However, there are times when despair becomes global: one despairs of one`s life or one`s future as a whole. Whatever people or activities can be used to prevent a descent into darkness, they are insufficient. You feel like you no longer have a lifeline; that your own life jacket is simply too small to keep you afloat. A latecomer, for example, whose career has been stalled for some time, could benefit from reading William James` struggles. James, who is considered the father of American psychology, tried to become an artist and a scientist. He graduated from medical school, but chose not to practice medicine. And he published his first book, Principles of Psychology, at the middle age of 48, after taking him 10 years to write (life expectancy at birth for people born in 1842, James` year of birth was less than 40). Someone else can overcome the despair of widowhood by investigating cases where others have done so. In other words, a person can begin to overcome their own despair by gaining evidence that life can eventually improve. We sometimes say that we despair, but what we really want to say is that we need or want something strong and urgent.

If the person who wants something strong and urgent, despite perhaps a few unsuccessful attempts to get the desired good, still has hope, that person may be desperate but not desperate. The falling dew and the howling wind did not lift him from the bed of lonely despair. In addition to loneliness, there is passivity in the face of despair. Our passivity here is demonstrated by the fact that despair comes unsolicited and perhaps can only come uninvited. We cannot choose despair. (Although we can try to stop it.) Despair (countable and uncountable, plural despair) The first mentions of the word despair date back to about 1300. It comes from the Latin verb dēspērāre, which means “to be without hope” (the adjective despair is based on the same root). Remember, there is hope in the midst of despair – its ultimate root is the Latin root spēs, which means “hope.” In the Studio Theatre radio production, actress Gina Daniels gives the slogan a delicious blend of muzzle, despair and fatigue, seasoned with a grain of despair.

Many despair that their work will one day properly accommodate their families or protect them from illness. From that night on, however, I was never completely desperate again, even when things seemed the worst. Take the gay and lesbian community: for two years, they despaired, imagining that Obama had forgotten the support they had given him. Graham Greene emphasizes both passivity and the lonely aspect of despair in the novel Brighton Rock. A character in the novel named Rose marries a young sociopathic gangster, Pinkie. Pinkie is guilty of murder. Rose is a Roman Catholic and once tries to give in to despair, which is considered a mortal sin in her religion. It is as if Rose wants to commit a mortal sin equal to Pinkie`s.

But she thinks that she can not decide to despair at will: do you know the moment in history when the hero loses all hope? Right now, they are desperate. Despair is often seen as the low point, and it is often used in the expression the depths of despair – the low point of despair. Despair usually arises when it seems that there is no way out of a seemingly hopeless situation, or when it seems that there is no way out, succeed, or defeat evil. And yet, in many cases, hope springs forever. Prud`hon lived in humiliation and despair in almost complete solitude. The only thing they have in common in this desperate summer is that, unlike my children, those in Gaza were simply in the wrong place. It`s my job, I`ve started thinking, to make sure that people in this “climate generation” aren`t engulfed in a sea of despair. What are the words that share a root or element of a word with despair? The word despair can be used as an adjective to describe people who experience despair or things that involve despair, such as in a desperate look. “Light prevails over darkness, hope beats despair, grace triumphs over sin, love conquers hatred, life conquers death,” the cardinal said.