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Discover LudwigThe phrase "absolute despair" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of complete hopelessness or extreme sadness.
Example: "After losing his job and facing personal challenges, he fell into a state of absolute despair."
Alternatives: "utter hopelessness" or "complete despondency."
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(Unless it threw him into absolute despair).
It was absolute despair," said Kokshoorn, himself breaking down.
Kurosu remembers, "I was shocked at how dressed-down they were — actually, it was absolute despair".
Kurosu remembers, "I was shocked at how dressed-down they were actually, it was absolute despair".
My first indication was somebody telling me that 60 people had been killed and then absolute despair.
Like many in the sequence, this poem earns its intellectual and emotional vitality from a tortuous refusal of absolute despair.
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I had a sense of absolute utter despair; failure as an artist and a human being.
"They described being in an absolute state of despair, suicidal and still completely and utterly destroyed by the process".
"What you realise is that they are people at the top of their game, and you are actually benefiting from their experience". The comedian and satire writer said of his experience of working in Los Angeles: "I get an absolute sigh of despair whenever I go to LA. "I find it a huge, shapeless, heartless city full of people talking about television and films, morning, noon and night.
They are in the company of two engravings by Félicien Gops, a Belgian caricaturist, who mastered the depiction of absolute loneliness and despair.
How could white people not see what absolute and utter despair they were facing?
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