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The phrase "a feeling of despair" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an emotional state characterized by hopelessness or sadness.
Example: "After receiving the news, she was overwhelmed by a feeling of despair that lingered for days."
Alternatives: "a sense of hopelessness" or "an emotion of despondency."
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Blank sex: great, intense sex tinged with a feeling of despair for both partners.
"There was always a feeling of despair there," said Mr. Bailey, now a freshman at the University of Arkansas.
But there is an apathy about politics, social issues; a feeling of despair, that there is nothing we can do.
A feeling of despair prevailed among the nonwhite population, for, although the newly self-governing colonies made some sympathetic protestations, they rarely took appropriate or effective action.
It's with a feeling of despair that I see them take the easy way out with their own children's diet: fish fingers more nights than not, and lots of processed foods.
"There is a feeling of despair," said one official privately, countering official sentiments of watch and see, adding that whoever Trump selected for secretary of state – and other key foreign policy positions – would be crucial.
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I thought about Nicky Morgan, and I was overcome with a feeling of profound despair that made a dark day darker, as a generation's chances faded.
When she is not pointing out the sights, O'Faolain, who has a streaked mop of hair and striking gray eyes that have a slightly Oriental tilt to them, analyzes the tragically flawed national temperament -- disfigured by drink," as she puts it, "and a feeling of inner despair".
Spender begins his article, "Few things are so apt to cause a feeling of drowsy despair at a medical meeting as the prospect of an academic discussion on the etiology of osteo-arthritis...one master says one thing, and another says another; so that the self-styled practical man cries out in his confusion, How have all these speculations helped me" [8].
"It was a complete feeling of despair," she says.
"But I have to say there is a great feeling of despair arising among young people today".
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a trance of despair
a moment of despair
a feeling of defeat
a feeling of incompleteness
a feeling of safekeeping
a feeling of hope
a feeling of loneliness
a perspective of despair
a feeling of happiness
a hint of despair
a sense of despair
a feeling of space
a trough of despair
a religion of despair
a counsel of despair
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