self-despair

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Noun
  • To date, the Facebook post about her story has garnered more than 19,000 reactions, sparking a wave of sorrow and outrage from animal lovers across the country.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
  • Prefaced by a host of personal disasters—the death of her mother’s onetime partner Mary Norcross, her own hospitalization for digestive problems, her mother’s painful shingles and neuralgia—the decade of the 1940s brought sorrow.
    Susan Gubar June 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Ferran is just as compelling when such vibrancy and vitality gives way to dejection and disharmony as her aspiring writing career grinds to a halt and her health starts to deteriorate.
    Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 2 May 2025
  • The dejection stemming from Wagner’s knee injury gave way (for a moment, anyway) to pure elation.
    Josh Robbins, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • This tale of the power of community spirit in difficult times, interwoven with a fine strand of melancholy, is as disarming and subtly engaging as the director’s unshakeable faith in human decency.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 June 2025
  • The production gives it a lush feel, but it’s haunted by a certain melancholy.
    David Chiu, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • Set against the backdrop of Roman oppression in first-century Israel, The Chosen is a seven-season series that shares an authentic and intimate look at Jesus’ revolutionary life and teachings.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 29 May 2025
  • The historical drama is based on the life of Jesus and those who knew him against the backdrop of Roman oppression in first-century Israel.
    Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • The work of avoiding such ignominious history and getting this turned around is Warren Schaeffer’s to do, and the former Yard Goats skipper is not giving despair or self-pity the time of day.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2025
  • And Carl realizes that a new case is just the thing to pull Hardy out of his spiral of self-pity.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Garrett, Allegany and Washington counties are now symbols of neglect, where economic despair has replaced the industrious and seemingly indomitable spirit that had once defined them.
    Daniel A.C. McBride, Baltimore Sun, 1 June 2025
  • But the Squid Game stops for no one, so Gi-hun will be forced to make some important choices in the face of overwhelming despair as he and the surviving players are thrust into deadlier games that test everyone’s resolve.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • Not all ‘doom and gloom’ Nevertheless, the global business travel market is still on track to top $1.6 trillion by the end of 2025, Neufang said.
    Monica Pitrelli, CNBC, 29 May 2025
  • The film is quite handsome, full of woodsy earth tones and dark clothing, without any bright colors to get in the way of the meditative gloom.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Over time, the nearly circular 75-mile-wide (120 kilometers) depression has been eroded by water and ice, enlarging it to nearly twice its initial size.
    Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 6 June 2025
  • Young caregivers report more depression, anxiety, and stress than their peers.
    Leah Fabel, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
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“Self-despair.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-despair. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.

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