Example Sentences

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What matters, it seems, is not so much whether a person feels hopeful or unhopeful about the future, but how constructively they deal with their emotions.

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2024

Being unhopeful about climate change is so unpopular that I myself, an environment-focused journalist, am fearful of publicly admitting my own pessimistic outlook.

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2024

He remains unhopeful that he’ll have any place in the New Jersey’s system.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2020

So let me say one unhopeful thing before I say one hopeful thing.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2017

It was the second time I had been locked in the dark with uncomplaining, unhopeful people of Orgoreyn.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin