This situation was making incredible anguish and despondency for Muhammad. Afflicted with alcoholism and suffering from despondency, Ivanov sank ever lower. Archer betrays Rin and reveals his despondency and bitterness over his past choices to Shirou. Confidence in the General was gone, and evident despondency prevailed throughout. It is not a momentary despondency but rather a state of being. He later impersonated Darkimh in a vain attempt to drive Doctor Strange into despondency. A desiccated economy added to the nation's despondency. The Northern public met McClellan's defeat with despondency, and his reputation was tarnished. She asks about the cause of his despondency. Camastra states that Edna comes to the same despondency to which the writer Maupassant arrived.