The phrase "a cry of despair" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an expression of deep sadness or hopelessness, often in a dramatic or emotional context.
Example: "As she stood alone in the empty room, her heart heavy with grief, she let out a cry of despair that echoed through the silence."
Alternatives: "a wail of anguish" or "a shout of hopelessness."
No wonder they've called it the WAA – it sounds like a cry of despair, doesn't it?
There is clearly some force in this argument but it amounts to a cry of despair.
I fear that a proclamation on the heels of a defeat would be interpreted as a cry of despair.
Even the nightmare of Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-four" is a call to action, not a cry of despair.
The lack of action prompted Prime Minister Fouad Siniora of Lebanon to lash out with a cry of despair.
It reads in part: "Forever let this place be a cry of despair and a warning to humanity".
It unfolds like a cry of environmental despair, in which "a water nymph made of bone / tries to summon a river out of limestone".
Yes, there is the burning question "why?" - and sometimes it's spat out with great bitterness - but it's not a tutorial-type question as much as a cry of deep despair.
"They're killing us". A cry of deep despair from a female journalist that needed no explanation for women in Argentina: Within weeks, hundreds of thousands marched in cities across the nation with a single purpose — to demand an end to the killing.
Hurt, uttering a quiet cry of despair when offered a vodka, also makes you believe in Andrey's dissolute past while suggesting a man quickened into life by Sonya's sympathetic presence.
As it turns out, it's closer to the bleak Westerns that cleaned up at the Oscars this winter than to the candy-colored creampuffs that we're used to seeing in July, a bleak cry of despair cloaked in the garb of a comic book action movie, No Country For Old Men with a Batmobile.
