"Dark despair" refers to a deep and overwhelming feeling of sadness, hopelessness, and unhappiness.
Sentences with «dark despair»
The author of The Waste Land, that obscure work of dark despair, began to accept assignments from the Anglican Church, tried his hand at Christmas verse and even wrote a series of captions for a patriotic exhibition of war photographs. (religion-online.org)
Still, dark despair does not always equal profundity, and the film, though effective in certain scenes, managed to leave me cold in the face of death. (chrisreedfilm.com)
So I'm a little confused, who said eternity would be a bottomless pit of dark despair? (religion.blogs.cnn.com)