Example Sentences

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Every problem movie is really a solution movie; it must offer a cure at the end of the agony; parents may surrender to copelessness but never to hopelessness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Somehow a symphony of grief, suspicion and copelessness plays lightly on his sharp, elegant features.

From Time Magazine Archive

Simon creates an atmosphere of casual cataclysm, an everyday urban purgatory of copelessness from which laughter seems to be released like vapor escaping from the city's manholes.

From Time Magazine Archive