hopelessness
IPA: hˈoʊpɫʌsnʌs
noun
- the lack of hope; despair
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Examples of "hopelessness" in Sentences
- Still, I really wanted to feel a deeper sense of hopelessness from the diggers.
- The bipartisan committment to hopelessness is thus ensured for another four years.
- What struck me most about I Am Legend was how it comprised a study in hopelessness and despair.
- Bihar is a sun-bleached state of 90 million people in the east of India, and it has for decades been a byword for hopelessness.
- Over 90% of what looks like hopelessness is just a recording that's paper thin, and right beyond it is them waiting to bust through.
- At times, too, now, she almost bent before what seemed her fate, in hopelessness of escaping from it; and at those times she strove to accommodate herself to it, and tried to propitiate her captor.
- Wente acknowledges that suicide bombers like Aayat are driven to bombing by hopelessness and despair - but that this "hopelessness" is largely a creation of a culture that glorifies death and shoves the joy of "martyrdom" down the throats of the young.
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