Usage examples of "désespoir" in French with translation to English

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C'était un cri de désespoir. It was a cry of despair.
La masse des hommes vit une existence de désespoir tranquille. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
L'étudiant s'abandonna au désespoir. The student gave himself up to despair.
Ce fut un cri de désespoir. It was a cry of despair.
J'ai souvent été pris de désespoir. I was often seized by despair.
Elle était au désespoir à la mort de son mari. She was in despair when her husband died.
Le désespoir l'a conduit à faire une tentative de suicide. Despair drove him to attempt suicide.
Une peine parfaite n'existe pas. Tout comme le désespoir parfait n'existe pas. There's no such thing as a perfect sentence. Just as there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Une phrase parfaite n'existe pas. Tout comme le désespoir parfait n'existe pas. There's no such thing as a perfect sentence. Just as there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Ne te laisse pas aller au désespoir pour la seule raison que tu n'as pas pu être inscrit dans le collège qui était en tête de ta liste de vœux. Don't give in to despair just because you didn't get into the college that was at the top of your wish-list.
Quand il y avait du désespoir dans les régions atteintes par la sécheresse et la crise économique à travers le pays, elle a vu une nation qui conquérait la peur elle-même avec un New Deal, de nouveaux emplois et d'un nouveau sens d'un but commun. Oui, nous pouvons. When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes, we can.
Et lorsque le sablier s'est écoulé, le sablier de la temporalité, lorsque le bruit de la vie séculière s'est tu et que son incessante ou inefficace agitation a pris fin, lorsque tout autour de vous est immobile comme cela est dans l'éternité, alors l'éternité vous interroge vous et chaque individu parmi ces millions et ces millions, à propos d'une seule chose : si vous avez vécu ou pas dans le désespoir. And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
L'évêque eu pitié des étrangers dans le désespoir. The bishop took pity on the desperate immigrants.
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