Hopelessness

Examples

• At times his voice broke, and he was forced to stop reading for the pitiful hopelessness that spoke between the lines. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The hopelessness and the imprudence of this proceeding failed to strike me before I had actually written the opening lines of the letter. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Birkin watched the country, and was filled with a sort of hopelessness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She was possessed by a devastating hopelessness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But somewhere behind, in the twilight, there was a bitter weeping and a hopelessness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Never had a feeling of such utter hopelessness come over me in the face of danger. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Ursula was filled with deep resentment and a touch of hopelessness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She spoke with weary hopelessness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She knew it, and it was fatal The terrible hopelessness of fate, and of beauty, such beauty! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Never had she known such a pang of utter and final hopelessness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I wish my people to be impressed with the enormity of the crime, the determination to punish it, and the hopelessness of escape. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The hopelessness of the attempt has been expressly admitted by Owen in his most interesting work on the Nature of Limbs. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• You are right about the hopelessness of going to Limmeridge. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Typist: Moira