It's a scene mirrored in roman à clef The Devil Wears Prada, where Meryl Streep's Wintour proxy, Miranda Priestly, damns an entire collection with the merest pursing of her lips, sending a designer into utter despair.
The naval combat was a p15 vigorous one on the part of both nations, for several reasons; but in particular, the Carthaginians were anxious to drive the Romans into utter despair of naval success, and the Romans were eager to retrieve their former disasters.
Theology, for me, gives me permission to fall neither into utter despair nor utter denial of very real violence.
If our job becomes defunct, we won't fall into utter despair because we will have been working on ourselves all along.
And when they had clean forgotten Our admonition We granted them all that they desired; but just as they were rejoicing in what they were given, We suddenly smote them and they were plunged into utter despair.
A similar logic would seem to apply to someone with uncontrollable and unwanted sexual desire for (say) young children; or to someone falling unwillingly (yet irresistibly) for an individual other than his spouse; or to someone desperately, and unrequitedly, in love, who had no prospect of ever having her feelings returned and who was therefore descending into utter despair.
What became a fervent search for validation evolved into an utter fascination by some of Einstein's authentic writings, many of which are, in fact, written to family members, friends and colleagues.
The loser, left with a board of empty squares, slumps at the end into a posture of utter despair.
Too much procrastination can lead you into a slump of utter despair and agony.
Thrust into situations of utter degradation, places of utter ruin, and fates of utter despair, these victims unite in resisting the forces that would destroy them and, in the process, tap into a latent sensibility and forge a sublime style of their own.
The Tehillim, the Book of Psalms, is oft referred to as a place of comfort, useful relevant prayers in times of utter despair and grief, innermost trouble and when faithlessness plows into your belief system.
