And these maps not only show the moral world of the story but also summarize its narrated action: In my own copy, Christian, the everyman protagonist, begins on the bottom far-right-hand side of one page at the City of Destruction and proceeds through Vanity Fair and the Slough of
Despond all the way to the Delectable Mountains and the Place of Deliverance, on the top of the facing page.
Somewhere between the swamp of humanism, the quicksand of hard sf, and the slough of
despond." He then ended with a quote from Ray Bradbury: "Mix rain and sun and muck and jelly, all that together.
Having last year falsely prophesied the Globe's emergence from its slough of
despond, one can only keep the faith.
Over the past 20 years local initiatives and government money have helped establish new industrial zones for a range of light industries and services, but it is still an area where islands of prosperity are surrounded by sloughs of
despond.
It's not a laughing matter, of course, it's a shame to see Newcastle United slump further into the slough of
despond.
His new TV console just couldn't console Or slough off a slough of
despond. The rugged boy paced 'round his shaggy rugged room, And he spent the whole evening till dawn Evening out the crosswinds of his hate.
SNP MP Mike Weir said Labour were in "a slough of
despond".
We're downbeat, unsung and unable to raise our heads above our slough of self-pitying
despond.
RB says: Maybe, but I'm sure they'd rather be there than in the slough of
despond that was Sam Allardyce's reign in charge.
It is not just an account of the notorious failure to reform that has led the once-feared Soviet army into a slough of
despond, it is also a laser-like focus on the failures of the presidential leadership by Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, and a basically positive account of Vladimir Putin's military policies.
Croquet is a predominantly still-ball game; in other words, you have time to think as you approach the ball, time to get nervous about a crucial shot, time to get into a slough of
despond as your opponent pulls relentlessly ahead.
On the other hand, if Black Jack Ketchum finishes a long way in front of Mighty Man, result despair, misery,
despond. It was the same with Mr Micawber.
describe to you the unfathomable bottomless slough of
despond in which I wallowed for some months after the truth broke upon me.
As the Soho production community sinks deeper into
despond, the mood a few miles north in unfashionable Kentish Town is altogether more upbeat.
Of special interest to this reader, for whom membership in Kappa Alpha Psi was a source of meeting and making friends for life, was Andre McKenzie's chapter on the origins and evolution of "the Divine Nine," the nine black fraternities and sororities that "were to be the means of leading the Negro youth out of the slough of
despond and raising him to a plane of intellectual and moral security."
