| Anguish from the French piano melody |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Nov 2025 |
| "____ is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim" (Graham Greene) |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
28 Sep 2025 |
| Grief acts to preclude love match |
The Times Cryptic |
26 Sep 2025 |
| In the end, sad article suggests couple lose hope |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
26 Aug 2025 |
| Lose or be without hope (7) |
Mirror Classic |
25 Aug 2025 |
| Aspired to disperse despondency |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
14 Aug 2025 |
| Hopelessness wrongly praised |
The Sun Two Speed |
24 Jul 2025 |
| Misery |
The Sun Two Speed |
24 Jul 2025 |
| Don't have a hope of speaking French. Paris is out. (7) |
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| Lose hope of getting wildly praised (7) |
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| Anguish of the French couple (7) |
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| Might be praised for its hopelessness (7) |
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| En vacances, some couple in anguish |
The Telegraph Toughie |
10 Jun 2025 |
| Sense of hopelessness (7) |
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| Hopelessness |
The Sun Two Speed |
09 Jun 2025 |
| Complete loss of hope |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Jun 2025 |
| Misery strangely praised |
The Sun Two Speed |
09 Jun 2025 |
| Lose heart, as pride is damaged (7) |
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| Lose or be without hope |
Mirror Classic |
20 May 2025 |
| Some Parisian couple's hopelessness |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 May 2025 |
| Despondency I spread about |
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| '___ is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven': John Donne (7) |
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| Live hope of Des getting a double (7) |
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| Man ahead of couple revealing hopelessness (7) |
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| Padre is about to throw in the towel |
The Telegraph Toughie |
08 Apr 2025 |
| Aspired to change low spirits (7) |
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| Sadness and anguish (7) |
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| Lose all hope of getting praised for it (7) |
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| Hopelessness, so aspired to be different (7) |
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| A spider possibly saved Bruce from it |
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| Lose hope of Des getting a double (7) |
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| Loss of hope of the French couple |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
14 Jan 2025 |
| Paradise lost without a hope? Just the opposite! (7) |
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| Give up hope, feel despondent |
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| Have no hope of finding spring: ride uncertainly around (7) |
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| Loss of all hope (7) |
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| Hopelessness I spread around (7) |
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| The dejection of the French couple (7) |
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| Lose hope, changing diapers |
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| Giant wrho imprisons Christian and Hopeful in Doubting Castle, in The Pilgrim's Progress (7) |
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| Lose hope as pride is destroyed |
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| Gloominess is mistakenly praised (7) |
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| Lose hope of being praised in such a way (7) |
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| Give up a random ride round a resort (7) |
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| Total loss of hope could be praised (7) |
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| I spread it around that hopelessness prevails (7) |
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| In love's absence does couple hit rock bottom? |
The Times Cryptic |
10 Sep 2024 |
| Be hopeless at naming twins |
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| Complete lack of hope, utter ... |
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| Complete absence of hope (7) |
Puzzler |
18 Aug 2024 |
| Misery praised wrongly |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 Jul 2024 |
| Hopelessness |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 Jul 2024 |
| Giant changed diapers (7) |
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| Lose hope when changing diapers |
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| Give up hope of Des getting two of a kind |
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| The hopelessness of the French couple (7) |
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| Lose hope |
Commuter |
01 Jul 2024 |
| When a spider gets entangled, it's hopeless! (7) |
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| Awkward ride around health resort makes one lose hope (7) |
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| Misery incorrectly praised |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Jun 2024 |
| Hopelessness |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Jun 2024 |
| Hopelessness entering Dr Matt Fink's second letters on psychic power |
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| Lose hope as couple follows Des (7) |
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| Have no hope of changing diapers (7) |
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| First aider's bitten by angry spider in distress |
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| Utter loss of hope (7) |
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| Hopelessness I spread about (7) |
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| Giant ___, owner of Doubting Castle in Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (7) |
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| Total loss of hope |
Mirror Classic |
20 May 2024 |
| What makes a spider lose heart? (7) |
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| I spared it because of its hopelessness (7) |
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| Hopeless feeling |
Universal |
03 May 2024 |
| Misery for man getting duck in both innings (7) |
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| Lose heart when couple stands by Des (7) |
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| I spread hopelessness (7) |
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| Aspired to treat despondency (7) |
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| Be without hope |
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| Hopelessness |
The Sun Two Speed |
09 Mar 2024 |
| Praised for hopelessness (7) |
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| Misery as pride damaged |
The Sun Two Speed |
09 Mar 2024 |
| Feel utterly hopeless |
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| Praised, oddly, for anguish |
Mirror Cryptic |
29 Feb 2024 |
| Hopelessness |
Mirror Quick |
29 Feb 2024 |
| Gloominess is wrongly praised (7) |
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| Hopelessness from couple after diet's regularly ignored (7) |
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| Hopelessness from couple after diet's regularly ignored |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 Feb 2024 |
| Aspired in a way to helplessness |
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| Total loss of hope |
Mirror Classic |
07 Feb 2024 |
| Hopelessness |
Universal |
01 Feb 2024 |
| Give up hope (7) |
Puzzler |
31 Jan 2024 |
| Hopelessness of the French couple |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
22 Jan 2024 |
| 1936 Vladimir Nabokov book whose protagonist is Hermann Karlovich |
Mirror Quiz |
17 Jan 2024 |
| Some rude spies express gloom (7) |
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| Lose hope as pride's hurt (7) |
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| A Tale of Two Cities: "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of..." (7) |
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| Woe |
Eugene Sheffer |
10 Oct 2023 |
| Hopelessness of French prince's autobiography reported |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 Sep 2023 |
| Hopelessness of the French couple |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 Aug 2023 |
| Anguish from Detective Sergeant imprisoning European couple |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 May 2023 |
| Loss of hope |
The Times Concise |
18 Apr 2023 |
| Misery |
The Telegraph Quick |
18 Aug 2022 |
| Give up, inside spa, Irish bottles |
The Telegraph Toughie |
13 May 2022 |
| Hopelessness of French husband and wife |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 Apr 2022 |
| Woe |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 Feb 2022 |
| Misery of French couple |
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| Hopelessness |
Universal |
31 Oct 2021 |
| Hopelessness |
Newsday |
11 Aug 2021 |
| Heartache as pride shattered |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 May 2021 |
| Hopelessness |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 May 2021 |
| Misery strangely praised |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 May 2021 |
| Complete absence of hope |
Irish Times Simplex |
14 May 2021 |
| Hopelessness |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Apr 2021 |
| Misery of endless want keeping the old man in |
|
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| Lose hope |
The Telegraph Quick |
02 Apr 2021 |
| Does loveless couple give up hope? |
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| Lose all hope |
Universal |
27 Mar 2021 |
| 'Woe is me!' feeling |
The Washington Post Sunday |
28 Feb 2021 |
| Misery incorrectly praised |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Feb 2021 |
| Hopelessness of the French couple |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
02 Feb 2021 |
| Paradise Lost, not a complete loss of hope |
|
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| Misery as pride damaged |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Oct 2020 |
| Lack hope |
Irish Times Simplex |
05 Sep 2020 |
| Lose hope as pride shattered |
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| Lose hope |
Thomas Joseph |
17 Jul 2020 |
| The complete absence of hope |
Family Time |
25 May 2020 |
| Pain of one of those giants from Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress |
Irish Times Crosaire |
23 May 2020 |
| Absence of hope |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 May 2020 |
| Anguish of the Gascon duo |
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| Lose hope as pride shattered |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Apr 2020 |
| Padre is wrong to give up hope |
Irish Times Crosaire |
14 Mar 2020 |
| Feeling of hopelessness |
New York Times |
23 Feb 2020 |
| Misery caused by spinning of a spider |
|
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| Having no love makes couple give up hope |
|
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| Fall of Man essentially in ‘Paradise Lost' causes anguish |
|
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| Disaster spread, India in gloom |
|
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| Some French couple lose heart |
The Telegraph Toughie |
06 Dec 2019 |
| Give up |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Nov 2019 |
| Complete loss of hope |
The Times Concise |
19 Aug 2019 |
| Give up all hope |
USA Today |
17 Aug 2019 |
| Having no hope of fixing 24 |
|
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| Lose or lack hope |
Irish Times Simplex |
28 Jun 2019 |
| Total loss of hope |
The Times Concise |
26 Jun 2019 |
| Old man in need mostly, give up |
|
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| Misery as pride shattered |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Feb 2019 |
| Lose heart, as pride injured |
|
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| Give up all hope |
|
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| Criminal spared — I lose hope |
|
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| Hopelessness of the French couple |
The Telegraph Toughie |
02 Oct 2018 |
| Feeling as pride is shattered? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Jul 2018 |
| Loss of hope in the French couple |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
11 Jun 2018 |
| '… in Idleness alone is there perpetual ____' (Thomas Carlyle) |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
10 Jun 2018 |
| Lose heart, having endless need to accommodate dad ... |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
02 Jun 2018 |
| Misery as pride shattered |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 May 2018 |
| Lose heart, as pride injured |
|
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| . Sped away bearing gloom |
|
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| Hopelessness of father exhibited in want for the most part |
|
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| Despondency |
The Telegraph Quick |
05 Feb 2018 |
| Hopelessness of French couple following son |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
09 Jan 2018 |
| Abandon hope (especially after daughter gets gas) |
|
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| The padre is sunk in gloom |
|
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| Abandon hope as a spider runs out |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
29 Nov 2017 |
| Some from Provence with piano tune conveying gloom |
|
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| Aspired to become a literary giant |
|
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| Being wrongly praised is what people hopefully avoid |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Apr 2017 |
| Give up, man, and get married! |
The Times Cryptic |
03 Mar 2017 |
| Give up, man, and get married! |
|
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| Turned free to shroud recess in gloom |
|
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| Misery guts in tiresome couple supporting daughter |
The Times Cryptic |
11 Oct 2016 |
| Misery guts in tiresome couple supporting daughter |
|
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| No hope of French couple's son getting ahead |
|
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| Misery for some French couple |
|
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| Don't have hope of speaking French. Paris is out |
The Telegraph Toughie |
12 May 2016 |
| Bunyan's giant aspired to reform |
The Times Cryptic |
28 Apr 2016 |
| Want briefly to retain secretary but lose heart |
|
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| Lose all hope |
The Times Concise |
12 Mar 2016 |
| Lack of hope |
The Telegraph Quick |
04 Mar 2016 |
| Literary giant‘s novel is read outside Portugal |
|
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| Give up |
LA Times Daily |
13 Dec 2015 |
| 'The shadow of a starless night,' per Percy Bysshe Shelley |
New York Times |
11 Dec 2015 |
| Praised (anag.) |
The Telegraph Quick |
04 Nov 2015 |
| Dejection shown by the old man beset by endless longing |
The Telegraph Toughie |
04 Nov 2015 |
| Some French couple in a hopeless state |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 Nov 2015 |
| Absence of hope |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 Nov 2015 |
| Is padre about to give up hope? |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 Nov 2015 |
| Beginning to doubt psychic power, express loss of hope |
|
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| Some French marry but don't expect to be happy |
|
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| Praised doctor in Misery |
Irish Times Crosaire |
02 May 2015 |
| Sped away bearing a sense of hopelessness |
|
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| Abandon hope of the French match |
|
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| Lose hope |
|
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| Give up |
|
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| "The shadow of a starless night," per Percy Bysshe Shelley |
|
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| Hopelessness from French couple |
|
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| Low state |
|
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| Heartache |
|
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| Lose hope |
|
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| Lose all hope |
|
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| Lose heart |
|
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| Hopeless feeling |
|
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| Lose hope |
|
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| Bad thing to sink into |
|
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| Hopeless |
|
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| Hopelessness |
|
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| Hopelessness |
|
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| Very blue state |
|
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| Very blue state |
|
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| Lose heart |
|
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| Abandon hope |
|
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| Lose heart |
|
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| Lose heart |
|
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| Heartache |
|
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| ___, Inc. (company that sells demotivational posters) |
|
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| Down state |
|
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| Lose heart |
|
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| Down state |
|
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| Give up all hope |
|
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| Hopeless feeling |
|
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| Hopeless feeling |
|
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| Abandon hope |
|
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| Abandon hope |
|
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| Bad thing to sink into |
|
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| Hopelessness |
|
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| Loss of hope |
|
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| Hopelessness |
|
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| Give up hope |
|
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| Give up hope |
|
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| Give up hope |
|
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| Film noir feature |
|
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| Give up all hope |
|
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| Lose hope |
|
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| Grief |
|
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| Give up |
|
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| Gloom |
|
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| Give up hope |
|
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| Postloss reaction, sometimes |
|
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| Giant of Doubting Castle. |
|
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| Giant in Pilgrim's Progress. |
|
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| Slough of despond. |
|
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| "Shall I wasting in ___ . . . " |
|
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| Giant who lives in Doubting Castle. |
|
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| "Doubt is brother-devil to ___."—O'Reilly. |
|
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| Loss of hope. |
|
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| Giant in "Pilgrim's Progress." |
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