The tone of the songs' delivery segues from sprightly innocence to a darker despair, with undertones of squalor and sordidness.
It was a deep, dark despair and grief, a heavy wave that crushed me, that made me wonder if I would ever surface...
As a boy at Pontianak, he witnessed firsthand some of the most gruesome and cruel aspects of the Pacific War only rarely speaking of the events and always with an abject and dark despair at such inhumanity.
At best, we see darkness and light as the Yin-Yang of our existence, both physical and spiritual, and try to strike some kind of balance between dark despair and a lightness of being.
The devil's intermediary in the play, Mephistopheles, achieves tragic grandeur in his own right as a fallen angel torn between satanic pride and dark despair.
In Doctor Faustus (published 1604), by the English dramatist Christopher Marlowe, Mephistopheles achieves tragic grandeur as a fallen angel, torn between satanic pride and dark despair.
VanDerWerff wrote of "the weird, dark despair at the heart of Will's plight: He's a high school Spanish teacher, and he mostly is that because he doesn't know what else to do".
Some pundits are in dark despair over the decline of reading and print, convinced that we're becoming a nation of addled multitaskers who stare at screens all day.
"I have never arrived at the point of dark despair, which quite often happened to me during the apartheid years, but I am by nature an optimist," he reflects.
They wish to be polite, hospitable, and avoid complaining, but their eyes betray a dark and profound despair.
