"I would slip into despair.
It felt easy to slip into despair.
Treated as a nonperson and forced to perform endless menial tasks, Anchee slipped into despair.
Now and then, his voice falters, his drawbridge eyebrows rise, and he allows Yuri's businessman's confidence to slip into despair.
They can build into a demented frenzy, like "Carousel," in which an accelerating merry-go-round is a metaphor for a world gone mad, or slowly slip into despair, like "Ne Me Quitte Pas".
In the nineteen-fifties, after the breakup of her marriage to the choreographer Erick Hawkins and as she began contemplating the end of her performing career (she was a complete stage animal, and only choreographed, she said, in order to have something to dance)—she slipped into despair and alcoholism.
It was good advice; in the Nazi camps of the Second World War, political prisoners were less likely to slip into despair and had, apparently, a better chance of survival than people who had not done anything to provoke an arrest.
All of these veterans might have slipped into despair, as many veterans do.
Siken captures better than any other of his generation the borderlessness of eroticism (in this case, homoeroticism): filled with panicked, desperate, off-the-rails longing and obsession, up to paranoia, this collection captures the ease with which lust slips into various violences, slips into despair, slips into oblivion.
What Smith's fine performance shows is a woman slipping into total despair as her options narrow.
