Both Uses of
despair
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
- It was with an almost cruel joy—and perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place—that he used to read the latter part of the book, with its really tragic, if somewhat over-emphasized, account of the sorrow and despair of one who had himself lost what in others, and in the world, he had most valued.†
Chpt 9 *
- "Each of us has Heaven and Hell in him, Basil," cried Dorian, with a wild gesture of despair.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(despair as in: she felt despair) hopelessness; or distress (such as extreme worry or sadness from feeling powerless to change a bad situation)