The record's despondency is most pronounced in its first act.
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The overwhelming emotion was neither excitement nor buoyancy, but despondency.
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We will not be forced into inaction, submission and despondency.
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He likes to prompt viewers with visual cues of despondency.
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"You can feel in its pages a certain… despondency," he said.
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There was a lot of paranoia, a lot of emotional despondency.
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At times, Ozick's despondency can seem like a product of her aloofness.
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Their despondency at this situation dampens their hopes for a peaceful future.
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The odd sibling out is brother Andrey, played with despondency by Freddie Meredith.
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I experienced periods of despondency that seemed as if they would never end.
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In Brazil, the levels of despondency for such a young democracy are alarming.
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If anyone expresses sadness or despondency, it triggers an automatic social work consult.
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Finally, after months of utter despondency, it feels like it's time to celebrate.
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The current cyclical excesses will probably be followed by another period of undue despondency.
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Now the focus is on survival, doing whatever is possible to stave off despondency.
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"There is no reason for despondency," Abhishek Manu Singhvi, a senior Congress lawmaker, told Reuters.
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These days the overriding sense, from the fans at least, is of despondency and despair.
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Now and again, though, a tiny ray of sunlight breaks through the clouds of despondency.
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"She is deeply remorseful that she had caused frustration and despondency among the public," Lee said.
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She took deep pleasure in her work and sank into despondency only when it was over.
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While despondency and madness appear aplenty in Sean Bonney's writing, its keynote is pure, hard rage.
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And we must allow ourselves to feel the agony and exhaustion and despondency of this transition.
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The source says, in contrast to his earlier despondency, Chris is more engaged with his legal team.
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Her despondency was due to an early life lived underground, without any joyful stimuli, affection, or socialization.
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It's just some birds flying in a V, which is nice, but it's also weirdly despondency-inducing?
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The despondency might be justified were not popular perceptions about the world of work so obviously wrong.
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They all shared a common despondency during the shop's last week before it closed on March 33.
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Or we could call it esprit, and that might entail panache, éclat, or, antithetically, despondency, dysphoria, ire.
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Instead, the spirit in which we come together, almost hourly in some professions, is something closer to despondency.
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Schools quickly reopened, but initial jubilation has turned to despondency among teachers who, six months on, remain unpaid.
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Given the bleak landscape of post-Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico, it's easy to fall into anguish and despondency.
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New York Daily News reporter Christina Carrega shared my feelings of frustration and despondency at the Isaacs trial.
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A more corrosive consequence of concentrated poverty, though harder to measure, is on feelings of hopelessness and despondency.
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It's genuinely thrilling, heart-racing stuff, where the result is either fist-pumping joy or pad-snapping despondency.
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In its place remains a despondency for projects that will never be finished, and teams that were split apart.
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Sitting in a federal prison, the Iranian-American former aerospace executive felt optimistic after years of frustration and despondency.
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After serving in Afghanistan, he floundered in despondency until Fuches began paying him to murder small-time low-lifes.
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John Lithgow is all of us, watching the action on closed-circuit TV with a sense of helpless despondency.
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The anger and despondency over her failure to stop the Rohingya persecution has spread to her fellow Nobel laureates.
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Maybe I'll eventually let my partner speak a number aloud, but only if his face doesn't betray his despondency.
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Stile briefly discussed the despondency into which this event had plunged him and his failing hopes for the human race.
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But among exiled leaders in Gaziantep and the Americans co-ordinating their logistical backup, the mood is one of despondency.
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But the growing despondency of British girls may have worsened the country's already poor standing in international comparisons of childhood happiness.
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Middle age may be dislocating for some but there is little evidence it is usually a period of crisis and despondency.
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While the surface of these lines puts a measure of despondency on display, I don't take the book, finally, as fatalistic.
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" Ottmar Edenhofer, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, described the government's plan as a "document of political despondency.
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That leaves the question of what it is about the Ocean State that's been pushing more folks toward despondency and self-harm.
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And the slow reveal of Leigh's relationship with Axel and the events that led to her mother's despondency offer a satisfying payoff.
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"This mixture of despondency, postponement, and failure is not an acceptable result," said Christoph Heinrich of the World Wide Fund for Nature.
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"This mixture of despondency, postponement, and failure is not an acceptable result," said Christoph Heinrich of the World Wide Fund for Nature.
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Some analysts said many voters had stayed away from the polls because of despondency over the failures of the past four years.
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There is, on the one hand, a universal figure that symbolizes childlike fun, but they display various attitudes like despondency or mental fatigue.
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In the midst of her despondency, she turns to her friend Billy Wallace to lament her loneliness, and he responds with a proposition.
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Its ability to compartmentalize, considering the whims of Jones, who traffics in extremes — in here-we-go euphoria or this-is-unacceptable despondency.
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Those ugly moments — moments of heartache, despondency, wretchedness — are not only symbolic of addiction in general, but also defining parts of John's story.
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The image of this single, pure moment of queer bliss lifts the dead actors from their graves; it revives Asch from his own despondency.
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Since those days oil has brought both boom and bust to Aberdeen, but never before the sense of despondency that grips the city today.
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Naturally, the soundtrack for my move was TVOTR's strongest album, Dear Science, a record that captured my post-Bush despondency and naive Obama optimism.
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But he also lapsed into despondency about his separation from his family, his lost youth, and his "hurt" when people call him a terrorist.
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There are allusions to Edvard Munch and Odilon Redon in the physiognomy of her characters, but psychic despair is replaced with a leering despondency.
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We received the news the way many Americans reacted to the death of John F. Kennedy: with utter shock and a sense of despondency.
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And our reporter flew with Afghan migrants deported from Turkey and witnessed the despondency wrought by the flight back to their war-torn home.
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But his position has become fraught, with an escalating crisis involving the country's Anglophone areas and widespread despondency over the 60th anniversary of independence.
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DERRICK VANKAMPENTampa Having listened to The Darkness, I wasn't surprised to read about the despondency of commuters on Southern Rail ("Off the rails", January 6th).
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The losing streak is feeding some despondency in the Democratic ranks, but some Democrats -- including Pelosi allies -- say the long-term view is more favorable.
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It's hard for me to describe the disappointment I felt on Super Tuesday, just days after that conversation, in my numb state of semi-despondency.
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When Qu returned to Princeton in February, friends and colleagues noticed that she was depressed, and she worried that her despondency was making Shaofan insecure.
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For Stiller and a number of other characters in World on a Wire, this revelation that the world is a simulation leads to madness and despondency.
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Within the party, there will be recriminations and despondency as it decides how to pick itself up, and whether it can survive in its current form.
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It's hard to say what purpose would be served by a message of straight-up despair; despondency, as it's often noted, produces its own feedback loop.
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One of them, "Jean's Wife" (242), follows a woman from despondency, after her husband of 22018 years leaves her, to her discovery of a new life.
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A person who is struggling emotionally and possibly considering suicide often will show signs of agitation, despondency, or increased use of alcohol or drugs, for example.
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A cycle of conservative speakers triggering left-wing activists may vindicate the First Amendment, but it won't help the university escape its current incoherence and despondency.
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The sound shifts from warm to cold, smooth to jagged, lush to denuded as it strains to match West's oscillations between gladness and despondency, devotion and suspicion.
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But she asked delegates to set aside the "despair and despondency" of the debate over Britain leaving the European Union next year and focus on the future.
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The belt-sander drones of "New Moon" and the synthy despondency of the nearly 17-minute long "Interlude" find Evans exploring the gloom inherent in cosmic music.
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Thickly layered and enigmatic pieces like "Eluard's Death" (1513) and "The Despondency at Cirith Ungol" (1961) seem to crumble and recombine with the fluidity of a dream.
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How many others have been driven to such despondency with the mixture of sick or dying patients, whom we sometimes can't fix, and an unforgiving work environment?
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But even they are not immune to the creeping spells of despondency that poverty brings—a psychological dimension to suffering that is not captured by the statistics.
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On "22, A Million," synthesizers and samplers help Vernon shake his despondency, adding layers, taking his voice apart and putting it back together, making his words gleam.
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While it's easy to put all of this down to some nebulous idea of winter gloominess, there might be a scientific reason for all of this despondency.
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El Desempleo ("the unemployed") looks like the Fool card, though its typical meaning (happy naïveté, new beginnings) is gone — instead, it's the despondency of looking for work.
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Playing is as old as people are, and games offer us ways to laugh, think, collaborate, escape, and even to give ourselves to despondency and failure, when appropriate.
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Her vast body of work covers virtually every thinkable micro-facet of love's trajectory, from preliminary crushes to euphoric beginnings to sexual bliss to the despondency of finality.
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Sturgeon, speaking at the SNP conference, asked supporters to set aside the "despair and despondency" of the debate over Britain leaving the European Union and focus on the future.
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As longtime Jets fan Jimmy Newell told me this morning, "I've been watching them too long now to get angry, it's almost like a despondency, being a Jets fan."
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"Evicted," a much-heralded book by the Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond, shows how the ever-present risk of losing a home breeds an insecurity and despondency among poor Americans.
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While "sang" can be a pose or affectation, despondency among a segment of educated young people is a genuine concern for President Xi Jinping and his government, which prizes stability.
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This family that represented the kind of immigrant-made-good, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps American success story became overwrought with despondency, despair, and depression in two short decades.
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We stood outside the gates and looked at the building that was such a source of inspiration and despondency for the different people we met across the country on our trip.
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If so, it'll join a growing body of work that could be called "doomer lit"—writing that takes seriously the idea that catastrophe is our fate, and despondency a rational response.
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In Chicago, as elsewhere, the crisis of permanent joblessness is concentrated in minority neighborhoods where it feeds street violence, despondency, health problems and a socially corrosive brand of hopelessness among the young.
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Instead it acts as a guide to the victimhood and despondency of an uncontrollable crisis; it is why it resonates as strongly as anything else published during the midnight of the last century.
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Walsh sums up the despondency felt by Team Human after the bout neatly: Never felt more useless in my life but we're having fun at least so I think we're winning in spirit.
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It was his ability to draw on the self-seriousness of the existentialist play (Ionesco and Beckett), and to respond to their aesthetic despondency with baroque fabulation that made Angels a gay masterpiece.
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This is further highlighted by the fact that both waves of increased death and despondency should have brought wages up, as the workforce shrank and firms competed for a smaller pool of workers.
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"Many people are hoping for a change capable of releasing them from the bondage of individualism and the despondency it spawns," he told the attendees of the second meeting, in Bolivia in 2015.
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"Chavistas are willing to drive this country into a level of despondency and reduce the economy to a level Venezuela hasn't seen in decades as long as they can remain in power," he said.
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The first episode of Charlie Booker's nightmarish series will grab you by the bollocks and keep you there, provided you can keep up with the show's heavy-handedness and ever-intensifying feeling of despondency.
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We have a hard time squaring a seemingly successful woman — one with a highflying career, a family and heaps of money — with a despondency so insinuating that it led her to end it all.
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Romanians, especially the young and educated, have left the country in droves over the past decade, drawn by better opportunities elsewhere in Europe, but also by despondency over the lack of progress at home.
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Mr. Bizic had excellent moments trying to stem Rodolfo's despondency over Mimi, whether because of her supposed flirtatiousness or her illness, while coping with his own frustrations at the hands of the genuinely flirtatious Musetta.
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The supporters who travelled to Basel must have felt an overwhelming sense of déjà vu at the final whistle, having experienced precisely the same despondency at the culmination of their League Cup campaign in February.
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If you have logged in to Facebook or had conversations about the election, I am sure that you have seen people you know who are filled with euphoria or despondency as they deal with the results.
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Bloomsbury; 297 pages; £25 AT A time of spreading despondency about democracy and the future of liberal values, it is heartening to find a book that has a good news story to tell about both—so far.
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In recent years, the anniversary of the handover of the former British colony in 1997 has been marked by deepening despondency about what many residents see as increasing meddling by the mainland and the erosion of freedoms.
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Monday's anniversary of the handover of the former British colony to Beijing in 1997 has been marked in recent years by deepening despondency about what many Hong Kong residents see as a relentless march towards mainland control.
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Do you consider "retirement" a fantasy and imagine having to live like this year after year until you get sick and can't work any more, at which point you will likely fall further into debt and despondency?
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And while despondency and madness appear aplenty in Bonney's writing, its keynote is pure, hard rage, underpinned by profound theoretical and historical knowledge that is focused by his remarkable verbal gifts into an incandescent blowtorch of protest.
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Monday's anniversary of the handover of the former British colony to Beijing in 1997 has been marked in recent years by deepening despondency about what many Hong Kong residents see as a relentless march toward mainland control.
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"Despite our current challenges, now is not a time for despondency," he said, noting that local currency debt, which makes up about 90 percent of 2.2 trillion rand ($161 billion) South Africa owes, is still rated investment-grade.
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In presenting their despondency behind the curtain, the dancers, strangely devoid of much personality, thrash and jerk their bodies — there is the usual robotic manhandling — before sliding into the folds of the stage and reappearing in cabaret land.
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André Marcon lends the role a gruff despondency, which perfectly contrasts with Jérôme Deschamps's spot-on comic turn as the oblivious Serge Othon Weil, a friend of the couple, who preaches optimism by way of well-meaning platitudes.
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There is growing despondency that we don't have an immediate solution to the global pandemic, and many on Twitter, both from Silicon Valley or the American right wing, bizarrely think they've come up with solutions worthy of discussion.
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Once considered a political star, Rama served as mayor of Albania's capitol of Tirana, and is best known for his urban renewal projects and his ubiquitous use of bright colors to paint over the past despondency of the city.
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The idea for the company began when founder and CEO Grant Canary burned through a few sustainable startup ideas after his last company was acquired, and was told, in his despondency, that he might have to just go plant trees.
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"In the face of ever-rising costs, and the threat of higher inflation combined with uncertainty around the outcome of the Brexit negotiations, it's no surprise that consumers are in a chilly mood of despondency," GfK executive Joe Staton said.
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In recent years, the July 1 anniversary of the handover of the former British colony in 93, under a deal to ensure its autonomy, has been marked by deepening despondency about what many residents see as increasing meddling by the mainland and the erosion of freedoms.
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Such despondency at Europe's global influence has become all too common as the 28-country bloc struggles to cope with Brexit, an unprecedented migrant crisis in its own backyard and a rise in anti-EU populism that has bolstered authoritarian, nationalist-minded leaders across the region.
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It's a break up song layered with an extra patina of despondency, thanks to the 34-year-old's softly downcast lines that are both poignant ("I spent my nights recalling / Those showers in the morning"), and wry (she can take back her rollerblades and her favorite band—"that shit was always bad").
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The failure to do so means that we are likely to see a retread of the strategy by which he reached the presidency in the first place: He'll make robust, red-meat overtures to excite his base while deploying targeted social media encounters designed to engender a hopeless despondency within the Democratic electorate.
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Even before news of the Comey memos broke, the West Wing was wallowing in despondency, amid talk of staff shakeups and as shock still percolated following reports that Trump divulged top secret intelligence to two top Russian visitors to the Oval Office last week -- a development that focused unflattering attention on the President's basic competence.
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And though I don't believe my eating habits are directly responsible for my bouts with despondency and dejection, ordering take out three times a day on the Internet—rarely exchanging so much as a single word with another living person—has indeed contributed to some serious lifestyle imbalances and a growing sense of loneliness and isolation.
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You could have a good old gawp of some sadly underwhelming photos of clubs in the northern town of Preston, or find yourself reminiscing about the forgotten nightclubs of Asheville, North Carolina, courtesy of regular Mountain Xpress correspondent Jerry Sternberg's elegiac masterpiece, "Vanished Asheville nightclubs" which left me in a state of despondency, much as my grandfather talking about his youth does.
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So when the conversation over a recent lunch in The Times's Beijing bureau turned to the air pollution that regularly suffuses this city with chemicals and despondency, Ian Johnson, a China correspondent, took out his phone to check Air Matters, an app that measures air quality based on the Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality Index, which scores the air from 0 to 500.
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To its credit, the museum devotes significant space to Hoover's fall from grace following his landslide loss to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, and subsequent despondency, while reminding visitors that he ultimately regained his status as a statesman, working with President Harry S. Truman to help resuscitate Europe's economy following World War II. Here in Iowa was another great national motif — that of America as the land of second chances.
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