suicidal despair
Example Sentences
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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
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
