All 22 Uses
despair
in
A Soldier of the Great War
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- After shutting that door, Alessandro despaired of finding Patrizia, but after his eyes adjusted to the darkness he saw that neatly placed in front of each door was a pair of shoes or boots.†
Chpt 1despaired = lost hope
- When the Italian armies regrouped in November and held their ground, the prisoners had hoped that the army, relieved of fatal pressure, would show mercy, but at the same time they despaired as they realized that their executioners would not be overthrown.†
Chpt 6
- The passage from hope to despair
Chpt 6 *despair = hopelessness
- Alessandro despaired of finding the Milanese among fifteen hundred men in half darkness and fog, each man in uniform, many hooded in blankets as if in domino, and he went back to the tent to get his cup and bowl.†
Chpt 7despaired = lost hope
- When they had heard that the war was over and they were the victors, they despaired, for their situation had failed to change, and they thought that they would be dressed in pajamas, and beaten and kissed by the sadistic footmen, for eternity.†
Chpt 8
- He despaired.†
Chpt 8
- Walking back to the pensione was so difficult that he despaired when he thought he had taken a wrong turn and would have to retrace his steps.†
Chpt 9
- At first I despaired that he should live as I had, and then, eventually, I was resigned to it, as I had to be, for he never came back.†
Chpt 10 *
- You may be tall, handsome, intelligent, graceful, and gifted, but if you have feet of despair you might just as well be a dwarf who shines shoes on the Via del Corso.†
Chpt 1
- Feet of despair are too tender, and can't fight back.†
Chpt 1
- In such a case," he continued, "the man may know the greatest elation and the most savage despair-as if, in anticipation of eternity in heaven or in hell, he were previewing both."†
Chpt 1
- Throughout his life he had suffered periods of despair only to be lifted from them and to rise at the speed of falling.†
Chpt 1
- She stood up, as if to pull some sort of cord, and sank back in despair, for she had intended to go to Munich from Venice, and now she thought that she was rushing at seventy kilometers per hour toward Bucharest.†
Chpt 3
- And when the cattle boat cast ofF and just drifted through the mist the prisoners were thrown into the deepest despair.†
Chpt 5
- Even when it had drifted up en masse to the Bell Tower as a thousand Austrian soldiers made ready to attack, it had been comforting and it had dispelled his fear, but now it was the sound of despair.†
Chpt 6
- The passage from hope to despair was, as always, more painful than the despair and more powerful than hope itself, but the whipsawing ceased as the days passed and they saw that the Italian victory meant nothing to Stella Maris, that the executions had actually accelerated.†
Chpt 6
- Alessandro asked, as if in despair.†
Chpt 7
- Without it he is a creature of indefinite despair-a gazelle without legs, a rhinoceros without a horn.†
Chpt 7
- But when he awoke in the middle of the night, the memory of their beautiful bodies reminded him so much of Ariane that he was lost in despair.†
Chpt 7
- Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.'†
Chpt 10
- I've never touched a woman," Nicolo said, in deep despair.†
Chpt 10
- That was inimitably beautiful, and we, who were as hard as rock and inured to simulations of despair, sat in the darkness and cried.†
Chpt 10
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)