"How will I watch Game of Thrones now," I despaired.
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He often despaired over his failure to get anything done.
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"I'm not sure how to turn it on," he despaired.
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He said he despaired of making any difference with his writings.
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Today the country is divided in ways that McCain despaired of.
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American authorities have despaired of Chinese and Russian companies operating in Venezuela.
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Einstein despaired at the war fever that overtook his colleagues in Berlin.
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He despaired about how frequent open killings were becoming in the city.
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This was what, more than my own particular death, I'd despaired at.
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Despite these difficulties, Israelis have not despaired of the parliament of nations.
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Maybe he would have despaired and given up on it, people say.
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As his parents despaired over his future, he had been getting high.
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As England fans despaired, Iceland's goals were cheered in the pubs of Brussels.
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She was unemployed and despaired that she could not adequately care for her children.
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Elizabeth's bishops despaired of her liking for icons and vestments, but defended her nonetheless.
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My best friend in middle school despaired at my incompetence with hair and makeup.
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At the next stop, on the outskirts of Calais, Gabriel feels even more despaired.
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The island shows everything — nature's reality — and Anderson despaired of none, not even destruction.
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The merchant classes would have despaired of the possibility of normal trade with the West.
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Behind the scenes he dithered and despaired, pulled this way and that by rival advisers.
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"Nothing comes out of being despaired — you can drive yourself into darkness anytime," he said.
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Olmsted ultimately despaired of finding common ground with white Southerners he judged implacable on slavery.
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She despaired over the racial landscape in the country and her former boyfriend's stoking of tensions.
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Africans have long despaired that the varied continent is viewed by some as a monolithic mess.
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Dan Turner despaired over Brock's loss of appetite since he sexually assaulted the 23-year-old woman.
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Only when they've despaired of that as a possibility, that's when they said we'll have to leave.
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For years, the fashion industry has despaired at the senseless speed of having to do it all.
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Others eventually ended their marriages, and they despaired over the pain they caused their spouses and children.
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"I've been terrified, despaired, but never given up," he said, according to The Paper, a Shanghai news website.
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During its quiet moments, "we can only watch this priest comfort the despaired and hope that he succeeds."
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And then she flipped the timer, and I looked down at the letters on the tray, and despaired.
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During its quiet moments, we can only watch this priest comfort the despaired and hope that he succeeds.
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Another Labour MP, Peter Kyle, publicly despaired of his party's inability to make inroads in the polls against Johnson.
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But, Varoufakis told BuzzFeed News, he quickly despaired at the possibility of creating a broad alliance of existing parties.
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You&aposre a smart guy -- BOLDEN: It might not be racist but have a racial despaired impact -- INGRAHAM: Why?
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After my first pregnancy, I despaired of finding a suit that might cover the wreckage that childbearing had wrought.
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She was waiting for a water truck and despaired that without electricity there was no way to take X-rays.
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"I'm anxious, despaired, because there is no news," said Lucilene Ferreira, 37, who was looking for her husband Emerson José.
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Christian conservatives who recently despaired of losing the culture wars are newly emboldened, especially on the all-important issue of abortion.
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But I despaired at the venality of the elites and the corruption that engulfed the lives of so many people I interviewed.
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The main thing is that they have to keep on, they can not quit, they can't get despaired, they can't get cynical.
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If you've ever despaired of getting your vacuum cleaner fixed or thought that your broken lamp was a lost cause, there's hope.
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Named in a sexual misconduct lawsuit against his college, an academic despaired over what he said was a false portrayal of his actions.
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America was two years into the Great Depression, the unemployment rate was more than 15 percent, and millions more despaired for the future.
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The verdict shocked family members of the victims, who despaired that almost three years after the deadly fire, no justice had been served.
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When she was replaced by Hedi Slimane, fetishizer of the skinny suit and truncated hemline and dash of rock star desiccation, they despaired.
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He hated man's despoiling of the planet (hence much work with cardboard, rubbish and found objects) and despaired at the threat of nuclear obliteration.
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So while McLellan, the Rochdale fan, may have despaired at seeing his team abandon its principles against Ipswich, plenty of others would have disagreed.
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LONDON — Doctoral students the world over have long despaired about the grueling hours required to obtain a Ph.D. Just ask Colette Bourlier, age 20143.
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While Debord, who committed suicide in 1994, despaired of finding a way to institutionalize what, by nature, is resistant to institutionalization, we need not.
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Kensky, who lost both legs after the Boston Marathon bombing, despaired until Rescue, a service dog, arrived to help her navigate life with prosthetics.
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His report, published last year, despaired that a wannabe plumber had to choose between 33 qualifications, offered at three different levels, by five awarding organisations.
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All Americans -- BOLDEN: Because it has broad (ph) -- it has a racial -- it has a despaired (ph) impact -- (CROSSTALK) INGRAHAM: -- that&aposs unbelievable to me.
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To read the article after having despaired for months of ever knowing anything about her was like having her spirit show up at a séance.
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Matt Lauer is out and about running errands on his second day of unemployment ... and, outwardly at least, didn't seem too despaired over his firing.
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Murnane has abandoned writing before, in the 1990s, when he despaired at the world's indifference to the private obsessions that form the backbone of his books.
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There were years when, laboring in his instrument-crammed lab and going down one blind alley after another, he despaired of winning any awards at all.
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Like Olmsted, I sometimes felt we've reached an impasse that can't be civilly bridged and despaired over what he called "the drift of things" in America.
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She despaired a little and found her way to the bottom of a few Ben & Jerry's tubs, she said in a George Washington University commencement speech.
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But as the weeks passed and the anti-gene-editing rhetoric ratcheted up on social media, she despaired that public sentiment was turning against the cows.
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After months of regular sittings, the artist had strongly rendered the bookshelves and other objects in Geffroy's office but despaired of ever resolving the face and hands.
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But Congress passed nothing major, and supporters of gun control despaired that even the massacre of first graders had not moved the needle at the national level.
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While critics despaired over the inclusion of pop divas in academia, undergraduates at the University of Texas at Austin happily showed up for the course in record numbers.
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When he despaired over saying funeral Masses for teenagers felled by drugs and gang violence, he took to the streets, offering to exchange a crucifix for a gun.
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Hugo called it a "vast symphony in stone" as "powerful and fecund as the divine creation," and despaired that it had come to be an object of ridicule.
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Loans for sorely needed farm equipment were all too often siphoned off by unscrupulous local officials, and recipients among the country's ethnic minorities despaired at systematic Vietnamese encroachment.
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Now a widow, and tarnished for having married a known member of the Islamic State, she despaired of finding a way to care for her children and mother.
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The tech industry has long despaired of the law's inability to comprehend it, making much of the legal system's struggle to keep up with the rapid pace of progress.
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Dmitri Muratov, the editor of Novaya Gazeta, another struggling newspaper often critical of the government, despaired of the fact that more voices were not being raised to defend RBC.
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Isle of Mull Journal ISLE OF MULL, Scotland — Anyone who has despaired over home improvement should spare a thought for Sir Lachlan Hector Charles Maclean of Duart and Morvern.
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Elsewhere, the student journalist Rebecca Schneid despaired to learn that within days of surviving a school shooting, she was being called a fake and an enemy of the people.
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But some became angry, and others despaired when they found out that the Mexican government intended to send most of those who registered back to their countries of origin.
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"Men dishonour Christ more in the twelve days of Christmas, than in all the twelve months besides,"—so despaired Hugh Latimer, chaplain to King Edward VI, in the mid-1500s.
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She despaired at the idea of suburban sprawl and celebrated the idea of a thriving mixed-income urban neighborhood, a concept that has rarely panned out, despite her widespread influence.
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In his 2012 memoir, "Life as Art," Mr. Strychacki despaired over the wave of heroin flooding the East Village in the early '80s, an epidemic that also overtook Club 57.
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"The Douglass moment is kind of an unending moment in the fight for justice," Ms. Bernier said, noting that even late in life, in a reactionary time, Douglass never despaired.
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This week, mainstream Republicans have utterly despaired over Marco Rubio's seeming reluctance to attack Donald Trump, as the billionaire was looking more likely to run away with the nomination every day.
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We despaired of finding solutions to the mid-CES blues, until a fateful retweet led us to the Twitter account of famous Australian, X-Man, Tony's host, and smiler, Hugh Jackman.
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The daughters of George III despaired under a restricted life at Windsor Castle, prevented from marrying, barely allowed to go out, always expected to be there as company for the King.
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Trump's declaration sparked an uproar from the intellectual branch of the conservative movement, which—at least since the George W. Bush era—has often despaired at the expansion of presidential power.
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I didn't know how his mind despaired back then, and he didn't know about mine either—only that when he'd come inside for a dance in his Reebok Classics, we became transformed.
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We ordered sweet East Coast blue points and musky West Coast skookums, then despaired that we could not forego the rest of the meal and spend the whole night slurping them down.
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They said they despaired at the possibility of not being to able to identify the bodies so that the family could be cremated in their native Gujarat in accordance with Hindu ritual.
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" But a moment later, she despaired at the possibility that a new Constitution could "formalize our democracy's descent into tyranny and swing the pendulum that began in 1986 back to authoritarian rule.
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In 2002, my mother rightly despaired at my deeply ill-judged attempts to look like Avril Lavigne, reminding me that Avril didn't actually dress entirely in her brother's old shirts and paisley bandanas.
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They have longed for a deceased parent who can't witness this moment or have despaired about the once-best friend or stepsibling they want to invite but for a number of reasons can't.
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And if you're one of those people who despaired after last year's election — who wondered whether facts still mattered and whether there was anything you could do — you should get involved, too. How?
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Between the full-page adverts Saudi companies had run in Monday's newspapers to congratulate King Salman on the Islamic calendar anniversary of his becoming monarch, the opinion columns and cartoons despaired at Iran's comeback.
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Some of his neighbors, particularly women, had told Reuters on both visits that, even if they disliked Clinton, they despaired at the insults and coarse language that Trump and his fans had reveled in.
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But Utzon and hundreds of engineers toiled, fought and sometimes despaired as they tried to figure out how to create giant arcing slices of concrete that could stand up without the use of columns.
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I despaired, burrowed into the dirt, slept, and rose to witness the newborn Parchman: I watched chained men clear the land and lay the first logs for the first barracks for gunmen and trusty shooters.
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Have you despaired at the thought that you might never see the show — or been frustrated at how long it will take the touring version of the musical to reach your neck of the woods?
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I've already despaired of trying to paint a picture with words, because words have to come one after another, and it's in the nature of a picture to appear before the eyes all at once.
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We despaired as Central America's desperate coffee-growing families fled from deepening droughts and hunger, only to be met on the US border by tear gas and CBP agents who took children from their arms.
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During her recent talk, George Mason professor Steven Pearlstein asked Kagan if she despaired about the court because her side will be losing more in the coming years before having the chance to win more.
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"The Lebanese people (are) sick of promises, have almost despaired of grasping interests, are tired of the indifference of decision-makers to their concerns, their unemployment, their rights and their broken dreams," he said on Wednesday.
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So when the American Academy of Pediatrics recently issued new infant sleep guidelines — highlighting a recommendation that babies sleep in their parents' rooms for at least six months but ideally a full year — some parents despaired.
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But in recent decades, the right's elites have despaired of censoring pornography, acquiesced to the spread of casino gambling, made peace with the creeping commercialization of marijuana, and accepted the internet's conquest of childhood and adolescence.
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The prime minister's remarks dampened hope of opposition lawmakers voting for a revamped Brexit deal and stirred alarm across Europe, where diplomats despaired over the prime minister's bellicose tone and warned of his words' fueling political violence.
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That is why, when it seemed earlier in the week that Sergio Mattarella, the Italian president, had blocked the formation of this government over concerns that the proposed finance minister favored Italy's withdrawal from the euro, I despaired.
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He'd long ago despaired of the process, and of its inadequacy to address what he deems the existential threats to our climate, our food and water supplies, and the survival of life on earth, in any recognizable form.
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I knew that the Senate Judiciary Committee had blocked Sessions from becoming a federal judge in 1986 because of allegations of racism, and I despaired at the thought of what he might do overseeing the Department of Justice.
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Having despaired of uniting behind a candidate capable of outpolling Trump—and still wary of Ted Cruz, who seems best positioned to finish a close second—the Nevertrumps seek creative ways to impose their wisdom on a foolish nation.
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But it was Hayek and Mises who came to define the new Austrian school, attracting wealthy patrons in the United States who had despaired of finding credentialed economists willing to offer such a full-throated defense of free markets.
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Some diplomats who had met Haftar many times and lobbied their governments to overlook his hardline comments - such as that Libya was not ready for democracy - despaired when it became clear he was committed to taking the city by force.
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Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) — whose biblical namesake despaired for years over her failure to conceive — and Richard (Paul Giamatti) are in their 40s, New Yorkers who met while working in theater and who want more than anything to have a child.
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To laughter from the audience of local residents and politicians at the carnival-season Volksfest, "Gretl" grumbled about the wiles of federal politics: "What a mess," she despaired, divulging that she had been sent to Berlin to clean it all up.
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Elizabeth Warren suspended her presidential campaign -- the last of the serious female candidates who had vied for the Democratic nomination this year to do so -- many women (and some men) despaired, wondering: Will there be a female president in my lifetime?
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We despaired as it became clear that our organizing on Anita Hill's behalf was ineffective in the face of outrage over a black woman who had dared to turn on a fellow African-American at the cusp of enormous judicial power.
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For Mr. Benner, 21, who lost his job in 2000 and despaired as his marriage broke up and he spiraled into homelessness, the solo show in Boston served as a startling juxtaposition from where he had been to where he might be going.
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When a retired voter here despaired over the sinking value of his home, Mr. Rubio surprised the audience by recalling, in painful detail, his own real estate travails, right down to the cost of having a next-door neighbor's home slip into foreclosure.
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What many of your listeners may not know is that he, at times, despaired so much that he said, on several occasions and worried enough of his Cabinet ministers at one point that they took action, that he felt ready to kill himself.
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His daughter despaired of finding justice in Unnao and left for the state capital of Lucknow, where she stood before the residence of the chief minister, Yogi Adityanath, a Hindu cleric, and doused herself in kerosene, but was overpowered before she could light it.
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And with Mr Abadi's blessing, Ammar al-Hakim, who heads the largest Shia parliamentary bloc, has gone to Amman and Beirut to negotiate terms for a national reconciliation, including an amnesty, with Sunni exiles who had long since despaired of a deal with Baghdad's Shia masters.
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Misenga decided to flee after his mother and brother went missing, and by the time of the 2013 tournament in Brazil both he and Mabika had despaired of competing for coaches who locked them up when they lost and often didn't feed them for days on end.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's congressional bid was preceded by a decade in which many youthful nonreactionaries despaired of democratic institutions' ability to deliver any kind of systemic change — and chafed at the obtuse contempt with which older, more established liberals frequently reacted to demands for bolder action.
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I mean, empires have famously despaired of trying to get certain outcomes to happen in this area, but we do have responsibilities that go beyond our military objective and should use a number of different tools in our toolkit to try to bring them about and to secure them.
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In the case of the mother and son, "After several months of waiting the compatriot despaired of being in Mexico and decided to cross the [Rio Grande] again, leading her to her death along with her son," Nelly Jerez, the Honduran vice foreign minister of consular and migration affairs, said in a statement.
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Opinion Columnist Last week, after Senate Republicans voted unanimously to approve their leader Mitch McConnell's rules for President Trump's impeachment trial — fast-tracking the process and putting up barriers to the production of evidence and witnesses, Representative Jerry Nadler of New York, one of seven impeachment managers, despaired over the strong chance that voters would not get a fair, comprehensive hearing of the case against the president.
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