"Total despair" means feeling an overwhelming sense of hopelessness, sadness, and complete loss of faith or belief that things will ever improve or get better.
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Yet the power of the new establishment should be a cause only for short term pessimism, not
for total despair.
My friends called me The Inheritance of Light, cause I can make people happy even if they are
in total despair.
No amount of immigrant - bashing can hide the real truth that Tory ideology continues to drive people in this country
into total despair.
Nicotine may even help keep schizophrenicsanchored to reality and depressives
from total despair.
I felt my weakest in those moments
of total despair, when I wanted to give up because my feet hurt or when everything was miserable.
Despite the apocalyptic language, media heads like Weisberg and Remnick cautioned reporters and readers on Thursday not let succumb to
total despair.
But instead, «Megamind» falls into
total despair.
The other thing that kept the Romanians from
total despair was their sense of humor, although much of it was dark.