black despondency

But they were proud of him—undeniably proud, and this made him glad, through all his black despondency.

His life has now lost its unity: it is a life of fragments; led with little aim, beyond the melancholy one of securing its own continuance—in fits of wild false joy, when such offered, and of black despondency when they passed away.

A big, lumbering hulk of a man, whose moods can range from desperate gaiety to black despondency, Roethke works slowly and painfully.

They describe him merely as one who was occasionally attacked by black despondency but whose usual condition was the more negative one of "white Melancholy" �"A good, easy sort of state," Thomas Gray once called it.

In this black despondency the one thing that sustained him was the thought of meeting his partner, Jack Evelyth, the friend of his boyhood, the sharer of his success, the bravest, most loyal fellow in the world.