despondencies

If you see our press and electronic media, there is no problem criticizing the government … The problem was that they were distorting realities and creating despondencies in the people of Pakistan by showing pictures of dead bodies and interviewing terrorists — not showing the law-enforcement authorities in a good light but showing the terrorists in a better light.

Two Leaders, on a Collision Course 2007

It's not just normal despondencies, result of depression, et cetera.

CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2005 2005

Doubts, questionings, and despondencies she felt, as she looked up, would be more welcome to him than homage, and he would hold them but a very small burden if she gave him, also, some share in what she suffered and achieved.

Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf 2004

From this time I proceeded in a somewhat more leisurely manner; but, as I drew nearer and nearer to the completion of my task, dreadful fears and despondencies came over me. —

Lavengro 2004

All our troubles and all our despondencies, they are not from want of sufficiency in God to relieve us, they are not from the greatness of our troubles and temptations; but they are all of them from the weakness of our faith and our grace.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

Examples we have hereof every day in persons acted above their own natural temper and abilities, unto their own admiration; for being conscious unto themselves of their own fears, despondencies, and disabilities, it is a surprisal unto them to find how all their fears have disappeared and their minds have been enlarged, when they have been called unto trial for their testimony unto the gospel.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

Who can declare the dejections, sorrows, fears, despondencies, and discouragements that believers are obnoxious unto, in the great variety of their natures, causes, effects, and occasions?

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

And so it may be sometimes with believers; they may, by surprisals into spiritual frowardness, by weakness, by unaccountable despondencies, be regardless of divine influences of consolation; -- but all these things the great Comforter will bear with and overcome.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

Weariness and despondencies, arising from oppositions.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

Fears that they are rejected and cast off by him, that he will not receive them here nor hereafter, do come in their place; hence are they filled with anxieties and despondencies, under which it is impossible they should have any clear view of his glory.

Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ 1616-1683 1965