Fleeting salvation had left behind grim despair.

Bora's optimism was easier to hear than Massouf's grim despair.

Hollis shook his head in grim despair.

Gersen stood back, a tide of grim despair rising within him.

Margaret was now in a state of grim despair over her own future.

The creek was far off now, across a sea of bobbing black helms, and the iron taste of grim despair rose in Sharantyr's mouth.

The end of life is always sad, but when pain and other problems are controlled, it does not have to be a period of grim despair.

The Americans looked at each other in grim despair, afraid to voice the thought that was uppermost in all their minds.

Bond's body responded, but afterwards she cried bitterly into her pillow and Bond went to his room in grim despair.

The script alternates between ironic humor and grim despair, with neither coming off very strongly.