The office was filled with that most despairing of sounds, a finance director's sigh.

She said nothing, but went about her work with a most despairing face.

Immediately Nynaeve began to weep aloud, the most despairing sound Elayne had ever heard.

Miss Sophia Brown opened her mouth for what must have been the longest, most despairing cat wail I never heard.

Their worried parents call them the lost generation of Palestine: its most radical, most accepting of violence and most despairing.

At the time, Kane regarded it as the "most despairing" of her plays, written when she had lost "faith in love."

Of her character, Miss Foote said: "It's ironic that the youngest of the three is the most despairing.

His songs bounce manically from exuberant to cynical, tender to bombastic, and, even at their most despairing, have a certain swaggering showmanship.

Last night he had the best and most despairing vantage point for a Twin.

The most despairing among those polled by the Gallup Organization were young, college-educated blacks.