"Utter despair" means feeling completely hopeless, helpless, and overwhelmed with sadness or misery.
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Yet he always ensures that an underlying sense
of utter despair is palpable, if not visible.
To be an atheist is to live your life in either complete and
utter despair because there is no hope, no reason, no purpose, or to live as animals do.
I saw a lot of people show up
in utter despair and leave with hope, simply from having someone to share their pain.
Running like an open wound along the razor's edge
between utter despair and blind rage, Raymond Pettibon has come to define alienation with such profound pathos and poetics that, for many, his art
Yes, he was in the midst of his struggle to dedicate his life to the living God, in the passionate storm of his deepest love relationship, and in
utter despair as he experienced Germany's ruin at the end of the First World War.
I expected to
find utter despair among people living in La Estación, a squatter settlement near the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Cuernavaca.
A couple of weeks ago, I was in
utter despair with Ed Miliband's leadership of the Labour Party.
Witnessing her complete and
utter despair instilled in me a deep devotion to light and life that's so resolute, it's life or death.
In Oyelowo's excellent performance, King becomes a complex, flawed man whose faith in God kept him
from utter despair.
Those moments of
utter despair lightened up by a sideways glance and sharp monotone quip, and it's difficult not to crack a wry smile at 3D Realms» hapless attempts to make another game.
Ambiguous features can morph from immense beauty
into utter despair, with hints of the eyes breaking the surface beneath layers of paint, charcoal, turpentine, expressive brush strokes and often physical DNA from the artists» fingertips.
The feeling
of utter despair, failure and loss of everything you've ever known, leads to depression and / or suicide for those that try to extract themselves from an abusive church system.
Running like an open wound along the razor's edge
between utter despair and blind rage, Raymond Pettibon has come to define alienation with such profound pathos and poetics that, for many, his art makes us feel just a bit less alone in our loneliness.
Indeed, I am not ashamed to admit that carrying out complex calculations for clients with staff working tricky patterns has occasionally caused me to throw down my calculator
in utter despair, especially when you put bank holiday entitlement into the mix!
The Dark Night of the Soul is universally understood as a period of spiritual desolation and
utter despair.
But neither is
it utter despair.
Luther experienced what he described as attacks of
utter despair, as the frightful threat of a complete meaninglessness, when belief in his work and message disappeared and no meaning remained.
Hell indicates
the utter despair and damnation which characterize life completely cut off from meaning and enjoyment.
The Revelation preaches the Gospel of the Victor Christ with whom a man can face odds which would drive a Christless man to
utter despair.
'' «Without Thy sweet mercy, I would not live here; Sin soon would reduce me to
utter despair; But through Thy free goodness my spirits revive, And He that first made me still keeps me alive.
You can sink into a state of panic and
utter despair, or move on to Plan B. (I would recommend Plan B.)
Seeing
my utter despair, my sweet lactation consultant asked, «Have you ever considered exclusively pumping?»
It's not like
the utter despair and confusion that a weaned newborn must feel.
After walking and crying through her contractions, Emily wrote for Kidspot, she was feeling «
utter despair.»
I then could not bear to be alone and, in
utter despair, would have to call Karl's mum to come be with me until the light of day.
This is the position of
utter despair, a final, last - ditch Hail Mary pass of a strategy.
«While working for an international NGO and operating the only Ebola treatment facility in Monrovia in July 2014, the lack of response by the international community left us in
utter despair, as we lacked the capacity to contain a devastating epidemic that was increasingly out of control.
In a moment of
utter despair, she hires a night nanny named Tully, a young woman who reassures her, puts her back to sleep, and makes sure nothing terrible happens to the baby.
You could find there gems of wisdom, depth of
utter despair, heights of the most cherished hopes, killing fields where we slaughter our enemies, moments of faith and moments of doubts, dark chambers where we commit infidelity against our partners, counting the goods we have stolen, hell nightmares, heaven blessedness, cursing of our enemies and blessing of our friends, and many other things.
Viewers familiar with his earlier text works will recognize his trademark statements of grandiose artistic aspiration alongside those of
utter despair.