black despair

Examples (10)

• After losing his job and home, he was filled with a sense of black despair.
• The novel's protagonist sank into a state of black despair from which he never recovered.
• News of the final defeat plunged the entire nation into black despair.
• For a moment, watching the ship sink beneath the waves, I was overcome by black despair.
• A mood of black despair settled over the refugee camp as winter approached.
• His face, etched with lines of worry, showed the black despair he felt inside.
• Without a glimmer of hope for the future, it's easy to fall into black despair.
• Before she received the good news, she had been living in a state of black despair for months.
• A cloud of black despair hung over the city in the aftermath of the earthquake.
• The initial shock of the diagnosis quickly gave way to a feeling of black despair.