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suicidal despair



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Redfield’s Peter is a blue-collar schlub fighting suicidal despair.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2025

Feminist critics have always had a soft spot for women driven to madness or suicidal despair by the patriarchy, but the story of Plath’s mental illness resists the simplicity of that or any explanation.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

Apollonius’s account of Medea’s inner turmoil — loyalty to family, desire for Jason, suicidal despair — is strikingly modern.

From Washington Post

They range in time from 1860 to 1936, in place from the Straits Settlements to provincial England, in mood from musical revue mirth to suicidal despair.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kubicina similarly denied that her brother was homosexual or had ever shown signs of any suicidal despair.

From Time Magazine Archive