I am not the only one who has despaired of explaining away the apparent inconsistency.
Though living saints sought to sense pain, suffering laymen who despaired of medical aid invoked the help of dead miracle-working saints.
In view of the existing difficulties, one has despaired of the possibility of describing the actual processes by means of differential equations.
His acquaintances need not have despaired as much as they seem to have done.
While some squatters bemoaned drunken shepherds on their sprees, others despaired of their inability to rise above the squalor of shepherding to become thrifty yeomen farmers, even squatters.
Lomonosov despaired of the deplorable neglect he observed in the physics laboratory.
I am told that he has almost miraculously managed to raise funds when others of a less optimistic nature might well have despaired.
Returning officers up and down the country despaired at the process.
