emotional collapse
Example Sentences
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It remained unclear how the emotional collapse of one of the main witnesses against Mr. Weinstein might affect the trial.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2020
Two years later, he was teaching at the University of Illinois-Chicago when he was hospitalized for an emotional collapse.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2017
Painfully earnest and yet cringingly self-congratulatory, they all follow Gilbert’s road to redemption — an emotional collapse, a spiritual journey, a self-affirming conclusion — in the most prosaic way possible.
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2016
A Scanner Darkly is about a descent into the deep fears of our 24-hour consumer society: the twilight of intellectual and emotional collapse.
From The Guardian • Dec. 17, 2012
His insomnia and pain, the crushing workload, and his mounting frustration all tore at his spirit until by the end of March he felt himself on the verge of physical and emotional collapse.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
