Finally he fell asleep, but not without taking with him the tender and despairing image of two people's loneliness together.
They show, among other things, rotting teeth, a man with a hole in his throat, a dead body and a despairing child.
As Ken Tucker wrote at the time: "Finally, in his greatest moments of grief and fury, he showed us the most vulnerable, despairing side of the man of action."
Being deprived of hope is not despairing.
You may feel despairing because you’re never quite happy with your life – however much you do
It is not unusual for men caught in this cycle to feel anxious, socially ill-at-ease, moody, despairing, and apathetic.
I don't know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death, should no frenzied or despairing mourner share the duty with me.
Even in the face of this downward spiral, the despairing have hoped.
The lengthy snippets of soldierly conversation, salty and despairing, sound just right, though they necessarily can be only reconstructions of the real thing.
He received the news with a despairing sigh.
But it is also because there is an emerging theory about a superior Asian model of government, put forward by both despairing Western businesspeople and hubristic Asian chroniclers.
The despairing girl went to the well and leapt in.
Responding to pleas from reform-minded Egyptians despairing of local politics, Mr ElBaradei has suggested he may return to Egypt and run for president in elections due in 2011.
At the end Tatyana says she still loves him - but will not leave her husband. Onegin is left alone and despairing.
Mr Solomon is not despairing.
He, the poor man, was rich; he, the abandoned, had a family; he, the despairing, was to marry Cosette.
Images of defiant "broom armies", gathering spontaneously to clear up the debris, helped lift an initially despairing mood.
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