The phrase "intellectual despair" is a valid and usable combination of words in written English.
It can be used to describe a feeling of hopelessness or frustration in relation to intellectual pursuits, such as studying, learning, or solving complex problems. Example: As she stared at the math problem before her, a sense of intellectual despair washed over her. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't seem to grasp the concept and feared she would never understand it.
There is a smack about it of intellectual despair.
The movie may also dispel any skepticism about the finality of his decision to abandon his vocation, since it is hard to imagine a more thorough and systematic statement of intellectual despair.
(Scott) ★ 'The Turin Horse' (No rating, 2 26, in Hungarian) The Hungarian director Bela Tarr has said that this is his last film, and it is hard to imagine a more complete statement of artistic and intellectual despair.
In fact, this interpretation dates back to Pascal, for whom scepticism could only be a sort of momentary frenzy.[31] The "Apologie de Raimond Sebond", the longest chapter of the Essays, bears the sign of intellectual despair that Montaigne manages to shake off elsewhere.
In 1975, in West Germany's Wild East, along the border of the Iron Curtain, Wim Wenders filmed this American-style road movie about Bruno (Rüdiger Vogler), a shaggy film-projector repairman who lives in his truck, and Robert (Hanns Zischler), a despairing intellectual whom he picks up along his route.
Even Beneatha, searching for her identity through her relationship with a young Yoruba intellectual, lapses into a despairing cynicism.
Were Harold Cruse, the author of the unsparing 1967 book "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual," still alive, he would despair at the state of black intellectual life.
They conveyed instead "strangely exhilarating despair," as the intellectual historian Mark Lilla writes in his new book, "The Shipwrecked Mind" (New York Review Books), a collection of essays on philosophical and religious reaction.
Mr Hoggart describes a way of life that was the despair of Marxist intellectuals over the decades.
"Often, when Congress is doing nothing at all, to the despair of partisans, intellectuals, and the media, it is actually responding to an unresolved electorate with a perfect ear," Mayhew writes.
Hinting that his police chief embodies the despair of Arab intellectuals over two centuries, Taher says there are parallels between the Orabi revolution and the Egyptian revolution of 1952, which overthrew the monarchy and brought Gamal Abdel Nasser to power.
