How To Use Slough of despond In A Sentence
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And then I have to push through the self-doubt what I call the Slough of Despond and emerge from the other side.
Interview: Pat Murphy
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This range of moods, from exaltation to the slough of despond, is entirely appropriate for the 24 Preludes and Fugues — a kind of expressivity rarely matched by the Russian pianists who recorded excerpts from the work, from the overimposing monumentality of Sviatoslav Richter to the dignified, restrained lyricism of Emil Gilels.
From Despair to Delight
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But for rugby at any rate, it looks as though there is a chance that Scotland may soon exit from the slough of despondency in which we have recently wallowed.
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How did this afternoon become so wonderful, she asked herself, when a couple of hours ago I was in the slough of despond?
PROSPECT HILL
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How did this afternoon become so wonderful, she asked herself, when a couple of hours ago I was in the slough of despond?
PROSPECT HILL
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And he said unto me, This miry slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run, and therefore it is called the Slough of Despond; for still, as the sinner is awakened about his lost condition, there ariseth in his soul many fears, and doubts, and discouraging apprehensions, which all of them get together, and settle in this place.
The Pilgrim`s Progress
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So, the Bride had mounted into her handsome chariot, incidentally accompanied by the Bridegroom; and after rolling for a few minutes smoothly over a fair pavement, had begun to jolt through a Slough of Despond, and through a long, long avenue of wrack and ruin.
Little Dorrit
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How did this afternoon become so wonderful, she asked herself, when a couple of hours ago I was in the slough of despond ?
PROSPECT HILL
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But, in the meantime, he was dragging Greenock up from a slough of despondency and defiantly offering no apologies for snapping up the best available talent.
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I agree - I felt like I was in the Slough of Despond wading through some of the battle passages and pages and pages of description.
Iconoclasm
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I met Pilgrim's Progress there, and I'll always associate the Slough of Despond with the beach on a rainy day and my parents trying to explain why Judaism doesn't need such a concept.
Even in a little thing
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[28] "The slough of despond which we call the eighteenth century" ( "Hopes and Fears for Art," p. 211).
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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Daylight the centre of it and the animating spark, with quip and jest and rough merriment rousing them out of the slough of despond in which he had found them.
Chapter 1
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If you are in that job-hunting slough of despond, I welcome you to log on to OurPrayer.org and let your need be known.
Rick Hamlin: Pray For The Unemployed
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Even though my health isn't great, he's making sure I don't descend into a slough of despond by demanding we play a bit each day.
Still sick, but ...
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It's a day-to-day news story and he hasn't entered the stage yet in this financial opera ... but the Slough of Despond can become a reference point to you all.
The reasons for the Global Financial PANIC 2007
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From this slough of despond, James ascended to become a central figure in the canon of American and English literature.
The Afterlife of the Lion
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Nearly everywhere there are signs that the prodigal economy is staggering home from its three-year slough of despond.
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How did this afternoon become so wonderful, she asked herself, when a couple of hours ago I was in the slough of despond ?
PROSPECT HILL
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Like the Denver Bibliophile, I was deeply unamused by my slog through The Lord of the Rings--great world-building, prose like wading through the Slough of Despond--but nobody interested in the history of fantasy would dare ignore it.1
The Little Professor:
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If we are not deceived in that hope, if the art of to-day has really come alive out of the slough of despond which we call the eighteenth century, it will surely grow and gather strength and draw to it other forms of intellect and hope that now scarcely know it; and then, whatever changes it may go through, it will at the last be victorious, and bring abundant content to mankind.
Hopes and Fears for Art
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It can be overdone, and it's nice to take a vacation from it now and then, either by sinking into your own private slough of despond or by finding a bar full of kindred dour spirits and share complaints or by visiting New York City or by just kicking a mime.
Lance Mannion:
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How did this afternoon become so wonderful, she asked herself, when a couple of hours ago I was in the slough of despond ?
PROSPECT HILL
