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suicidal despair
noun as in death wish
Example Sentences
He has struggled with addiction and depression, and, awash in suicidal despair, is obsessed by the idea of giving his death meaning.
Novice investors took to online forums to share tales of decimated fortunes and even suicidal despair.
Finally, also up this week we have a powerful and personal testament about suicidal despair from the great Donald Antrim, and the first collection of nonfiction from the underappreciated novelist Padgett Powell, whose essays turn out to be as sly and bighearted and full of life as his fiction.
In a moment of suicidal despair over Jericho's vanishing Dorothy admits she would hang herself "with my Hermès belt next to his crib," which . . . says a whole lot.
Your movies have had some very personal moments: obviously, the scenes with your father in “On Golden Pond,” but also, I’d imagine, the suicidal despair in “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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