So it was in this dark night of despair that Holmes told members of the media and the science community she would finally be opening up about Edison, her one-drop blood analysis technology 11 years in the making.
Orbiting the dark planet of despair is not the only option; it's no lie that "you can try to make yourself stronger, even if only a little".
The investigators examined studies that tracked patients with a variety of mental problems, among them severe depression, anorexia nervosa and borderline personality disorder, which is characterized by a fear of abandonment and dark squalls of despair and neediness.
She pities herself, but not in the kind way that she should, instead hamstringing her own attempts to pull herself out of depression with misguided self-criticism and the dark lure of despair.
I think there was what I would call a defining understanding that in the end the values that Britain - and indeed the rest of Europe and America - share were values that should be the guiding light for the future of humankind at a time when you had fascism and communism offering a very dark tunnel of despair and repression for people.
And the funeral procession will march on, and on, and on, through the dark streets of despair and sorrow.
I guess being plunged into a deep, dark pit of despair after reading hate speech is pretty "distracting".
We never find hope by scouring the world, Diogenes-like, peering into the dark corners of despair, looking for reasons why hope might be justified.
Kabul, Afghanistan -- Sakina's eyes are dark wells of despair that lighten only briefly when the 20-year-old mother looks at her nine-month-old son, Mirwais.
Before handing down his sentence, Judge Gregory Lenehan said the defendant's actions led Parsons to "fall into a deep dark hole of despair from which she could not extricate herself".
