Renaud manages to escape from Armide, who is left enraged, despairing, and hopeless. He said the results were gloomy and despairing and he destroyed them. Gwenhwyfar overhears this and runs away, embarrassed and despairing. When he realises Linda has left, a despairing and devastated Mick smashes up the bar. Psychologically I was in a terrible state, I was despairing. Upon this despairing realization, Se-kyung changes her life's course. Once again despairing of her task, Psyche climbs a tower, planning to throw herself off. He gave a "despairing laugh" when de Gaulle suggested fighting on. In a despairing mood, Rudolf proposes a suicide pact to Mitzi. The children comfort a despairing Michael, and the four reconcile. The despairing Harold reportedly rejected Christianity in protest. After his brain surgery, Folkman was despairing that he had lost his mathematical skills. For the book is never so interesting as when its characters are despairing and alone. The battle of Maychew was despairing for the emperor. Despairing of an answer she returned to Clerkenwell.