All 10 Uses
despair
in
This Side of Paradise
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- there was a glance that passed between them--on his side despair, on hers regret,
Chpt 1.2 *despair = distress (at inability to improve a bad situation)
- He returned to his contemplation of the outdoors, and began repeating over and over, mechanically, a verse from Browning, which he had once quoted to Isabelle in a letter: "Each life unfulfilled, you see, It hangs still, patchy and scrappy; We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired—been happy."†
Chpt 1.3 *despaired = lost hope
- Amory's despair was crystallized by the appearance of Myra herself, bundled to the ears in a polo coat, her face plainly sulky, her voice pleasant only with difficulty.†
Chpt 1.1
- The game with Groton was played from three of a snappy, exhilarating afternoon far into the crisp autumnal twilight, and Amory at quarter-back, exhorting in wild despair, making impossible tackles, calling signals in a voice that had diminished to a hoarse, furious whisper, yet found time to revel in the blood-stained bandage around his head, and the straining, glorious heroism of plunging, crashing bodies and aching limbs.†
Chpt 1.1
- AMORY: (In despair) Rosalind!†
Chpt 2.1
- "The despairing, dying autumn and our love—how well they harmonize!" said Eleanor sadly one day as they lay dripping by the water.†
Chpt 2.3
- For what Shakespeare must have desired, to have been able to write with such divine despair, was that the lady should live...and now we have no real interest in her....The irony of it is that if he had cared more for the poem than for the lady the sonnet would be only obvious, imitative rhetoric and no one would ever have read it after twenty years.... This was the last night Amory ever saw Eleanor.†
Chpt 2.3
- There was a season every wind was warm.... And now you pass me in the mist...your hair Rain-blown about you, damp lips curved once more In that wild irony, that gay despair That made you old when we have met before;†
Chpt 2.3
- Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin—the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair.†
Chpt 2.4
- Quick as a flash he turned away, wondering with a touch of panic whether something in the brooding despair of his mood had made a darkness in its tiny soul.†
Chpt 2.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(despair as in: she felt despair) hopelessness; or distress (such as extreme worry or sadness from feeling powerless to change a bad situation)
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(2)
(despair as in: do not despair) lose hope or feel distress
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(3)
(despair as in: she was the despair of the team) something that causes hopelessness or great distress
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)