The very misery and hopelessness of Sarah's isolation seemed romantic, splendid, touchingly beautiful.

; what cannot, what can never be; sour grapes; hopelessness &c 859.

Danger N. danger, peril, insecurity, jeopardy, risk, hazard, venture, precariousness, slipperiness; instability &c 149; defenselessness &c adj., exposure &c (liability) 177; vulnerability; vulnerable point, heel of Achilles^; forlorn hope &c (hopelessness) 859.

Wrote a note to Hardinge, suggesting to him the expediency of calling upon Dr. Philpotts and placing before him the hopelessness of his keeping Stanhope, the damage to himself of a vote of Parliament, and to the Church from the example of Parliamentary interference, leading him to propose the exchange of Stanhope for a living near Exeter, and I mentioned Dr. Barnes.

He will learn" and Major Dewes stopped short, baffled by the look of hopelessness upon the Political Officer's face.

And there was almost a note of hopelessness in her voice.

She called a third time, and when he made no response he heard her voice break to a moan of hopelessness.

But there is a suspicion of hopelessness in the idea of a young man starting in life intending to earn his bread by literature.

It rather proceeds from a certain hopelessness of remedying excessive and organic ill.

Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more fitted to heighten it than that of continually handling these dead letters, and assorting them for the flames?

This statement of a force, which you may freely examine with your own eyes, if so disposed, must convince you of the hopelessness of resistance, and will, he thinks, induce you to accept his offers.

But these ill-wishes for the one party and these good wishes for the other party are independent of anything but utter hopelessness as to the preservation or the restoration of the Union.

Thus, this opinion of the hopelessness of our resistance of the men of our Union was of great value to the Rebels as an encouragement under any misgivings they might have; it was calculated to prejudice our position in the eyes of the world; and it had a tendency to dispirit many among ourselves.

It gave a public character and aspect of hopelessness to our cause; it invited coldness of treatment towards us; it seemed to warn off all nations from giving us aid or comfort; and it virtually affirmed that any outlay of means or life by us in a cause seen to be impracticable would be reckless, sanguinary, cruel, and inhuman.

Finality (or what certain eleutheromaniacs would call hopelessness) of status is the soul of Slaveryand of Compulsory Insurance.

He felt hopelessness creeping over him since he didn't know what Zimbardo had done to burn it out.

He did not, indeed, venture to express hope, but in his hopelessness he was somewhat more hopeful than before.

A terrible world to dream of, worse, far worse, in darkness and hopelessness than Dante's lowest circle of hell.

I lay on deck, fast bound with cords, disarm'd, In utter hopelessness.

Some of the advocates of the "last ditch" theory, who have sworn never to live in the United States, will, doubtless, depart to foreign lands, or follow the example of the Virginia gentleman who committed suicide on ascertaining the hopelessness of the Rebellion.

"They would" "They will!" corrected Kirby with grim hopelessness.

A calm fatalism of hopelessness, bred perhaps of his long residence in the homeland of fatalism began to creep over Kirby.

Very few realize how much pain a little child may suffer from sorrow and hopelessness from lack of love.

You could almost hear the crashings of the breaking ship, and feel the hopelessness of the situation.

She felt sick in mind and body, sick with a growing hopelessness which she would not acknowledge.