Examples of using "Verzweiflung" in a sentence and their english translations:
Tom got very desperate.
I was often seized by despair.
- Tom got very desperate.
- Tom became very desperate.
He fluctuated between hope and despair.
It was a cry of despair.
Despair drove him to attempt suicide.
Suicide is an act of desperation.
- He cried bitter tears of despair.
- He was crying bitter tears of despair.
You could hear the desperation in Mary's voice.
Desperation makes the soldier or the monk.
Tom sensed the desperateness in Mary's voice.
You could hear the desperation in Mary's voice.
You could hear the desperation in Mary's voice.
Many people were plunged into distress by the news.
That depresses me.
This situation brought him to the brink of despair.
Alcohol took me to the brink of despair.
is the level of desperation I hear in people's voices.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- He is his teachers' despair.
- He drives his teachers to despair.
She's starting to feel desperate.
We were happy people before you came. Your arrival brought despair.
out of guilt or despair, or less plausibly, was murdered by French royalist agents.
that he made you a coach back then out of sheer desperation. So the question:
The heroine hurled herself off the castle wall to kill herself in despair at the end of the play.
In her despair, she prayed the Gods to convert her into a bird before she reached her home.
When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes, we can.
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
The King's son was beside himself with pain, and in his despair he leapt down from the tower. He escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he fell, pierced his eyes. Then he wandered quite blind about the forest, ate nothing but roots and berries, and did nothing but lament and weep over the loss of his dearest wife.
"Good morning, Mary! This is your telephone speaking. Your breakfast is ready. Time to get up." "I don't want to get up yet. I want to sleep." "You have to be at work in an hour's time, and you must eat something before that." Moaning, in the grip of despair, Mary did what the device demanded. "How could it come to this, that my phone preordains my day?"