All 5 Uses of
despair
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- The madness and despair of many hours unloads itself in this outburst.
Chpt 6despair = distress (at inability to improve a bad situation)
- They cannot persist without solace, without illusion, they are disordered before the naked picture of despair.
Chpt 6
- Their figures are bent, their faces full of grief, despair, haste, and resignation.
Chpt 10 *
- I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow.
Chpt 10
- It cannot be that it has gone, the yearning that made our blood unquiet, the unknown, the perplexing, the oncoming things, the thousand faces of the future, the melodies from dreams and from books, the whispers and divinations of women; it cannot be that this has vanished in bombardment, in despair, in brothels.
Chpt 12
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)