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Discover LudwigThe phrase "acute despair" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a deep and intense feeling of hopelessness or anguish. Example: "After receiving the news of her friend's passing, she was engulfed in acute despair."
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It's known among users that acute despair can follow the days after an X trip.
In the days following the slaughter at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, the tenor of the conversations inside Spallone's shop echoed the acute despair felt elsewhere — up to a point.
His rooted Calvinism caused him periods of acute despair when he could see no hope of admission to salvation, a mood chronicled with grim precision in his masterly short poem "The Castaway" (written 1799).
As Zoë has grown, it has become harder to shield her from my periods of acute despair; she has heard me express suicidal wishes and, at the worst points, has observed me sink into virtual immobility and wordlessness.
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And, it's worth adding, the TV cameras are painfully acute, translating exhaustion or despair into a searing image that can be replayed over and over again.
Later, "her eyes flicked open, so big in her unadorned face, and he uttered the first prayer of the day, 'Modeh ani... shehechezarta bi nishmati...'... (I thank Thee... for returning my soul within me....) When, after years, Mila has not produced a child, her despair is acute.
streaming — an acute sense of bandwidth despair.
Michael Jackson's death is already a fading memory despite an acute expression of global despair as we witnessed the untimely extinction of a supernova.
Nighttime is when feelings of euphoria, or despair, feel particularly acute.
The PCM produces standardized scores (T scores) for six screening scales: General Physical Symptoms, Treatment Side Effects, Despair and Depression, Acute Distress, Impaired Ambulation, and Impaired Performance.
(C ) Wfs1/CKO mice exhibit equivalent episodes of immobility as WT mice in Porsolt's Forced Swim Test (FST) under baseline conditions but following acute restraint stress (ARS), they exhibit behavioral despair as indicated by increased episodes of immobility.
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