All 13 Uses of
despair
in
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene by Greene
- He knew he was in the grip of the unforgivable sin, despair.
Chpt 1.4 *despair = giving up hope
- Five years ago he had given way to despair - the unforgivable sin - and he was going back now to the scene of his despair with a curious lightening of the heart.†
Chpt 2.1
- Five years ago he had given way to despair - the unforgivable sin - and he was going back now to the scene of his despair with a curious lightening of the heart.†
Chpt 2.1
- For he had got over despair too.†
Chpt 2.1
- Now that he no longer despaired it didn't mean, of course, that he wasn't damned - it was simply that after a time the mystery became too great, a damned man putting God into the mouths of men: an odd sort of servant, that, for the devil.†
Chpt 2.1
- It was as if he had descended by means of his sin into the human struggle to learn other things besides despair and love, that a man can be unwelcome even in his own home.†
Chpt 2.1
- They had spent no love in her conception: just fear and despair and half a bottle of brandy and the sense of loneliness had driven him to an act which horrified him - and this scared shame-faced overpowering love was the result.†
Chpt 2.1
- He had given way to despair - and out of that had emerged a human soul and love - not the best love, but love all the same.†
Chpt 2.1
- He would sit in the confessional and hear the complicated dirty ingenuities which God's image had thought out, and God's image shook now, up and down on the mule's back, with the yellow teeth sticking out over the lower lip, and God's image did its despairing act of rebellion with Maria in the hut among the rats.†
Chpt 2.1
- An animal never knows despair.†
Chpt 2.4 *
- It was too like watching despair.†
Chpt 2.4
- He woke with the sense of complete despair that a man might feel finding the only money he possessed was counterfeit.†
Chpt 3.1
- Padre Jose made a despairing gesture - as much as to say, what does one more failure matter in a life like this?†
Chpt 3.4
Definitions:
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(despair as in: do not despair) lose hope or feel distress
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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)