This is a despairing message in a despairing play, and it renders the actual plot almost secondary.
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Aaron likens the band to a tortoise — they've taken a slow path, inch by inch, despairing thought by despairing thought.
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Still, the deadliest foe of democracy is sullen, despairing apathy.
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Guatemalans who yearn for the rule of law are despairing.
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It can be romantic, despairing, foreboding, dramatic, empowering, or liberating.
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One despairing prisoner committed suicide by jumping from a window.
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Some drivers were so despairing they took their own lives.
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His abstemious style made me long for a despairing wisecrack.
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Mr. Trump described a nation depleted, despairing and in decline.
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In Milwaukee, Rogers isn't despairing about losing his food stamps.
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Some despairing farmers simply stopped feeding them, starving them to death.
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Their despairing visions are mounted on genre forms that they overwhelm.
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Suddenly, friends and family began seeing a despairing side to her.
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Despairing, I thought I would never gain the knowledge I required.
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And it's as dark, despairing, and impossibly timely as those episodes.
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Despairing, she began to skip school, smoke pot and cut herself.
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"2020 is already the worst," Meyers said with a despairing smile.
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Walking out, I fell in with a cluster of despairing fans.
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My patient's mother was despairing: He won't touch a vegetable, she said.
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And this is something you will hear a lot of coaches despairing.
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And they replace King's despairing, tragic denouement with something altogether more glib.
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Some of the verse was despairing, but Michael Collins of Salem, Ore.
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Perhaps because of this he is less despairing of America than some.
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Despairing at patronage from their own parties, opposition politicians have defected in droves.
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It's caustic about the situation in Afghanistan, but not necessarily despairing or dismissive.
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"What could possibly change any of this?" she asks with a despairing shrug.
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That's about as much comfort as arrives in this harrowing, sometimes despairing book.
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"Kill me," he muttered to himself, finishing with a stream of despairing expletives.
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They express his worldview, cleareyed about the most terrible facts yet not despairing.
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" Jody is also seen reading Ionesco's absurdist, despairing, agonizingly elliptical play "The Chairs.
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The Economist (and I) were despairing about the lack of compromise in American politics.
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"Does anyone else notice that the crystals themselves are despairing and hurting?" they asked.
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Our furious despairing desire not to hear the truth will prevent us from regenerating.
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It might be bitter and despairing and pessimistic, but it could never be cynical.
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Some Republicans despairing over Mr. Trump's rise have already lurched over to Mr. Cruz.
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Behind closed doors, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was despairing of the war effort.
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At the despairing center is poor Violet, flung into a cruel and indifferent world.
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As he was about to take a scheduled hit, he grew despairing and exasperated.
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Yet his films, this one even more than "Norte," are the opposite of despairing.
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Many Salvadoreans, accustomed to accounts of malfeasance by their leaders, are more despairing than outraged.
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What took its place was the despairing, nihilistic fantasy of the plucky teen committing suicide.
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There's something quite defeated and despairing about it, even in the face of beautiful humor.
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But in recent weeks, Trump has shattered their hopes, and Republican commentary has become despairing.
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Instead of despairing, Arthur says "NOPE" and instead embarks on a haphazard literary world tour.
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This ongoing stalemate has left many Israelis bitter and despairing over the country's political future.
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"We did not see a despairing, despondent, suicidal person" ahead of Epstein's death on Aug.
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Despairing, and with few other options, she embarks on a journey to find her father.
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It's nihilistic and misanthropic, bleak and despairing, slickly shot and bathed in ragged industrial gloom.
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Her mind shuttled away from her vacant stomach and visited every other despairing incarcerated soul.
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Likewise, bioethics experts fear that right-to-try laws make false promises to despairing patients.
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Early Silicon Valley didn't have a J. Robert Oppenheimer publicly despairing over his murderous creation.
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Amazon can't realistically spread its offices and jobs across America's most isolated and despairing counties.
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Perhaps because Saviano doesn't seek the roots of evil, his vision is a despairing one.
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But all three, despite their grim stories and projections, leave the reader galvanized, not despairing.
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Previously despairing that I would ever be a mother, now my life felt amazingly full.
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One is the sense of despairing chaos and absurd destruction, illustrated by a surreal shootout.
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"I'm sure several of the political chieftains are despairing," Ms. Hasselmann said in an interview.
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The messages, scrawled in Sharpie, ran the gamut — some despairing, most hopeful, a few humorous.
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The characters seem disconnected and despairing as they stumble through crises of their own making.
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Some are despairing, others are disaffected, most are angry and want solutions that rebalance power.
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The end of the human race is one of the most despairing thoughts we can imagine.
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My queer community and chosen queer family are angry, terrified, anguished, disappointed, disillusioned, despairing…and mobilizing.
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On The Americans, pursuing dark and violent ends only makes you feel darker and more despairing.
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Leo Varadkar, Ireland's taoiseach (prime minister) was less emollient, despairing: "It's quicker to elect the pope."
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"It was just madly, crazily expensive," said Golovonova, who remembered looking at the numbers and despairing.
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So this was "Gretchen am Spinnrade" as despairing cry, the "Lied der Mignon" as haunted litany.
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He offers a despairing, unsparing indictment of everyone in Congress who went along with Trump's election.
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Friday's loss to Memphis had fans of the Warriors — and even some of their players — despairing.
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For you, and the joyful, despairing "Infinite Jest," we will roar forever amazed, forever sorrowful, forever grateful.
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The economic costs of half the country despairing might outweigh the benefits of the other half rejoicing.
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Andy Cohen has a despairing view of our world ... especially after the vandalism at a Jewish cemetery.
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"Crucified" is an incredibly dark, despairing and destroyed record, the polar opposite of Bobien's song of praise.
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But instead of sitting still, despairing over their situation and bad luck, they took advantage of it.
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Williams is a vociferous and despairing pantheist, more Spinoza than St. Francis (though she does love dogs).
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Liberals are rightly despairing after the Senate last week passed a sweeping rewrite of the tax code.
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Simply by galvanizing a despairing group of people to action, he said, a ritual can prove efficacious.
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The memoir reaches its most despairing moment with the injury that curtailed Mr. Taylor's career, in 1974.
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He heads into the publisher's office, either despairing or full of renewed purpose, and Heidl parries successfully.
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Yet the mood inside his studio seemed anything but despairing, and he approached art with visible appetite.
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Yet "Feed" almost never feels depressive or despairing or stuck in place: Instead it's exhilarating, permissive, intimate.
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Above, in a blue dress, searching and despairing, was the faint figure of Demeter, the woebegone mother.
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"Out of Blue" botches the source material's story, misses its mordant humor and inverts its despairing core.
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And no, 2016 may not categorically be "the worst," no matter how many despairing memes claim otherwise.
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Rival protester Ruth Fryer, a retired teacher wearing a "We Still Love EU" badge, was also despairing.
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I think people are too nostalgic, on the one hand, and maybe too despairing about the current situation.
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If Kleinman's book leaves you despairing about the quality of care in medicine, Case's will restore your faith.
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With senseless tragedies all over the world, and my own loss, I am for sure anxious and despairing.
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But I'm not writing all this because I'm despairing or fuming, though both are part of the mix.
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Bas Rutten, who performed the commentary for many of Gaethje's fights, has been despairing of this for years.
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"For the October 2019 issue of InStyle, the actress said that social media results in "comparing and despairing.
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This is at its truest and most despairing when it comes to the legal chaos around the president.
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The despairing history of king's parties in Pakistan began in 1955 with the formation of the Republican Party.
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If less of a shocker, this outburst came across as genuinely despairing, the cry of a broken man.
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Instead, they spent the weekend despairing at a comically rushed and incredibly malignant tax bill sailing through Congress.
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To escape, for a couple of hours, into their world of optimism—albeit a slightly despairing brand of it.
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And now the newest Last Knight trailer has sunk me to my knees with a despairing howl of inevitability.
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Ukraine, despite the best efforts of a despairing Mr Tusk, drifted further from the EU into corruption and misrule.
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We would then be less likely to have cynical and despairing doom and gloom attitudes toward love and marriage.
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But she was also despairing and severe, alone in front of a candle waiting for her sons to return.
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Despairing over how borders were closing and over the hateful discourse around migration, she actively sought out alternative lifestyles.
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People are despairing because their jobs have been outsourced, their wages are stagnant, the rich have hijacked the economy.
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I imagine it would make you feel quite small and hopeless and occasionally despairing and sometimes lacking in confidence.
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Many Artificials also turn to our beliefs to live within this paradox without despairing our brief and uncertain existence.
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With that in mind, here is a look at the 223 most despairing, demoralizing Knick seasons of all time.
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Nevertheless, he managed to capture something essential about the draw of night life, particularly for lonely and despairing oddballs.
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His mesmerizing, acid soliloquies on clock repairing and climate despairing and small-town farce have no analogue in fiction.
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Despairing and sensuous in every entwined embrace, the duet was a study in human need, performed with intense resonance.
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But McCain discouraged attendees from despairing over the situation, saying they should have hope that America's democratic principles would triumph.
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The piece is so relentlessly dark and despairing it is no wonder the Life editors were apparently startled by it.
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Visitors will leave marvelling at—and, in some cases, maybe despairing of—entrancing, infuriating, perilous, comforting, sinful, sacred, seductive Italy.
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She takes it as a half-despairing, half-encouraging mantra: Don't let the bastards grind you down; survive; stay alive.
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To anyone despairing about democratic culture in the age of Trump and Brexit, Kloppenberg's declension narrative will ring dolefully true.
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The engineer was humanity's "redeemer from despairing drudgery and burdensome labor," as Charles Hermany, an engineer himself, wrote in 2000.
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Staring in the mirror, comparing yourself to other people, or despairing at the scale does not make you feel good.
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But that did not stop them from despairing over their own status as a reservoir of infection, or fearing ostracism.
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Or is it more than that — a furious, despairing takedown of America as the country battles its own worst instincts?
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Devi McCallion, the rock star of the bunch, delivers a despairing, pulsating plea for environmental awareness in a music video.
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It also made the hunger for fresh talent onstage — long a trope of jazz consumerism — seem more apt, less despairing.
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"Women on the Verge" gave Maura her best role, as Pepa, the lovelorn but unsinkable reimagining of Cocteau's despairing protagonist.
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We see him stuck in his New York apartment, his features gaunt and despairing under a sweaty halo of hair.
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He's just a dream-like patchwork of all the things you ever hear a coach despairing that his fighter doesn't do.
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By turns glorious, despairing, humane, and perplexing, Twin Peaks was an uncommonly generous weekly gift, delivered throughout a long, hot summer.
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If you killed yourself, you were treating yourself as an object too, but you were slightly justified because you were despairing.
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Orange City is one of the most conservative places in the country, but it is not despairing, nor is it stagnant.
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Attention shifts to his despairing press secretary, Barbara Morgan, and his mortified wife, Huma Abedin, a close associate of Hillary Clinton.
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F.A.O.'s new approach may prove more profitable, but it has left some manufacturers despairing about the future of toy stores.
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And, unlike in 1981, a clutch of despairing former Labour cabinet ministers have not chosen to found an unelectable fringe party.
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The uncertainty over the administration's approach has left global businesses that compete or cooperate with China at turns hopeful and despairing.
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Now its adorably anxious cartoon cogs in the machine are being used to sell more cute stuff to despairing human beings.
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They are explaining to the audience, and to themselves, how they have become so despairing and nihilistic that they commit murder.
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Exactly two years ago yesterday, I published a blog post on this site called Trump: The Case for Despairing—About America.
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I was with some of them the night Ossoff lost, but instead of despairing, they were already planning their next campaigns.
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The songs alternated from despairing to lighthearted (the number "House" is both), and name-check Alan Greenspan and John Maynard Keynes.
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Indeed, listening now, it's hard not to hear his despairing contribution, "You Never Knew My Mind," in light of his 2017 suicide.
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If Walter is the film's official mouthpiece, Ms. Stewart's sullen character, Sophie, one of his students, is its despairing op-ed voice.
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Bradbury's take on TV in Fahrenheit 451 is contemptuous and despairing, but that didn't stop him from writing the occasional teleplay himself.
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And judging by the weary, almost despairing expression on Mr Obama's face during his CNN town hall meeting, the supporters are right.
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Good news for those despairing at our rapidly warming planet: we can supercharge plants to help fight the effects of climate change.
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With large segments of the Republican Party despairing over its two leading presidential candidates, Paul Ryan tried to ward off being drafted.
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I strained to conserve this miracle gel for the remaining days of that trip and subsequent ones, despairing when it ran out.
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Sometimes she gets pretty far before she finds herself back at the sink, staring at her increasingly despairing face in the mirror.
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Like the rest of "The Amateurs," this despairing contemporary interlude is frantically funny, even when it veers into an art history lecture.
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Which almost gets you over the hiccup that a show so fundamentally despairing ("It's a sad song") is now so aggressively welcoming.
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Instead, at least 35 employees killed themselves, feeling trapped, betrayed and despairing of ever finding new work in France's immobile labor market.
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Only occasionally, when acts of extreme violence shock us to the core, do we look up and instead of despairing, we speak.
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His best art stands with that of his contemporaries who also mounted indignant, despairing, and sometimes satiric assaults against an indifferent nation.
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We see Red Priestess Melisandre (Carice van Houten), despairing that she might have been wrong to predict Stannis Baratheon's victory all along.
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For the next few hours, dejected and despairing, he recounts his wife's story to the lawyers who've arrived at Dulles, offering to help.
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But then, the lights go down and the dramatic, despairing 80s pop track "Toy Soldiers" starts thundering over the speaker like a premonition.
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Hounded into hiding and despairing of electoral politics, Sunni Islamists across the region abandoned the ballot box for bullets and boats to Europe.
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That's left many Democratic voters confused and almost despairing over which candidate to support to avoid losing the seat to Republicans on Tuesday.
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But as for the children, I find myself if not forgiving them, at least despairing that circumstances led them to such a hell.
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They also suggest something of Mr. Lockett's despairing state of mind, since he made them around the same time his H.I.V. was diagnosed.
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Physically closed in and unsmiling, outwardly surly and inwardly despairing, Autumn doesn't quip her way out of trouble or even talk that much.
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Frederick Wiseman's 271 film, "Titicut Follies," set at the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane in Massachusetts, was similarly bleak and despairing.
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How does a daughter move from despairing over certain death to the realization that she now needs to buy her mother a Christmas present?
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First, Will and Tim dig into the Romanian moral drama Graduation, which feels like Crimes and Misdemeanors-era Woody Allen, but even more despairing.
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The growing divisiveness of American politics has energized the left and right, but is causing political centrists to become ever more enervated and despairing.
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In recent years, despairing at the slow progress, I've been one of many to protest pipelines and to call attention to Big Oil's deceptions.
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Instead of substantively changing its production regime, Foxconn surrounded its factory buildings with yellow netting, to catch despairing workers before they hit the ground.
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At that concert, Pallbearer's despairing optimism and go-for-broke sincerity felt like a moral rebuke to the doom I'd grown too comfortable with.
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Both campaigns, triggered by high-profile resignations of lawmakers despairing at Labour's chances of winning another national election under Corbyn, have different local issues.
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Rough-edged prints, whose hashed lines recall the illustrations in pamphlets from Brazil's poorer northeast, also depict despairing or gluttonous figures with open mouths.
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All across the globe, parents, teachers, and managers will be despairing as their brief, black hole-based Fortnite freedom comes to an abrupt end.
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Unfortunately, many of today's writers have more in common with psychiatrists, preferring, it seems, to publish depressing, despairing downers in the name of literature.
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This is especially important every time I'm despairing over a "hopeless" first draft or feeling invisible amongst storms of breakout novels or movie adaptations.
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The gloominess of the locations and the situations that arise from the grim, despairing places are kith and kin to the whole Dark Souls experience.
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The post was shared more than 27,21 times on Facebook and left readers terrified, despairing, and sharing doubts about whether it's ethical to have children.
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Support the Girls ambles along in such a deceptively good-natured manner that it takes a while to appreciate just how despairing it actually is.
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That show had its own political allusions, lampooning the religious police and other aspects of Saudi society—humour that felt like a despairing rearguard action.
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Despite those concerns, not all workers are despairing about their retirement prospects — only 22 percent expect to work until they can't, according to the survey.
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"When I filmed her I didn't know that she'd been told we were going to eat her!" the director added, letting out a despairing laugh.
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So I started to write really angry and despairing music, and just decided this is the subject that I want [the album] to be about.
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As well as giving them a platform to make change in their city, St. Pauli NYC might give a little hope to despairing New Yorkers.
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Liberals too often are reluctant to acknowledge that struggling, despairing people sometimes compound their misfortune by self-medicating or engaging in irresponsible, self-destructive behavior.
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Despairing that the sunlit promises made to them will ever come true, they now seek to turn the whole thing upside down, however they may.
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To an outside observer, Coventry looks not so much like a football club as it does a name, a badge, and thousands of despairing fans.
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Somewhat discomfiting, the jests of these authors serve as an antidote and alternative to the despairing negativity or fake positivity that plagues patients like me.
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Exposing wrongdoing is the investigative journalist's raison d'être but McIntire's account of the systemic depth of its entrenchment leaves one despairing of any potential corrective.
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Much of Britain wishes it hadn't, and as the despairing hangover begins to recede, we will need to figure out what to do about it.
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Despite the work's title, Dejanira is the one who dominates the action, evolving through seven arias from impatient wife to imperious virago to despairing murderer.
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From a distance, he looked back on the period as despairing but ultimately a positive thing, because it led to the life he has now.
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She was at her best during the wrenching scene when Gilda, having been abducted by the duke's henchmen, confesses her shame to her despairing father.
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The most despairing, hysterical commentary I've heard about Trump this cycle has been from Republicans speaking off the record — including Republicans who have endorsed Trump!
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A week later, after a humiliating debate performance, Rubio finished a despairing fifth in New Hampshire, an astronomical distance behind Trump, who routed the entire field.
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But while Bowie's nihilism grew darker as he grew older—Blackstar is a rarity in his catalog, a bleak album—he was never fatalistic or despairing.
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In the excerpt below, Evans returns to the Jungle for a 48-hour volunteer stint to find things are both more optimistic—and despairing—than ever.
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It is the reflex of the kid with low self-esteem hoping that his work will please the implacable father, but secretly despairing that it can.
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Even in the Trump country of northern France, where shuttered factories and despairing villages have given rise to the politics of desperation, Macron has caught fire.
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Despairing of finding work, some entrepreneurial migrants turn the nearly-worthless bolivar currency into crafts, weaving handbags from the bills and selling them in Maicao's park.
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The high levels of deposits the big banks are sitting on suggest that many give up at this point, despairing of earning any return on their money.
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Everything. I think having a really positive attitude when you step on the set, when people are despairing — which they tend to do when they haven't slept.
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But in general, political observers in New Jersey were less than despairing about the likelihood of legal weed in the state popping up in the near future.
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To a generation of German scholars engaged in inventing what they called Wissenschaft des Judentums , "the science of Judaism," it was crucial to overcome this despairing view.
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The two tracks we've heard so far from his upcoming debut EP 27, out May 27 on Bandcamp, were idiosyncratic blues concepts, forthright and despairing, disconcertingly oblique.
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Much of white America, the part addled by opioids, ravaged by suicide, despairing of a future, is also a victim of a nation that refuses to care.
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Every so often, Trump says or does something so grotesque that it cuts through the despairing numbness engendered by his presidency, galvanizing the forces of decency anew.
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Recently, finally despairing of Turkey's judicial process, Mr. Kavala issued a public statement through his lawyers for the first time since his detention in October last year.
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Indeed, many say they gave up long ago, despairing that Honduras will never address the chronic corruption, violence and criminality that has a chokehold on their country.
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Shocked and despairing at Mr. Trump's election, women on the left concluded they had been complacent and are now diving into politics, many for the first time.
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But in fact the guests are a married couple (Robin Adams and Katherine Manley), torn over whether to help a woman (the excellent, despairing Claudia Boyle) commit suicide.
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And what will its position be if, despairing of Donald Trump's flaky commitment to European security, NATO's European members want to develop the alliance's relationship with the EU?
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Wednesday's remarkable episode, "Hope," pulled off both about as well as you could imagine: It was funny but heartbreaking, nuanced but not mealy-mouthed, blunt but not despairing.
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It might not sound completely despairing to all, but it can serve as a reminder that nervousness is natural when new things (like the Jewish new year) begin.
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Later in a despairing ceremony, Kingsley jettisons bottles overboard, mumbling the names of members of his family, stranded on the stricken boat, already dead, or soon to perish.
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This was the cry from the heart of liberals despairing at media coverage that erroneously equated Trump's disqualifying, morally heinous flaws with Clinton's run-of-the-mill ones.
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His truculent response caused anger in Britain, where there have been several major Islamist militant attacks this year, with one minister describing Trump's tweets as "alarming and despairing".
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He did a wonderful impression of the abrupt and operatic unraveling of a Sinatra-like charmer who turns into a sniveling, despairing depressive after a single lost bet.
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The nonpartisan organization that did it, More in Common, paints a picture of a society that is far more disengaged — and despairing over divisions — than it is divided.
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She's never presented as too naïve or not smart enough to understand her dire situation, though, which keeps the show from getting too dark or despairing to enjoy.
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It is a creature of frightening extremes, this being you once were: more hopeful and hopeless, joyous and despairing, loving and hateful than you have ever been since.
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At a moment when Mr. Trump has left Europeans despairing about the trans-Atlantic relationship, his predecessor is in the middle of a Group of 7 reunion tour.
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"God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule" was its headline for a post-230/240 article in which a despairing God rails at the moronic nature of his creation.
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But if she manages to get out from beneath her own despairing expectations, she can try to make life better, more spacious, for herself and those around her.
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She combines detailed research, a host of skilled trades in the execution, and deep — if occasionally despairing — philosophical thinking, with the sincere work of processing pain into healing.
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And though she is despairing about Trump (she campaigned for Hillary), she is optimistic that—this time, at least—political change is coming, and it's going to stick around.
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"It's despairing, but you see a bit of that discard the old and in with the 'hot and new' that you can see in various other industries," said Han.
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But despite its Hollywood gloss, the film's despairing heart remains: Knightley is wonderful as the complex Anna, who comes alive via her passions — and loses her life for it.
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For instance, in the wake of a spate of suicides a few years ago they sent out a note to inmates encouraging the despairing among them to come forward.
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If you are tired of queuing up at ATMs and are despairing because you are unable to access your own hard-earned money, here's some good news for you.
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The despairing advice-seeker wonders why, despite multiple attempts, she hasn't gotten a job at a particular company, then lists a few successful people she wants to be like.
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Thousands of Hondurans leave their country every month — many headed to the United States — after despairing of being unable to build better lives for themselves in their own country.
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Instead, at least 20053 employees — workers' advocates say nearly double that number — committed suicide, feeling trapped, betrayed and despairing of ever finding new work in France's immobile labor market.
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There is such a visceral desperation to it and the way it lurches from super fast, crazy speed metal and punk rock to the most delicate, despairing instrumental pieces.
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This is something to keep in mind if you're despairing that a candidate like Trump could get nominated: 93.8 percent of Americans didn't vote for him in the primaries.
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Despairing of Senate Republicans' use of the filibuster to block Mr Obama's appointees, for example, the Democrats scrapped the measure in 2013, except in the case of Supreme Court appointments.
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Taking the helm of the despairing party in 2008, Mr Muscat ditched the party's Euroscepticism and dirigisme for a focus on social mobility, education and getting more women into work.
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Why, indeed, wouldn't it just lead to those at the bottom of each despairing, while encouraging those at the top to view their unearned advantages as that much more precious?
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I'm watching a stream of white dots go across the top of my screen, fistpumping when I see a blue one break it up, and despairing at each red one.
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The Lobster is wonderful comedy of language—an amazing achievement for a Greek director working on his first English-language film—that never shies away from its more despairing elements.
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HILLARY CLINTON'S choice of Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia as her vice-presidential running-mate should cheer Americans despairing at an election season steeped in vitriol, division and fear-mongering.
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For all those despairing in these rather depressing political times, the last two weeks should offer a ray of hope that it is in fact always darkest before the dawn.
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First, the good news for despairing anti-Trump believers: Despite those polls showing him doing well with evangelicals and Catholics, Trump is not the first choice of most active churchgoers.
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First, it takes into account the recent rise of authoritarian populism, especially in the form of Donald Trump — a development that has led some to feel more despairing than ever.
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It helped that Thom's despairing monologue was delivered by an angular, snarly James Urbaniak, whose utterances felt as dangerous as a double-edged razor blade in the hands of child.
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For now, read these three books together, and you will be closer to enlightenment — though maybe also a little more despairing — about our widening divisions than you are right now.
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He ran the same plays that most teams in the league run, and he was active on the bench and rarely looked as despairing as he had right to feel.
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Like millennial Danielle Steel characters, they are disillusioned and despairing to discover that it's lonely at the top—like Drake, without any of the charm or any of the tunes.
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But while Parasite certainly cycles through more than half that list, the laugh is darker, the snarl more vicious and the sob more despairing than we've ever had from him before.
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This was important not only in the fight against Nazi totalitarianism or during the Cold War, when the United States alone had the power to rally a despairing world against darkness.
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The town hall was organised to sell exceedingly modest changes to gun regulation that Mr Obama wants to push through by executive action, after despairing of passing new laws in Congress.
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And far from despairing, Mr. Oetomo sees this latest stage as part of the give and take of a young democracy struggling to balance progressive democratic values with conservative religious ones.
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It's hard to think of a show currently on air that could make me want to watch a single character speak in one long, despairing stream for nearly a whole episode.
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One of my earliest memories of Pop, who taught me to smell everything before I drank it, was his despairing over a batch of his wine that had turned to vinegar.
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" He especially dreaded a recurring vision of the ocean "paved with innumerable faces, upturned to the heavens: faces, imploring, wrathful, despairing, surged upwards by thousands, by myriads, by generations, by centuries.
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So it may seem ungracious to fault Mr. Pritchard for not injecting greater drama into the melismatic phrase describing Peter's despairing regret for his betrayal of Jesus: "weinete bitterlich" ("wept bitterly").
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In back rooms and background briefings, they are more caustic and despairing even than liberals; they are not ignorant of the threat Trump represents, nor of the dangers his impulsiveness poses.
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One user had posted publicly, asking for help with their crystals, and fretting that they'd callously misused them: "Does anyone else notice that the crystals themselves are despairing and hurting?" this witch.
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I've always struggled with that criticism, because I've always found the show, at the very least, mordantly funny, blessed with a darkly humorous streak that made its more despairing portions slide by.
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Despairing, the party has been playing the Trump card, disingenuously reimagining Mrs Merkel's defence spending increases (which they agreed to in government) as an "arms race" designed to please the American president.
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" Court records indicate Hinckley knows he was not in his right mind in 1981: "I was living a very depressed, isolated life, out of touch with reality, despairing, estranged from my family.
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She'd won her bid for the U.S. Senate, capturing the California seat soon to be vacated by retiring Senator Barbara Boxer, but the early returns in the presidential race had Democrats despairing.
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Among the new cast members, Woody Harrelson plays the intense commander of the human forces, and Dawn director Matt Reeves is back to ensure this sequel maintains the series' sophisticated, despairing tone.
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The despairing self, characterized by alienation and misery, is limited and incomplete, and not a particularly accurate representation of the lushness of life as it is lived, mingled thing that it is.
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But the main guy in "Bankerot," the Danish show that inspired AMC's "Feed the Beast," Mr. Schwimmer's new series, was so drunk and despairing that even he had to draw the line.
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We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave—to the ancient enemies of man—half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day.
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You could even find yourself sitting in front of the TV, cheering for the Portland HandBoys and despairing the Seattle HandOffs, complaining about the officials, tossing back brewdogs, farting into you couch.
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From these books, which were precise and despairing, if conventional by the standard of her later writing, she seized for her self-invention the name of her own autobiographical character: Anna Kavan.
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Standing over Alberto Giacometti's floor-based, racing-in-place "Woman with Her Throat Cut" (1932), I found myself despairing over what looked more like an agonized insect than a human being dying.
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Petzold's answer, I think, can be found in the crowded consulates in which Georg waits alongside despairing men and women, caught in the stateless, agonizingly familiar limbo reproduced in today's refugee crisis.
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The best hope of one despairing opposition grandee is that Fidesz fails to win an overall majority, allowing liberals and left-wingers to form a minority government with the tacit support of Jobbik.
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But he's riled us, got under our skin, asking us angry and despairing that he should have got through to the final of his show and turned democracy into a tv/twitter spectacular.
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Moore, like other despairing souls, rails against the Electoral College, and also against what he views as the Democratic Party's undemocratic scorn for the preferences of its own members at the county level.
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As played by Rebecca Hall with startling control and ambiguity, Chubbuck is a complicated, but by no means doomed, young woman, a fact which only makes Christine all the more riveting and despairing.
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But I expect the logic of commerce and technology will be consciously harnessed, as already in pornography, to address the unhappiness of incels, be they angry and dangerous or simply depressed and despairing.
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There are alternatives to Sanders For those despairing Democrats who think that their party is on the verge of nominating the wrong person, Tuesday's Democratic debate must have been something of a relief.
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Weary as we are of despairing over the mass extinctions being caused by hyperdevelopment, it's tempting to take comfort in the ability of some animals to shrug off our brutalization of the planet.
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Watching the reports of these needless deaths, the courage of high school students to stand up to elected officials and demand accountability, and action, is both despairing and inspiring at the same time.
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The first Monday of September is an important date in the UK calendar, with teachers and students across the country despairing over the return to school after a lengthy summer break (alright for some).
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What's the relationship between the tailcoat-clad soloist, Dunia Acosta, who veers between scheming and despairing to "Pennies From Heaven," and Daileidys Carrazana and Manuel Duran, whose unconventional partnering suggests a fractured, complicated love?
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No one, not his estranged Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, his chief of staff John Kelly, European leaders, North Korean dictators, Democrats or despairing GOP senators can temper his shock and awe leadership style.
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Celtic could not be subdued, though, with teenage defender Kieran Tierney powering down the left flank in the 20th minute and unleashing a shot that deflected off a despairing Sterling's boot past Claudio Bravo.
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He even reproduces catty letters that he wrote to Patti LuPone during the run of "Evita," despairing of her ability to sing the words clearly enough for them to be understood by the audience.
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In these despairing environs, existing jobs often pay rock-bottom wages, and many workers with the means and skills to take higher-paid positions have taken off in search of education and opportunity elsewhere.
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The title of Dan Pfeiffer's new book about his years as a senior adviser to Barack Obama suggests all may not be lost for those despairing at the current inhabitant of the White House.
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Once this allegorical setup is grasped, the journalist's fate, the disposition of the corpse and the movie's final shot make for a thriller that, while lesser than Hitchcock's, is more brutally cynical and despairing.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Despairing at a country she believed was becoming more insular the more its Brexit debate raged, Briton Jess Worsdale decided this year that it was time to move to Ireland for good.
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Feeling thoroughly trolled, and despairing that dad's long shadow extended even into crossworld, I set about taking revenge in the form of a comics-themed puzzle that would conspicuously omit any reference to Doonesbury.
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Some of those in their mid-20s are despairing of Trump's chances against Hillary Clinton and some are doubtful of whether they'll fit into a Trump administration even if he does prevail in November.
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Environmentalists are despairing about Donald J. Trump's selection of a climate-change denier to head the Environmental Protection Agency, and worry that he will weaken Obama administration policies designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
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I spent hours moaning to friends about how I couldn't get past it, despairing over no longer wanting to look at the nice(ish) guy I'd been head over heels for just hours before.
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Students are despairing of change partly because they have grown up with Mr. Erdogan in power for 17 years, said Erhan Erkut, a founder of MEF University in Istanbul, which teaches innovation and entrepreneurship.
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As time passes, as loved ones die and friends leave Amherst, the mood shifts — much like the mood swings associated with the home in Davies's 2015 film Sunset Song — becoming increasingly despairing and forlorn.
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The despairing residents tried to protest their situation, to contact journalists and rights groups, to send out messages and pictures to anyone else who would listen, but they feared their detainment would have no end.
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With images of exhausted firefighters, angry bystanders and despairing residents still flooding in, the events unfolding were likened to the Hillsborough disaster on social media, in newspapers and by opposition politicians time and time again.
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Of the physicians in the Medscape 2017 survey who did not report burnout, 59 percent stated they had great satisfaction with their work compared to only 7 percent of their despairing colleagues, a disturbing finding.
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Despairing of the bland food on offer, David began writing articles about the seasonal cuisine of Europe's sunnier climes for Harper's Bazaar, soon amassing enough to publish the first of several books on foreign foods.
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He constantly blames Democrats for what he views as despairing livelihoods in American cities, imploring minority crowds at his rallies with rhetorical questions like "What the hell do you have to lose?" by supporting him.
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Despairing of his contemporaries' values, Lorenzini appears to have decided that the best contribution he could make to his country's future would be to invest his talents in improving the ethical caliber of future generations.
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But his new book, "What Unites Us" (written with Elliot Kirschner, and new at No. 8 in hardcover nonfiction), feels like a campaign book, celebrating American ideals while despairing of our failure to honor them.
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"It is comic but also despairing, as these men are the guys who should have sorted out Nigeria's problems and singularly failed to do so," said Michela Wrong, who has written several books on Africa.
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LONDON — For Andrea Pirlo, it was the satisfaction of a free kick, sweetly struck, sweeping "a couple of centimeters over" a defender's head, beyond the goalkeeper's despairing reach, whistling into the corner of the goal.
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As the year draws to a close, residents and community leaders say they are despairing over the ceaseless violence, which city officials are trying to confront with more police officers and new law enforcement strategies.
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As the bombs fall across Europe and the "monstrous tyranny" persists, the reader watches the slow, intimate unravelling of Juliet "like a ball of wool" as she veers from naïve and romantic to violent and despairing.
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The books, written in a tone that's both arch and despairing, with constant digressions that discuss (among other things) correct usage of language, grammar and slang, are probably as close to Nabokov as children's literature gets.
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In her biography of Charlotte, Claire Harman points out that he kept the household awake at night "with his noisy despairing" over a past lover and is rumoured to have set his own bed on fire.
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The depth of that digital record reminded me of other reports of individuals downloading their data from Facebook and Google after 2018's Cambridge Analytica scandal and despairing at the granular detail of the information collected.
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A hammer harshly clinking against a pipe, with a bell providing the question mark, is answered by despairing deep thwacks of fists on a drum: Mr. Venables gives us wit, hostility and poignancy, all at once.
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But rather than despairing or scheming for 1930s-style court packing, what progressives need most is a constitutional vision of their own, a vivid picture of what judges should do with the power of the courts.
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Pro-Europe activists were despairing, some channeling their anger into efforts to help Europeans in London navigate the reality of reduced rights and a more tenuous life in a country they had long made their home.
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On one level, this conversation is about depression; on another level, it's about the ways we've screwed up modern society and created a world that leaves far too many of us alienated, anxious, despairing, and lost.
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On policy, Harris also shone ..." At harvest time, going wild At a farmer's market, poet Tess Taylor overheard a woman lamenting a year's worth of environmental catastrophes with the despairing conclusion, "We're so far beyond doomed.
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The ability to run combined air, sea and land operations, deploy forces clandestinely and endure scores of troop losses has won acknowledgement from Western states long despairing of the fractured Yemeni army's ability to tackle al Qaeda.
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This animated chronicle of the adventures of a depressed horse working in show business — in a universe where humans and anthropomorphic animals live alongside each other — grows a little more complicated and despairing with every new season.
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As early as 215, the band was already crafting desolate, despairing songs—and composing the nearly half-hour-long drone piece, Carnage Visors, to accompany 21982's Faith—but they would perfect it on 20013's Disintegration.
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He has led some of the city's grandest events, opening the Metropolitan Opera's season conducting an acclaimed production of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" and leading the Philadelphia Orchestra in Mahler's grandly despairing Sixth Symphony at Carnegie Hall.
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In the past, I'd left interviews with politicians despairing at the official comments that had been doled out to me like dried peas; when I left Ms. Pressley's office, I was already looking forward to coming back.
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Extreme Kids has grown over the years, and through it my world has expanded in ways that I never would have imagined that lonely afternoon when Felix was a floppy, heavy baby, and I a despairing young mother.
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This despairing tone was on display Monday as Republicans crisscrossed the country on the first full day of campaigning in the new year, and began airing commercials that had a singular and sometimes fearsome focus on national security.
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But no Trump hireling has been more ridiculed, by the president and at times, it has seemed, half of America, than the chief White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, who, despairing of his treatment, abruptly resigned on July 21st.
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Perhaps the worst of it is that much of the world seems unperturbed (see Briefing), calloused by the years of bloodshed in Syria and other parts of the Middle East, and despairing of its ability to effect change.
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There's a plot, of sorts, but mostly, it's a chance for the man behind Beavis and Butt-head and Silicon Valley to crack cynical, despairing, and routinely hilarious gags about America's increasingly aggressive commercialism, crassness, and self-absorption.
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Since 2001, the National, an indie-rock group from Ohio, has given voice to a particular kind of midlife melancholy: what it means to have a good job and a reliable partner, and nevertheless feel choked and despairing.
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So, despondent but not despairing, thousands converged on the West Village in Manhattan on Monday night for a vigil at the Stonewall Inn, where the modern gay rights movement was ignited by a series of riots in 1969.
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Cottrill has said that "Bags," a despairing indie-rock song, is about her first physical encounter with another woman—she recently said that she is not straight—but she does not play up this context in the lyrics.
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The Royal Court has long specialized in despairing portraits of the world at large, so the first thing to be said about the Scottish playwright Stef Smith's "Human Animals" is that it has landed at the right address.
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While some states have set up soup kitchens to feed workers and instructed police to hand out food and relief packages, others have chosen the worst possible route to deal with crowds of hungry, frightened, and despairing people.
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It's a force to be reckoned with, one that can crush a creative spirit or inspire a malevolent one, set the record straight or twist it around again, leave us feeling inspired and uplifted or hopeless and despairing.
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Despairing of last year's failure to bring about a referendum to recall Maduro and believing it is up against a dictatorship, Popular Will is now advocating civil disobedience while other opposition parties still push for a new vote.
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He narrated a despairing letter imploring Alice to respond to his many unanswered messages — an imaginative extrapolation of what actually happened when the parents of Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Alice, forbade Dodgson from contacting her again.
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Many factors contributed to me feeling so deeply despairing, but loneliness played a big part—had I felt more able to truly connect to others, the pain I was experiencing in those moments might have been easier to bear.
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"Whoever loses should accept defeat, the country needs to move on," said Tapiwa Bhera, who stood in what has become a despairing symbol of Zimbabwe — a long line at a bank in the capital, Harare, in search of cash.
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I found myself oscillating between "trust in the process"—the idea that Rachel and the male contestants were truly searching for a lasting relationship—and the despairing feeling that everyone was, as they say, there for the wrong reasons.
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But if you're really feeling that despairing and hopeless about the prospect of having to make some bread, get one of your go-getter friends to come over and help you, or just buy them if you truly must.
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Given this may be the last time for a while I'm able to read a book on more than three hours sleep, I really don't want to waste it on patronizing, preaching writing that leaves you despairing and enraged.
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Life's regular hum — the effort and joy of making homes, having children and nourishing love — tends to be drowned out by speeches and dramas in which characters rob banks to get out of debt instead of struggling or despairing.
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Even borrowers whom you would expect to be experts, like the Department of Education lawyer who sent me a despairing note this weekend about her own encounters with FedLoan, have trouble getting a firm grip on their loan status.
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He had been despairing at how clueless the older writers sounded in describing the red-hot trumpeter Harry James and his band, so the editors asked him to write his own story about a James concert at the Paramount.
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He had been despairing at how clueless the older writers sounded in describing the red-hot trumpeter Harry James and his band, so the editors asked him to write his own story about a James concert at the Paramount.
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But the real-estate magnate and reality star now lives in the White House because he successfully sold despairing Rust Belt voters left behind in the modern economy on a vision of a nation trapped in social, economic and international decline.
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Video: Collin Maessen/YouTube The video, which includes seven scientists from seven universities, is a mix of despairing pleas, objection to political agendas bending the truth, and simplified explanations about basic climate science (news flash: the Earth's systems aren't stable).
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And it uses its efficiency to great effect, powering breathtaking action scenes, and depicting a hungry, despairing part of West Texas where the relationship between predatory banks and desperate farmers parallels the government's predatory practices against Native Americans generations earlier.
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Emily (Rooney Mara), a despairing young New Yorker, turns to a prescription antidepressant after her hedge-fund cowboy husband (Channing Tatum) returns from four years in prison for insider trading and sets off a severe depressive episode in his wife.
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When your mind feels groggy and your day is a looping cycle of inaction and despairing thoughts, it can be hard to work up the strength to go to a friend's gig, grab a coffee, or reply to a text.
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Behind that may have been the sense that across Europe, the political elite has ignored the festering social environment in which a large cohort of badly educated, despairing and often violence-prone young people born of immigrant parents came to adulthood.
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It concerns three old friends: married couple Hazel and Robin (Deborah Findlay, aggressively bourgeois, and Ron Cook, bluff and despairing), and the long-estranged Rose (Francesca Annis, sly and determined), paying an uninvited visit to Hazel and Robin's dilapidated cottage.
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Jim Cornette articulated the worst case scenario for a pro wrestler when despairing over the Brawl for All and the heyday of ECW—you've told the crowd it's not real, they know it's not real, and you're still actually hurting yourself.
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Effectively excluded from mainstream liberal-left discourse and despairing of the possibilities for change under any Conservative government, trans and nonbinary people turned back to Labour as the only political institution potentially able to change both the conversation and legislation.
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Despairing of ever finding a decent job in Gaza, where the economy is near collapse, the journalism graduate flew to Turkey via Egypt in June 2018 and tried no fewer than 18 times to cross into Europe, mostly by boat.
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Many have learned how their own parents and grandparents suffered as refugees once, and that it was only by taking in that ragged flood of the war-torn and homeless, wounded and despairing, that the country began to heal itself.
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Big City In the days since an election that will substantially reduce the likelihood of your going to Midtown more than three times over the next four years, the pervasive mood in New York has been grief-stricken and despairing.
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This isolationism reminded me of one of the most despairing—and most prescient, probably—works of early science fiction; The Machine Stops, by E. M. Forster (yes, the dude who wrote A Room With a View also did some nasty sci-fi).
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Skipper Jordan Henderson won the ball in middle of the pitch and played the ball to Rashford and as Slovakia's defense backed off he belted a 25-metre effort past the despairing dive of Dubravka to the relief of the Wembley crowd.
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The systematic misspelling of the names is too much a matter of course to be worth noticing; but why should such a stirring sentence as '"O-oh!" broke out Kutuzoff in a burst of despairing rage' be watered into 'Koutouzow groaned in despair'?
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You might assume that such cynicism and existentialism—the image of the mother knitting in her son's room "unravelling, knitting, unravelling" is particularly haunting—would leave the reader feeling equally despairing, yet there is an unexpected beauty and whispers of something like hope.
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Posters on Ethereum subreddits were understandably enthusiastic about this brief uptick in value (the value of the Ethereum token, Ether, has since returned to around $350), but the mood on bitcoin forums was cautiously optimistic at best and totally despairing at worst.
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Republicans despairing at a BuzzFeed story about alleged Trump eavesdropping on guest and staff phones at Mar-a-Lago can take heart that Bill Clinton still has a talent for getting himself — and the wife he supposedly wants to help — in trouble.
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But, what Eubank Sr. has experienced with Michael Watson, his clear instruction for Jr. to avoid hitting the head of Blackwell altogether and his despairing disbelief that the fight hadn't been stopped already suggests Eubank Sr. had Blackwell's best intentions at heart.
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Many who watched Attorney General William Barr's testimony on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which followed the revelation that the special counsel Robert Mueller had expressed misgivings about Mr. Barr's characterization of his report, are despairing about the rule of law.
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"New Images of Man" (1959), Mr. Selz's first major show at MoMA, was a haunting, largely despairing survey of the human image through paintings and sculptures by 21970 American and European artists, including Francis Bacon, Jackson Pollock, Jean Dubuffet and Alberto Giacometti.
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Jackie Sibblies Drury's daring, despairing new play at the indispensable Soho Rep counted on that duality as it led its audience through formal manipulations of genre — from a sitcom about a black family to a satire on racism to something truly shocking.
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Last Sunday, as the wildfires, which have now killed at least 40 people, first erupted, Lopas' cannabis farm in Santa Rosa went up in flames, leaving behind the stumps of two chimneys, heaps of ash, charred marijuana plants and a despairing entrepreneur.
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"Your nine is different to my nine," said L'Huillier, who looked somewhat despairing at the thought of such a crude measure being used to determine the efficacy of a drug in which his company had just invested hundreds of millions of dollars.
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This despairing 17-minute allegory from 113 — the last film by Trnka, the Czech stop-motion animation pioneer — is a highlight among the 20 shorts and eight features in this series, the first complete retrospective of his work in the United States.
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Whether the comedy will be more lighthearted or despairing depends on how the director John Benjamin Hickey encourages his stars, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, to play the roles originated by the rather different pairing of Maureen Stapleton and George C. Scott.
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Chukwu's writing can sometimes be too on the nose, spelling out the already obvious, but for the most part she doesn't over-explain Anthony, whose despairing resignation and profound isolation Hodge fills in with a discreetly shutdown physicality and a gaze turned inward.
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Chances are the national events of recent weeks have left you somewhere on the spectrum from despairing to agog to pleased as punch, and at the very least weary of all that the past year's political campaigning has drummed up and drawn out.
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Saturation media coverage and despairing fans greeted news last week that the five-man group, which formed in 1988 when its members were in their teens and in its heyday packed venues around Asia and sang for Chinese leaders, was on the brink of dissolution.
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HASSAN SHAM CAMP, Iraq (Reuters) - Despairing of the corpses and debris littering the streets, many Iraqis have left their homes in areas liberated from Islamic State two years ago and voluntarily returned to the displacement camps that housed them during and after the fighting.
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If you're despairing at your fast-depleting bank balance (when you're asking about the pizza delivery guy's mom, things might be getting a bit out of hand) or being berated by friends for hoovering up their share of the cheeseboard, help may be at hand.
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Fast-forward to Super Tuesday night 2016, when former presidential candidate Christie, who suspended his own presidential campaign after performing poorly in Nevada's caucuses, stood behind Trump for his victory speech looking just as despairing as Biden did trying to solve unrest with Russian separatists.
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Having something small and precious and filled with things to discover not only gives us the sense of control we need, but it helps us remember that childlike curiosity that kept us learning, wondering and hoping about the world rather than knowing enough, and despairing.
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And it's surprisingly gorgeous to look at, transcending its "Wes Anderson's aesthetic heads to TV" roots to look more like the '70s comedies of director Hal Ashby (who's also fond of making comedies about dark, despairing topics and was a huge influence on Anderson).
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Scene City Over the years, Julianne Moore has appeared in more than 60 movies, where some of her more memorable roles have included a despairing porn star, a pretentious artist, an articulate academic, a lightheaded lesbian, a boozy Briton and a stilted New England housewife.
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"The Zoo Story," a one-act about a successful, domesticated man accosted in a park by a man who is neither, introduced not only Albee's despairing vision of life as an unwinnable war for dominance but also the verbal exuberance that made that vision bearable.
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After photographing despairing street scenes in East Harlem and on the Bowery, Mr. Ballot, echoing "Freedom's Fearful Foe," focused on a Puerto Rican family: Felix and Esther Gonzalez and their six children, who lived in a small apartment in a decrepit Lower East Side tenement.
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This is what lies behind all those empty cities in science fiction films: the terror of being the last one left, patrolling deserted grocery aisles, like a desolate, despairing Will Smith in "I Am Legend," the resources running out, no one left to love.
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By 1966 Mr. Storey was established enough for the Traverse Theater in Edinburgh to stage his play "The Restoration of Arnold Middleton," which he had written in a single weekend six years earlier, at a time when he was despairing of his novel-writing career.
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NBC's The Carmichael Show and Netflix's The Ranch have both proved worthy contenders, but the best sitcom of this sort on TV is still CBS's Mom, an unfailingly funny but frequently despairing look at two women struggling to move past their addictions and build better lives.
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While Deng is often given credit for turning China from a collectivist, Communist economy into the powerhouse it would become, according to Dikotter, Deng's reforms were a reflection of those forced upon the country from the bottom up, by a populace alienated to and despairing of Communism.
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International Women's Day isn't being celebrated loudly (or at all) here at the Geneva Motor Show, but just as I was despairing at the old-fashioned use of attractive young women in short skirts as car decorations, I stumbled upon a ray of gender-balanced sunshine.
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"Despairing" about the best place to get it made, Spencer told the BBC, his friend Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes (who knows "everything about historic houses") recommended a place in Nepal that would be perfect, and "my wife came up with this really lovely design," he added.
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His hard-line competitor, a Texan with a Princeton class ring — who has for years united a divided Washington in hatred of him — is emerging as a measured alternative, drawing a second look from a despairing establishment that he has derided as an emblem of cronyism.
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No less poignant are Carlos Alfonzo's "Told" (1990) — an abstracted silhouette of a despairing figure made the year before the artist's AIDS-related death at the age of 41 — and "Portrait of a Fingerprint" (1988) by Moira Dryer, a green-and-red abstraction in casein on plywood.
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If there is light at the end of the tunnel later this week, and heaven knows I hope there will be, we have a fundamental responsibility in this place to try and resolve this most vexed of problems and allow our despairing country to move on.
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Despairing in old age at what had occurred in Southeast Asia on his watch, at all the deaths in the rice paddies and the long grass, he sought, genuinely it seems to me, to learn from the experience and to acknowledge his own role in the debacle.
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It won Germany's highest film award, the Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Prize) in Gold, and Ms. Elsner won the Deutscher Filmpeis for best actress for her performance as a tormented West German writer despairing over the collapse of Communism in East Germany and confronting her past.
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Natasha Leggero is the latest in a series of high-profile comics recently doing jokes about pregnancy, tying it to a point despairing about current politics on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" this month: "This is not a good time to be sober," she said.
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It opens quietly, with a haze of high strings and a despairing theme delivered by a flugelhorn — Mr. Rouse was a fan of using at least one unusual instrument per work — that lands, in Mahlerian fashion, on a note doubled by a harp in lower octaves.
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But then, just as he was despairing, a pale glow appeared at the end of the overgrown lane and after a few more minutes of weary dragging, he emerged into what was left of the day's light to discover himself on the crest of a hill.
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In other footnotes, Tuten steps back from his early self and gives the reader a wide-angle shot: There was little to show for my six years of writing because I worked in a totally undisciplined, desultory fashion, in fits and starts, in moods exultant and despairing.
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Parents despairing of ever being able to separate their offspring from the mobile devices glued to their fingertips might be interested in an app called Play My Way that's being built by a startup from Lebanon and designed to interrupt other apps with a little worthy educational content.
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" At the same time listeners were streaming rapper XXXTentacion — and even if they ultimately chose not to listen to his music on account of his crimes — society was failing Onfroy and his peers, who were not so subtly despairing, screaming at us in outrage, shouting, "Look At Me!
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What's funny and notable about the Uzi Challenge may just be its almost comedically despairing hook ("pushed me to the edge / all my friends are dead") accompanying goofy dance clips, tying together the worlds of hip-hop and emo for what has to be the dozenth time this year.
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" They write that they couldn't help but notice that their colleagues in the physical sciences are having a tough time dealing with "overwhelming evidence of an apocalypse," and that they're "largely despairing both because of what they know, and how they are being ignored, dismissed, and even outright threatened.
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If, like other reasonable human beings, you're spending much of your time these days despairing about the global refugee crisis and a summer Olympics plagued by economic inequality and contaminated by sewage-infested waters, we're happy to offer a small bit of sunlight breaking through the clouds of calamity.
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After going for broke last year with a strategy of trying to undo the withdrawal, they are rallying their weary, despairing supporters for hugely consequential battles ahead over the shape of Brexit, leaning on lawmakers to preserve smooth trading ties with Europe so British workers can keep their jobs.
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"Beale Street" and "Poetic Justice" are stories of black artists falling in love in a world that tends to devalue both their creativity and their feelings, and each movie simultaneously illuminates those struggles and shares in them, in a spirit that is sorrowful but never grim or despairing.
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His audience, which had been primed to laugh at Trump jokes not two minutes earlier, fell completely silent as Noah worked through his feelings, becoming more visibly frustrated and despairing with every word and offering no punchlines to alleviate the tension of this moment that so horrified him.
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Image 2 of 2 WARSAW, Poland – Israel&aposs ambassador to Poland joined hundreds of Warsaw residents Sunday in recalling the first mass deportations of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto and in honoring a Jewish activist who took his own life while despairing over the world&aposs indifference to the Holocaust.
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Romney's concise, categorical takedown of Trump's intellect, character and motivation amounted to a tipping point in a long-building revolt among Republican elders now openly despairing of the former reality TV star's grip on the GOP nomination and his staunch armies of outsider voters who refuse to abandon their outspoken champion.
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A six-parter about a spiteful local journalist who pledges to stop being nice to people following the death of his wife, it's a show about grief and desperation which at no stage feels despairing, and is played with understated skill by Gervais and his small cast of co-stars.
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Joyce is an alert, keen-witted, brilliant man who has made it a lifelong habit to jot down every thought that he has had, whether he is depressed or exalted, despairing or hopeful, hungry or satiated, and likewise to put down what he has seen or heard others do or say.
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"I have been here all my life, and this drought is feeling like it will be around a while," says a despairing Whitney, whose property near the town of Gunnedah is on the Liverpool Plains, a usually fertile area now withered having received the lowest average rainfall in nearly 30 years.
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Despairing of a quick resolution, Mr. Guaidó's European allies have redoubled efforts to secure a negotiated pact between the opposition and the government, moving the main front in Venezuela's political battle to the diplomatic arena, said Félix Seijas, the director of Caracas-based pollster Delphos, which has advised the opposition.
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Many of her pivotal figures are familiar to history: Hiram Bingham, the heroic American vice consul who lavishly issued salvational visas to despairing Jews; Hugh Fullerton, the consul general who thwarted Bingham on the advice of Cordell Hull, the Roosevelt administration's compliant secretary of state; and the idiosyncratic panoply of Fry's assistants.
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The despairing are unlikely to be convinced by this quick description, so for a better sense of the lukewarmist case, I recommend two recent essays by Oren Cass of the Manhattan Institute: First, "The Problem With Climate Catastrophizing," from Foreign Affairs, and second, "How to Worry About Climate Change," from National Affairs.
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Employees spoke of despairing colleagues who hanged themselves, set themselves on fire, or threw themselves out of windows, under trains and off bridges and highway overpasses as the company deliberately pushed them into roles for which they were unsuited — sales jobs for technicians, for instance — to try to reduce the work force.
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A despairing vision to be sure, though Christopher Hitchens pointed out that Orwell's own commitment in his life to continually seek "elusive but verifiable truth" was a testament to human tenacity and "that tiny, irreducible core of the human personality that somehow manages to put up a resistance to deceit and coercion."
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She masterfully shows how he became, on the one hand, a successful artist and writer, brimming with "warmth and wit" and surrounded by friends; and on the other, desperately self-critical, closeted, conscious of his owl-like glasses and large nose, despairing of his "demon" epilepsy, melancholy and lonely, "forever roaming with a hungry heart".
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But as the stakes grow greater for his father's embattled kingdom, Mr. Hassell's Hal pivots convincingly from errant playboy to determined warrior, and ultimately, of course, to an inspiring Henry V. His few scenes with his doubting, despairing father, imbued by Mr. Britton with an exhausted desperation tinged with shadowing guilt, are deeply affecting.
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Beginning in 21971—the year of Pollock's first solo gallery show—she painted almost nothing but "gray slabs," as she put it, for three despairing years, while she struggled toward his kind of deeply personal abstraction, attempting to paint not what she devised but what she felt and, even more psychologically daunting, who she was.
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Mr. Sands came out strongly against the legality of the 2003 Iraq war, an issue about which he is fiercely critical of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, and he is despairing about Britain's vote to leave the European Union, changing his entry on Wikipedia from an "Anglo-French lawyer" to a "Franco-British" one.
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Despairing of the United States ever sincerely and effectively advancing a program of international progress, they instead hope the country will simply refrain from current conduct (arming and underwriting Saudi Arabia's genocidal war in Yemen, Israel's apartheid-style administration of its Palestinian subjects, General el-Sisi's imprisonment and execution of dissidents in Egypt, etc.).
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Having been showered in glowing headlines and rhapsodic prose for his role in Leicester's title glory, Vardy was instantly plunged into the maelstrom of self-loathing that followed England's defeat to Iceland, accompanied as it was by several days of national mourning, despairing back pages and general angst on our streets and in our Twitter feeds.
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But Once Upon a Time in Hollywood's overall tone undermines that viewpoint, to me; it seems to observe its women through the wrong end of a telescope because it just doesn't know what else to do with them — while quietly despairing over that fact as a part of its attempt to simultaneously eulogize and deconstruct its own mythos.
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Williams also suffers from chronic status anxiety, despairing over the slow start to his film career (which doesn't achieve box-office liftoff until "Good Morning, Vietnam" in 1987), and, even after he has become a bona fide movie star, fretting that his place in the comedy firmament is being usurped by some upstart — say, Jim Carrey during his "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" ascendancy.
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Just as many truths coexist here simultaneously, the paradoxical beauty of Detroit is in its sharp contrasts: the overgrown adjacent to the meticulously maintained; the preponderance of hand-painted signs that may or may not indicate the actual business in residence; a mural of a thriving community garden next to a snow-strewn vacant lot beneath a blazing McDonald's sign; the hopeful and the despairing.
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This summer, even as she tightened her grip on the top ranking that she will maintain despite Monday's defeat, Halep was seen on television summoning Cahill to the court during one changeover in Montreal — he waved her off — and despairing to him for having missed a second-set match point against Kiki Bertens in the Western & Southern Open final before wilting in the third.
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Extinction Rebellion drew strength from a long history of localized direct action campaigns to stop specific environmental threats, like occupations to stop fracking in England's south, coal mining in Germany, and the Dakota Access Pipeline in the US. It also drew many veteran environmental activists who were despairing that CO2 emissions were continuing to shoot up, even after world leaders were well aware of the threat global warming poses.
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With Nick's little brother playing a similar game and Conor McGregor busy chasing Floyd Mayweather around the block and Chael Sonnen gone to seed in Bellator, the cynical MMA fan can't help despairing that a golden era of MMA personalities has passed and that all we've been left with is incomparable fighters redefining athletic possibility and artistic potential and constantly re-creating the sport we love best through sheer will, dedication, and invention.
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Furious and despairing about the actions of the current administration, the group will then travel about 40 miles down the road to Dilley, Texas, where they will be joined by others for a protest at the euphemistically named South Texas Family Residential Center, where children are being separated from their parents — like Ina and others who were separated from parents during World War II. "We're in our 70s, 80s, and 90s," Ina said.
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To read "The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), an ample new selection edited by Robert Alter, is to leaf through the calendar of a sensibility: in this bright book of life, he writes about war and love, about his mother and father, about his children and his neighbors, about loving the Jews and despairing of the Jews, about shopping for groceries in Jerusalem and the politics of Jerusalem, about sex and about God.
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Having left other European leaders uniformly unimpressed and in many cases despairing in her comments at the start of the European Council summit, Theresa May responded to questions (to say she answered them would, judging by accounts of the encounter, be an overstatement) then withdrew and spent the following five or so hours waiting on the outside while the heads of the remaining 27 members of the EU, along with their advisers and EU officials, thrashed out a solution.
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A better way to describe Houellebecq's fictional worlds—in Whatever (his nihilistic office comedy), The Elementary Particles (the international blockbuster about sexual liberalization and its despairing effects that made Houellebecq famous), Platform (his novel about sex tourism and terrorism), and The Map and the Territory (in which the murder of Michel Houellebecq is juxtaposed with the portrait of the celebrity conceptual artist Jed Martin)—is as zones alternately drained of enchantment and stuffed with phony enchantment.
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In "Portrait," Joyce ventures inside that part of our identity for which no language yet exists, probing into the space between what belongs to the individual alone and what is ours together, exploring the shifts of mind, the currents of our moods and feelings as they flow blindly this way and that, and mapping the unarticulated, more or less salient presence of the soul, that part of our inner being that rises when we are enthused and falls when we are afraid or despairing.
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There was no note nothing only the faint metallic whiff of blood and the tinny smell of internal organs her son's brain her thirty-six-year-old son's brain her thirty-six-year-old son who had torn out of her one August afternoon with the monsoon coming down in unforgiving sheets outside the bungalow and the Indian midwife inscrutable dumb in her foreign language and Clare's ayah all crowding around thirty-one hours for a little head to come out but all tangled up inside and Dr. Higgins despairing too unforeseen complications the child who made the beginning and the end unendurably difficult while her contractions racked her as if there were no end and no end to the deluge outside waters breaking everywhere this child who would almost take her life with him while receiving his.
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