.†
Part 5
- She thought he had ceased to love her, she felt close upon despair, and consequently she felt exceptionally alert.†
Part 5
- He shrugged his shoulders with an air of perplexity and despair.†
Part 5
- … And why is she putting me in such a position?" he said with a gesture of despair.†
Part 5
- "You, you are to blame for everything!" she cried, with tears of despair and hatred in her voice, getting up.†
Part 5
- Again, as before, all of a sudden, without the slightest transition, he felt cast down from a pinnacle of happiness, peace, and dignity, into an abyss of despair, rage, and humiliation.†
Part 6
- The former marshal of the province was in a state of despair, which he could not conceal.†
Part 6
- Gaiety and grief and despair and tenderness and triumph followed one another without any connection, like the emotions of a madman.†
Part 7
- "But what are you talking about?" he said, horrified at her expression of despair, and again bending over her, he took her hand and kissed it.†
Part 7
- I am ready to do anything to make you happy," he said, touched by her expression of despair; "what wouldn't I do to save you from distress of any sort, as now, Anna!" he said.†
Part 7
Definition:
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(despair as in: she felt despair) hopelessness; or distress (such as extreme worry or sadness from feeling powerless to change a bad situation)