Generalization is often, initially at least, a sound antidote to bleak despair.

Life was precious, even if he had to spend it by himself in bleak despair.

There was a note of bleak despair in her voice.

It was as comfortable a place as any on the planet to deal with bleak despair.

You spend every day in the condition I reach at my moments of bleakest despair.

I ask, with Freud, in periods of bleak masculine despair.

Anything might happen before morning: more suicides, madness, a bleak despair that could be worse than either.

For a while you think Fay's bleak despair is a setup.

Monk did not bother to enquire whether the pain was physical, or the bleak despair of the mind.

Her tone started out angry, but it sank swiftly into bleak despair.