sense of hopelessness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseandhopelessness
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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hopelessness
noun[U]
uk/ˈhəʊp.ləs.nəs/us/ˈhoʊp.ləs.nəs/
the feeling or state of being ...
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(Definition ofsenseandhopelessnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Above all, there was a powerfulsenseofhopelessness, especially among the chronic cases.
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A widespreadsenseofhopelessnessturned to anger when adjustment policies further threatened wages and jobs.
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Finally, very high levels of repression induced asenseofhopelessness.
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Although the textural shift occurs as she makes a firm decision not to take the elixir, it seems to contradict thesenseofhopelessnessthat has brought about her decision.
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High personal costs, the collapse of organizational infrastructure, and asenseofhopelessnesscombined to destroy the new inclusive unions that were typically subject to the worst repression.
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They are struggling against a tide of poverty and deprivation which wears them down and induces asenseofhopelessness, sometimes amounting to despair.
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After shock comes depression, and depression leads to bitterness, resentfulness, asenseofhopelessness.
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We do not have to look far below the graffiti, the squalor and thesenseofhopelessnessto find courage, dignity and human worth.
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I think that people do not understand the system, that they are intimidated by it, and that that increases theirsenseofhopelessnessand helplessness.
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They exhibit asenseofhopelessnessin dealing with the problems taken to them by the travelling public.
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The greatest problem is thesenseofhopelessnessthat has been created among a generation which is starting adult life.
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There does not seem to be any protection for them, and they feel asenseofhopelessness.
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They are characterised by asenseofhopelessnessand despair.
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Is it any wonder that there is a malaise and asenseofhopelessness?
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They are afflicted with a growingsenseofhopelessness.
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The rebel movement grows daily because thesenseofhopelessnessis steadily increasing in the countryside and young people join the rebels.
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One was the lack of freedom and democracy, while the other was lack of social prospects and asenseofhopelessness.
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Unfortunately, they have brought about asenseofhopelessnesswhich perhaps has not been fully reflected in this debate.
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I think that the discussion on this whole subject is too often conducted with asenseofhopelessness.
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It is thatsenseofhopelessnessthat has contributed to a sense of degradation.
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