beyond hope despairing handwringing hopeless绝望的
N-UNCOUNT（不可数名词） If you accuse someone of hand-wringing, you mean that they are expressing sorrow about a bad situation but are saying that they are unable to change it. 绝望[表不满]
...despite all the public hand-wringing about the importance of voting.
...尽管公众对选举的重要性产生了绝望。