| 单词 | despairing |
| 例句 | Poor Psyche in her despairing wanderings was trying to win the gods over to her side. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z This was by far the worst disaster yet, and it was with despairing hearts that they put in at the next island they reached. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Jason thought back to Ithaca, when he was despairing over the visit from his mom’s spirit. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z His face—hurt, bewildered, despairing—had brought it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “The important people know the difference,” Kote said as if he were trying to convince himself, but his voice was weary and despairing, without conviction. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She took down their words at breakneck pace, despairing because while she was filling a page, the one before it was erased. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ajay’s father taught Class Two, despairing that his own son was one of the slowest to learn inside a classroom. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Walter didn't say anything as I explained the situation, but he had a strange, despairing look on his face. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Siddhartha had wanted to drown himself in this river; the old, tired, despairing Siddhartha was today drowned in it. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The very word begins to have a despairing and diabolical ring. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z For the despairing moments in between, I was left in my personal darkness. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Is there no hope for Hamlet then?” asked Horatio, sounding despairing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I was despairing over this latest failure, made worse by the fact that Rich seemed blind to it all. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She lifted the gun, aimed it at the despairing slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Her locker was depressingly empty, but the second thing kept her from despairing too much: June’s mom had agreed to let her go to the dance. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “No sight of misery disturbs us, nor of despairing poverty out in vain search for employment.... We work our eight hours a day in peaceful security and in absolute confidence of our pay.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z So I read the Psalms, especially the despairing ones, until their words become fixed in my mind, but no peace settles there. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z This may yet be his salvation, for, if all go well, it will tide him over the despairing period; he will then, in a kind of way, wake again to the realities of life. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Then we had another one of these new, despairing silences. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Not knowing what would befall me next, I clutched my mother’s image, feeling all at once abandoned and chosen, despairing and hopeful. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z When Cyrus stumped out into the night he was filled with a kind of despairing anger at Charles. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Put the squirrel in a sack? Hit the squirrel over the head with a shovel?” said Flora’s father in a squeaky, despairing voice. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z About the older man, who only wore the uniform to please his brother, there was a homespun blackness, the true, despairing dark of mourning. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Their previous despairing expressions were replaced by wide, sunny grins. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Look at me. I am nothing,” I said, suddenly despairing again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Mom had that despairing look on her face like she did after the massacre. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Just like the old women who’d surrounded her bed, despairing of their inability to murder her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Finally, despairing of rest, Quentyn Martell made his way to his solar, where he poured himself a cup of wine and drank it in the dark. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In all his dreaming—and indeed, all his despairing—he had never foreseen this: that his impossible dream might simply...ride through the gates. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She was despairing of ever getting it right when one morning there was gum under the pillow. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I frequently had difficult conversations with clients who were struggling and despairing over their situations—over the things they'd done, or had been done to them, that had led them to painful moments. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He said nothing else, but the shocked, outraged, despairing note of anguish in the word said all the rest. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was something to make them proud, something to give them hope after the despairing stories of Bull Run and Ball’s Bluff and Wilson’s Creek. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally I lay down on the bed, scared and despairing, staring blankly out the window as the sky began to turn purple, then pink, with a new day. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z She woke later that night to hear voices—despairing, yearning voices. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I would not, under any circumstances, seem despairing or even disappointed to my captors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They were even despairing faces: as if the people they belonged to had done dreadful things and also suffered dread ful things. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z I cannot run away on the muscular effects of adrenaline, but I could taste fear in the back of my throat and feel its despairing weight in my slack limbs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In his mind’s eye, Ruza shook his head, despairing of ever making a warrior of him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And then he wept, despairing, for his own land, trudging down beside the endless wash of the wide, wide sea, weary and desolate as the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what to say,” said Mrs. Hartman, her voice indignantly astonished, and also despairing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Roused up, despairing in that gloom, I thought: ‘Should I go overside for a quick finish or clench my teeth and stay among the living?’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He threw himself with a despairing gesture into a chair, and placed his elbows on the table, covering his face with his hands as he spoke:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z When he became quieter, not less despairing but too exhausted to keep on, I said, “I’m sorry I brought up Brinker. I didn’t know you hated him so much.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He picks it up, slowly making the connection, but when I slide down to join him, he looks more despairing than ever. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z With a last despairing effort Frodo raised himself on his hands, and struggled on for maybe twenty yards. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They went in despairing grief, leaving the lovely helpless creature to meet her doom alone, and they shut themselves in their palace to mourn all their days for her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I prayed for courage in a blind despairing way, and dug my nails into my hands. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The stable hands, despairing of getting help to the track fast enough, fetched the only transportation on hand, a little runabout truck that the track starter used to motor around the course. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z What does he want of me this time? he thought, despairing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Irish do have a despairing quality of gaiety, but they have also a dour and brooding ghost that rides on their shoulders and peers in on their thoughts. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There were no more tricks to play; exhausted, despairing, he collapsed on his bed and fell asleep. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In the wake of his own shock of despairing realization, he was taking charge. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z He was frightened—for the despairing man in front of him, for himself, and his family. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The gray, despairing weariness of protracted maneuvers and combat did not touch him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s dying, the store is, like the rest of the town and Mr. Phelps spends all his time despairing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Then to the sullen and despairing North there came heartening news, the first of which was in a dispatch from Mobile, Alabama. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, I got distracted by the teacher’s despairing cry. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where is your life, Gabriel?” she asked, after a despairing pause. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Then she who has such a happy name speaks to me in a despairing voice: “But, Ruthie, I have to admit, the world can be a frightening place sometimes.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z No awful, awful, despairing longing nowhere I can hear or feel. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z This idea plunged me into a reverie so despairing and frightful that even now, when the scene is on the point of closing before me for ever, I shudder to reflect on it. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z So she hardened her skin against the wind, her blood against the cold, her heart against the despairing sky. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Not long after his arrival, Louie was standing at the base, sweating and despairing over the landscape, when a squarish second lieutenant walked up and introduced himself. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Yossarian threw his arms up into the air in a gesture of mighty and despairing self recrimination. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Late in the despairing afternoon I stopped my truck and approached a majestic Maine state trooper. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In despairing moments, he sits alone, his head in his hands, his baseball cap pulled down over his face. Review: ‘Standing Tall,’ a Boy’s Encounter With the Law 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z In a gripping final scene, charged by Stravinsky’s piercing, ominous music, we see the despairing emperor dying. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z She was also an accomplished actor, gaining an Oscar nomination for best actress in 1955 for her portrayal of a despairing, alcoholic blues singer in Pete Kelly's Blues. Reese Witherspoon set to play Peggy Lee in Nora Ephron's biopic 2010-08-10T10:47:00Z In a searing passage, he walks out of his migrant camp on an unnamed Mediterranean island, wades into the sea and projects onto the universe his own despairing sensibility as he prepares to die: Review | Three tragic characters are mysteriously linked in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The film finished with New Order playing on the soundtrack alongside a Thatcher speech on cruise missiles as Diana's despairing face was frozen on screen. Royal Wedding; Worried About the Boy; Girls and Boys: Sex and British Pop; Ashes to Ashes 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z Rowling responded to a despairing Twitter user who asked, "How do we even move forward from here?" 'I can't go on, I'll go on': Authors react to Trump's win with optimism, despair 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z An encyclopedic, oddly structured, grimly funny novel, it was met with both enthusiasm and frustration: Entertainment Weekly ran a piece despairing that it was impossible to finish. The genius of “Infinite Jest”: How David Foster Wallace’s masterpiece saved the “big” novel — and why it’s not “a thousand-page suicide note” 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z 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. Review: ‘Dance Nation,’ the Power and the Terror of Girls at 13 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Artistic directors began to look to a dour and nihilistic political theatre to reflect a more despairing zeitgeist, or to more commercial projects to keep their doors open. Snoo Wilson obituary 2013-07-05T17:57:52Z Smarting from the murder of his cousin the year before, and despairing over the decline of his hometown, Mr. Tubbs exchanged his studies for a grass-roots campaign. ‘True Son,’ on Michael Tubbs’s Campaign in Stockton 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z It is not an easy or a consoling movie, but it is the opposite of bitter or despairing. Review: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Will Make You Rethink Race 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Ultimately, this view of politicians embodies a profoundly despairing individualist view of human affairs. Heard the one about the corrupt, lying politician? 2011-08-25T21:30:03Z The first was “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” along with what I boasted upon its release was the “Feel Bad Movie of 2012 Christmas Holiday Season,” the despairing Death Row documentary “Into the Abyss.” The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z Despite the title, “The Verdict of the People,” and the seeming jubilation of many of the figures in the picture, Bingham was representing a despairing moment in the life of his state, and American politics. The controversy behind the painting that will hang at Trump’s inaugural luncheon 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Coleman was dismissed as too angry, too despairing, too contradictory, too unruly and too black. The Poems That Poets Turn To in a Time of Strife 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z In the downbeat, despairing worlds of both these thrillers, this upbeat, inspiring theme shines. Review | An online warehouse gone rogue. Driverless cars, hijacked: Fiction that feels eerily possible. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z All but despairing of finding the right actress, he is astonished when one shows up at his door, begs to be allowed to audition, and then establishes psychological and sexual mastery over the man. Cannes 2013 lineup: heavy-hitters and unexpected gems 2013-04-18T15:22:59Z I can only imagine that other Asian roles sent their actors home despairing of ever playing a character that would be more than a flat stereotype. Hooray for Joan Watson: Why well-rounded Asian-American characters matter 2014-01-22T23:59:00Z But, on Thursday night, Stewart sounded tired and despairing, as if coming to terms with the fact that the nation’s most poisonous problems would outlast his ability to mock or rage against them. Jon Stewart's Charleston Despair 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Staying at the Trump International is far from despairing. For $805 a night at the Trump Hotel, you deserve what you get 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Skillfully applied by the director, Tamilla Woodard, this stagecraft reinforces affecting performances by the actors who play the despairing souls placed in harm’s way. Theater Review: ‘La Ruta,’ a Portable Production by Working Theater 2013-04-26T22:43:18Z Now its adorably anxious cartoon cogs in the machine are being used to sell more cute stuff to despairing human beings. How Sanrio Makes Anti-Capitalism Adorable, and Profitable 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z He describes getting a call from his despairing wife. 'Culture Crash' examines the crisis in the creative industry 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z I stopped despairing for what I didn’t get and I began cherishing what I did. My drinking years: ‘Everyone has blackouts, don’t they?’ 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z If Walter is the film’s official mouthpiece, Ms. Stewart’s sullen character, Sophie, one of his students, is its despairing op-ed voice. Review: ‘Anesthesia’ Ponders the Meaningfulness of Life 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Her love for Jacob is unaffected by his changed appearance and she devotes herself steadfastly to maintaining their relationship, but she runs up against the adamant wall of Jacob’s despairing indifference. The Best Movies I Saw at SXSW 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z That’s why I can honestly say that the experiences and lessons of the past five years have left me more hopeful than despairing. What I have learned from five years of Everyday Sexism 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z As the Post interviews continued earlier this week, Talese’s mood became more despairing. Talese backtracks on his disavowal of his voyeur book 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Or, he added in the wry, lightly despairing voice of his fiction, “a place to show off your poodles.” Ben Lerner Imagines ‘Different Futures’ in His Novel ‘10:04’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z In “Company B” he employed just the right elusive gravity opposite Amy Young in the despairing “There Will Never Be Another You.” Dance Review: Celebrating Paul Taylor at Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2010-08-08T22:44:00Z But, in the end, these are not despairing works. With colored pencils and confessional phrases, Amanda Manitach’s art speaks to many 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Photograph: Jo Hale/Getty Images Last week saw music fans despairing at the news that London's historic 100 Club venue on Oxford Street was facing closure. Punks, what's your problem? The 100 Club was past its prime 2010-09-27T14:46:00Z 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. From Politics to Scandals, Sports Seem to Speak to Our Times 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z In the final song, when the brook invites the despairing, suicidal young man to rest within its waters, Mr. Polenzani’s singing was poignantly vulnerable. Music Review: A Swagger and Some Bluster for the Sake of Telling Stories 2011-04-04T21:28:36Z In what almost serves as an epilogue to the film, McCabe shows Ndala’s truck on fire and his despairing troops screaming that his body, inside, is being incinerated. “This Is Congo” and the Ongoing Despair in the Democratic Republic of Congo 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z This will stop you feeling overwhelmed and despairing. My small penis has ruined my life 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z Once, while painting happily on the shore, he got knocked over by the rapidly incoming tide, despairing later about the danger to himself and the loss of his work. Seattle Art Museum has a new Monet exhibition. Is it needed? 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z The movie lacks the visual austerity and despairing tone of its forerunners in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Movie Review: ‘Broken’ Brings Kitchen-Sink Realism to Today’s Britain 2013-07-18T21:30:52Z To many archaeologists, it suggests a despairing absence of other explanations. Why Frome is still cashing in on the Romans 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z “So, if I kill myself tonight/stop the headache/and the genius all at once,” he wrote at the end of one despairing poem, continuing: Rene Ricard, Art Arbiter With Wildean Wit, Dies at 67 2014-02-07T01:26:22Z Perhaps because Saviano doesn’t seek the roots of evil, his vision is a despairing one. Natural Born Killers: Italy’s ‘Baby Gangs’ Blast Through Roberto Saviano’s Debut Novel 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Sullivan also weaves together the busy welter of subplots with uncommon dexterity, resulting in a satisfying tapestry depicting love in all its wonder and surprise, its breathtaking highs and its despairing lows. Theater Review: ‘As You Like It,’ With Lily Rabe in Central Park 2012-06-22T02:00:14Z But the merciless tempos allow no time for appreciation of details, not even in the emotionally penetrating slow movement, the most despairing in Beethoven. Pianist Murray Perahia scales the Everest of Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' in a momentous performance 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” is a much more despairing play, less about discovery than about deepening confusion. How ‘Wolves’ and ‘Heroes’ Are Saving Pandemic Theater 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z What this version focuses on is Stephen's transformation from an ardent lover into a figure of despairing isolation in the face of endless human sacrifice. Birdsong 2010-09-28T23:36:00Z But his writing about his experiences was a good deal more self-aware, funny and despairing than that claim might suggest. Ned Rorem, Composer Known for Both His Music and His Diaries, Dies at 99 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Glück is a lyric poet in the line of the metaphysical poets, like George Herbert, who also used flowers as images of the soul, and the poems in her book have a despairing power. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XIII 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z But as for the children, I find myself if not forgiving them, at least despairing that circumstances led them to such a hell. Their Inner Beasts: ‘Lord of the Flies’ Six Decades Later 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z “Usually, the speaker of my poems is a little agitated, a little smartass, a little angry, satirical, despairing,” he told the arts journal Cerise Press in 2009. Thomas Lux, Poet Who Wrote of Life’s Absurdities, Dies at 70 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The new Will Ferrell movie Everything Must Go is based on a typically sparse and despairing story by Raymond Carver called Why Don't You Dance? Everything Must Go: Will Ferrell, at Home in Carver Country 2011-05-12T09:10:00Z In Sibs Shongwe-La Mer’s “Necktie Youth,” set in Johannesburg, the death of a young woman who livestreams her suicide provokes despairing, incoherent conversations that expose the emptiness of lives that revolve around sex and drugs. At the Tribeca Film Festival, Movies for Every Taste 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z “Stylish, despairing and very funny, ‘Fake Accounts’ doesn’t necessarily provide an answer to this question. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z It's not about despairing of humanity; more about discovering – and attempting to understand – a little-known corner of it. TV Review: The 15-Stone Babies; Pensioners Behind Bars 2012-12-13T23:00:00Z It circles back to this terrible, despairing idea of looking back nostalgically and looking forward, and feeling that there is a cycle of corruption and futility. Why the bleak film classic "Chinatown" is our new reality 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z After a lonely, drunk, despairing spiral in season 4, it’s where he journeys to Disneyland and returns with a new wife. Mad Men Character Study: Dick Whitman’s Last Stand 2013-06-24T16:39:28Z But in this most restless and despairing symphony of the Mahler cycle, Alsop chose cogency over trenchancy much of the time. A Mahler under control 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z After a despairing dream, Paulo is visited by the devil in disguise who tells him that God wants him to go to Naples, where he will meet the same end as Enrico. Damned by Despair – review 2012-10-11T11:50:26Z The play opens as Jack arrives at the New Jersey condominium of his pal Vincent, despairing over a breakup with his unfaithful girlfriend. | 'Two-Man Kidnapping Rule': 3 Guys Grow Up One Night 2011-11-13T23:19:29Z But mostly it was the solitude of the place, the pure, sad, despairing aloneness of this one green patch. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z But it is with Hamlet that we are introduced to a despairing consciousness, someone whose inner world is as painful as his external reality. To be or not to be: Playwrights on the complex issue of suicide 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z But it was nevertheless a marvel when, after giving up the art he loved and despairing over his health, Hall found the way back to prose, and to such sterling work. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z If nothing else, those despairing over the apocalyptic tenor of our current moment might take some measure of solace from the realization that the apocalypse has been going strong for four generations now. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Killing of America 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z They keep him from despairing that things will never be put back together. A competitive beardsman saw his home burn. But then fans of his reality show came to help. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Television news cameras captured images of people weeping, screaming in anger, despairing that they would now have to sell their homes because they would not be able to pay the taxes. The Tea Party’s inspiration: A tax revolt that destroyed California 2013-09-15T13:30:00Z But all three, despite their grim stories and projections, leave the reader galvanized, not despairing. Three Views of the Crisis in Women’s Health 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z “We really, really have won the hearts and minds of the majority of Americans — this is a despairing setback.” A generation of LGBTQ advocates hopes the clock isn’t ticking backward 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Back in the central stage, the dancer who performs Ulysses's despairing solo is different from the one who concludes the work in a wary duet of reunion. New Movement Collective: Nest – review 2013-07-18T16:49:06Z "They were getting in the way, they were making it look …" he looks mildly despairing, "and I didn't want it to be that way." Tom Jones: 'Spiritual songs are natural to me' 2010-07-01T20:30:00Z Those experiences are distilled in the bleak eyes, the despairing scream and the leathery skin – superbly created using soft grey shade – of Leonardo's bitter survivor. Master of war: Leonardo da Vinci's images of conflict 2010-09-03T11:06:00Z With all the recklessness of Egypt’s queen I would then swallow the no longer costly brew in one long delirious gulp, but not without first pouring a generous and despairing libation to Venus Margaretifera. Special Report: A Cut Above: Jewelry: Mother Nature Fights Back 2010-12-10T18:40:00Z It even makes the unions representing other teachers angry because, apparently despairing of ever seriously improving their own members' pay, they've focused on dragging headteachers down into the same under-remunerated swamp. Why shouldn't a teacher earn more than Dave? After all, he's a class act 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z The slow movement sounded curiously Russian, its meandering phrases taking on some of the aridity we associate with Shostakovich at his most despairing. LPO/Wigglesworth – review 2013-05-02T17:22:24Z They opened with the Sonata No. 6 in A, composed in 1802, the year in which Beethoven wrote the Heiligenstadt Testament, a despairing letter to his brothers about his worsening deafness, which he never sent. Music Review: Chamber Music Society Completes a Beethoven Project 2010-05-16T21:44:00Z A despairing Charlamagne answered him, “We need a president in the White House that’s going to build bridges and not walls.” For Stephen Colbert, a Very Uncomfortable Election Night 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z There are moments of despairing comedy, but the play asks its three actors to perform for 70 minutes at an emotional pitch that’s dog-whistle high. ‘Ndebele Funeral,’ Set in South Africa, at 59E59 Theaters 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z In the middle, da Silveira’s feminist message toggles between despairing realism and ultra-dark comedy, making for a smart, if repetitive, takedown of religious extremism. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z His lyrics are rhetorically sophisticated, and frequently despairing, but his focus is always granular. A Springsteen Cover Band Is a Fitting Choice for Trump’s Inauguration 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z They were a "mutual despairing society" who tried to cheer each other up. Friends remember Joseph Heller and 'Catch-22' 2011-10-20T06:48:08Z Many readers—myself included—walked away from Alexander’s article despairing at the human cost of the sort of national acclaim that, for so many restaurants, is the brass ring. It’s Never Just About the Burger 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The book suggested that the episode contributed to Dickinson’s despairing mental state and posited that she might have committed suicide for that and other reasons. John E. Walsh, Who Distilled the Bible, Dies at 87 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z “Some people are despairing that people have just become unmoored from facts, that there is a substantial part of the audience that may be unreachable,” she said. Journalists despair over toll of disinformation on jobs 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Few of Packer's characters are easily categorised as Democrats or Republicans, hopeful or despairing, or winners or losers, which helps make their stories absorbing. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer – review 2013-06-21T07:01:01Z If less of a shocker, this outburst came across as genuinely despairing, the cry of a broken man. Review: Spruce and Taut, the Met Opera’s ‘Fidelio’ Looks Good at 17 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z His portrait of the decent, driven, despairing detective sergeant is what gives its hopeful vein of humanity. Animal Kingdom ? review 2011-02-27T00:05:24Z Cut to: a wedding invitation; a silent, despairing Jacob; a well-coiffed wedding planner busily addressing envelopes. Ten-minute 'Twilight': what 'Eclipse' would look like as a film short 2010-06-25T21:40:00Z I am not despairing, but there is a real danger we might undo the work of the last few years. Arts spending will be vital for economic revival, says Lord Puttnam 2011-04-09T23:06:52Z By turns playful and fierce, Packer alters mercurially from a "woman warrior" like Joan of Arc to a bashful young Juliet to a despairing Lady Macbeth, to name but a few of the most familiar. Review: Captivating, eloquent 'Women of Will' 2013-02-04T18:11:11Z “The Humbling” deals with a character who is despairing because he’s growing older and believes he’s no longer proficient at the things that defined him. Al Pacino and Barry Levinson on Age, Accomplishments and 'The Humbling' 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Physically closed in and unsmiling, outwardly surly and inwardly despairing, Autumn doesn’t quip her way out of trouble or even talk that much. ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ Review: A Woman’s Heroic Journey 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z It’s not so much that I ever feel totally despairing but that I’m often filled with more questions than answers. Cheryl Strayed: “Tackle love” 2012-07-08T01:00:00Z Yielding a message complex enough to offer hope that the lyrics—more bemused than enraged, more depressive than despairing—will catch up. The Rock Critic Robert Christgau’s Big-Hearted Theory of Pop 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z But if it’s a demanding film, in the end it isn’t a despairing one. Review: Holocaust Drama Son of Saul Is Rigorous, Demanding and Rewarding 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Jimmy Stewart stars as a despairing man who finds value in his life with the help of an aspiring angel, Clarence. Michael Bublé, Charlie Brown among TV’s holiday headliners 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z If you're anxious or despairing, as so many of us are, a character coded to be this season's villain might not seem so terrible. Assimilate us, "Westworld": With humanity this horrible – onscreen and off – just let the robots win 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z It reminds me on whose behalf I’m most despairing about the turn the world has taken, and for whom that despair must, nonetheless, daily be dispelled. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z When it comes to communicating pathos, her despairing expression would come a distant second to a wet lettuce. Rewind TV: Zen; Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent; Silent Witness ? TV review 2011-01-09T00:05:37Z Those terrifying, despairing, pain-filled glances, in their intricate interrogations, are the very core of the film. The Cinematic Merits and Flaws of Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z It's inarguably a strikingly original work by a director who is both amused and despairing about the modern entertainment business. Ari Folman animates Robin Wright in 'The Congress' 2013-05-21T12:05:12Z Mr. Abdrazakov does his most burnished, powerful singing in the prince’s despairing soliloquy in this scene. Music Review: A New Vision for ‘Prince Igor’ at the Met 2014-02-07T11:38:03Z He offers a despairing, unsparing indictment of everyone in Congress who went along with Trump’s election. Senator Flake, a Republican, Explains Why He Didn’t Vote for Trump 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z And Pella, despite her avowals to avoid another complicated romantic entanglement, falls for the woebegone Mike, who’s despairing over his future. Books of The Times: ?The Art of Fielding? by Chad Harbach - Review 2011-09-05T22:32:00Z In her latest book, too, even when she is at her most despairing, the author rarely loses her sense of humor. Review: In Susan Barker’s ‘The Incarnations,’ Lives of Despair (Past and Present) in China 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z From within his inner circle leaked the news that he was shocked by the nation's antipathy, and despairing. Robert Mugabe's brutal 2008 crackdown: torture, death and a stolen election 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z No. This wouldn’t be an exercise in rage, self-pity or despair, not purely, although the terrain will, by necessity, be despairing. The Reconciliation Must Be Televised 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z 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. In Defense of Jane Austen. Also Zebras. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z But it’s also hard to shake the suspicion that she may be right about Yoav, and correct in her increasingly despairing assessment of his environment. Review: From Israel, ‘The Kindergarten Teacher,’ a Drama About Poetry and Obsession 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Stylish, despairing and very funny, “Fake Accounts” doesn’t necessarily provide an answer to this question. ‘Fake Accounts’ Examines the Alluring Trap of Our Online Personas 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z The relationship ended in 1961, and the breakup produced, according to one wall label, “some of the most bitter and despairing works of Johns’s career.” Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: A seminal artist’s career is celebrated and illuminated in two cities 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Condemned to death in the desert, the despairing prince miraculously spies “a lofty and spacious castle towering to the sky.” In these medieval Arab tales, a heavy dollop of spice 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z No matter what despairing circumstances humankind is living in, springtime in nature is a perfect world of potential. Seeds, the Gateway Drug to Gardening 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Yet the mood inside his studio seemed anything but despairing, and he approached art with visible appetite. Painting the Arab World, From Afar 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z But it’s the show’s carefully calculated tone that he most admires — a “balance between the glorious and the vile, the romantic and the brutal, the euphoric and the despairing, and the grand and the intimate.” ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’: The Reviews Are in 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z She added, "It was very despairing, but the sadness somehow fueled my delivery to honor all of those faces." Wisconsin singer Franki Moscato vows to 'save kids from hurting themselves' 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z Light and hopeful or candidly despairing, these family interludes emphasize the role-playing required by men whose searing memories of massacred toddlers and fallen comrades dominate their thoughts. Review: ‘Of Men and War’ Chronicles the Trauma of Combat Veterans 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z His father, a geologist in the Raj, despaired of his wild son, and – like many despairing fathers of wild sons – signed him up for Sandhurst. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper – review 2012-10-12T21:55:11Z She was despairing over life – what is the point of surviving if it just brings more killing and death? The Walking Dead: season seven, episode two – The Well 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z But the way Sonya gives dignity and comfort to her despairing uncle reminds us of the obligations we have to one another to bear our portion of sorrow. To be or not to be: Playwrights on the complex issue of suicide 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z When Thomas tries to dismiss her, Vanda slumps into a despairing monologue about the humiliating life of a struggling actress. | 'Venus in Fur': ?Venus in Fur,? by David Ives, With Nina Arianda - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z Yet it is all that is left to me,” Beethoven wrote in 1801, despairing at his encroaching deafness and other physical ailments. Music Review: Richard Goode at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-03T22:16:10Z “We’ve even got them here,” he said, with a despairing gesture around the building of the University of Westminster. Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z One of the film’s most despairing speeches is Willis’s soliloquy about the failure of sex to bring the kind of transcendence he’s seeking. ‘Memphis,’ From Tim Sutton, Mixes Music and Mysticism 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z One country that uses none of these words is Jordan, with the extremely modest and slightly despairing new slogan “Yes, it’s Jordan.” ‘Yes, it’s Jordan’: World tourism slogans range from lovely to laughable 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z There is a song from the Baltimore club scene, ‘Dance My Pain Away,’ about a person who is broken and despairing and yet people are dancing to it. Dan Deacon explores 'America' 2012-08-30T04:59:00Z Yet his films, this one even more than “Norte,” are the opposite of despairing. Review: ‘The Woman Who Left’ Is an Epic, Intimate Tale of Injustice 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z 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. Steven Pinker Continues to See the Glass Half Full 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Calarco also connects the audience to the dark humor that Cooper finds even in despairing moments. Review: 'Memory Show' is poignant musical on loss 2013-05-01T00:33:15Z The standoff that results, as Silviu finally decides to grab what he wants in life, proves as despairing as it is tense. If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle ? review 2012-05-17T21:01:01Z A couple of clicks and a credit-card authorization later, fans had access to a startling, sometimes funny, often despairing hour and seven minutes of “Horace and Pete,” written by, directed by, and starring Louis C.K. “Horace and Pete” Is Louis C.K.’s Most Audacious Independent Creation Yet 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Stephen Miller chooses to wear a Chia Pet on his head and it’s — Stephen, you have never looked more lonely or despairing. Perspective | How should we talk about Stephen Miller’s hair? 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z 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. Is This the Best Opera Singer You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Ali is desperately lonely, bored and despairing of ever leaving Guantánamo. ‘Camp X-Ray’: Acting shines through darkness of Gitmo tale 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z The book is a despairing account of a boy and his father lurching across the cold, wretched, corpse-strewn, ashen landscape of a post-apocalyptic world. Cormac McCarthy’s Unsettling Dream of a Novel 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Instead of substantively changing its production regime, Foxconn surrounded its factory buildings with yellow netting, to catch despairing workers before they hit the ground. In ‘Behemoth,’ Manufacturing Still Looms Large 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Her mother, a first-generation immigrant escaping despairing poverty in Colombia, is a powerhouse of wild achievement. Nell Zink's 'Nicotine' can leave a reader breathless 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Although the subjects of four of this year’s five documentary shorts include poverty, homelessness, cancer and heart disease, none could be described as despairing. Movie Review: ‘The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013’ Anthology 2013-01-31T22:57:57Z 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. With Police Brutality Episode, ‘black-ish’ Shows How Sitcoms Can Still Matter 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The tweets are brave, profound, playful, lyrical, despairing and occasionally very funny. A Writer Collapses. As He Recovers, His Dispatches Captivate Readers 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z At the end, Lelio, despairing of finding true happiness, seeks consolation in the creation of Art. Muti and the CSO at Carnegie Hall: Feel the love 2011-04-17T20:27:00Z “Beautiful Telephones” — written for President Trump, Bley explained — was doleful bordering on despairing, with Sheppard’s entrance kicking the tempo up a notch even while maintaining its darkness. Jazz legend Carla Bley delivers a night of beauty and magic at the Atlas 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Except that Nick is only a would-be Don Juan, a boy who lusts without letup and who, when the film opens, is despairing about his sex life. 2010-01-08T03:18:00Z Hernandez is at turns despairing and jovial, weirdly at ease in his jail life, seemingly unconcerned with his crimes. Aaron Hernandez: how did a $40m NFL star become a convicted killer? 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z His mesmerizing, acid soliloquies on clock repairing and climate despairing and small-town farce have no analogue in fiction. 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z So many of the entries were screedy: so bitter or despairing that their wit or humor was left panting on the floor. Style Invitational Week 1393: Another go at anagrams (O groan at a rash magnet?) 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Seemingly despairing of the future, Garvey openly pines for a life in the Andes, wearing “a sweater made of Atacama llama wool.” The genius of Elbow, the band Coldplay wishes it could be 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z The stories feature solitary men despairing in various locations. ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Even as his voice and expression change from haughty to defiant to despairing, Mr. Firth’s Bertie strives to maintain a lofty demeanor. The Oscars: The Prince and the Uncommon Commoner 2010-12-31T18:57:13Z They inhabit not only a despairing narrative but a fragile world. Kate Bush's Explores Nature on 50 Words For Snow 2011-11-22T16:55:18Z After fleeing Manhattan for the Hamptons and despairing of dating, she wrote another novel, “Is There Still Sex in the City?” ‘I Don’t Know What a Carrie Is’: Candace Bushnell Works It Out Onstage 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Disappointed and despairing, the 25-year-old gave up and poisoned himself with prussic acid. Review: ‘The Poet and the Vampyre: The Curse of Byron,’ by Andrew McConnell Stott More than an hour into the toxic industrial sludge that is the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, just as despairing moviegoers are reaching for their hemlock, comes a genuinely imaginative sequence. REVIEW: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mock Turtle 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z For a long time he secluded himself in his apartment, resentful and despairing. Jack Hofsiss, Stage Director of ‘The Elephant Man,’ Dies at 65 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z It was a good speech, especially for those of us who’ve been despairing over the fact that the GOP frontrunner’s speeches tend to be composed of disjointed screaming soundbites and outright calls to violence. Stop mooning over John Kasich: He’s not more “reasonable” than Trump, he’s just better at camouflaging his agenda 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z For him, Grendel’s mother is a Black mother, despairing over her murdered son: Moving From Elegy to Ecstasy, a Poet Pushes Against the Canon 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z I was despairing of finding someone who played it correctly. Bridge: Bridge - San Francisco Fall Nationals 2012-12-08T00:12:12Z 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. Weekend in Los Angeles: That Touch of Brazil 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z It’s a slavery-era spiritual, built around, among other things, a despairing plea for Jesus to raise Lazarus from the dead. ‘Amazing Grace’: How Aretha Franklin Took Us All to Church 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z But she was also despairing and severe, alone in front of a candle waiting for her sons to return. Movie Stars Have Heroines, Too 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z They share a despairing vision of the decline of Main Street, U.S.A., which the film portrays as a decrepit wasteland of crumbling storefronts and empty streets. | 'John Mellencamp: It?s About You': ?John Mellencamp: It?s About You,? by Kurt and Ian Markus - Review 2012-01-03T23:26:44Z The angry son, the good friend, the bad husband, the quarreler, the sentimentalist, the secret lover, the despairing father.” Books of The Times: ?Charles Dickens,? by Claire Tomalin; ?Becoming Dickens? - 2011-10-24T22:30:07Z A ballad both despairing and hopeful, ostensibly about hunger. Annotated For the People: A Track By Track Look at the New R.E.M. Retrospective 2011-11-15T10:00:27Z The statement feels despairing; photography is only a play of surfaces, and our media culture is an exercise in superficiality. Hard truths and savage intensity 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z It is reminiscent of Brucker's 1928 The Pains of Youth, and its high-achieving but despairing medical students, one of whom opines that life is only a disappointment after the age of 17. Boys – review 2012-06-04T15:51:22Z “There’s absurdism in the news right now,” he said, “and it’s getting more and more absurd in a very despairing and awful way.” Kurt Vonnegut’s Vietnam-Era Play Lands With a Gasp 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z She becomes so inspired that she develops a new resentment for her children, despairing that she can’t make anything beautiful since she produced such an ugly son. Now Playing Nightly on Instagram: Sketch Comedy’s Newest Star 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z He heads into the publisher’s office, either despairing or full of renewed purpose, and Heidl parries successfully. A Novel Based on the True Story of a Con Man and His Ghostwriter 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z A must-watch because… If you’re despairing about the state of the United States, this portrait of a new political generation is a jolt of hopeful energy. 20 must-see documentaries to explain the world in 2020 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z As the pilot progresses, he goes from hopeful to indifferent to despairing, from chatting to God to challenging It. 'Last Man on Earth' is dark in a strangely sunny way 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z 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. In Sheet Metal and Scraps, Ronald Lockett Evokes Struggle and Survival 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Life is chaotic, there’s no doubt about that: we suffer poverty, tears, tantrums, despairing phone calls to social services and the DWP, and an awful lot of toilet-related disasters. Floods, fires and a very reggae Christmas: how autism touched my family 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z If Kleinman’s book leaves you despairing about the quality of care in medicine, Case’s will restore your faith. Patient Care Is Wrenching: A Psychiatrist, a Nurse and a Doctor Bare All 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z All this context is according to “Thunder at Twilight,” Frederic Morton’s excellent book on Vienna at the precipice of World War I, in which he tells us that Trotsky penned despairing essays about his homeland. Vienna is cited as the world’s most livable city. Most exciting? Not so much. 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Think about it: the quick, babyish, despairing impatience. The Pyro-American in Me 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z "Policeman" is an austere and fatalistic film, a discomforting and despairing look at Israeli society through the parallel examination of subcultures inevitably fated to clash. Israel's austere 'Policeman' makes no compromises 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Even Ben's bossy wife suffers her own sense of despairing isolation, crying "a woman wants to live with a man, not next to him." Review 2011-03-31T00:48:58Z Halfway through this mess, Lady Antebellum sang a despairing love song, and one lyric jumped right out of context: “What if it never gets better?” Perspective | Women aren’t the future of country music. They’re the present. 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Its tone is one of despairing cynicism, suggesting that everyone, journalists included, are out for what they can get. Stiffed! 2010-04-18T20:30:00Z Overseers dragged families apart as despairing mothers clutched their children and threw themselves on the ground, absorbing the blows raining on their backs. A History of Modernity That Puts Africa at Center Stage 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Is it any surprise that their take on American democracy is often despairing? When Political Theater Ditches the Disguises of Fiction 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Begley goes on: “He wasn’t despairing or thwarted or resentful; he wasn’t alienated or conflicted or drunk; he quarreled with no one.” Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z This is a despairing message in a despairing play, and it renders the actual plot almost secondary. Review: ‘American Son’ Puts Kerry Washington in a Maternal Nightmare 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Even when Mr. Firth switches the lights off in his eyes, he is a little too glamorous for the role of a despairing middle-aged milquetoast with a streak of kindness. Movie Review: ‘Arthur Newman,’ Starring Colin Firth and Emily Blunt 2013-04-26T00:31:05Z The movie’s principal saving grace is Ms. Winslet’s convincing portrayal of Adele, a despairing woman of low self-esteem just a twitch away from a nervous breakdown. Movie Review: In ‘Labor Day,’ Josh Brolin Romances Kate Winslet 2014-01-30T23:07:17Z Brahms wrote the first book while infatuated with Julie Schumann, the beautiful daughter of Robert and Clara Schumann; his distress over her marriage imbues the second book with a more despairing mood. Music Review: Of Maidens and Monks, In a Cozy Concert 2011-04-26T20:15:29Z My personal favorite album is “Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things,” the first Loud Family album, which does include some incredibly despairing songs. The lost pop genius of Scott Miller: “Whatever makes you fall in love with a pop song … he did that” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z He was also despairing some of the time too. The peak of Sinatra’s power: “Every Sinatra performance was acting. His greatest performance was as himself” 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z Clear, educational, informed and informative, but despairing nevertheless. TV review: Panorama: Disabled or Faking it?; Britain's Oldest Stand Up; Simply Italian 2012-07-30T20:05:01Z By discarding most of the theological debate, the movie is no longer a passion play but a gritty and despairing noir. | 'Brighton Rock': ?Brighton Rock,? Film of Graham Greene Novel - Review 2011-08-25T23:02:20Z You might wind up like Phil, who as the film progresses moves from confused to intrigued to despairing to, ultimately, profoundly self-actualized. Why Harold Ramis’ “Groundhog Day” is a perfect guide to life 2014-02-25T16:32:00Z It is in this tortured ambivalence—her decision to leave her child and her even more despairing desire to retrieve him—that Harriet’s life begins to echo Lessing’s own. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z But instead of lapsing into a despairing funk, she claws her way out of the abyss. ‘Stray Dogs,’ by Tsai Ming-liang, a Tale of Alienation 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z At the time, many singles, hot or otherwise, were despairing about the pandemic and the ways it had complicated the dating equation. Dating Apps Were ‘Getting Old.’ Why Not Try Something Older? 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z The author of four novels, he is in the doldrums of his mid-fifties: long divorced, lonely, despairing, and frustrated in his attempts to write a new book. A Letter of Recommendation 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z In the trailer, he modulates among bloodied bruiser, gentle family man and despairing has-been, but only time will tell if the finished film is enough to put him back in the Oscar race. 'Southpaw' trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal fights for a title and his family 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z When Lee’s neighbors recall her middle-aged years in New York, “drunk and despairing,” you realize why she once said that she and Capote were “bound by a common anguish.” New & Noteworthy, From Narco Fiction to Governing California 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z 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. Review: Michael C. Hall Probes the Despair of ‘Thom Pain’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z In that role, Scott Bearden sang with a booming baritone and offered a theatrically compelling portrait, despairing as Enrico’s happiness is suddenly shattered. Music Review: At Caramoor, Fanning Donizetti?s Flames in ?Maria di Rohan? 2010-07-27T00:05:00Z Jim, in the brief look we get at him, seems more feckless than despairing. This Week in Fiction: Alice McDermott 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Heartbroken but not quite despairing, he testifies to the power of cinema as a tool of resistance even as he reckons with its — and his own — limitations. Best Movies of 2022 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z If you are despairing of your must-watch list now, it's only likely to get longer as companies such as Netflix and Amazon begin making their own television to supplement on-demand services. 10 reasons why we're watching more TV 2013-03-18T18:02:29Z What Brahms sets up in the first section is so hugely despairing. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z In the finale, a despairing, slow Adagio, Mr. Dudamel was better able to draw expansive phrasing from the players while still projecting the music’s overall structure. At Avery Fisher Hall, Dudamel on a Joy Ride 2010-05-21T22:43:00Z Charyn’s Salinger is an empty vessel, collecting ennui and experiences, despairing for some way to clarify it all in fiction. Review | By the end of 2020, we were supposed to have more J.D. Salinger. Instead we have ‘Sergeant Salinger.’ 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z But “Mecca” throbs with a despairing awareness of the South Africa of the 1970s as a broken and corrupting nation, a spiritual prison for those who inhabit it. | 'The Road to Mecca' : ?Road to Mecca? at American Airlines Theater - Review 2012-01-18T03:01:07Z Increasingly despairing, Clive observes, "I always believed in myself but I fear I'm becoming an atheist." Review: Ethan Hawke mines noir humor in 'Clive' 2013-02-08T03:08:08Z Indeed, listening now, it’s hard not to hear his despairing contribution, “You Never Knew My Mind,” in light of his 2017 suicide. Johnny Cash’s Poems Get a Second Life as Songs 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z The flower industry’s pandemic success at the retail level has revealed our zealous, if not a little despairing, need to nurture relationships from a distance. We Are Saying It With Flowers. Loudly and Repeatedly. 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z A despairing post published on September 1st begins, “How much will the Republican Party change after the Trumpocalypse? Zero. Nada. None at all.” The Sad Attempt to Make Trumpism Cool 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z It is a despairing experience to figure: No one’s ever going to stop. ArtsBeat: John Waters Tries Some Desperate Living on a Cross-Country Hitchhiking Odyssey 2012-05-25T13:29:55Z Angus Lennie, a diminutive Scottish actor who played the persistent but ultimately despairing “tunnel man” known as the Mole in the 1963 prison-camp movie “The Great Escape,” died on Sunday in London. Angus Lennie, Actor in ‘The Great Escape,’ Dies at 84 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z "He's not even tweeting," says one despairing girl, checking her phone for updates. Bieber fever 2010-04-03T23:05:00Z When I get very despairing about everything, I think, "Just because I don’t have the map doesn’t mean my kids don’t, or it doesn’t mean my kids won’t draw a new one." A.M. Homes, too, has met this guy at a reading: “I don’t read books by women” 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Advocating freedom from a system that “doesn’t want you to die and doesn’t want you to get well,” this hard-hitting film leaves us finally more hopeful than despairing. | 'Escape Fire': ‘Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare’ 2012-10-05T15:47:27Z His abstemious style made me long for a despairing wisecrack. ‘Ethics in the Real World,’ Peter Singer’s Provocative Essays 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Later in the war he would plot the two sides' changing fortunes on a big map of Spain, despairing as the Republicans lost control. Spanish Civil War artists go on show 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Dear Amy: "Worried Aunt" was despairing over the future of her niece, who was marrying a man with whom she was in a stalemate. Perspective | Ask Amy: Woman encounters karma at church 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z This combined group sang with tremendous energy, focus, and accuracy, in lyrics that range from the amorous and hopeful to the cynical and despairing. SSO delivers ‘Carmina’ in all its splendor 2014-04-04T19:06:01Z Soon enough, ABC's message boards were flooded with angry posts from viewers "sick" over the casting and despairing the show's "'anything goes' hippy culture." Can Chaz Bono dance like a dude? 2011-09-06T21:30:00Z Any harm bucketing down below is at best an abstraction, just as it is in 1929, when the play shows us suicides of despairing stockbrokers but none of the pain radiating through lower social strata. Review: In ‘The Lehman Trilogy,’ a Vivid Tale of Profit and Pain 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Or is it more than that — a furious, despairing takedown of America as the country battles its own worst instincts? Sean Penn, Satirist, Swings at America in a Wild Debut Novel 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z But Joubert's music, with its well-judged use of dissonance within a tonal context, seems much more striking when anguished and despairing than in the rather bland diatonic choral writing of the final two movements. An English Requiem 2010-08-11T21:00:00Z There's no The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, but he finds time for the sentimental Your Daddy Loves You, and the despairing The Bottle is sawn in half by a chant of "celebrate, celebrate". Gil Scott-Heron 2010-04-26T22:30:00Z “A Minor Apocalypse,” published in 1979, is about a despairing writer, also named Konwicki, who is asked by opposition political leaders to set himself on fire outside the country’s Community Party headquarters. Tadeusz Konwicki, Leading Polish Novelist and Filmmaker, Dies at 88 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Besides Mr. Bowden, who shares a despairing cynicism about Mexico’s future, the most outraged individual in the film is the Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, whose son was killed by drug traffickers. Movie Review: ?Murder Capital of the World,? a Look at Ciudad Ju?rez 2012-04-19T23:04:04Z It introduced the radical sympathy of his voice and the quietly despairing people who evoked it. Review: Rude T-Shirts and Rude Awakenings in ‘A Bright New Boise’ 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z If none of that comes to fruition, then the despairing voice in the back of my head saying the experience didn’t amount to anything but credit-card debt in the long run might win out. Last Year’s Fringe Festival Successes Look Back 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The final Adagio lamentoso was too fraught and searing to be despairing and defeated. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-07T21:24:21Z Though partly inspired by Ross’s battle with cancer while writing it, the record is more imagistic than diaristic, and more contemplative than despairing. 75 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z If we’re reading Machiavelli today, we might also learn something from his “lucidity, the weapon of the despairing.” A New Book Asks: Just How Machiavellian Was Machiavelli? 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z What it finds in the locker room, where the Empires change, shower, snap towels and squabble, is as despairing as what it finds on the field is still hopeful and good. Review: In ‘Take Me Out,’ Whose Team Are You On? 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z In the Times, the critic Jeannette Catsoulis used the words “monstrous,” “despairing,” “eerie,” “sinister” to describe “The Humans,” concluding that the family was stuck in a haunted house. When Is a Horror Movie Not a Horror Movie? 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z There is a communal sigh of disbelief and a lot of despairing head shaking. Eugene Jarecki and the campaign to end America's war on drugs 2013-03-31T00:02:00Z The role of the anguished femme fatale could have been made for the foxy, soubrette-ish Vallo, while Singleton's portrayal of the devoted, despairing Moon Dog is at once restrained and touching. Birmingham Royal Ballet ? Pointes of View 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z Here are seven other plastic surgery trends that will leave you despairing for mankind: The 7 weirdest plastic surgery trends 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z If it happened now, it would have given birth to thousands of despairing think pieces. TFI Friday's 10 best bits, from Shaun Ryder swearing to anarchic Spice Girls 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z While not as despairing as Melissa, Doug was uninspired by his New York marketing job, and together they plotted an escape. She brought kids joy with her ‘magical’ toys. And hid her own misery until it became unbearable. 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z Jacopetti's narrations were resolutely satirical, amusing, sad and at all times contemptuously despairing of humanity's failings. Gualtiero Jacopetti obituary 2011-08-18T21:06:08Z Adages like “No child should be left back from a quality education” and “Be something bigger than yourself” draw well-intentioned teachers desiring to save poor kids from their despairing circumstances. For white folks who teach in the hood: A lesson in campus colonialism 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Levine and the orchestra accompanied him with equally revelatory playing, the swirling orchestral colors in the third section a potent counterpart to Mr. Mattei’s despairing portrayal of the heartsick young man. Music Review: The Met Orchestra Performs Mahler at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-24T22:02:01Z It doesn’t suffer from what afflicts a lot of streamed productions, the despairing feeling that this thing wants to be a play and can’t. Review: ‘What a Carve Up!’ Is Wonderful. But Is It Theater? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Months pass, and Phil, despairing of finding another person, decides to kill himself. Review: The Last Man on Earth Is One of a Kind 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The more they realise that they are living on borrowed time, the more desperate they become and the more despairing their measures. After Tunisia: Nouri Gana on Tunisia 2011-01-28T13:00:04Z The Guardian's reviewer described it as "a powerful and skilfully constructed conspiracy thriller – Chinatown without the air of despairing fatalism." Orange prize shortlist revealed 2010-04-20T08:49:00Z A collection of atheists despairing for humanity – and, for a change, I wasn't one of them. Confessions of an internet troll 2012-11-09T15:00:00Z A despairing, intentionally disturbing film that draws us into a maelstrom of desperate emotions, it holds up a dark mirror to the American dream and does not like what it sees. 'Foxcatcher' a gripping story of seduction, rejection, murder 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z If “The Homecoming Queen” is ultimately less political, and more personal, than the others, it is not less funny than the comedies nor less despairing than the dramas. Review: A Bumpy Return to Nigeria for ‘The Homecoming Queen’ 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z In a late scene of Mozart’s “Zauberflöte,” the hardy bird catcher Papageno, despairing that he may never have a mate, berates the world and decides to end it all. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z That scene is as rowdy and demented as anything out of a Marx Brothers movie and as unutterably despairing as a choral lament from Sophocles. | 'Uncle Vanya': ‘Uncle Vanya’ With Cate Blanchett at City Center 2012-07-22T18:31:05Z My school reports are filled with exasperated comments despairing of my behaviour. Coming out meant I could stop fighting the world 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z When Boyle sings it, she detaches the meaning and emotion of the song, until it becomes even more despairing than the Stones original version. McGee on music: All hail Susan Boyle, the cool new diva of our age 2010-04-13T12:19:00Z In a four-month drive from Moscow to Vladivostok, punctuated by frequent breakdowns and one nasty incident in which he slithers off the road into the snow, Hugo-Bader explores this despairing post-communist landscape. White Fever by Jacek Hugo-Bader - review 2011-07-15T21:55:04Z The liberal activist said “Fahrenheit 11/9,” which will get its world premiere at the Toronto film festival later on Thursday, was “a siren call” to what he called a “despairing, dispirited public.” Michael Moore hopes his film is 'beginning of the end' for Trump 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z And that she has a real gift for comedy, as effortless in putting across Hazel's goofy gallows humor and raw-edged wit as she is in articulating the character's despairing nihilism. For your consideration, Oscar voters: Shailene Woodley 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z "He went to his grave despairing I would never find my way in the world," the director said, "and the movies rescued me." Arthur Penn, director of 'Bonnie and Clyde' dies 2010-09-29T16:16:00Z Inspired by Arthur Rimbaud's despairing poem, "The Drunken Boat," this enigmatic coming-of-age movie often seems destined to sail off the deep end. 'Drunkboat': Excellent cast on choppy waters 2012-07-12T18:21:06Z But there are plenty of other options, including, yes, Woodley, who effortlessly puts across her cancer-stricken heroine's goofy gallows humor, raw-edged wit and despairing nihilism in the commercial hit "The Fault in Our Stars." 'Unbroken' could stir Oscar acting pot 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z For African-Americans in particular, these were years that yielded much about which to despair, and no doubt much despairing occurred, and does still. To This Essayist and Cultural Critic, the Black Tradition Is Resistance 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z But then the music slows, stops, descends, and goes down again, right to the depths of the piano's register, and now there's an inchoate, frightening sense of the uncanny, the despairing. A guide to Michael Finnissy's music 2012-07-23T14:24:00Z Things take an abrupt turn when, despairing of her romantic relationships, she unexpectedly hits it off with a natural wine producer. The Year’s Best Wine Books 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Surprisingly, though, his despairing final cries of "Mimi" over his sweetheart's body failed to register with the visceral impact they usually do. Vittorio Grigolo promising in Met opera debut 2010-10-17T22:31:00Z At the same time, it gives Jonker’s despairing poetry its due in brief spoken interludes and shows her, in a creative fever, scrawling it on the walls of her apartment. Movie Review: ?Black Butterflies,? a Biopic About the Poet Ingrid Jonker 2012-03-02T00:19:39Z If they’d all ended as bleakly and nihilistically as the seven Channel 4 episodes had, it could have got boring and predictable as well as unrelentingly despairing. Charlie Brooker: 'Happy? I have my moments' 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z The Archfiend is by turns genteel, seductive, ominous, despairing and cranky as channeled by Kyd, who adapted the script from a centuries-spanning body of texts. One-man show ‘The Devil in His Own Words’ offers an up-close look at the evil deity Then I stopped at a rustic wine tavern where Beethoven had stayed, Mayer am Pfarrplatz, ordered a glass of blaufränkisch, and pondered how, so soon after despairing, Beethoven entered one of his most groundbreaking periods. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z I understand why so many might feel despairing and hopeless about our democracy. "Our democracy hangs by a thread": Expert panel says a Trump victory in 2024 will end it 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z The Uruguayan striker cut in from the left and picked his spot perfectly for the 70th-minute finish, curling the ball with plenty of pace into the top right corner beyond a despairing Ionut Radu. Nunez stunner sends Liverpool into quarter-finals 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z The onslaught of horrible events and imagery have left some Jewish and Palestinian Americans despairing of any hope for peace in the region. Doug Emhoff, America's Jewish second gentleman, on how he navigated tragedy in Israel and Gaza 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Laura-Rose says she receives hundreds of enquiries from people who are "despairing" and do not have 10 years to wait for the rules to change. The 'gay tax' facing same-sex couples starting a family 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z As with every collapse, despairing fans will spend the next few weeks looking for someone to blame. Plaschke: Splat! Humiliated Dodgers swept into next season 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z One of the many satisfactions of “Oppenheimer,” Nolan’s intellectually thrilling and morally despairing new film, is that it succeeds in locating some of those conventions within another of his ingeniously constructed narrative labyrinths. Review: Christopher Nolan's gripping, despairing 'Oppenheimer' ponders history and the future 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Despite the despairing tone of Sandoz’s social media post, a spokesperson for the union offered an upbeat assessment of the ongoing contact talks last week. Top L.A. police union official tells cops to go 'somewhere that understands your worth' 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z Above ground, suddenly, I feel less angry or afraid or despairing or alone. Opinion: How to dig your way out of climate grief 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Thousands of despairing migrants have made the daunting jungle crossing from South America to the United States for years. The U.S. Left Them Behind. They Crossed a Jungle to Get Here Anyway. 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z As the struggle to survive gets harder, driven by sky-high inflation, the cost-of-living crisis and widespread unemployment, many Zimbabweans are increasingly despairing. Buying banknotes to survive Zimbabwe's sky-high inflation 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z He tells the younger generation that “however despairing the situation, you have no choice but to fight and try. We don’t have time to despair. That’s a luxury.” Earth’s warriors, young and old, keep battling and hoping 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z For Northern Ireland’s hard-core unionists, known as loyalists, Brexit was painful, with many despairing that it drove a wedge between them and the rest of the United Kingdom. A Look at Northern Ireland 25 Years After the Peace Accord 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z "In the late 1980s no-one was talking about climate change, but instead of despairing we showed the first and greatest form of resistance, we started to build snow cannons," Ghezzi said. Italy's ski industry fires cannon against climate change 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z To prevent himself from completely despairing he would allocate himself time in the day to be sad and then push himself to get on with things. Sepsis: What losing his legs taught surgeon about life 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z One caller, sounding angry and despairing, used an expletive to describe the prospect of sudden death in battle. Lots of Russian soldiers want to surrender. Ukraine makes it easier with a high-tech hotline 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z But given the history of this franchise, it would be hard to blame fans if they are already despairing a bit over the post-Brady future, which apparently starts now. Which are the most (and least) miserable NFL fan bases? We ranked them all 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z “It is sometimes in those moments when we feel most tired, most despairing, that we are just about to break through,” Wu told attendees at a memorial breakfast. On King’s holiday, daughter calls for bold action over words 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Early on in “No Bears,” his brilliant, furious and despairing new movie, the Iranian writer-director Jafar Panahi draws a line in the sand. Review: ‘No Bears,’ the best movie of 2022, has arrived in theaters 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z But the comments by despairing millennials and people with more modern tastes were overwhelmed by those where users had tagged their friends and asked how to upload photos from their digital camera to their smartphone. The Hottest Gen Z Gadget Is a 20-Year-Old Digital Camera 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z But a constant gush of despairing news can be paralyzing. Cheer up — the world is better off than you think 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Anything else would feel despairing and hollow for the great sporting icon of his country. 'France win sets up the final and duel many craved' 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Stephanie Hsu carries much of the film’s emotional weight as the despairing daughter, while Jamie Lee Curtis makes a strong case for her first Oscar nomination with an impeccable comic turn. Bold predictions for six top Oscar categories, including best picture 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z If you are reading this, you’re probably despairing over your Twitter feed. What to do if you're worried about the latest Twitter chaos 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z But Kelly herself is not despairing — she noted that she never could have predicted the #MeToo movement, either. Mary Kelly’s Revolution Is Ongoing 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z “Hardly had we set hoe to ground in our last despairing effort than we made a discovery beyond our wildest dreams.” King Tut Mysteries Endure 100 Years After Discovery 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z I am as despairing as anybody about where we are, but politics is not supposed to be easy or without conflict. Is anyone in the U.S. persuadable? An author talks to AOC and other 'Persuaders' 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z However, he said people are discouraged but not despairing. Faith groups curb Haiti work due to chaos, 2021 kidnapping 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z These may be classic genre formulations, but you can tell from “Decision to Leave,” a love story by turns sprawling, despairing and invigorating, that Park feels them on a molecular level. Review: Park Chan-wook's thrilling mystery 'Decision to Leave' is noir at its most nourishing 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z “I came to shop and found people fighting to buy and the prices were very high,” said shopper Amina Hamdi, 63, despairing at trying to buy basic goods. Empty shelves or unaffordable food: Tunisia’s crisis deepens 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z While waiting, they met a despairing would-be escapee who had been turned back. Russia's military call-up is having major repercussions almost everywhere but the Ukrainian battlefield 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z “I was extremely angry, panicked and despairing,” said Mr. Xue, who works for a financial communications firm. China’s ‘Absurd’ Covid Propaganda Stirs Rebellion 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z He even said he understood why some people felt motivated to take to the streets with organisations like Extinction Rebellion, noting "people should really notice how despairing so many young people are". Charles will not cool on climate action, say friends 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z I’m “encouraged one day, despairing the next,” I told her, adding that the next election cycle is going to be a real test for the reality-based press. Perspective | My final column: 2024 and the dangers ahead 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z We’ve read about families divided into rival camps due to irreconcilable political differences, about young people despairing that their parents, not as internet-savvy as themselves, have fallen down Facebook-driven conspiracy theory rabbit holes. COVID-19 conspiracies have taken a toll on some of my friendships 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z "Putin's oligarchs are laughing like a drain while authorities are despairing of ever tracking down and freezing their assets." Russians under sanctions fail to declare assets in line with German law 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z On YouTube, you can see him unpack St. Paul’s statement that we are perplexed but not despairing. Opinion | Blaming social media for academia’s ruin misses a larger, darker truth 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z "This is very despairing. What has happened to this society?" 'Very shocking': Four stabbed by assailant at major Shanghai hospital 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z “Moon, 66 Questions” can be unsettling and despairing, but it’s never alienating. Review: Who is the 'Girl in the Picture'? and more movies to see at home this weekend 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Much was dark, troubling, even despairing: “Titus,” “Lear,” “US,” and, in 1975, “The Ik,” which involved an African tribe morally ruined by relocation and lack of food. Peter Brook, Celebrated Stage Director of Scale and Humanity, Dies at 97 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Now, in retrospect, the more despairing passages of the song, by composer-lyricist Sherman Edwards, seemed to be what drove home its point: Perspective | At a time of angry uproar, theater can still show us the way forward 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z With the economy in ruins and aid in short supply, survivors of a devastating earthquake in Afghanistan are despairing about an uncertain future. Your Monday Briefing 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z I asked Dresden how she thinks the press is doing in covering these threats, and how despairing or hopeful she is. Perspective | How journalists can spot the signs of autocracy — and help ward it off 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z He was tipped by a journalist working in the Times newsroom who was “outraged and despairing at what was happening.” The scandal over Boris Johnson job-hunting for his wife won’t go away 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Certainly, some Americans are despairing enough to accept this abdication of duty as normal. Opinion | Ohio Republicans’ proposal to arm teachers is an act of cowardice 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Among the most despairing are those who have spent time on the doorsteps ahead of the by-election in Tiverton and Honiton. Partygate: Will Boris Johnson survive June? 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z Since Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, the seven sheikhdoms of the Emirates have offered a refuge for Russians, both those despairing of their country’s future as well as the mega-wealthy concerned about Western sanctions. Sanctioned Russian oligarch’s megayacht hides in a UAE creek 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z The unexpectedly strong showing by civil society activists restored some hope among despairing Lebanese that change in their ailing country is possible. In Lebanon, a nascent reform movement faces tough road 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Those despairing about this draft opinion should remember that the courts do not monopolize abortion politics. Perspective | The right to privacy — not just abortion — is on the chopping block 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z The travel ban has my U.S.-loving students despairing. Perspective | Why is the U.S. still probing foreign visitors’ social media accounts? 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Johnson struck it powerfully low into the left corner, beating Baggies keeper David Button's despairing dive. Forest beat West Brom to delay Fulham promotion 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z The many despairing posts about Shanghai sent residents in other parts of China into a hoarding craze last weekend. Analysis ❘ China’s ‘zero-COVID’ mess proves autocracy hurts everyone 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Worker turnover decreases when employees aren’t despairing the moment they walk through the workplace doors. Opinion | The lessons in the Applebee’s email 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z It was the nightmare of Princeton, the embarrassment of Detroit Mercy, and the humiliation of St. Bonaventure, all rolled together on a despairing march into madness. Plaschke: UCLA finds mojo just in time before ugly tradition repeating itself 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z But in recent pictures released by Elysee Palace after his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Macron looks drawn, haggard, even despairing. France's Macron wins preelection plaudits for Russia diplomacy, but is Putin playing him? 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z Like an unhinged mafia boss whose criminal enterprise is coming apart around him, he will kill with increased fervor and, in the process, will make us all despairing witnesses to his war crimes. Hitting Putin where it hurts 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z At a time when the lives of American men without college degrees have become increasingly despairing, this masculinity makeover would benefit no one more than straight men themselves. Opinion | What gay men’s stunning success might teach us about the academic gender gap 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z It is a strength beyond muscles, one forged from despairing survival. At 80, Tamara Moskvina Is Still Going for the Standing Ovation 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z With no sight of the shore, which was miles away, and only wearing a T-shirt and shorts in the chilly coastal waters, Thompson faced a despairing situation. California man stranded off the coast helped to safety by harbor seal, he says 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z That can seem like a despairing conclusion if you’re committed to the idea that virtual reality is inferior to the real thing. Review | Our world might be a simulation. Would that be so bad? 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z And he does get some traction when depicting Nozomi’s cheerfully practical impact on the despairing souls in her orbit. Review: 'Air Doll' is a well-intentioned 2009 misfire from Hirokazu Kore-eda 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z And I was sort of despairing at all the trends in reading and how they were going in the wrong direction. Planet Word founder on the power of language: ‘I want people to be aware of their words’ 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z For me, it became a flashbulb memory, a reminder that art has the power to not only divert people from their dispirited ruminations but also help them reframe their despairing mind-sets. Perspective | Louie Anderson made vulnerability funny 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z “When people do arson that’s only intended to cause destruction, that’s a despairing thing to do, and we live in a time when a lot of people are experiencing fear, anger and despair,” he said. Is wildfire arson getting worse in California? Climate change doesn't help 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z It was the setting for her best known novel, the despairing “Play It As It Lays,” and for many of her essays. Joan Didion, peerless prose stylist, dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z His follow-up, “Nightmare Alley,” is a bleak tale of carnies, grifters and a dishonest society that creates a far more despairing portrait of the world. How newly married Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan found the dark heart of 'Nightmare Alley' 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z She said that the more deeply Kevin became involved in environmental activism, the more his thinking about the future turned pessimistic — his mind and mood overtaken by despairing thoughts, like an invasive species. As climate worsens, environmentalists grapple with the mental toll of activism 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z “The Other Foot” depicts future African Americans, despairing of ever being treated equally on Earth, establishing their own colony on Mars. Perspective | As one of the first White kids in a Black school, I learned not to fear history 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Yet as a young adult, she noticed that the media often portrayed such places as rife with violence and dysfunctional families and populated by weak, despairing people. Social Capital in Black Communities Is Often Overlooked 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z When they arrived at the church, Ms. Baumgartner said, the woman’s children were full of regret, despairing over their actions and searching for a rationale. U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses 700,000 Despite Wide Availability of Vaccines 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The rising and spreading murder statistics should raise the alarm that it’s time to stop despairing over the damage done by guns and do something about it. Opinion | Rising and spreading murder rates means it’s time to act on guns 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Are you hopeful because of the changes you see or despairing because so many still need to be made? How can we stop treating children of color like criminals? One step a time, a lawyer says 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z It’s despairing — there isn’t really any other word to describe it. Has it become too depressing to stay in the downtown neighborhood I love? 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z All the while, gunshots pierced the air as a despairing crowd of people on foot made their own attempts. A convoy to the Kabul airport, hostile Taliban and the faint hope that the gates to escape would swing open "If those are the kinds of things that Twitter is saying are OK, it is little wonder that the professional footballers we heard from are so despairing," she added. Ferdinand's 'tragedy' fear over abuse 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Morocco has seen thousands of despairing youth make risky, often deadly, trips in small boats to Spain’s Canary Islands or reach the Spanish mainland via the Strait of Gibraltar. Moroccans elect new leaders in shadow of virus 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Many Afghans are struggling to support their families, and have gathered outside banks and A.T.M.s in the hope of withdrawing money, only to return home cashless and despairing. Evacuations From Kabul Wind Down as U.S. Prepares to Pull Last Troops 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Exhausted, despairing minds find comfort in turning complex realities into simple, opposing categories. Opinion | What to Do With Our Covid Rage 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z I wrote a somewhat despairing column and spent the next week mulling over the problem. Opinion | Senate Republicans can learn a lesson in courage from a New York school board 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at Johns Hopkins University, said he wasn’t “despairing” over the slowing of demand. States scale back vaccine orders as interest in shots wanes 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z “Collective” — a disturbing investigation, following a 2015 Bucharest nightclub fire, that uncovers systemic rot and shocking indifference — left me at times despairing for the future of humanity. Oscars 2021: Final predictions for all 23 categories 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Roth, who was about to publish his final novel and despairing of finding yet another biographer, read it admiringly. Philip Roth Was His Own Favorite Subject. What’s Left for a Biographer? 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Those were dark days, health officials acknowledged, but Palm kept them from despairing. How Wisconsin turned around its lagging vaccination program — and buoyed a Biden health pick 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Today, many Americans are trying to tell the true history of our people, a tale that doesn’t whitewash the shameful themes in our narrative nor downplay the painful but uneven progress — realist but not despairing. A Christian vision of social justice 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z Analysis: Will the gripping, despairing “Collective,” shortlisted both here and in documentary, earn two nominations? Oscar nominations 2021: Complete predictions in all 23 categories 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z As for the museums — “all closed!” she said, her voice despairing. In Hong Kong, Foreign Tourists Are Replaced by a Local Variety 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z But Republicans who are despairing this week can also take heart: There’s sometimes nothing better for a political party than to have the other party in charge for a stretch. Editorial Roundup: North Carolina 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z "The overall impression is of a depressed and sometimes despairing man fearful for his future," Baraitser said. British court rejects U.S. extradition request for WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, saying he is at risk of suicide 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z She said Assange was “a depressed and sometimes despairing man” who had the “intellect and determination” to circumvent any suicide prevention measures taken by American prison authorities. UK judge refuses US extradition of WikiLeaks founder Assange 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z Tarr’s films can be despairing, but they are also reminders that great art is never truly depressing. Best 2020 double feature: Two favorite discoveries in film's toughest year 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z It is instead an act of despairing love and a refusal to allow this version of Millwall, south-east London or modern life – tribally angry, consumed by the wider culture war – to drown out everything else. Booing those that kneel is an act of violent disrespect, a handshake met by a punch 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z A man lingers on the rooftop of a high-rise, despairing. Opinion | Happiness Won’t Save You 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z There’s an analogy here for Democrats despairing about the Senate. Perspective | Yes, the Senate is rigged for small states. But not for Republicans. 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Suspenseful and gripping, despairing and deeply human, the movie first screened at the Venice and Toronto film festivals last fall, though its virtual release this week feels particularly well timed. Review: The brilliant, infuriating Romanian healthcare documentary 'Collective' is a COVID-era must-see 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Listening to him lost in silence and despairing with his big, expressive eyes is devastating. Review: A punk drummer’s life upended in ‘Sound of Metal’ 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Some chapters are just a few tiny, despairing sentences. Capitol Hill’s Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore searches Seattle for human connection in sharp new memoir ‘The Freezer Door’ 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z History has some advice for the despairing: Settle down and take a deep breath. Column: Trump's defeat was supposed to launch a new progressive era, so what happened? 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z Amid all the swirl and the uncertainty, the anxious and despairing voices of voters on this tumultuous day echoed through the night. Huge turnout, fraying nerves: the story of election night 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z But perhaps his most nakedly despairing strip is one in which his mock Action McNews Network anchor, noting caged immigrants and Trump’s view of North Korea, finally says: “This just in: Satire is officially pointless.” Review | From two cartoonists, twisted takes on life with Trump 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z The former police officer despairing at Black Lives Matter. 'I'm more enthusiastic now than in 2016': meet the voters standing by Donald Trump 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, even while despairing about the “tribal thinking” of the Brexit negotiations, Jeffers retains a bouncy hopefulness. Picturebook legend Oliver Jeffers: 'I've got my wife's bite marks tattooed on my finger' 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Other Republicans were despairing not just for their party and its prospects in November but for the country after a debate that they felt represented a low point in American political history. G.O.P. Alarmed by Trump’s Comments on Extremist Group, Fearing a Drag on the Party 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z What he actually wrote in the novel was somehow more despairing and poignant: “Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates. People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby.” Winston Groom, author whose ‘Forrest Gump’ became a cultural touchstone, dies at 77 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z The atmosphere in the run-up to the holidays was more despairing than joyous. Israelis Prepare to Celebrate the Year’s Holiest Days Under Lockdown 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z He sounded quite despairing yesterday, but I am confident there's a Grand Tour win for him one day. Tour de France 2020: stage nine – live updates! 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z “Based on my observations, a considerable number of reformists inside the party are despairing, like Cai Xia,” Mr. Deng said in a telephone interview from the United States, where he now lives. She Was a Communist Party Insider in China. Then She Denounced Xi. 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z A doctor at the forefront of combating coronavirus at a major Wisconsin hospital was despairing. ‘This is unstoppable’: America's midwest braces itself for a Covid-19 surge 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z Lulled by wine and the red-tinged darkness, the audience is gradually swept up by the music, taken on a hazy voyage that evokes homesick sailors, despairing lovers and death. Lisbon's back-alley fado legends – photo essay 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z At that Cannes press conference, a journalist declared that “Do the Right Thing” takes a “very despairing view of even the possibility of an amicable relationship between the races.” Thirty-one years later, the power of Spike Lee's 'Do the Right Thing' endures 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Rather than becoming frantic or despairing, they take the long view, accomplishing what they can and recognizing what they cannot. Opinion | ‘Hamilton’ wasn’t just timely. It’s timely over and over again. 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Only when a steward, a despairing look on his face, asked him to look again did he realize it did not, after all, say Black Lives Matter, as Richards had thought. Soccer Needs to Break This Link 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Al-Moallem dismissed the measures as an “act of the despairing” after the Syrian government forces’ success on the battlefield. Syrian FM says US sanctions seek to ‘starve the people’ 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z They shared a story of a salon owner whose husband is unemployed, with both of their children home from school and who, despairing, contemplated suicide. Coronavirus did not spread first from a nail salon. Now when can shops reopen? 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z He also wrote a post on Medium expressing empathy for those despairing about Floyd’s killing. US heads into a new week shaken by violence and pandemic 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Earlier, he wrote a post on Medium expressing empathy for those despairing about the killing of George Floyd. Unrest demonstrates Biden’s challenge in breaking through 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Opponents of annexation have long warned that it could set the Middle East on fire, leaving Palestinians despairing and feeling that they have nothing to lose by resorting to violence. Abbas, Cornered by Israeli Annexation, Opts for ‘Judgment Day’ Scenario 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z The secretary-general called on political leaders to show solidarity with all people, on educational institutions to focus on “digital literacy” at a time when “extremists are seeking to prey on captive and potentially despairing audiences.” UN chief says pandemic is unleashing a `tsunami of hate’ 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Some despairing relatives reluctantly chose cremation for loved ones to avoid burying them in those common graves. Virus surge in Brazil brings a coffin shortage, morgue chaos 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z “I know that in order to resolve a conflict, both sides have to give up on something, because if I take it all, the other side will remain frustrated and despairing,” Mr. Yoel said. Israelis and Palestinians Remember the Slain, Home Alone or Online En Masse 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z “Sometimes I kind of am despairing in the uncertainty around it all,” said Melissa Whitson, a professor and coordinator of the community psychology program at the University of New Haven. Isolation and boredom of staying at home can be harmful in their own way, doctors say 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z This distanced worship has allowed clergy to maintain a semblance of community during a despairing and isolated time. Tech giants are finding creative ways to use our data to fight the coronavirus 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Bands of former cane cutters aimlessly roam Skeldon’s streets or pass the time in fast-food shops without eating, despairing of finding another job. ‘It Changed So Fast’: Oil Is Making Guyana Wealthy but Intensifying Tensions 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z This overlooked album sees Harvey learning piano for the first time, her singing high, strange and eerie, resulting in her saddest, most despairing collections of songs. PJ Harvey: where to start with her back catalogue 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z The rescue operation will come as a major comfort to stranded Britons and their families who were despairing about loved ones, including some with medical needs. UK announces £75m airlift plan to rescue Britons stranded abroad 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z A German finance minister killed himself after despairing over the coronavirus fallout, his colleague claimed. Germany finance official's death linked to coronavirus outbreak 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z The man, who was retired, said he wasn’t despairing. California isn't a ghost town under coronavirus rules. But it's pretty quiet out there 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z 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. Why America Will Never Get Medicare for All 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z But that did not stop them from despairing over their own status as a reservoir of infection, or fearing ostracism. We Spoke to Six Americans With Coronavirus 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The filmmakers do go overboard at times in scenes showing him hiding liquor bottles from the despairing Thornton or going full Lassie when he rescues a character from drowning in an icy river. ‘The Call of the Wild’ review: Bring the kids to this defanged dog tale, with a well-cast Harrison Ford 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z There’s no sense despairing; the energy is better spent fighting to remove him from office. When it comes to climate hypocrisy, Canada's leaders have reached a new low | Bill McKibben 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Until I knew better, I pictured him sitting head in hands in some lonely place, despairing. John le Carré on Brexit: ‘It’s breaking my heart’ 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Iain McLean, a professor of politics at the University of Oxford, said that “half the nation was despairing, half was satisfied” on the eve of Britain’s formal departure. How to mark Brexit Day? Boris Johnson is searching for the right tone. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Yorke – summoned “back to save the universe” – presides over the melee like a despairing god. Radiohead’s 40 greatest songs – ranked! 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The Labour leader told the Guardian at the outset of the campaign, “they go low, we go high” – though one despairing party aide described it as “they go low, we go wandering across the country”. 'Crushed by Brexit': how Labour lost the election 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z I respond with the details, mildly flattered, but slightly despairing. Confessions of an accidental influencer 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Just saying no is no way to ignite a fire with despairing Iowa Democrats. Who won the Democratic debate? Our panelists' verdict 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z But like films, a Christian music industry sprang up to serve those who are looking for the same rock, metal and rap styles, without the often troubling or despairing messages common in mainstream music. Stryper illustrates Christian bands’ struggle to crossover to mainstream 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Several others with professional backgrounds seemed equally despairing. As winter sets in, Afghans feel the chill of endless peace talk and political paralysis 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, he managed to capture something essential about the draw of night life, particularly for lonely and despairing oddballs. Burial’s Search for Fleeting Moments 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z It’s not a despairing and hopeless tale because that is not a despairing and hopeless life. Q&A: How Navajo athletes made 'rez ball' their own 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Shults has made a despairing picture but not an entirely despondent one. Review: 'Waves' shatters expectations with a family drama that's pure cinema 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z One despairing prisoner committed suicide by jumping from a window. When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z There’s all this comparing and despairing,” she said. Analysis | Of course Jennifer Aniston joined Instagram — and it probably wasn’t just to gift you ‘Friends’ selfies 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z It’s a despairing conclusion that she will spend the rest of this botched but beguilingly strange psychological drama trying to outrun. Review: Natalie Portman stays on course in the fascinatingly messy 'Lucy in the Sky' 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z 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. El Chapo Said to Have Given $1 Million to Honduran President’s Brother 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Any moderates here stay quiet, expect for one businessman tapping me on the shoulder, despairing at what no deal would do to his company. The Tories have split the country. No spending splurge can repair it | Polly Toynbee 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Walking out, I fell in with a cluster of despairing fans. Mets on Fire? It Might Be the Bullpen Torching the Lead 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Some drivers were so despairing they took their own lives. California just dropped a bomb on the gig economy — what’s next? 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z They are despairing about what they are seeing in parliament. Brexit: critical day for Boris Johnson as no-deal bill awaits royal assent – live news 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z A sugar cane juice shop on the same street was also swarmed, and shopkeepers there, too, were despairing. A Plague of Flies Descends on Karachi: ‘They’re Hounding People’ 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z I see people going to school and to work, struggling, prospering, despairing, dreaming. Column: Here are some immigration stories you won't hear from President Trump 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z 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. The best anime of 2019: an ongoing list 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z It means not obsessing over children’s natural instincts to experiment or even fit in, not despairing over their inexpert or ramshackle efforts, nor telling them they’d look so much nicer if … Makeup for children isn’t harmful – but the assumptions adults make about it can be | Sali Hughes 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z To which the increasingly despairing response has to be: YES YES! Ruining a country near you soon: the beta males who think they’re alphas | Marina Hyde 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Harry is drunk, despairing, lovesick and lost down blind alleys much of the time. Nordic noir master Jo Nesbø takes another dark twist with 'Knife' 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Soon after that, she embarked on a solo career, and made records, such as The Marble Index, that were even darker, with despairing lyrics and a wheezing harmonium accompanying Nico’s Teutonic tones. Nico in Manchester: 'She loved the architecture – and the heroin' 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Classical depictions of Hyacinth’s death typically show his exquisite, lifeless corpse held gently in despairing Apollo’s arms. MOCA on the rebound? Three strong shows and free entry are welcome signs of change 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z If Dayan’s mother haunts the book — destructive, passionate and despairing — Lucille cuts through the posturing with reminders of mortality. Colin Dayan's 'In the Belly of Her Ghost' exorcises memories of mother after she's gone 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z But a number of Venezuelans told me they were open to outside intervention, despairing of any other solution to the political impasse. What happened to the Venezuela uprising? 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z After his death, more than one person called Stewart a real life George Bailey, conjuring the despairing banker who contemplates suicide in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” When the music’s over: The passionate life and inconceivable death of Gary Stewart 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Denk's opening chords, coupled with Bell's despairing entrance on violin, sent shivers down the spine. What happens when an all-star trio gets interrupted by the couple arguing in the front row 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z The search has left many fans despairing over the logistics. Can fans afford the Champions League final? 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z In two years, President Trump went from despairing that his presidency would be destroyed by special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe to exulting Thursday that his exoneration signifies “game over” for his partisan tormentors. Donald Trump fought Mueller ‘witch hunt’ from ‘I’m f–ed’ to ‘game over’ 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Gil-Perez said that raising her daughter keeps her from despairing over her debt. Years after arrest, poor owe court costs they can’t afford 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z "Will we ever escape EU clutches?" is the despairing headline on the front page of the Daily Express, as the papers lead on Brexit once again. In a hurry? Here's what you need to know this morning 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Nelson feared a different, but no less despairing future. Nelson Algren’s Street Cred 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Rival protester Ruth Fryer, a retired teacher wearing a “We Still Love EU” badge, was also despairing. Angst and apathy outside parliament as UK lawmakers debate Brexit... 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z But with the deadline for a Brexit decision less than three weeks away, British politicians remain divided, and increasingly despairing about the country’s political gridlock. UK’s May: Parliament support too low for 3rd Brexit vote 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The essentials: Desperate, despairing and derelict — such are the easy marks seeking divine intervention in Brian Friel’s 1979 masterpiece about a morally conflicted, alcoholic faith healer scavenging the seedier outskirts of the United Kingdom. 'Steel Magnolias,' ‘Argonautika,’ 'Elephant Man' and more at L.A. theaters 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z She is calmer than the thrilling, furious older sister of “A Complicated Kindness,” and more hopeful than the despairing one of “The Flying Troutmans” and “All My Puny Sorrows.” How a Beloved Canadian Novelist Reckons with Her Mennonite Past 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The creaminess of Karen Carpenter’s vocal notwithstanding, it seems astonishing that something this despairing and hopeless was ever classified as easy listening. The 20 greatest breakup songs ever – ranked! 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z He answered that fighting is the key—it’s only despairing if you think that you can’t take on the problem. The Other Kind of Climate Denialism 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Second, it shows that today’s Republican Party is both afraid of what the future might bring and despairing that politics as usual will forestall that catastrophe. Opinion | The GOP is the party of Trump — but not for the reasons anti-Trump conservatives think 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Haunted and hunted, he has a slight speech impediment, the darkly despairing gaze of an insomniac, and the wariness of a fox. The Grim Rapacity of “The Iron Orchard” 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z And faithful but despairing Catholics will continue quietly to depart the pews. The Catholic church is still making excuses for paedophilia | Peter Stanford 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z Above, in a blue dress, searching and despairing, was the faint figure of Demeter, the woebegone mother. Opinion | Make Me a Cold and Pitiless Goddess 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z |
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