suicidal despair
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Redfield’s Peter is a blue-collar schlub fighting suicidal despair.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2025
Feminist critics have always had a soft spot for women driven to madness or suicidal despair by the patriarchy, but the story of Plath’s mental illness resists the simplicity of that or any explanation.
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013
Apollonius’s account of Medea’s inner turmoil — loyalty to family, desire for Jason, suicidal despair — is strikingly modern.
From Washington Post
Graham seems to mistake this act of love for a sign of suicidal despair; he seems to understand only one side of the Trappist paradox of suffering and joy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They range in time from 1860 to 1936, in place from the Straits Settlements to provincial England, in mood from musical revue mirth to suicidal despair.
From Time Magazine Archive
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