When a flashback hits, even before I understand what is happening, I feel an immediate and intense despair in my shoulders, around my chest and on the surface of my skin.
Before they met, Macheath knocked up a woman named Lucy Brown Lilli Cooperr, perfectly cast); another of Macheath's lovers, Jenny Sally Murphyy), feels intense despair whenever she's alone or in his presence.
Professor Danuta Wasserman of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has devoted her entire career to understanding what drives people to such intense despair, and how to prevent such tragic events occurring.
It means you'll be able to have memories without attaching intense despair.
Over coffee, he remembered the intense joy of those early days as well the intense despair that followed, particularly when neo-Nazis killed one of his close friends.
Over these chords, singers and orchestra repeat downward motifs of lamentation, building to such an intense articulation of despair — "They plunder and burn / Our Ukraine is lost / All is lost!" — that listeners may end up thinking not of the events of 1917-18 but of the Ukrainian "terror famine" of 1932-33.
Over these chords, singers and orchestra repeat downward motifs of lamentation, building to such an intense articulation of despair—"They plunder and burn / Our Ukraine is lost / All is lost!"—that listeners may end up thinking not of the events of 1917-18 but of the Ukrainian "terror famine" of 1932-33.
After spending an intense period of isolation and despair, wondering when help might arrive, one discovers the white marble staircase by which one is granted the power to ascend bodily to an even higher room of nearly blinding luminosity.
Taken together, these two books comprise an intense dose of late-life melancholy; Montale is despair on steroids.
Melding an intense music with the transformative power of metaphor, its incantatory poems delved deeper into death, despair, disappearance and dismal weather, with Baudelaire as their presiding spirit.
And despair is a much more dangerous feeling than fear, because fear is an intense feeling and, even if it can be momentarily paralyzing, in the end it calls for action, and, surprisingly, it can also create solutions.
