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"despondent" Definitions
  1. sad, without much hope

549 Sentences With "despondent"

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"Both men — Mattis and Tillerson — were despondent," Snodgrass writes.
By then, European officials were despondent, a European diplomat said.
Our message to despondent Democrats is to take it easy.
While the president would be emboldened, Democrats would emerge despondent.
As for Bash, despondent, he's returned to his mother's house.
"I failed you," a despondent Murtagh tells Jamie (Sam Heughan).
EPA employees were despondent even before Trump released his budget.
Oftentimes I could barely function because I was so despondent.
Theo was despondent and struggling to breathe on his own.
Two innings later, Baez stands in and then departs, despondent.
A fall 1965 visit to South Vietnam left McNamara despondent.
But I had grown progressively more anxious, and occasionally despondent.
Watching her become despondent and violent got the point across.
Arrested again in late September 2017, Song Yang became despondent.
She was despondent, and believed that she had no future.
After that loss, Johnson was despondent in the locker room.
Despondent and lonely, I did what anyone would do: I tweeted.
But looking at the remains of his home, he was despondent.
Nary a shopper has taken her home, and she's grown despondent.
His responses to interviewers, once hopeful, had gradually grown more despondent.
Sources told us Eric Chase was despondent over his dad's plight.
She became despondent when she felt she was losing her looks.
Music fed him when he was despondent as well as ecstatic.
He sat despondent and clearly traumatized, only muttering a few words.
His physical health has improved in Australia, but he remains despondent.
Mr. Dozier grew increasingly despondent, those who knew him said Monday.
The president's top advisers described themselves as stunned, despondent and numb.
Despondent, the girl sprints after it, followed by a concerned pal.
I am despondent to see the end of Barack Obama's presidency.
Some were even despondent, according to two people in the room.
Lacking anything or anyone to pray to, I became more despondent.
And what poor production assistant was tasked with wrangling the despondent pony?
We also see a despondent Iris inhaling gas from a lit stove.
If that had been my only bottle, I might have been despondent.
One smelled of urine and industrial cleaner with wheelchair-bound, despondent seniors.
The next day, Mr. Obama focused on cheering up his despondent staff.
That day, she also saw Tammie Mellies, 42, slouched and looking despondent.
"He was pretty despondent not to be able to play," Stevens said.
Advocacy groups have been inundated with calls from people afraid or despondent.
"I'm despondent," said Amy Paulin, an Assembly Democrat who represents Westchester County.
But their failure to do so is no reason to be despondent.
It is truly lonely, and I don't mean lonely in a despondent way.
Despondent, she turned to her aunt, Layal Masarweh, who intervened on her behalf.
The mother, riveted to the infant by the blue baby carrier, seems despondent.
"To the worn out and despondent, JNJ's become yet another nightmare," he said.
"But why insist that the reaction be despondent, terrified, or sarcastic?" he wrote.
Lonely and despondent, she sits waiting for Little's nightly phone calls from prison.
He wanders the beach looking despondent before taking his leave of the date.
Dick Durbin (D-IL), the lead Democratic immigration negotiator, appeared exhausted and despondent.
Heydi, 13, had grown despondent over not seeing her father, her family said.
A despondent Bourne claimed to lack any memory of the previous eight weeks.
I was, as a child, largely singular, hard to understand, and frustratingly despondent.
Some were numb, some were panicky, some were just totally despondent and sobbing.
The last time Murray was this convincingly despondent onscreen, he was in Rushmore.
"He was despondent, and he didn't want to talk to anyone," Kerr says.
"As UKIP's first — and last — M.P., I am far from despondent," he wrote.
Short interest is heavy, dividend yields are high and investor sentiment is despondent.
Dispossessed despair, depression, despondent dejection, the doom is the off-white of white.
There are plenty of reasons for L.G.B.T. Americans to feel despondent right now.
She had felt despondent, but Laetitia had assured her it was the right decision.
Friends said Hight had grown despondent as his marriage dissolved and was drinking heavily.
In middle age, he became so despondent that he decided to end his life.
The ten-dollar founding father even has insights to share with despondent #NeverTrump Republicans.
This has Republicans despondent about Trump's performance and worried about their long-term consequences.
"Obama's speech is intended to be a rallying cry for despondent Democrats," Sweet reported.
Feeling despondent over your inability to fork over thousands just for a sexual experience?
The performer who was to succeed Ms. McDonald, the musician Rhiannon Giddens, was despondent.
When someone else asked about Stone's experience of making "Snowden," his answer was despondent.
A despondent Ms. Haidar watched a cellphone video of the flogging that circulated online.
Brazilians are despondent over their nation's stagnant economy, rampant violence and ineffective political class.
"@'S ALL FOLKS," the cover reads, displaying a photo of Trump, looking particularly despondent.
"He seemed to be despondent but not depressed," Baker said later, of the President.
He spent five days under the open sky, growing confused, despondent and finally hopeless.
Uniting parties and reigniting enthusiasm among despondent grassroots supporters will also be huge challenges.
Despondent, she daydreams about getting on a bus and heading west on Interstate 10.
"I'm angry, I'm sad and for about eight days I was despondent," she said.
There will be many despondent Democrats who feel that the President has their number.
With his decision to bolt for Boston, Hayward left many fans in Utah despondent.
One Afghanistan veteran called Mr. Carter, despondent, after 19 fellow servicemen had committed suicide.
"They kept turning her down for referrals and she became very despondent," Amanda says.
In 1975, founding member Pete Ham, despondent over the state of their career, hanged himself.
Though the people are despondent, their protest is the resolution and hope of the play.
One teenage girl went to search for gas elsewhere but returned within the hour, despondent.
He's deeply despondent, missing his long-dead family and demanding that Alice bring them back.
In the checkout line, he noticed another shopper, an older woman who was clearly despondent.
"It is very clear that he was despondent over the breakup," the police chief said.
Heydi had been despondent about being separated from her father prior to her suicide attempt.
Osaka looked increasingly despondent in the second as the unforced errors came thick and fast.
My first call was a lady who was quite despondent, and may have been homeless.
Their case will be heard in Kenya's High Court in November but residents are despondent.
While she worried about the direction of politics in many countries, she was never despondent.
"We did not see a despairing, despondent, suicidal person" ahead of Epstein's death on Aug.
For a long time, she said, many local conservatives felt despondent about the state's politics.
Stephen Colbert seized on reports that Trump was growing despondent as the news rolled in.
And then, in 2008, I was sitting in the kitchen of my college dorm, despondent.
Even before the verdict, the woman had become so despondent that she decided to withdraw.
Each year, thousands of farmers, despondent over dwindling yields and seemingly endless bills, commit suicide.
It's easy to look at the current political climate and grow despondent, if not nihilistic.
I watched the tenor of our social media posts morph from smug to incredulous to despondent.
If done right, and if successful, this new campaign to save Obamacare could rejuvenate despondent Democrats.
They informed a despondent Mr Schulz that, according to party research, voters did not want confrontation.
The mood in the village, where residents attended a protest meeting after the ruling, was despondent.
On screen, the actress' expression turns despondent as her skin is digitally altered to turn black.
In other cases, they were too depressed, despondent or traumatized to gather the strength to leave.
Robert, a 50-year-old airport director, and Piper, a 54-year-old nurse, were despondent.
We're told she's been "despondent" since we broke the story she hooked up with Tristan Thompson.
I will stop posting pictures of her once she starts looking despondent, which will be never.
In sharing our thoughts around Mother's Day, we hope to brighten the day of despondent moms.
He was so despondent, Liang had to be taken to the hospital himself, his attorney argued.
After the president's news conference on Tuesday, his aides described themselves as stunned, despondent and numb.
But as they settled in a new country, he struggled to find work and grew despondent.
Over their three hours together, Jackie was alternately furious, despondent, cheerful, horrified, frustrated, disbelieving and amused.
Republicans are hardly despondent across the board about the seemingly listless pace of change in Washington.
"I feel so small," she sings over a meek guitar line, sounding resigned but not despondent.
That was a message plenty of despondent souls really needed to hear during these Dark Times.
However, she described being despondent, and said she had no indication that any negotiations were progressing.
The chauvinism of the average Trump fan is less aggressive, and more despondent, than that would imply.
She'd never been particularly political on the stage, but watching her despondent guests changed everything for her.
Her research is deep and her drive forceful, but viewers have no choice but to feel despondent.
He appears despondent about elephant poaching and the black market that are now associated with his industry.
Democrats were left despondent, as hundreds of union workers and their supporters protested at the state capitol.
I used to wander around trade shows with a rolling suitcase, unable to get meetings and despondent.
Though he successfully purchased George W. Bush's "Decision Points" for its Crown imprint, Mr. Rubin remained despondent.
They report feeling increasingly despondent because they have no idea when they will be released, lawyers said.
Mr. Lyubimov also disputed widespread accounts by witnesses of Mr. Philby being drunk and despondent in Moscow.
When his parents divorced, Mr. Roy was despondent, and in October 2012 he tried to kill himself.
While everybody in Mark Schultz's "Evocation to Visible Appearance" is despondent, the two female characters feel powerless.
"Since the split, Affleck has been photographed more than once by the paparazzi, looking despondent," Fry wrote.
Civil rights organizations were thrilled with the legislation but despondent about the racial backlash that had surfaced.
Nesbitt was 36 weeks pregnant and despondent after Harding, an OB-GYN, couldn't detect the fetus' heartbeat.
Police found George Anthony despondent and under the influence of medication and alcohol in a Datyona Beach hotel.
When things start to go un-perfect on the date, she looks despondent, like she knows her fate.
The despondent, broken man who doesn't know what to do with himself now that his kids are gone.
THOUGH many outside America are dismayed at the prospect of Donald Trump as president, not everyone is despondent.
Along the way, they seem to spurn their despondent kids, who only want to spend time with them.
Despondent, she wandered into a warehouse where she found a jar containing the remains of some spoiled grapes.
They managed to cross the border, but abandoned their trek, exhausted and despondent, and were returned to Italy.
She's despondent for a second, but before long, she's playing to a mosh pit full of Little Monsters.
Aides were worried that Nixon was drinking heavily and (was) despondent, and they feared what he might do.
On the left he drew his despondent 19-year-old daughter, handcuffed and wearing shackles on her ankles.
Despondent, he set off on a camel caravan to a monastery on the Sinai Peninsula on a retreat.
Images and audio of despondent children led to outraged calls for action, which prompted outsized reaction from Trump.
And if Iranian public opinion turned despondent, that alone would constitute a major obstacle to any foreseeable rapprochement.
"We know a lot of gun violence happens when someone is impulsive, despondent and angry," Sorenson told me.
History is only repeating itself now as escaped Rwandan war lords pillage the land, leaving the Congolese despondent.
It's a beautiful silk robe the Chinese gave to Selina, who is borderline despondent at seeing it go.
And so, one night at 3 in the morning, a despondent Bieber begged Lentz to baptize him immediately.
"The mood is despondent, we hate the football, and people often get irritated in the crowd," he said.
There were Jedi tears here, and X-Men tears there, not to mention despondent glares from Hogwarts students.
Hillary Clinton was about to go down to defeat in the state, and the former president was despondent.
Yet the movie's despondent tone and sibling sniping effectively douse its warmer moments and the actors' innate charisma.
A few years later, the patient shot himself to death — despondent, his widow said, over his poor health.
As he was talking to a despondent employee, Mr. Dash received an unexpected phone call from a source.
The mood is despondent, as though the women are waiting for something they doubt will ever come along.
Steve Scalise, noting she was despondent after her husband was shot during a congressional baseball practice in 2017.
I should have felt despondent, but I didn't care because I had a one-word escape plan: America.
Reformers hoping the courts would block legislators from drawing overly partisan maps were despondent after the Rucho ruling.
ROAR started when "despondent" friends got together following Trump's election, said Morganelli, who hosted the group's recent event.
As a result, "I'm extremely happy and despondent in the exact same package," she explained to Ira Glass.
Not even the arrival of a very despondent Jon Snow can dim her moment in the blotted-out sun.
People were despondent when Google announced its Inbox by Gmail app would be shutting down, and it was understandable.
In my 20s, despondent over a breakup, I shoved a revolver in my mouth, set on pulling the trigger.
In it, she captured a despondent look on Senator Jeff Flake's face as he sat in the hearing room.
Brittany was not depressed, despondent, or making irrational decisions, all of those characteristics of a person that is suicidal.
More messages were left in the days that followed; each time he sounded more distraught, more apologetic, more despondent.
After the speech and subsequent cabinet firings, Vice President Walter F. Mondale grew so despondent that he contemplated resigning.
She was reportedly despondent over being separated for four years from her father, who was detained at the border.
In the initial weeks after the operation, he was despondent, again feeling that he'd endured more suffering for nothing.
It's also a dreadful piece of policy that is unlikely to endure — so long as people avoid becoming despondent.
Despite a day that could haunt Trump allies through history, Axios talked to several of them who weren't despondent.
Basil says she's become "despondent and physically ill" over this, and now suffers from sleep deprivation, nightmares and anxiety.
The beats are despondent; a downtrodden sort of mood sprinkled with just enough shimmer to get movement on the dancefloor.
A few years back, I might have been nervous and maybe even a wee bit despondent, but not this time.
"A lot of liberals are down and despondent about the election and the actions already occurring from Trump," he said.
He bought me the pogo stick that I had begged for and been despondent over not receiving for my birthday.
Despondent, buried in litigation and obsessed with the scandal, Mark committed suicide on the second anniversary of his father's arrest.
Hofer conceded defeat in a post on his Facebook page, thanking his supporters and telling them not to be despondent.
It even yielded to years of despondent cries requests and launched a full-sized wireless Magic Keyboard with numeric keys.
By the spring of 2016, Republicans intent on protecting their slim majority in the U.S. Senate were despondent about Florida.
She's despondent — until her onetime captor comes back to life as a handsome prince: "Beauty and the Beast" goes Greek.
It was around this time that the American public was becoming increasingly disillusioned, even despondent over the war in Iraq.
Rick SindingPrinceton, N.J. To the Editor: Watching Joe Biden's convincing victories in the primaries on Tuesday left me somewhat despondent.
But, oh, the places she takes us, the hilarious heights and the despondent depths (or do I mean the opposite?).
With remarkable precision and emotional weight, these stories depict working-class Glasgow: slummy, rowdy, tribal, drunken, despondent, quixotic and irrepressible.
My despondent gaze fell upon a large artificial Christmas tree under which was a pile of beautifully wrapped empty boxes.
The throngs of orange-clad fans in the crowd — having made the relatively short drive from Knoxville — appeared utterly despondent.
But the demonstrations have not dented his support, which has left many of those who ardently oppose him feeling despondent.
Her daughter Eve Blouin said she had grown despondent over the oppression that continued even after the end of colonialism.
Among those despondent about Trump's rise, some chose to see the moment as filled with the potential for insurgent art.
Another is about the Jewish pioneer who became despondent, lay down on the tracks and ended up dying of starvation.
And a despondent production design that renders Carl's drab council flat in shades of bilious green and burial-plot brown.
Strive to be what Anthony calls ''stable and balanced'': Don't be sarcastic, argumentative, despondent or, worst of all, an oddball.
Every month or so, my guy changed things up with training and eating, so I never got bored or despondent.
On the other hand, when Schumer's predecessor, Harry Reid of Nevada, was first elevated to Senate leadership, progressives were despondent.
And when markets are going down, we can become despondent and may "sell at all-time lows" to avoid further losses.
By delaying the trophy presentation, leaving Croatia&aposs despondent players waiting even longer to depart the field, the storm clouds gathered.
But again, Cersei's gain is met with tragic setback when a despondent King Tommen kills himself by jumping out a window.
Presley frequently cuts away from Seppala, breaking up the momentum of the journey with scenes of Nome's despondent doctor (Treat Williams).
I was despondent and terrified to tell a significant other my true feelings about myself for fear of being laughed at.
Just before bed on Christmas Eve, Frederick announces that the robot is indeed the only toy he desires, leaving Frasier despondent.
During Thursday's press conference, Jim McClure, said the attack has forever changed his daughter, noting she's gone from blithe to despondent.
"I had to let go of 90% of my staff," sighs the despondent Naeem, whose unventilated workshop reeks of paint fumes.
As magnetic as Newton was in leading the Panthers through the good times, he was equally despondent during Sunday's bad times.
He would do well to read "The Circle" by Dave Eggers, a chilling story that would leave him even more despondent.
The decision, announced on Tuesday, was a blow not only to despondent local investors but for the Chinese government more broadly.
I know lots of young, struggling actors who are getting very despondent about it because it's such a crowded profession now.
Stuck in Warsaw, unsure if he would ever be allowed to leave or to see his family again, Milosz was despondent.
At the offices of a startup in downtown Cairo, the small team looked despondent as news of the flotation trickled in.
John Kasich (R) far behind in the race to secure delegates ahead of the July convention in Cleveland, McCain appeared despondent.
"I'm still trying to make myself believe there's a faint thread of hope," his despondent father, Donald, told The Boston Globe.
Both places offer a reminder that President Trump's various attacks on democracy and the rule of law shouldn't make anyone despondent.
"A pastel-colored Persian carpet" is how the despondent narrator describes what it means to be a man without a woman.
Yet supporters of aid in dying don't sound as despondent as one might expect, even if Judge Gorsuch is confirmed. Why?
I have a short fuse, and often come across as curt, aggressive, or emotionally despondent—I think Trump is the same way.
The despondent dog was literally lost without Dozer, so the shelter called up the adopter, who claims the dogs were separated accidentally.
A mix of charred chili peppers and Mexican spices will breathe new life into even the most despondent platter of breast meat.
It is astonishing how quickly everyone, from Mark to Jane, believes steely Claire has crumbled into a teary, despondent, and lazy mess.
We can see all over a despondent Pablo's face that he realizes his empire has fallen and his end is coming near.
Trump-skeptical Republicans have been despondent about the state of their party and their prospects for victory in 2016 for months now.
Skip ahead to the 1:57 mark and you'll see a life jacket-wearing Styles sitting on the beach looking rather despondent.
We're told she was despondent and emotional over an alarmingly low white blood cell count in the wake of her kidney transplant.
Democrats should be disappointed but not despondent, having lost a race in which they invested great hope and resources into Jon Ossoff.
Over the next several years, Angie was shuffled from office to office in Kafka-esque fashion, leaving her feeling hopeless and despondent.
He used that vulnerability and the fact that Nathan was despondent over having washed out of the army with a back injury.
This is a culture so despondent and at such a loss for what to do that it has become increasingly self-destructive.
Mr. Buckel's suicide letter was a few pages long and touched on many subjects, revealing a man who had grown deeply despondent.
The elder Ms. Tisson said she had been despondent the night she learned the election results, and thrilled when she heard Mrs.
One failed to recognize both the card and the thumbprint of Ebele Helen Odigie, who looked despondent as she was turned away.
This temporary balm to his despondent heart transformed into a project, Krome, now on display at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.
Despondent, unwilling to submit to her fate, she lies in a state of depression until an itinerant preacher she's heard of comes by.
The initial reaction from many "Never Trump" Twitter users ranged from despondent at their own nominee to anger at the Democratic president's opportunity.
Donald Trump has apparently deleted a tweet that gave the world yet another look deep into Chief-of-Staff John Kelly's despondent soul.
Miraculously, the veterinarians managed to defrost Fluffy from despondent catsicle to "recovered" and "completely normal," according to a Facebook post from the clinic.
A despondent, rust-colored orangutan, clinging to a couple of spindly vines, confronts a startled toucan in "Canopy" (2018, 30 x 40 inches).
In fact, Corker appeared despondent this week when asked about Trump's post-Orlando national security speech, which was packed with anti-Muslim rhetoric.
He said he did not recognize Smith the night of the shooting and grew despondent hours later upon learning whom he had killed.
Some of his devotees, lastingly despondent about his legacy, still insist either that the flame died with him or that it passed elsewhere.
So if you, too, are scared, or furious, or despondent, find a Democrat close to you and go canvass for her (or him).
In meetings with Epstein before he died, "We did not see a disparaging, despondent suicidal person," attorney Reid Weingarten said of his client.
The auxiliary bio class character's 180-degree turn from being despondent and combative to vivacious and overeager deserves a story of its own.
But Hamilton was growing increasingly despondent about his indefinite confinement in I.P.C. On November 2nd, he wrote a letter to the prison's superintendent.
On a ship, with time to turn over your problems and no way to do anything about them, it's easy to become despondent.
But climate leaders contacted by VICE say the stakes of the 2020 election are too high for people to become despondent or withdrawn.
Bacon's Instagram account is flooded with pictures of him looking concerned, anxious, shocked, and despondent — all the big (and now very normal) 245 emotions.
Inconsolable, your colleagues grow despondent, their sullen faces weary with the look of lost souls who have just binged a season of Storage Wars.
There is an alarming continuity between the resentful, grudge-holding man on the papal throne and the despondent boy given up by his parents.
He's despondent until he stumbles upon the ruins of a library, where he sits down amid the rubble and opens a leather-bound tome.
In each case, a group that used to have the upper hand is now angrily despondent at its place in society and future prospects.
We broke the story ... a few months ago Selena was hospitalized twice when sources say she became despondent and emotional after her kidney transplant.
A despondent Murphy gets drunk at an airport bar before finding himself in the bathroom next to a flyer who was just snorting cocaine.
So for all of you who are despondent as we approach the 100 day marker of Donald Trump's presidency — there is a silver lining.
She sure 'nuff was, and looked so goddamn despondent when Eugene slipped it under the door instead of a knife that I nearly wept.
The despondent 55-year-old fashion designer did not want her 24-year marriage to Andrew to end,  TMZ reported , citing law enforcement sources.
Sometimes the family knew their loved one was despondent, had long struggled with mental health troubles, or had talked about having no way out.
If you voted for Hillary Clinton this week, you likely feel despondent, confused and unable to reconcile how the country elected Donald J. Trump.
It's not too late to stop Mr. Trump, the Republican consultant Karl Rove told a despondent group of Republican governors and donors in February.
The suicides of a veteran chief and a homicide detective prompted the police commissioner to urge officers to seek help if they feel despondent.
She took thousands of calls around the clock, talking despondent farmers down from the ledge and devising strategies to try to save their farms.
In their clubhouse after Game 22 on Tuesday, the Astros were hardly despondent, and seemed energized by the chance to play one more game.
Family members described how the young girl had grown despondent and ignored meals after her father was arrested by ICE agents on Feb. 12.
Rob understands that is Mac's decision throughout all of "Rock" and tells a despondent Lily as much in the first half of the episode.
In Kentucky Route Zero's meandering stream of text, dream-like imagery, and despondent music, I looked for clues about the world and its characters.
The yielded delight derives not simply from a despondent start leading to a buoyant finish, for a resolute ending never cancels a distraught opening.
Guys were despondent walking out of there, but by the time we got on the plane guys were starting to feel stubborn about it.
At the beginning I felt ostracized by these encounters, but I'm sad to say I've gotten so used to it that I feel despondent.
And a number of them were despondent in what they saw as an apocalyptic view of the country, when voters want to be inspired.
The 31-year-old has been a junior doctor for seven years and said he was "despondent" when he heard about the new contract.
The papers say the man had an uneventful upbringing in a Muslim household but grew despondent when his pregnant sister died from a sudden illness.
Fresh from the new season on Netflix, we decided to figure out just how despondent this show is and ranked the episode based on that.
And in that moment, despondent Buffalo fans may be tempted to seek out a way to alter the miserable reality of cheering for the Sabres.
When Muhammad Ali died, a lot of Muslims I know were despondent precisely because they wondered if we would ever see such a champion again.
"Now everything's changed," said the despondent Lopez, 219, as he sat staring blankly at the ground in outside one migrant center, under a cobalt sky.
After spending every weekday going to work with her dog dad, Sadie became despondent during the 10 days between the owner's death and his funeral.
In the clip, Mama responds to his presence by breaking her despondent trance to greet her long lost companion with a smile and a hug.
Ronda Layne's rescue pit bull, Zuca, seemed despondent and slept more than usual after her favorite feline companion, Stout, died of kidney disease in 2013.
Walking the subdued floors found hardware vendors despondent about their chances in a hyper-competitive market and consumers who increasingly favor smartphones instead of PCs.
A mix of charred chili peppers and Mexican spices, its rich flavor will breathe new life into even the most despondent platter of breast meat.
"I mean, I never thought I'd say these words, but Ted Cruz was right," she said, and then quoted Mr. Cruz's despondent Wednesday night speech.
A search of Jason's bedroom supports reports that the teen had been despondent for a few days before his death, the DOJ said without elaborating.
At times he sounded almost despondent, questioning not just the ugly turn the presidential campaign has taken but the future of the American political system.
In St. Louis, a man despondent at a recent estrangement from his family met Wingo, told him of his pain, and showered him with gifts.
I felt similarly despondent on Tuesday at Alice Tully Hall, during much of the season-opening concert of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
It feels like all the life has been drained from the people in this shot, who seem to almost melt into the watery, despondent atmosphere.
She would tell students and alumni that being able to check something off your to-do list can help you stay confident, instead of despondent.
Perhaps the most despondent trader was Ramanuj Pandey, 66, the manager at Dharmson, which is stocked floor to ceiling with diaries and calendars for 2017.
Markets often overshoot, ping-ponging between overly optimistic when times are good to downright despondent on the first sign that they might, well, not be.
"Despite our seemingly tranquil life, away from Soviet realities, we became more and more despondent and dissatisfied with our senseless existence," he wrote on WorldTribune.
Despondent, he seems about to jump from the roof, but instead sheds the suit and becomes dozens of bright red insects, flying away to freedom.
In one of Colin Farrell's most memorable roles, he plays Ray, a despondent Irish killer who accidentally murders a kid while knocking off a priest.
Working in a psychedelic folk template, "Across Yesteryear" sounds like a despondent goodbye addressed nowhere in particular, diffusing through the sonic field like a fog.
Many people in Oklahoma are talking about the possibility that the car crash wasn't an accident - that a despondent McClendon may have taken his own life.
In the months since Pero's death, however, his friends and relatives have taken issue with the state investigators' portrayal of him as a despondent and aggressive.
The two-part finale begins with the usual Bachelor trappings: lunch dates in Peru, a despondent limo ride, and a proposal against a flower-laden landscape.
The plaintiff in the case that legalized gay marriage nationwide said Thursday he's feeling "despondent" about the potential consequences of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement.
For example, Dean featured Sansa Stark on the Four of Cups card, where she looks despondent, and on the Star card, where she looks more hopeful.
But by nightfall he was back, despondent after his third failed attempt this week to exit the blockaded Gaza Strip through the congested Rafah border crossing.
In an interview aboard his campaign bus, Mr. Rubio sounded despondent as he contemplated how ugly the race had become — and his role in its devolution.
They point out she had been deeply despondent and had told her sister to take care of her teenage son in the days before the killings.
"They abused me physically, psychologically, and now they want to separate me from my kids," she said in her makeshift quarters, sounding alternately despondent and defiant.
His malleable, ferocious voice and his taste for despondent political contemplation may remind you of the transgender singer Anohni and the anti-AIDS siren Diamanda Galás.
Earlier in the week, despondent markets had lifted when the Trump administration said it would postpone a 10% tariff on some Chinese imports until December 15th.
Or, in an example familiar around here these days, it's a bit like gunning down people who've become drug addicts because they are poor and despondent.
The nurse who answered the reversal hotline stayed in touch with her after her pregnancy ended, praying with her over the phone when she felt despondent.
Turning Points Turning Point: Unemployment rates throughout the developed world are at historic lows, yet protest movements indicate that many people remain despondent about their future.
The postmodern era left us despondent and skeptical, prone to toy idly with old forms and make fun of the idiocy of some of our forebears.
Before marriage or children, when an earlier reform plan's failed run through Congress had left the couple feeling despondent, they had moved there for six months.
But while "T2" might be middle-aged, it's very far from moribund, the despondent base notes shouldering a story of revenge and regret, amity and acceptance.
Yung Lean's latest track, "Red Bottom Sky", is a hypnotic five minutes of atmospheric and melancholy melody that builds over lush synths and the Swede's despondent vocals.
The family had grown increasingly despondent because Mr. Hekmati's father, Ali, has terminal brain cancer, and the family feared he would die before Mr. Hekmati was freed.
A life well lived features both a pizza body and being somebody, but if Youngblood's near-despondent delivery is any indication, having both is a near impossibility.
YouTube user Mayor Wertz created a montage of Fieri just continuously eating, and set it to Johnny Cash's beautifully despondent cover of "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails.
The phrase "pull your socks up" came out in wartime England as a rallying cry to despondent soldiers who were bummed while conquering foreign lands and people.
Two summers ago, shortly after the fall of Mosul, my wife and I attended Mass in Aspen on the margins of a rather despondent Aspen Security Conference.
I remembered the photos that her mother DeShanna showed me a week earlier—pictures of a despondent child who had stopped speaking or responding to their name.
Fifty-nine percent think New Jersey is "headed off the rails," the poll found, the highest number of despondent respondents since Mr. Christie took office in 2010.
Larry Silver, a professor of art history at the University of Pennsylvania, said Bosch held a despondent view of humanity, believing evil was embedded in us all.
In one stanza, Brecht writes: The most beautiful of all doubts Is when the downtrodden and despondent raise their heads andStop believing in the strengthOf their oppressors.
Osaka, still wearing her match outfit and visor, was despondent in the news conference that began about 30 minutes after her loss, giving short and sullen answers.
When she finishes spelling out the word, she quickly covers her legs with her dress, her face despondent as she rises from her seat, and walks offscreen.
"A lot has happened and I don't know what can happen next," a despondent and worried Mr. Drame said, as he struggled to recount his harrowing journey.
In it, the 18 cast members, all in their 20s, formed a chorus and slowly recited a text that read like the manifesto of a despondent generation.
The first is pretty standard antihero dross: A handsome guy cuts his way through his problems, leaving bodies in his wake and feeling increasingly despondent about his choices.
He has not yet entered a plea and remains behind bars, where he has grown "despondent" and depressed, according to a source who has recently spoken with him.
His instrumentation leans on strings, percussive interludes, and his signature whistling, which can bring a song into happier focus or send it careening off into a despondent aside.
That despondent eye is matched with another left eye, closed and enclosed in a triangle at the figure's crotch, with a small but lethal bullet hole above it.
First Mate Johnson become increasingly despondent as Flight 1820 continued south, relaying to her captive audience the official line as she received updates in a flatter, drier tone.
While imitation might be one of life's inevitabilities, life inevitabilities—council tax bills, the common cold, feeling absurdly despondent on your own birthday—are usually deeply fucking irritating.
A Democrat and a supporter of Hillary Clinton, Ms. Gottlieb had grown increasingly despondent about having the Trump name over her front door as the presidential race unfolded.
I think that's the most important message for any progressives feeling despondent about President Trump's second Supreme Court nomination, which is set to be announced tonight: Elections matter.
In August, the French decathlete Kévin Mayer, the overwhelming favorite for gold at the European track and field championships, fouled out of the long jump and withdrew, despondent.
Elsa Johana Ortiz Enriquez, who was deported to Guatemala without her son in early June, was despondent in a series of text messages from Guatemala City on Thursday.
GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO Admire the patience of Sam Smith's bassist and backup singers in this live rendition of "Burning," a despondent hymn of lost love tinged with nicotine addiction.
She said her drinking got worse and she grew more despondent until one night in November, when she texted a suicide hotline as a last plea for help.
If the purpose is to allow despondent or angry people to vent and show solidarity, then the anti-Trump protests going on in major cities already do that.
Kodak is standoffish and despondent at the beginning of the interview, taking several silent minutes to answer a simple question about where he got his rap name from.
Just now, they are on the sidelines, despondent-looking soccer moms hopeful that Zellner (and Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, the filmmakers behind the series) will win this game.
It's easy to get despondent, to wallow in the fact that there clearly wasn't as much to celebrate this year, but at least there's the fact that it's over.
Heydi, who had been despondent about being separated from her father, attempted to hang herself earlier this month in the suburban Long Island home of one of her aunts.
All of which is to say, climate change is once again taking a back seat in a presidential election—and activists and journalists are a bit despondent about it.
You can imagine yourself sitting there, re-reading the same paragraph, growing despondent about the hundreds of pages stretching in front of you like a desert with no oasis.
Madran's life has spiraled into a despondent daily routine of scrounging for food for her dust-covered children and begging the authorities for any news about their asylum application.
Those states which have felt forgotten and feel despondent by the democratic party require not just a seat at the table, but an entire chapter in the 2018 playbook.
On a recent day in July, Brenda Nakisuyi, 17, sat silent and despondent in a darkened room at Kawempe Home Care, a cancer hostel for children in Kampala, Uganda.
It's easy to feel despondent after digging into this issue, and yet there are a wide-range of responses right now in the United States aimed at addressing it.
The family says they can try again with the same smuggler, for no extra fee, though Ahmed is despondent as he watches the clouds gathering above the darkening waters.
Dr. Przebinda argues that doctors should almost never ask their patients about guns, except in "very rare, very exceptional circumstances" — for example, if a patient is despondent or homicidal.
So despondent were the editors at the Republican Los Angeles Times after Democrat Grover Cleveland won the 1884 race, they simply refused to report the results for several days.
Osaka won that meeting, 2.53-22.5, 2200-221, and consoled a despondent Gauff at the net after match point, creating one of the tournament's most celebrated moments of sportsmanship.
A shopper accompanied by two tired and despondent-looking kids asked me to let her into the section, but I was strictly forbidden to do it, I told her.
Cut to 1977, when Waterhouse's granddaughter, the teenage Jake (Samantha Isler, a daughter of Viggo Mortensen in "Captain Fantastic"), is despondent over her brother's death in the same lake.
Miami was despondent enough that it was an actual relief to experience the hilarious ordeal of getting into an event for Dom Pérignon Thursday night at the W Hotel.
Why it matters: If voters approve a ballot initiative this November imposing a fee on carbon dioxide emissions, it would reinvigorate liberal leaders despondent over Trump's anti-climate change policies.
Vinnie and Lilly Wiggins, Jason's two best friends, insist that he was a stabilizing force in many of his peers' lives, not the despondent young man the sheriff's department described.
Mike Jackson, chairman, and CEO of AutoNation, said he will not be casting his vote early because the campaign policies and rhetoric have left him somewhere between depressed and despondent.
THE mood was despondent as Carlos Antonio Lozada walked onto a makeshift stage in a plaza in Fusagasugá, a town 70km (43 miles) south-west of Bogotá, on March 3rd.
The New Yorker referenced several "despondent" looking paparazzi shots of Affleck, including one that revealed a full view of the back tattoo he originally denied getting shortly after the split.
Sixers fans have suffered enough without enduring some sportswriter's psychoanalysis, and that suffering is surely a big part of why so many of them were so despondent at Hinkie's departure.
"Well, we have been declining for years," reflected one despondent shop assistant at British Homes Stores (BHS) after learning that the department store had filed for administration on April 25th.
Tens of thousands of despondent Venezuelans were flocking across the border into Colombia, and those who could afford airplane tickets went to the U.S. and to other countries farther afield.
"(Meek)'s obviously despondent about his plight, so to speak, but also is encouraged by all the support," Mill's attorney, Joe Tacopina, told CNN in a phone interview Monday night.
In late 2009, Lawrence Rinder, director of the University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, stood alone and despondent in an abandoned building recently inhabited by squatters.
There was a reason that C. C. Sabathia was so despondent Tuesday night when the pain in his right knee forced him to leave his start after only three innings.
The year is 2018, and America's young people are so despondent about the state of the world that they're hanging out at ax-throwing bars and munching on Tide pods.
But less than three weeks before the vote, the campaign is muted, with many despondent about the state of the nation and more preoccupied with finding food than the election.
Twenty-five years after he slouched onto TV screens with a comically despondent, "Hi…," it's hard to imagine anyone other than David Schwimmer as Friends' brainy sad-sack Ross Geller.
"You can be despondent that this is never going to be enough but you have got to take those small steps and believe that can make a difference," Ghosh says.
The despondent cartoon blob from a memorable series of TV ads for the S.S.R.I. drug Zoloft became a near-instant piece of pop culture iconography after its May 2001 debut.
The despondent cartoon blob from a memorable series of TV ads for the S.S.R.I. drug Zoloft became a near-instant piece of pop culture iconography after its May 2001 debut.
The young woman grew so despondent that she marched to the house of Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of her state, Uttar Pradesh, and threatened to set herself on fire.
The young woman grew so despondent that she marched to the house of Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of her state, Uttar Pradesh, and threatened to set herself on fire.
For example, one autistic boy repeated, "Chicken Little thought the sky was falling, but the sky is not falling" when his mother was despondent over the death of a friend.
Eric said that he also informed authorities that Stephen had been despondent about no longer being able to fly planes after his medical certificate expired a number of years ago.
We broke the story ... sources close to Ben say he believes Tinashe is despondent about their breakup, and popping up at Hollywood nightspots he hits with new GF Kendall Jenner.
As they gather at the bar afterward, despondent about their lives and nostalgic about the past, Aubrey (Anna Camp) launches a plan to get the band back together, so to speak.
A drunk, despondent Midge stumbles on stage and grabs the microphone herself, and in a splendid ode to female empowerment, realizes that she's actually the one bearing some serious comedy chops.
"Feel No Pain" is a cover of the Sade song and the lyrics are about people feeling despondent and needing music just to survive in the violent conditions they've been dealt.
Within a day or two of a mass school shooting, the young victims' photographs are released, and eventually, so are the photos of the lonely, despondent teen who committed the crime.
Though Saturday's effort allowed the opposition to demonstrate that Maduro was willing to repel aid, many opposition leaders appeared despondent and disappointed that the food and medicine had not gotten in.
Dunkirk is a war movie that finds its grace in quiet decency, that empathizes with the desperate and the despondent, that understands that simply surviving can be an achievement in itself.
General Stanculescu's wife, Elena, with whom he had a daughter, killed herself in 2003, apparently despondent over the repeated attempts to prosecute him after his allies in the government lost power.
Alcebíades da Cunha Vieira, a lawyer in Rio de Janeiro, said the dismal economy and the endless stream of scandals had him feeling despondent about his 17-year-old son's future.
After all, he did leave that $12 million painting of a despondent lady cradling a hidden-faced man in Alice's bedroom so that she'd have something nice to remember him by.
For years now, as I've taken the train from the South Bronx to this intersection to trade the subway for buses heading west across town, every single trip makes me despondent.
After the Republican ticket's defeat in 1976, Hubert H. Humphrey tried to lift the spirits of his despondent friend, Bob Dole, the party's vice-presidential nominee, with an ice cream outing.
In "Joy Street" (20133), she told the story of a china mouse that comes alive from its perch on an ashtray to save a despondent woman living in a dark apartment.
"I cannot breathe I swear/It's torture/And I miss my brothers," overlapping voices declare, in what could have simply been a despondent mope-rock anthem, complete with an orchestral backdrop.
When the war began, Whitman was despondent, but the violence of those years seemed to strengthen and clarify his faith in democracy, a faith that would take on a transcendent dimension.
Cuban Americans and their relatives on the island, many of whom have spent years waiting for visa interview appointments, were despondent after learning that consular services in Havana had been suspended.
It centers on a young, romantically despondent skateboarder, Jimmie Fails (actor and character share the name), who can't let go of the glorious Victorian house that his family lost years earlier.
Sweden's national team is in Group F, along with Germany, Mexico and South Korea, so some of those Swedish-language tweets might get increasingly despondent or profane as the tournament progresses.
After America killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, in 2006, and put his jihadists to rout, a despondent remnant unearthed references buried in canonical compilations of Muhammad's sayings.
The series, Deadline reports, follows Eve (Oh), a somewhat despondent MI5 security officer who finds a new purpose in life after being assigned to take down meticulous, merciless killer, Villanelle (Jodie Comer).
After an attempt at surgery failed about a year ago, Logan was so despondent that he stopped eating and drinking water and wound up in the hospital for liver failure and dehydration.
Palestinians — who are partly governed by militant group Hamas which has ruled the seaside enclave of Gaza since it won an election there in 2006 — are more despondent and divided than ever.
A next-door neighbor, registered nurse Jared Axen, said the suspect had seemed introverted, quiet and sad, possibly despondent over the loss of his father from a heart attack in December 2017.
Activist Ismail Alabdullah from the Syrian Civil Defense, the medical response group known as the White Helmets, recorded a despondent video in the early hours of Wednesday as Assad's forces closed in.
By accepting my patients' circumstances, rather than fixating on their inherent tragedy, I could focus instead on changing what I could: easing breathlessness and agitation, explaining hospice services to their despondent families.
In the title role, Downey adopts a Welsh-like accent, which seems to be all the effort he could muster for this performance, which alternates between dull and manic, despondent and quirky.
Post watched the midterm election results on a rainy night at an Irish bar in Harrisburg, Pa. — at one point quietly stepping outside, despondent, to lie down on the wet, cold concrete.
Vessel is a more difficult listen than Kline's earlier records; there is a darkness to the arrangements—more guitar, less synth—and in Kline's lyrics, which can feel despondent, desperate, or both.
He said in the aftermath of the referendum the upcoming general election had seemed very "promising," but the possibility of a Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael government was making him more despondent.
This episode is such a sad one for Philip, who started off this season as the buoyant counterpart to Elizabeth's slow but steady deflation and has now joined her in the despondent muck.
The fallout that weekend reportedly delighted Bannon as it instigated wall-to-wall TV coverage of "snowflakes" protesting in airports while despondent travelers were held at airports or not allowed into the country.
Ted Cruz sounded despondent at the possibility that same-sex marriage could become legal when he called into the radio show of Tony Perkins, a vehement opponent of gay rights, in February 2000.
"This morning Trump fired his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, seen here on his happiest day in the job," Colbert said on his late-night show, cutting to a picture of Sessions looking despondent.
Following her performance of "Wolves," Twitter exploded with rumors that she'd suffered a panic attack before the show, and that was why she looked rather despondent as she apparently lip-synched the song.
Now, calling herself iLe, her solo debut album, "iLevitable," ventures in an entirely different direction: a knowingly retro survey of Latin music's past, full of romance and a longing that can turn despondent.
Another veteran, Detective Joseph Calabrese, took his own life a day later, prompting the police commissioner, James P. O'Neill, to issue a public plea to officers to seek help if they are despondent.
Later in his life, he cared for his ailing wife in America; despondent after her death, he ended up in hospitals after a failed suicide attempt and a drunken fall down a staircase.
Sorry to be so despondent, but I went to graduate school here on a Marshall scholarship from the British government, was married here and started as a journalist on Fleet Street in London.
Noonan, who is ex-military, found himself unemployed after Bush suspended his campaign — and despondent at the thought of being forced to choose between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the general election.
The despondent messages nevertheless offered a rare glimpse of the man behind the facade — a man who has built a reputation for openness while in practice giving little away about his inner life.
But she appears to have become increasingly isolated and despondent in her last months, though help for her and her son was just a few hundred yards away at a district government office.
Many of the people who failed to pass the citizenship test in Assam had lived in India all their lives, felt deeply Indian and were despondent to be stricken from the citizenship rolls.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said a newspaper report that Jean-Claude Juncker had disparaged Theresa May's "despondent" demeanor after a dinner last week was a deliberate smear intended to disrupt Brexit negotiations.
And the timing of the trade tumult and yet another senior White House departure, just as primary season opens, has more and more Republicans using alarmist and despondent tones in their midterm analyses.
But they hope a presidential vote due in 2018 will galvanize exhausted and despondent supporters, and want foreign pressure for reforms to an election system they say is at the service of Maduro's "dictatorship".
Don't become despondent because the presidential candidates don't seem just like you; realize that your relationship with the president has become way too intimate and it's time to see some other people -- namely Congress.
Bo Burnham's directorial debut follows the genial but despondent Kayla (Elsie Fisher) as she not only navigates middle school's judging adults, preening peers, and hallway hell, but also its social-media-induced social anxiety.
I felt like I was in exile by the end of that time; I was just really despondent because it seemed like we were trying to manage violence instead of focusing on eradicating it.
Obama peppered his 45-minute appearance with subtle knocks for despondent Democrats, warning that it is not enough to lament Donald Trump's presidency or complain about the impact he is having on the country.
Roughly a year ago, Jess Shipps, a 31-year-old Air Force veteran who quit the military to transition, committed suicide after becoming despondent because she was out of work and out of money.
Yet the poignant, almost despondent mood created by his visual choices and the raw vulnerability of his star, Elle Fanning, transform the pop energy of the soundtrack into a yearning cry to be heard.
Years of caring for his wife, now deceased, who had early onset Alzheimer's, left Les Sperling, 65, so despondent that "I'd stay in my room in the dark and sleep all day," he said.
PRINCETON, N.J. — Iran's imprisonment of Xiyue Wang, a naturalized United States citizen from China who is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Princeton University, has left his family, colleagues and supporters despondent and outraged.
A show like Veep can satirize this Beltway tendency, while a show like Homeland has grown more despondent over it as it's aged (though perhaps not enough, if its most recent season is any indication).
" She said that's also why she had 11 dogs at one point — her father wouldn't let the dog she brought back from Milwaukee as a "despondent teenager hiding a pregnancy," and she vowed "If . . . IIIIIIII. . .
But two days after the presidential election in November, he was worried the "collective funk" that seemed to be afflicting despondent Manhattanites would prevent people from showing up to his film premiere at DOC NYC.
QL Score: +5 Nick: Watching Maggie's despondent expression in the side-view mirror of a vehicle carrying her husband away from Alexandria was about as subtle as a barbed wire baseball bat upside the head.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Theresa May looked "despondent", with deep rings under her eyes, EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker told aides after dining with the British prime minister last week, a German newspaper said on Sunday.
Whether refugees and asylum seekers are being treated like goods to be examined, fixed, and slapped with a red wristband, or like humans who become bored and despondent, and need stimulation to think and feel.
Brazilians were outraged as leaders of the traditional parties become ensnared in an ever-widening corruption investigation that began in 20143 and became ever more despondent as the economy sputtered, joblessness grew and crime soared.
Take "In Buddy's Eyes," from "Follies," in which the accompaniment turns reedy and sour whenever the despondent wife, who sings what she thinks is a tribute to her husband, starts lying about her "ducky" life.
Mr. Pennington was despondent about possibly losing custody of his child, until he spoke with Frank Conrad, the chief technology officer and lab director at Colorado Green Lab, a scientific consultant to the cannabis industry.
This reduced role, said Eddie Chu, an elected member of Hong Kong's Legislature and an early champion of the city's localist movement, has fed a widespread sense of despondent detachment from the rest of China.
After the pioneering work of Brigitte Fassbaender, Christa Ludwig and others, it's no longer a surprise to see a female singer taking on Schubert's dark, despondent "Winterreise," even if men still dominate in this repertoire.
A slightly despondent Johnson finished on 72, two over for the day and three over for the tournament, which will be good enough to make the cut but probably insufficient to mount a genuine tournament challenge.
In the meantime, democracy activists have been growing despondent as pro-establishment forces, some funded by Beijing, secured majorities in local councils and the territory's legislature, and new loyalty tests were imposed on candidates for office.
San Diego (CNN)Despondent over the end of a relationship, a gunman entered the pool area of his San Diego apartment complex Sunday and began shooting randomly at people gathered for a birthday party, authorities said.
The internet illuminati decided Tuesday night to photoshop a despondent Christie at Donald Trump's Super Tuesday victory speech next to the popular meme of a 2014 photograph of the vice president featuring morose existential captions. pic.twitter.
This is a remarkable artist: Last week he played two dissimilar lead roles by Alexei Ratmansky (in the new Bernstein "Serenade after Plato's Symposium" and as the despondent artist-protagonist of the 2013 Shostakovich "Chamber Symphony").
The despondent Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo started from the pole position and finished second — after a blunder from his team, which failed to have his tires ready — and Sergio Perez was third for Force India.
"Oofie" takes all the vividness he once levelled at New York and channels it inward, offering a despondent portrait of self-loathing that doubles as a critique of the hype-hungry nature of contemporary rap fandom.
Tense conversations unfold during a literal tumultuous storm; despondent royals cap off low moments by staring ruefully into mirrors; pointed flashbacks spell out familial discontent so starkly they might as well be skywriting subtext into text.
As they gather in Peru for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, the Chinese government is now in high gear as they sell their Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to the despondent participants of the TPP.
The kidnapping of the girls from Chibok captured global attention for a brutal war playing out in a remote area, particularly after a video of the despondent captives was released not long after they were taken.
At times in her 7-6(4) 6-2 defeat, the second seed looked visibly despondent as the attacking game that had taken her to world number one delivered little more than a flurry of unforced errors.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads For me, The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives In Photographic Portraiture From Africa, on view at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery on Columbia University's campus, feels a bit despondent.
I hope that she inspires the next generation of Disney lovers to be not just cool girls, but wise girls, silly girls, stupid girls, puzzled girls, despondent girls, and tearing-my-hair-out-cuz-its-Monday girls.
It has been easy for the majority of Americans, who did not vote for Donald Trump, to look at the past year and feel despondent at the state of our politics and the future of our country.
Two years later, moviegoers watched as "Network," the screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning satire of the television industry, introduced them to Howard Beale, a despondent news anchor who vows halfheartedly to kill himself on the air.
He had a job at a large-format print shop that was leaving him feeling despondent and uninspired, so he decided to quit before embarking on a six-week tour with his main band, Rhythm of Cruelty.
I've been exhausted, despondent about the death tolls, worried about doctors and nurses, supermarket clerks, delivery workers, and all those at the frontlines, but my starter brings me joy and excitement when I see it bubbling away.
At the Comédie-Française, Mr. Ostermeier's "La Nuit des Rois" ("Twelfth Night") finds hope in shifting notions of gender; Mr. Lupa's "Le Procès" ("The Trial"), meanwhile, takes a despondent trip to the darkest corners of Kafka's world.
While it is uncertain whether Sabathia is headed for the disabled list for the second time in three months — he missed three weeks with a hamstring strain in June — Sabathia, a typically resolute pitcher, was despondent afterward.
Britta, "a wife, mother and successful businesswoman," runs a start-up called, innocuously, The Bridge, which algorithmically scours the internet in search of despondent people, then matches them up with terrorist organizations to act as suicide bombers.
The transient structures that dotted the 19th-century landscape to abet in its conquest evoke, from our post-industrial vantage, the specter of a more despondent reality: the ruins of a machine age whose energies are now depleted.
The man was despondent when he found out the car had been sold — not knowing his wife had bought it for him — until she surprised him on Christmas with the car and a King Size Bow on top.
At one point in the film, we see the President lying in bed broken out in sweat and trapped in frustration as he explains to his wife Lady Bird in a despondent fashion that basically nobody likes him.
Most often, when the tide goes out, many of these new angels are correctly disturbed and despondent, left with too little reserve capital for all of those "bets," and they are crushed in resets or internal funding rounds.
One person at the embassy, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to the media, said staff there were feeling depressed and despondent as they came to terms with the Kremlin's order.
LONDON (Reuters) - Venus Williams became the oldest woman in 23 years to reach a Wimbledon final as she defied her age and a despondent home crowd to inflict a crushing defeat on British hope Johanna Konta on Thursday.
So, despondent but not despairing, thousands converged on the West Village in Manhattan on Monday night for a vigil at the Stonewall Inn, where the modern gay rights movement was ignited by a series of riots in 1969.
Men in blue jackets scamper across a trading room floor at the New York Stock Exchange, alternatively delighted or despondent, following rises and falls of geopolitical turmoil, the specter of regulation or, perhaps, the whims of other investors.
In October 2016, Ron Hiers and his wife, Carla, feeling despondent after years of addiction, had made a suicide pact to get high until they were dead, and ended up passed out by a bus stop in Memphis.
Speaking to despondent fundraisers at the Plaza Hotel in New York to thank them for their support, Clinton pointed to the late-campaign letters from FBI Director Jim Comey and Russian hacking as proximate causes for her loss.
As an ecologist, Adi can't afford to grow despondent about any of it; instead, he is playing a long game of trying to protect the ecosystems in the narrow window before climate change and overfishing cross catastrophic thresholds.
The state of loneliness isn't just defined by how many people you're surrounded with, or how many people you know—if that were the case, city dwellers would hardly be feeling so despondent on our crowded trains and sidewalks.
The ACLU, which has acknowledged a suicide attempt by Manning earlier this month, said the 28-year-old soldier remains despondent over what the civil liberties group describes as the Army's continued denial of appropriate health care for her.
" I tell her one of my favorite scenes from the film is when a plummy British tourist, visiting the witch camps, coerces an obviously despondent Shula into posing for a selfie on the grounds it will "cheer her up.
The episode began with a shot of her supposedly still alive but disembodied head, looking drugged up and despondent while jamming out to "Someday We'll All Be Free" by Donny Hathaway on an iPod, amidst a sea of blackness.
While some on the left embrace the tell-it-like-it-is realism of "rigged," they risk leaving people despondent about the brokenness of law and government — which Democrats, more than Republicans, want the public to see as effective.
A despondent-looking Johnson – former mayor of London, and leading campaigner for Brexit – appeared at a luxury hotel in London to tell his crestfallen supporters that he wasn't the right person to guide Britain through its divorce from Europe.
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - A despondent mood swept through Russian athletes at the Pyeongchang Winter Games on Saturday, their hopes of being able to fly the Russian flag at the closing ceremony deflated by a second positive doping test.
While this lack of faith makes these characters despondent, it is simply an assumed feature of daily life among Whitney and her friends, and they act with a level of detached nihilism that is difficult for me to process.
"He sensed when a runner was going to steal, and even though Heisenberg was trying to hide it, Berg knew he was despondent because Germany didn't have the bomb and was going to lose the war," Mr. Rodat said.
In Brussels this year, international donors led by the United States and the European Union committed to fund Afghanistan through 22015, hoping to buy four more years of stability and stem the record migration of despondent Afghans to Europe.
The charismatic and ambitious Judge Wachtler, the married chief judge of New York State's Court of Appeals and a potential candidate for governor, had been despondent over the breakup of his affair with Joy Silverman, a Republican fund-raiser.
Colleagues said Professor Weitzman had grown increasingly despondent after being passed over for the Nobel Prize in economics last year and had left a note questioning whether he any longer had the mental acuity to contribute to his field.
Or he could rally our national energies around the construction of the world's first driverless highway, or technology to restore full mobility to paralyzed veterans, or a pilgrimage to revive the economically depressed and spiritually despondent regions of Appalachia.
Germany is the new enemy, after a recent visit to Europe left leaders there despondent about US relations and prompted Chancellor Angela Merkel to make the unprecedented statement that Europe could no longer fully count on the US as an ally.
They complain that in the aftermath of the shooting, authorities used character assassination tactics to discredit Clark — police released text messages and phone records showing he was despondent after a domestic violence dispute with the mother of his two children.
"We are hopeful that these reconstructive techniques will allow us to alleviate the suffering and despair of those who have experienced devastating genitourinary injuries and are often so despondent they consider taking their own lives," said Cetrulo in a statement.
Yes, I know, but isn't it possible that you — maybe-William — fell in love with Dolores 30 years ago, then saw something terrible happen to her, and then left the park heartbroken and despondent and unable to love anything ever again?
After January 20, I was pretty despondent — that is, until the smart, principled, and fearless civil servant stepped up as the first official to publicly oppose "President Trump" (it still hurts) by refusing to uphold his very unconstitutional Muslim ban.
Creating from paper a human heart is the task before the despondent origamist Ilana (Jenny Sheffer Stevens), who as the play opens is burrowed into the couch of her messy studio, days of empty cartons of Chinese food within her reach.
In the final weeks of the campaign, a despondent Mr. Clinton held a flurry of his own events in Ohio, Iowa, the Florida Panhandle and Wisconsin, talking to the white voters who like him but who view his wife with distrust.
As he watched the balloting on Sunday night on television, Julio Barboza, 33, an environmental scientist from São Paulo, grew despondent as a stream of deputies cited God, clean government and democracy as they cast their votes against the president.
When he was shooting, he assumed the posture of a 673-year-old, but when he wasn't, he was Antonio Banderas, a human exclamation point, his face an orchestra of intense expressions: [extremely happy emoji], [crying-laughing emoji], [despondent emoji].
Some despondent young staff members at the Republican National Committee on Capitol Hill, who usually work late into the night in the final stretches of a campaign, took to leaving their desks early, in time for happy hour at bars.
As Willy Loman, the title character of this epochal 1949 drama, lives out his last, despondent days, what has often felt like a plodding walk to the grave in previous incarnations becomes a propulsive — and compulsively watchable — dance of death.
More explicit is "We Suck Young Blood," based around a comically despondent piano progression, intentionally flubbed handclap percussion, and a wordless falsetto hook that recalls the sheet-wearing, "I got a rock" variety of ghost instead of more malevolent spirits.
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Two days after the Fort McMurray wildfire turned Bruce Thompson's mobile home into a pile of ash and rubble, he called his insurer to report the damage, despondent as he discussed a life's worth of possessions gone in seconds.
And yet behind that portrait of him as a despondent, saintly son, there is also the even sadder story of someone who finally felt free of his responsibility to a maternal gaze, and who finally pursued life — and death — on his own terms.
There's no guarantee the two things were related, but given the loud insistence of many Americans, every election cycle, to move north in the event of an unfavorable outcome, it's not a huge leap to assume that some despondent voters were exploring options.
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia (Reuters) - Argentina's despondent coach Jorge Sampaoli took the blame for Thursday's shambolic 3-0 World Cup defeat by Croatia as he tried to deflect the criticism from a terrible goalkeeping mistake and a poor performance by his captain Lionel Messi.
Rocha had earlier stood out as one of the few speakers at a national press conference held by despondent national Latino leaders after Trump's surprise election win last year who said he would look for areas of agreement with the new administration.
Some are despondent about the prospect of being able to feed their children enough with the food they get in Tijuana, or feeding families back home on the money they might earn temporarily in Mexico (something they'd need a Mexican visa for anyway).
The irony with which Healy sings "fuck that, get money" as a defense mechanism during the despondent bridge of "Somebody Else" is laid on too thick to go unnoticed, but the crowd chanted it as if it were an actual Drake lyric.
Related: UCLA Professor Was Reportedly Killed by a Student 'Despondent About His Grades' The attack appeared to be provoked by Sarkar's belief that Klug had stolen computer code from him, according to a March blog post that was apparently authored by Sarkar.
"They fall into two groups — either they don't focus on it, or they are despondent," says Mr. Kitces, director of wealth management for Maryland-based Pinnacle Advisory Group and publisher of the popular Nerd's Eye View blog, which focuses on financial planning.
Ms. Desai said she has been transformed into a part-time counselor to despondent drivers who call her in the wee hours of the morning and a part-time eulogist who talks to family and friends to share the stories of the deceased.
It's such a forsaken spot that even the helpful greeters who roam the barren tundra between the buildings giving directions to despondent tourists stare blankly when you say you're looking for the Tavern by WS. Then again, it might be the name.
John Keats, dying in Italy at 25, asked to have words put on his tomb — "Here lies one whose name was writ in water," a despondent epitaph probably meant by Keats to suggest that everything he had done had come to nothing.
Just as the migrants in Steinbeck's novel grew despondent as police officers jailed union strikers and burned their makeshift camps to the ground, modern immigrants must endure the painful struggles that arise from discrimination fueled by Trump's divisive policies and hateful rhetoric.
"It's the installation of editors, not Li and Roe, who recklessly sought clicks at the expense of accuracy, retweets over fairness, that leaves me most despondent not only for Newsweek but for other publications that don't heed the lessons of this publication's fall," Cooper wrote.
Large parts of the left see identity politics as a solution to structural racism and the persistence of "white privilege," promoting street riots to protest a widespread culture of racial injustice and creating safe spaces to shelter minorities from an enraged, despondent white majority.
After Lee's wife Joan died in late 2017, the comic book legend "became the target of various unscrupulous businessmen, sycophants and opportunists who saw a chance to take advantage of [his] despondent state of mind," according to the complaint Lee filed in Los Angeles.
" Growing increasingly despondent and loud, he continues, "We wouldn't have had to settle for acquisition… We could have done a legit series B… I'd still be CEO… I'd probably still have my girlfriend… Why the f*** didn't anyone tell me I could take less?
BERLIN — Hannelore Elsner, who defined the role of smart-talking female police inspector in one of Germany's most widely watched television procedurals and gained acclaim for her portrayal of a despondent novelist in the movie "No Place to Go," died on April 21981 in Munich.
A teenage boy told Cohen that he had expected to be detained for only one or two days before being released to family members in the U.S. Eight months later, he's despondent as he waits for ORR to decide whether his relatives qualify as sponsors.
The game was largely tension-free until Qatar's exuberant on-field celebrations led to a minor skirmish with a despondent Saudi striker, one of few players from his team who did not head straight to the dressing room after the referee blew the final whistle.
Almost 0003 years in, Paradise Lost is still doing what they do best: dishing out classically-minded UK doom with slow, heavily distorted guitars that pay homage to Type O Negative and Celtic Frost, and melancholic vocals that alternate between a forceful growl and a despondent croon.
The show earns its despondent and bleak tone, not just by leaning into its boiling savagery but by addressing and illuminating its characters' relationship to violence, and specifically how its male characters use violence as a way to communicate, to be understood, to right perceived wrongs.
So if someone you know has been feeling despondent and is also dealing with a crisis such as a break-up or job loss or feeling bullied, offer to babysit their guns until things stabilize, and store your own guns securely off-site until they do.
It gives him opportunity to throw a few popular scapegoats to his despondent supporters: job-stealing illegal immigrants—including the "rapist" Mexicans he denounced when he launched his campaign; factory-killing Chinese trade negotiators, whom he accused this week of "raping" America; "incompetent" and "crooked" politicians.
That—compounded by a UK-related hangover, potential quarter-life millennial crisis, and missing some guy—caused my photos of the festival to reflect something of a despondent mood, focusing on the shapes and colors found at Primavera Sound rather than the music and the crowd.
Mr. McCalister flew to Aix a few weeks later to spend Memorial Day weekend with Mr. Fabiano, who was staying in a Provençal home of a patron of the festival, complete with a lavender field, and grew despondent at the thought of returning to New York.
The chancellor, who has said she will leave politics in 2021, began by telling the crowd how, as a young physicist in East Berlin during the Cold War, she walked home every day, frustrated and despondent that the wall dividing the city had limited her life.
But because she could not do that in New York, she had to fly to Colorado, ill and despondent, where one of the few doctors in the country who provides the kind of treatment she needed administered a shot, that caused the baby's heart to stop beating.
Mr. Bhat, a stocky man who was wearing a brown woolen cape and sitting on the pink-carpeted floor of his living room when the call came through, sounded despondent at times as he responded again and again that he had no idea of his son's whereabouts.
"There are several pathways we observe: antisocial individuals who are part of a gang, depressed and despondent persons who are highly distressed over a grievance and believe they have no future, and a small group of persons with severe mental illness that includes delusional thinking," he said.
The release implied Jason may have intentionally provoked the officer into shooting him, citing unspecified evidence seized from Jason's bedroom and "initial reports" indicating he had been despondent and that he'd called 213 to describe a man with a knife — a description the sheriff's office said fit Jason himself.
Taukir came along with them on these excursions, looking alternately keen-eyed and lanky and then despondent and distracted, one arm looped behind his back and clutching the other hand in that lackadaisical, half-stand-at-ease, half-chastised posture that is the hallmark of bored people at rest.
The ads center on despondent, white, middle-aged people in business casual desperately alone or stuck in marriages they don't want to be in (despite, you know, the fact that it's pretty acceptable and commonplace to get a divorce by now in Western society) set to melancholy indie music.
And some, like Eric Steel, who directed the 2006 documentary "The Bridge," which examined suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge, argue that there is an obligation to keep the public informed, and to motivate the authorities to enact safety measures on landmarks known to draw the most despondent.
"Looking at the funding and policy positions of the new administration, to say I'm concerned is an understatement, I'm practically despondent," says Kevin Frost, CEO of amFAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research, which was born at the height of the 1980s crisis when the disease first emerged.
His death came as the department had already been rocked by the suicides of a veteran deputy chief and a longtime homicide detective this month, which had prompted the police commissioner, James P. O'Neill, to urge the police to discuss mental health and seek help if they are despondent.
The soul-deep exasperation that Francesa brings to his usual engagements with foaming or despondent Jets fans was nowhere in evidence, and he instead spent a great deal of energy attempting to broadcast that his conversation with this powerful man was very much just Two Buddies Chopping It Up, As Buddies.
The FAZ said May, who flew in for a hastily announced dinner in Brussels with the European Commission president last Monday ahead of an EU summit, seemed to Juncker "anxious, despondent and disheartened", "a woman who trusts hardly anyone but is also not ready for a clear-out to free herself".
Many first novels tank in this way, and many first novelists are despondent as a result, but twenty-six-year-old Algren—in what would be a harbinger of how he handled perceived failures later in life—took the blow particularly hard, and tried at least once to commit suicide.
Sumaya's mother was particularly despondent because this occurred on the second day Sumaya had a new bus route, put in place to solve another problem: Her previous bus had routinely picked her up from home half an hour after classes began, causing her to miss speech therapy and special education instruction.
The docking of the 1,093-foot vessel, larger than any tanker to come into port previously in the Gulf of Mexico, is seen as the herald of an export boom, lifting the spirits of American oil executives despondent over the crumbling price of crude and sending ripples across global energy markets.
Colleagues said that Professor Weitzman had been despondent after he did not win the Nobel, and that his emotional state worsened in the spring, when, in a rare instance in his career, a fellow economist pointed out a mistake in a completed but unpublished paper that Professor Weitzman had circulated.
All four officers took their own lives this month with their service pistols, highlighting an uncomfortable reality: More police officers commit suicide every year in New York City than are killed in the line of duty, and the department's efforts to persuade despondent officers to seek counseling have had only limited success.
Joan Didion is perhaps one of the greatest living masters of the form, and Diane Keaton's sultry lilt captures the nuances of her prose, becoming firm when it needs to be, or inquisitive, or even "despondent," as Didion claims to have been upon publishing the title essay about the Haight-Ashbury counterculture.
Dispatches on the odd behaviors of the nonhuman animals with which we share the planet have been some of our most popular with readers, with the "decorous" cows of Cambridge, England, and the wild and crazy oysters of Croatia two personal favorites (though those ostensibly despondent dogs drew a much larger, if more uneasy, audience).
Instead, there I was with the commentator Ben Stein hovering over me like some grim heathen god, exuding all the effervescent charm of a despondent tree sloth, glumly wobbling his jowls and opining that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez espouses a political philosophy that in the past led to the rise of Hitler and Stalin.
Photo courtesy of Wyatt Clough "Bliss" is the first song off of Niagara on The Lake, Ontario alt-rock four-piece and newly inked New Damage Records signees, Heavy Heart's new LP. The track plays host to distorted guitar notes and howling vocals about feeling despondent with the band's signature mix of dark tones with bright vocals.
When she stumbled upon a Japanese meme by Yusuke Hori, portraying a very despondent Barron in tears standing next to his newly elected father — the headline over the picture reading, "My loud, annoying dad is president, so the quiet unassuming life I wanted is completely over" — she saw it as the perfect peg for a manga series.
Until I saw a fictional account of parenting that was both fierce and tender, I had no idea that being a mother didn't mean resigning myself to the role of despondent villain à la Betty Draper, or that I didn't actually have to give up my entire life and all my dreams to cut crusts off of sandwiches.
The sample of DJ Ray Ray's "She Rode That Dick Like a Soldier" in the song's despondent, zero-gravity second half (us Torontonians might as well call our sound "Scarborough sludge") is an example of the kind of regional mix-and-match that's had rap listeners joking about Drake representing every 'hood in America since his rise to prominence.
"     The complaints also claims that Duffy and Champion took advantage of Lee while he was grieving the loss of his wife Joan in 2017: "Upon her death, Lee at the age of 94 became the target of various unscrupulous businessmen, sycophants and opportunists who saw a chance to take advantage of Lee's despondent mind, kind heart and devotion to his craft.
But the most prescient, terrifying moment of Halt and Catch Fire comes not in an elegant speech about the dawn of the internet age, but in the suicide note left behind by a despondent coder, titled "You Are Not Safe": "Beware of false prophets who will sell you a fake future, of bad teachers and corrupt leaders and dirty corporations," it reads.
I took a bunch of photos of those people on the beach—I looked up and they had that pose and it was so contradictory: It was a titty and butt beach and we were drinking daiquiris and it was just boobs and butts and the best day ever because it was a day off, and it was like, 'Why are these people so crushingly despondent and destroyed by sadness?
"There was a day or two last week where I was as despondent over the election results as anyone, and I was deeply concerned that Trump being elected—combined with his promise to join the GOP in wiping out the ACA — would cause people to abandon the currently ongoing 2017 Open Enrollment Period," said Charles Gaba, a Democrat and ACA supporter who has closely tracked enrollment under the law since its inception.
JON PARELES It's hard to imagine a more despondent breakup song than Anonhi's "I Don't Love You Anymore," which circles through loneliness, near-suicidal sorrow, bittersweet memories, anger and a final unfinished hypothetical: "If you showed up at my door..." Reverential organ chords and a muffled rhythm like a heartbeat are pressured, gradually but relentlessly, by increasingly stormy electronics; a melody that starts as an incantation rises as the lyrics offer painful details.
"We are hopeful that these reconstructive techniques will allow us to alleviate the suffering and despair of those who have experienced devastating genitourinary injuries and are often so despondent they consider taking their own lives," said Dr. Curtis L. Cetrulo, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon who led the transplant team along with Ko. They worked with doctors in infectious disease, psychiatry and social work and with the New England Organ Bank to identify a suitable donor.
But Dove's penetrating eye finds redeeming qualities in just about every person she interviews, from the despondent Vietnam vet who lives on a bare lot by the side of the road ("not a tree, not a bush, not a single burst of dandelion yellow or a sprinkle of violets") to the chatty old ladies at the nursing home, who play gin at 8 o'clock in the morning and gossip at all hours of the day ­and night.

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