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Noun
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Anger could be enough, sorrow could be enough.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025 -
Its purpose is not to wallow in historical sorrow, but to illuminate how a people’s spirit was forged in the fire of injustice.—
Brad Braxton,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
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These movies commit to the dusty interior decoration and inherent sadness of their ghost stories, but have little feel for the profound interfamily dynamics therein.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
3 Sep. 2025
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So many of Lee’s memories of her mother are tinged with sadness and grief.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Despite his dejection, Adam Fox had reason for hope.—
Peter Baugh,
New York Times,
19 June 2025
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Ferran is just as compelling when such vibrancy and vitality gives way to dejection and disharmony as her aspiring writing career grinds to a halt and her health starts to deteriorate.—
Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
2 May 2025
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In fact, situationally bound negative emotions about a specific issue did predict more action, indicating that temporary negative feelings can motivate behavior, but general unhappiness does not.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The declining mental health of the young and the global disappearance of the unhappiness hump shape in age.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
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Lacy’s new music maintains his sly sense of humor, but with a barefaced melancholy that pushes it to new emotional depths.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
14 Aug. 2025
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More often than not, the film’s nostalgia is sweet and enjoyable because it is paired with the melancholy that comes from all the acknowledgments of the actors from the original who died over the last 29 years.—
Jesse David Fox,
Vulture,
30 July 2025
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Some will experience that genuine psychic break with Zionism that many white South Africans did with their country’s system of oppression.—
Jack Sheehan
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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And perhaps worst of all, inflating every slight into oppression cheapens true injustice.—
Jonathan Alpert,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Not that Paul, 42 years old and newly divorced, is overly inclined toward self-pity.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
29 Aug. 2025
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Because what's the legacy of your mother was killed by your father, who then, in a fit of self-pity and fear, killed himself?—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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The feelings of postpartum depression — despair, guilt, shame and worthlessness — began creeping in.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Some of the movie’s best scenes highlight the deep despair of that life, emphasizing how Meursault is indeed a stranger (or outsider, as the title of the book was first translated to in English) in a land under occupation.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Self-despair.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-despair. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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