After this scene, all optimism vanished, leaving the members thoroughlydespondent.
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This intense anddespondentcrying appeared when patients were confronted with events they could not handle, that affected them emotionally.
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But the resulting bass line uses tonal homing as a repetitive,despondentgesture.
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Both cases presented deal withdespondentpeople desirous of children who are suffering mental anguish.
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These people discourage easily, and can becomedespondent.
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By naively attaching a positive being to the negative pronoun, the play dramatises the alternative which is suppressed inside the repeated anddespondent'nobody'.
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Its membership is described as 'undiscerning ', parochial and 'despondent' (p. 188).
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However, on becoming trusted professionals, members of the elderly resource team often feltdespondentand frustrated about their cases, like their primary care colleagues before them.
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Fourteen adjectives, derived from existing mood adjective checklists, describe purely affective components of depressed mood (defeated, dejected, depressed,despondent, downhearted, gloomy, helpless, hopeless, low, miserable, sad, sluggish, tired, unhappy).
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Better weather in 1938 also helped improve yields but the decline in prices was a bitter blow to growers, leaving them both deeply frustrated anddespondent.
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In this important debate, we must be careful not to he toodespondent, not to utter contagious pessimism, as it were, in every direction.
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The result is that the industry today has arrived at a point where it is shaken, where it is bruised, confused anddespondent.
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The father wasdespondentand fed up and was reaching the stage when he was not obeying the orders of the court.
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Low achievers tend also to bedespondent, frustrated and often rebellious.
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She was becomingdespondentafter trying to contact various agencies to solve the problem.
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