| 单词 | hopeless |
| 例句 | No, child, only a messenger, though your mother’s fate is not as hopeless as you believe. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z General Russell’s office occupied a corner of a low-slung Second World War barracks that had been recently plastered with stucco in a hopeless effort to make it look new. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To everyone in the box, the situation seemed hopeless. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If Apollo was indeed following her, the case was hopeless, but she was determined to struggle to the very end. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Men were now trudging away from the shapeups at the other slaughterhouses, looking dejected and hopeless. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z ‘They require our help with their quest, even if the odds are hopeless.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I felt especially hopeless and depressed when I had to take an essay test where spelling counted toward my grade. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z There’s black, hopeless rage in her eyes, the type of anger you feel when your hands are tied and there’s a knife at your jugular. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Thomas looked straight ahead, feeling so hopeless he almost slowed to a stop. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z My hair was hopeless, so I did my best to make it appear purposely messy. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Shut up in the bathroom, she would release herself from the torment of a hopeless passion by writing feverish letters, which she finally hid in the bottom of her trunk. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But he bellowed slowly, abjectly, without tears; the grave hopeless sound of all voiceless misery under the sun. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew it was hopeless, but I tried firing up the communications array. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It is nothing that regiment after regiment returns again and again to the ever more hopeless struggle, that attack follows attack along the weakening, retreating, crumbling line. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She no longer felt so hopeless, so she could say it without sounding defeated. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He must be thinking the same way as Looper: everything was hopeless anyhow, so he’d live it up while he could. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “You know what you are, Mary Lou? You are a hopeless romantic.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Working together in those hopeless conditions somehow lessened the despair. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Okay, I've had a good night's sleep, and things don't seem as hopeless as they did yesterday. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed the death of a patient always gave him a sense of failure and hopeless ignorance. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Lillian put a pillow over her head and tried to cut out the noise and light, tried to resume sleeping, although she knew it was hopeless. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, it was so hopeless and so brave, you might laugh. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My big old grandfather who had always been strong and loud and cheerful now seemed pitiful, sad, and hopeless. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z As dark as things seemed, at least they didn’t seem entirely hopeless. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z But the situation was far from hopeless, Farmer thought, glad to be back. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z When Agnew heard Bliss imply that Garfield would be cured, he told a friend privately that he long believed the case was hopeless. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “But if I had stood by, he would have killed you right then,” he said with hopeless frustration. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z And, soon, they both were in the grips of a hopeless attack of laughter. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I’m sure my face looked as hopeless as hers did. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It is the most hopeless idea I have ever heard, but I nod and pour the remover on the carpet. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z When he smiled again, I knew it was hopeless, but I tried anyway. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Even these sternly hopeless Norsemen, whose daily life in their icy land through the black winters was a perpetual challenge to heroism, saw a far-away light break through the darkness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the color of bruised flesh and storm-dark seas, the bleak and hopeless blue of a dead girl’s eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I tried to look every bit as small and hopeless as I felt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Ser Barristan suggested a tourney instead; his orphans could ride at rings and fight a melee with blunted weapons, he said, a suggestion Dany knew was as hopeless as it was well-intentioned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Take it as a warning, for whatever profit that knowledge may be. But do not listen overmuch to the echoes. Others have done so, and have wandered hopeless ever since.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Softball, basketball, tennis: I was hopeless in every one. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I twisted my blanket in my hands and clenched my teeth, trying to shut out the low rumble of conversation punctuated by coarse laughter and quiet, hopeless sobbing from below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z One horse had caught his eye, a hopeless wreck named Knighthood. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I've watched him coach a hopeless Little League team through a turnaround season. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “We’ll go and get our stuff,” said Ron in a hopeless sort of voice. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z My hair has slipped free of its braid and lays in hopeless tangles. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z If they had to think about anything, make critical judgments and deliberations, the cause was hopeless. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a search, a hopeless one, in the sand, and so we set off on the long ride back without any breakfast, and got to Devon just in time for my test. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z When Zita, then thirty years old, saw the footage of him on television, she said: “It is not his beard. There is something bothering about his eyes. He is a hopeless, broken man.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I saw Nico and my parents down on Fifth Avenue, fighting a hopeless battle, ringed in enemies. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “In talking with them I was amazed at their listless and hopeless attitude,” she said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I stare down at my hands, disappointment pooling inside me, black and thick and hopeless. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z That same plunging, hopeless feeling, that emotional physics. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The black spiders crawled as fast as they could, but their situation was hopeless. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He felt such feelings in his breast because of Guenever—the frightful pang of hopeless love—that he was drained of effort. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She stared at Luke, finally determining that he was just as hopeless an idiot as Toby. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z In the final game, Spassky played his twenty-seventh move—it was hopeless at that point—and then resigned. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I don’t want to read those hopeless, empty words. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But I’m still hopeless, useless, and practically pointless. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z No hopeless lover of a living maiden was ever so desperately unhappy as Pygmalion. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I have never felt so hopeless in all my life. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z When things looked hopeless, Dad would ask directions at a store or filling station. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I fiddle with my headphones, trying to reattach the ear pad, but it’s hopeless. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “Please don’t,” I said, but it was hopeless. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Milo was a sweetly hopeless town—commercially forlorn, far from anywhere and barely alive, but curiously likeable. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The lovelorn giant knew Galatea would never have him; his case was hopeless. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The hopeless suffering of his people made in him a madness, a wild and evil feeling of destruction. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z And the Emergency, too—the hidden messages make everything seem more hopeless and out of control than it really is. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He thought about making for the main gate, but he knew that was hopeless. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z His revulsion was a reaction to her young, helpless, hopeless presence. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we were scrambling to the hatch and sprinting down and down the endless seesawing staircase, hopeless that we could reach the cage before it sank but hysterical to try to anyway. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z In the situation of the orphans, figuratively escaping was not enough, of course, but at the end of a tiring and hopeless day, it would have to do. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z She looked up with hopeless eyes as Rosa rushed him past. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now do you see how hopeless it is? Yield, little heroes.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z ‘It is a hard doom and a hopeless errand,’ said Faramir. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The skeletons tried to aim their guns, but it was hopeless. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She could see in his eyes that he knew it was hopeless. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Her hair hung like a clump of discolored marsh weeds, bound with vines and ornamented with bejeweled pins that seemed about to lose themselves in the hopeless tangle. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the "Beale Street Blues" while a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The cause the forces of good are fighting to defend against the forces of evil is hopeless. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a hopeless task, given all the stacks of Mom’s junk and the hole in the ceiling and the disgusting yellow bucket in the kitchen. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Then I spotted my jeans in a smoking heap of clothes right by the giant’s feet If I could only get there 1 knew it was hopeless, but I charged. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z It was hopeless to expect the Mellower to back him up. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Teaching such an ancient Sapiens English, persuading him of the truth of Christian dogma, or getting him to understand the theory of evolution would probably have been hopeless undertakings. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The last card I deliver is to Father O’Reilly, who seems to be having a party at his place for all the hopeless cases on his street. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He spent nearly every moment of his waking life in that damp basement caring for the hopeless people no one else would bother with. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet, rushing through the forest toward the open beach. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Lane, walking rather too fast, said he was sorry he hadn’t been able to get her into Croft House—that was hopeless, of course—but that he’d got her into this very nice, cozy place. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z But try as she might, all she could think about was that half-starved, hopeless assassin who’d been dragged out of Endovier one autumn day by a snarling Captain of the Guard. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I saw them cowering in front of the guards, their faces hopeless. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The voice was weary and hopeless, and I identified completely. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “You have much and more to learn, but it may be you are not hopeless.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “We’ve been operating under a terrible time pressure from the very beginning. Just yesterday morning, for example, I was a hopeless drunk and Fezzik toiled for the Brute Squad.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The task is by no means a hopeless one. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The sky is an empty hopeless gray and gives the impression that this is its eternal shade. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z My sense of direction was hopeless; I could get lost in much less helpful surroundings. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Euwe, in grandmasterly fashion, thoroughly outplayed Bobby until they reached the twentieth move, at which point Bobby, realizing that his position was hopeless, toppled his king in resignation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z At first I try to stifle my yawns, but it’s hopeless. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It occurred to him that the operation was hopeless, that Trucho had set it up all wrong, but there was nothing he could do about it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The snow stopped, but the temperature really dropped the next few days, so that getting up to zero seemed kind of hopeless. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z On especially black days I sometimes tell myself that if I’d loaded up with degrees when I was able, I might not now be teaching anything quite so collegiate and hopeless as Advanced Writing 24-A. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z "He is a pig, and a hopeless craven as well, if what you say is true." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But I did not walk away thinking that things were hopeless. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z And somewhere deep down inside, even though it may seem hopeless now, I know I’ll still long for a day when Mama and I could do pedicures and facials and manicures together. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I’d be hopeless in that ill-fitting pair that 13 assigned to me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Before you two hopeless cases go off the deep end,” he said bluntly, “may I ask a question: Have you been putting these poison mushrooms in our food?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She could read and write better than any of her brothers, although she was hopeless at sums. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And she was in the yet more hopeless position of loving him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember you being pretty hopeless that night, too. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Out there I was indifferent and often hopeless—I will never be able to be so again. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was in a rage,” she said; her voice was exhausted, hopeless. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It seemed so hopeless, the idea that he could be innocent. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Oh, Lucy, Lucy, I cannot be angry with you, nor can I be angry with my friend whose happiness is yours; but I must only wait on hopeless and work. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I understood: No use wasting good lungs on a hopeless case. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Some of the rats were really hopeless climbers in Cluny’s estimation. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It was easier to say in the darkness, knowing as I spoke how my voice would betray me, my hopeless addiction to him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I picked up a few new words, but the overall situation seemed hopeless. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Joe read her quick start, the apprehension, and then the almost hopeless fear and weariness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The thought twisted my core into hopeless knots, tight enough to carry me to a place where I could see only action, no consequences. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Every ounce of the noble courage he’d felt, the will to make a difference, the promise to himself to reunite Chuck with his family—it all vanished into an exhausted fog of hopeless, wretched weariness. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Then Papa turned to the music teacher with a happy, hopeless expression on his face, shrugged his shoulders, and the two of them began talking about opera again. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh my gods, Percy! You are so hopeless.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “Ghetto” signaled that a place was both black and hopeless. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The gunners reloaded, but I knew it was hopeless. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z I stood at the blackboard as hopeless as a seventh-grade kid could be. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z She had left the print in a last hopeless effort to force the door open. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.” A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And all the other hopeless articles like us sprawled out on the floor. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I looked around at the hopeless maze of sail and ropes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z My arms hung limply at my sides and I lowered my head in hopeless shame. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When they decided it was hopeless, what would they do? Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She said it when the doctors explained that my leg was hopeless, and I know she’s thought it every day since. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Bernard sank into a yet more hopeless misery. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything was difficult, irksome and finally hopeless when I was a Samana. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z He knows he talks too much, hopeless at moderating his feelings, which he usually hides under ten layers of charm, but he ultimately doesn’t care what Henry thinks of him, so he doesn’t bother. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Writing a story was a hopeless, puny enterprise when such powerful and chaotic forces were turning about her, and when all day long successive events had absorbed or transformed what had gone before. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z If Hazel woke up the rest of the crew every time they had a problem, they’d just start arguing again, feeling more and more hopeless. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Paper remade from wilted, dirty, hopeless litter that had been rescued, scrubbed clean, and reshaped. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z When it was entirely hopeless, Reshevsky removed his lighted cigarette from its holder, pursed his lips, and resigned. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The work in Chicago had begun to look hopeless. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I try my best to stick to the shade near the building, but it’s hopeless. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Jethro sat for a while trying to think of some way out of the situation; it appeared more hopeless the more he thought. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The way I emphasized sometime it was hopeless. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z And atomic bombs made future wars look even more hopeless. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He had headed toward Germany, that was hopeless, of course—and, of course, he did everything else just as idiotically. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere things seem as hopeless as my neighborhood. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They feel that there are mathematical minds and nonmathematical minds, and that the former always come up with answers instantaneously whereas the latter are helpless and hopeless. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The situation with regard to Dutch elm disease is therefore not entirely hopeless provided informed and intelligent measures are taken. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Those who were fighting were dying in what seemed like hopeless battle. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He worried that his siblings expected him to go, given that he was the only one who might have any chance at all of entering the United States; getting a visa from Syria was hopeless. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Seeing those letters, that big, fat money prize, I felt like I’d been falling into some deep, hopeless black hole, and the universe looked at me and said, Not yet, Natalie. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z To see Pekka brought low, humiliated, miserable and hopeless, the best of his crew dead on pikes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z All he did was try to maintain a certain distance, on the pretext of being a hopeless bachelor when it came to matters of the heart. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At times the zebra made noises about the predator just behind it, but mostly it lay in hopeless and sullen silence. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Both men were hopeless drunkards, but they were sober at this hour of the morning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Professor McGonagall blew her nose and said thickly, “Stupid boy...foolish boy...he was always hopeless at dueling...should have left it to the Ministry....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He also warned her against love and marriage, with the same insolence with which he insisted that Jaime should find a decent girl and settle down because he was turning into a hopeless bachelor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, the world was full of miserable places just like the central plateau, all of them hopeless. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Yes, it’s hopeless,” he says, “but I still try.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z By speaking one word in our sacred language I had just proved to my teacher that I was as hopeless as the rest of my people. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He was utterly hopeless as a grand designer of narratives, and he knew it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “That one’s the best. I would never have thought brushing my teeth could make me feel so hopeless.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Oppressed for centuries, divided, hopeless, corrupted, misled, they were cynical—as I had once been—and the Communist method of unity had been found historically to be the only means of achieving discipline. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His practice was to do what he was bid—not to suggest to a party that perhaps the request was unfair, mean, or hopeless. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby’s own play was not at its sharpest, but he exploited the weak moves of his opponent and pressed home the advantage until Tal lapsed into a hopeless endgame and resigned. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z During the weeks of bitter wrangling I sat in hopeless wonder. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew it was hopeless to ask about my mother or Adele. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “If the Russians demonstrate a Super before we possess one, our situation will be hopeless,” he wrote in a frantic memo for a 1949 meeting on research priorities at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He wondered how he would ever be able to sleep when he was this worried and hopeless and then, almost to his surprise, for two or three hours, he slept. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I fancy going shopping, spending a bit of money on myself, but it’s hopeless with Evie. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though the situation is hopeless, just hearing her say it’s my business now gives me some hope. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The first he’d seen in some while, common in the north, leading out of the looted and exhausted cities, hopeless messages to loved ones lost and dead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z And even though I know it’s hopeless—there’s absolutely nothing left to save—I’m afraid if I tell her that, she’ll still persuade me to try. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure that he was pushing his body beyond its physical limits, he ran on, trying to rid himself of the hopeless feeling that it was only a matter of time before they got him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “With something this small. And afterward he would smile happily without ever wondering if I had known when he started and stopped. Men! Men are hopeless!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There was something hopeless in Erics e-mail, like this response to my asking if he was liking work any better. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt that even in speaking in that way he would be indicating how hopeless he felt, thereby disrobing his soul to more shame. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Any effort they made to defend the territory was clumsy at best, and hopeless, at worst. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “It’s hopeless to even try to make you feel things.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I had bought a few paperbacks on abnormal psychology at the drugstore and compared my symptoms with the symptoms in the books, and sure enough, my symptoms tallied with the most hopeless cases. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z They’re pretty hopeless and slow, but they’re applauded like heroes when they finish, and you can see the pride ruffled on their faces. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Stanton later recalled that when it came to running the meeting, she and her friends “felt as helpless and hopeless as if they had been suddenly asked to construct a steam engine.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I feel like it’s hopeless to try to feel good and make good grades. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He knew this love was hopeless and very dangerous, and he tried to fight it, but it took possession of him until all he had strength for was to conceal it from everyone but himself. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Old people don’t really seem hurt so much as they seem hopeless, which is worse. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z All those hopeless months, those freezing nights...gone now. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z So time and the hopeless journey wore away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z So did the dog, and in that instant, the kid took off in a hopeless dash for the trees. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z As Seabiscuit broke from the gate, he was immediately bashed inward by Count Adas, a hopeless long shot emerging from the stall to his right. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you survive the process, you will be able to pass unnoticed among the armies of Tartarus. It is hopeless, of course, but if you are determined, then come. I will show you the way.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z An institution was gone from Salinas, dark and fatal sex, as hopeless and deeply hurtful as human sacrifice. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z That was one thing that hopeless assassin from Endovier would have never believed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “If not for hope, what keeps you going?” asked Reynie, who had an ugly suspicion that there might come a time, and not so far away, when things would seem hopeless to him, too. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Manchee’s huffing and puffing, his back fur all ridged, hopping around like the ground is hot, looking as charged up and confused as I am, tho completely hopeless about keeping in any way cool. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I know all the others felt the same way; yet it seemed a hopeless thing. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I glanced at Vanessa’s paper a few more times during the exam but it was hopeless. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He was taking a far greater risk than he knew; but Frodo was too much occupied with his burden and with the struggle in his mind to debate, and almost too hopeless to care. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It seems hopeless, since even our thoughts have nothing in common. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But you could tell she knew it was hopeless. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Cecilia might have been ten years older, but there really was something quite hopeless and helpless about her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The kind of hope that creates a willingness to position oneself in a hopeless place and be a witness, that allows one to believe in a better future, even in the face of abusive power. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “At first it seemed to be hopeless,” Pa writes to Theo, “but it has gradually got better, particularly since we agreed that he will stay with us for the time being, to make studies here.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Even setting this down on paper has raised the weary, hopeless nausea in me again. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Forgive me! Of course you need to know the terms. I am utterly hopeless with numbers, but Lord Ashton drew this up for your perusal before he left for business this morning.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Other children come and stand over them and marvel, then gradually lose interest and conclude it is hopeless. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Sometimes Terryl would call them, or a neighbor did, but she felt hopeless, and, like Danny, had it covered: He told the officers that it was a family matter. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It was hopeless: every part of him, even his head, was held immovably. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Tom Weylin, in his loud silence, clearly thought she was hopeless. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “It’s from the same hopeless case as always!” she said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Poetry’s trash, mere clouds of words, comfort to the hopeless. But this is no cloud, no syllabled phantom that stands here shaking its sword at you.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Although most of the credit for my exoneration must be given to Dr. Aurelius, who apparently earned his naps by presenting me as a hopeless, shell-shocked lunatic. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z All at once everything seems to me confused and hopeless. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In our hut the faces of my family were somber and hopeless. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of having the two schools fight each other in a cause that seemed basically hopeless for Odessa High, why not combine them? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile Robert, addressing Mrs. Pontellier, continued to tell of his one time hopeless passion for Madame Ratignolle; of sleepless nights, of consuming flames till the very sea sizzled when he took his daily plunge. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked around, but all she could see were wide eyes and hopeless faces, pale faces, dark faces, old faces, young faces, all the dead cramming and crowding, close and silent and sorrowful. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It is hopeless because no amount of tears will bring him back. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Although Weston vaulted the railing in a wild attempt, it was obviously hopeless. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Japanese soldiers had been taught that there was only one thing to do when things were hopeless, when they were surrounded, or when their leaders were killed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter how I tried to dodge through the fray it was hopeless. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “They considered it hopeless to do anything more because there wasn’t enough material,” Elizebeth said. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The topiaries that had once been pruned with aspirations toward the baroque finished in a hopeless, tortured state, besieged by snails and disease. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s hopeless to resist the evolution of hopefully. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivy flipped through the crinkly pages and caught a glimpse of a drawing she’d abandoned a few months ago as a hopeless case. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They can feel sad or happy, afraid, angry, or hopeless. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Mama tried to hold us together for a while, but it was hopeless. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t afford to show how panicked I felt, even if things seemed hopeless. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Her voice was slow and tired and hopeless. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hush, Benjy,” Luster said, but Ben went on at his shambling trot, clinging to the fence, wailing in his hoarse, hopeless voice. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Her saying she missed me made me feel sort of hopeless for some reason. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Haunted, haggard, somewhere beyond hopeless, it suggested starkly that he no longer believed in himself. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “This is hopeless,” I say out loud, to nobody. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I tried to call it back, to catch it up—a foolish and hopeless matter, because it was definitely and permanently over and finished. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I feel so lonely and hopeless that I don’t know what to do. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Rosaleen tried to get to her feet, but without her hands it was hopeless. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought about transferring to North Texas State, or to Hawaii, but it got complicated and hopeless. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Meant to hold those convicted of the most serious crimes, it has long been considered the most dangerous, most hopeless prison in the United States. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Suddenly, in the absolute darkness, he understood with a hopeless nostalgia that he was completely disoriented. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It’s hopeless to respond, so I keep my mouth shut as he forces me to my knees. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I will not go back without doing what I came for, no matter how hopeless it may seem. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She’s in charge of the hospital laundry and claims I’m a hopeless case where white is concerned. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted her not trapped in the sky, not hunted by humans, not hopeless, and not besieged by nightmares whenever she closed her eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z ‘How did I end up with a brother like you? How? You’re a hopeless case.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The days after his admittance, I was playing positive and soulful songs, like Billy Joel’s “Just the Way You Are,” so I wouldn’t feel hopeless. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Also, it was a bit hopeless,” he said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Without doubt, the moose is the most improbable, endearingly hopeless creature ever to live in the wilds. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Nothing could have been more pitiful and hopeless than the twenty-eight men marooned on the rotting ice pack nearly 200 miles from the nearest solid land. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I reflected on how mass imprisonment has littered the national landscape with carceral monuments of reckless and excessive punishment and ravaged communities with our hopeless willingness to condemn and discard the most vulnerable among us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Bing Crosby had stayed up all night recording at Universal so he could have the day off, and came with Mrs. Bing, rooting for yet another hopeless long shot from their barn, Don Mike. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time, it seemed like a hopeless situation. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Well, I admire your thoroughness,” said Bigwig, thinking to himself that his secret task seemed to be even more hopeless than he had expected. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the same vehicle whence, a year ago, I had alighted one summer evening on this very spot—how desolate, and hopeless, and objectless! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z You knew she would fight, no matter the odds, no matter how hopeless it all got. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “Isn’t it a hopeless situation?” is the common reaction. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Toby Alvillar and Ken Kamata were two of the biggest wheels in class, and if you were really hopeless they simply didn’t notice you—it was as if you didn’t exist. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctor said his condition is hopeless; they think the cancer has spread to his lungs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z His freedom was, in a small way, a sign of hope in a hopeless place. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There were none now, of course, but Faro seemed happy anyway, and so was I. I felt like singing, but that is hopeless on a tractor; you can’t hear yourself. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Yossarian stepped out of the way with resignation finally when he saw it was hopeless to try to reason with him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Some were told delivery times. Someone got a Gaming Machine. “I’d really like a Gaming Machine, Seer,” Matty added, though he knew it was hopeless. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z If a man who had never seen him could recognize him from the description, then the whole dream of freedom was hopeless. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Her first surge of relief soon died away, and her thoughts, numbed by the sheer terror of pursuit, began to stir again in hopeless circles. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Hell could be no more lonely or hopeless, no more agonizingly estranged from the world of order and harmony. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The rational part of her knew this was hopeless. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I leaped over the wall and began running on as fast as I could, but I knew it was hopeless. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The creature appeared from the curtains of webbing, and Annabeth realized that her quest was hopeless. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It was hopeless for him, I knew—like going into battle with a rhino. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The writer criticizes “today’s youth” from head to toe, though without dismissing them all as “hopeless cases.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It proved to be a hopeless cause and an endless task. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Colonel Washburn remains cool, surveying what could be a hopeless situation. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He was young, and not yet beaten down by the brutal atmosphere and the frustration of trying to help people in pretty hopeless situations. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Shunning one hopeless battle is not an act of cowardice. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Winded and very nearly hopeless, I turn my head. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I pick the book back up but I don't say anything more about how hopeless it is, me trying to write stuff down, because I don't want to set off the telemetry. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z The Greeks, hopeless, thought only of dying bravely. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She was like a husk of herself, empty, hopeless, done. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “And what am I to do on the occasion? It seems an hopeless business.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z I tried to stretch down but I knew it was hopeless. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Their condition is hopeless, they choke to death with haemorrhages and suffocation. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed hopeless, and I should have given up, but I did not. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Ponytails are common or, for that characteristic Wal-Martian beat-up and hopeless look, straight shoulder-length hair, parted in the middle and kept out of the face by two bobby pins. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z One night, after another hopeless job search, Gold was resting at home when a friend came racing through the door. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Though, of course, as soon as Joe left he reconsidered, wondering was he crazy to encourage such a hopeless and inflammatory act? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z From the direction of the mausoleum there came a high, hopeless cry, not a scream, just a desperate wail of protest. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He was methodically capable of eking out a win from a seemingly hopeless and delicate position. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “It’s hopeless. I’m nowhere near ready,” she said, close to tears again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z William “had made a reputation so startling that I regarded the task of catching up to him as being altogether hopeless.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z When he told me this, I felt hopeless because I couldn’t prove him wrong, at least not yet. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “That’s him? In the gutter? This is tragic. Carousing, drunken, hopeless, already a bloated derelict. Mark him down in your book next to Miss Trixie and me as another life you’ve wrecked.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The glare of the winter sun off the snow has played games with my vision, and I am so exhausted and wrapped up in my own hopeless thoughts that I don’t notice the signs. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The North was still war-weary, but it was no longer hopeless. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hopeless and yet he knew it was better to make the attempt and die than leave him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z All I do know is that it was a hopeless thing, gray and terrible. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A cold, heavy presence passed over the beach, slowing time, dropping the temperature to freezing, and making me feel like life was hopeless, fighting was useless. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Of course, the situation was not by any means hopeless; the Ford was not damaged, simply out of fuel. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Of course, if her celebrity is as dumb as a bag of hair, it’s hopeless. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics, and others with a shaky hold on reality. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z No matter how hopeless I know it is, I like it too much to “extract” myself from “the toxic circumstances.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “But remember,” Mrs Who said, “Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.” A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The same life that I was going after with my hopeless, starry-eyed Miss America dreams. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z His face was as mild and hopeless as ever; mooning above the snappy, rigid blouse, it gave him the air of an impostor. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z As he knelt to look at him, I had a hopeless feeling in the pit of my stomach. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared at the orange haze of the sky and tried to understand how Grover could pursue a dream that seemed so hopeless. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z But I looked anyway, and as I idled down the streets in the minivan, I felt so hopeless. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The sight of this poverty was so cruel and hopeless that Jake snarled and clenched his fists. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Each morning they shook tarantulas and scorpions from their boots and tied handkerchiefs over their mouths in a hopeless effort to keep out the flying sand. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa was hopeless with larger-scale construction projects and big repairs, so Uncle Arthur usually did those things for him. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It was hopeless; he could not raise himself a centimeter. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Only too clearly Sam saw how hopeless it would be for him to creep down under those many-eyed walls and pass the watchful gate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z ‘I won’t budge. Here, take this elven-cake, and drink that last drop in your bottle! The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He turned to the twins, yearning but hopeless. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Nobody likes waiting for a tree to grow—that's why more people don't plant them; it seems hopeless. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It is an ultimately tragic act wherein the hopeless seek hope. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z No doubt there are some who become hopeless about their students’ abilities to learn. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Miners don’t abandon an accident until it’s hopeless. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Nothing’s hopeless until you give up hope,” said Grace. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z She looked into the old woman’s face and she knew it was hopeless. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Ignatius lumbered over to the picket fence, abandoning the hopeless cause espoused by the wagon, and viewed the oil paintings and pastels and watercolors strung there. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I know it’s hopeless, because I’ve been nagging him about it since he announced that there was an anonymous donor, but I try one more time anyway. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “This basket is hopeless. Isn’t there another one someplace?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He would feel as if it was no longer possible to keep balance anymore, as hopeless as if he was trying to ride a seesaw by himself. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A good part of McClellan’s army, as well as Pope’s, the papers admitted, was disorganized and hopeless. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is never hopeless. But sometimes I cannot hope. I try always to hope but sometimes I cannot.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z More than once, after a series of absurd reproaches, I’ve snapped at Mother: “I don’t care what you say. Why don’t you just wash your hands of me—I’m a hopeless case.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “People always tell me that I’m a hopeless romantic,” Rushdie said. Salman Rushdie on the opulent realism of his new novel, 'The Golden House' 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Their lives seem hopeless until a ghost reveals that they can be cured by drinking soup made from a dead relative’s bones. In the Brutality of the Chinese Countryside, ‘Mythorealism’ Reigns 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Treacy doesn't drown his songs in self pity, instead he looks for the hope in a hopeless situation. McGee on music: Salute Dan Treacy, the last bluesman in England 2010-05-04T12:08:00Z “She was pretty hopeless, like, ‘I’m never going to meet anyone.’” The Baristas Finally Get to Recommend the Champagne 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Less than a year later, at 19, Iris is banished from Hollywood forever, smeared as a hopeless pervert. ‘Lucky Us,’ by Amy Bloom, America’s Victor Hugo Without food or adequate shelter, she had spent her days with her younger brother conjuring alternatives to the hopeless circumstances around her. Yoko Ono’s prophetic vision of self-care 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z They were the hopeless dowager aunt who brings way too much luggage on holiday. Review: In ‘Hero of the Empire,’ a Young Churchill Earns His Spurs 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z But I stumbled on a more recent study, less widely known, in which Knudsen discovered that older owls weren't entirely hopeless after all. Guitar Zero: psychologist Gary Marcus says science proves it's never to late to learn music 2012-06-05T15:11:01Z End result: something like Mexico, where a small, filthy rich plutocracy rules over an impoverished mass of desperate, uneducated, and hopeless people. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z And I was on every dating app trying to meet them, which made my situation seem more hopeless. A FaceTime Relationship Turns Face to Face 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Your advice is sound, but it seems so hopeless. Carolyn Hax: Should being burned be a reason not to try for relationships? 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z “For a multibillion-dollar industry that prided itself on being forward thinking, the whole system was totally hopeless,” said Ms. Van Houtte, 29, who studied Mandarin at college in Britain before starting her career in fashion. Tagwalk Wants to Be the Google of Fashion 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Then I called my Jesuit friend, Tom, who is a hopeless alcoholic of the worst sort, sober now for 22 years, someone who sometimes gets fat and wants to hang himself, so I trust him. I am cuckoo, but hope is coming 2012-12-12T21:01:00Z There was a sense that, far from being another hopeless case, South Africa is a place full of hope and possibility. District Six revisited 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z Love flourishes in a place that seems hopeless. Marooned on ‘Love Island’ 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z He and his equally hopeless crew get into all kinds of scrapes with the local criminals. Anuvahood ? review 2011-03-17T22:00:03Z It seems hopeless that the show will be remembered by Tony nominators a year from now. 2018 Tony Nominations: ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘SpongeBob’ Lead the Way 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z James Bond's Savile Row suits are right for a playboy diplomat but hopeless for fighting. Bestselling writers know that image counts 2013-05-16T16:19:29Z On the road, Jacobowsky develops what he knows is a hopeless love for Marianne and wins over the rigid and prejudiced Colonel before the final curtain and a tear-jerking act of quiet heroism. London Theater Journal: In the Shadow of the Nazis 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z “When the Taliban took Afghanistan, they just left and disappeared. That’s why we are very hopeless and sad.” Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z His view of cancer as a hopeless, systemic disease prevailed for centuries until physicians, unable to find the thick ooze, began to base medicine on what they observed in the microscope and the human body. 'The Emperor of All Maladies': A biography of cancer, and hopes for a cure 2010-11-18T00:03:00Z Since this is the celebrity version, there's even more chance that they'll be hopeless in the kitchen, which is half the fun. Celebrity MasterChef 2010-07-21T06:59:00Z Their task was bedevilled by drawings arriving in the wrong order and hopeless measurements. The Arts of Industry in the Age of?Enlightenment by Celina Fox | Book review 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z No surprise that the mood in my breakout group was often heavy and hopeless. First the Play. Then the Soul Searching. But What Comes Next? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The film’s initial, documentary sequences of plywood shacks and pitiful tents, hopeless against the rain, are searingly accusatory. Documenta 14, a German Art Show’s Greek Revival 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Trapped in that framework, children judged physically hopeless were once abandoned to die; in more “enlightened” times, warehoused. Review | In ‘Disfigured,’ a writer explores the damaging ways fairy tales shape our view of the world — and ourselves 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Some reformers suggested using herbs, prayer, cranial surgery and exercise as remedies, but most cases of insanity were considered hopeless. Chains, Whips and Misery: Studying and Preserving Old ‘Lunatic’ Asylums 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Want to watch a witless, never-ending parade of abject dance acts, hopeless comedy sketches and musical performances that'll make you question the value of humanity? Can TV's returning Birds of a Feather cope in Towie's Essex of today? 2013-06-18T12:12:30Z He divides the world into “those who give and those who take” and sees that relationship as one of endless, irreversible reciprocal damage — poisonous, warped, hopeless. The Horrors of Rich-People Food, Fleshed Out on Film 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z When I was 22 and all I wanted was to blend in, that rejection was crushing and hopeless and lonely. The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed it for a long time and let it shrink my life 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z “After the election,” Barr writes, “he was beyond restraint. He would only listen to a few sycophants who told him what he wanted to hear. Reasoning with him was hopeless.” William P. Barr’s Good Donald Trump and Bad Donald Trump 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z While Flowers’ portraits of hopeless dreamers, morally dubious police officers, kids’ feet dangling in the stream, dissatisfied husbands and devoted church-goers is very specific, it can speak to many. The Killers detour into a new and rich sonic landscape 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Through her characters’ eyes, summer camp is the more euphoric of the two; activism is largely a hopeless slog. In the Colorado Desert, a Debut Novelist Finds a Metaphor for Israel and Palestine 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Despite the violence, he says the situation in Libya is not hopeless. Obama: Anti-Islam filmmaker a 'shadowy character' 2012-09-19T00:46:03Z About a minute in, Yorke’s voice moves to the forefront, and he unleashes that surreal, speeding wail—as frantic, careening, and hopeless as a moth zooming endless circles around a streetlight. Radiohead Thinks the Internet Is Turning Us All Into Creeps 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Not believing for a minute that he could be found guilty, he hired a spectacularly hopeless lawyer, in large part because he offered his services for an affordable fixed rate. Clive Stafford Smith: 'The jury system in this country is utter insanity' 2012-07-08T19:00:02Z With its hopeless ending, it was a fulcrum between the morally ordered scary movies of my youth and the horror films to come. Arts & Leisure: What Spooks the Masters of Horror? 2011-08-19T13:45:42Z But Saavedra resolutely makes the case that his “spoonful of sugar” approach is the best way to offer hope to a people grown hopeless under years of repression. ‘No’: The power of one word against tyranny 2013-03-28T21:43:19Z I am a hopeless book scout, and can't bear all that kneeling, rooting around and shuffling books about, looking for bargains. A ?6,000 Auden bargain 2010-07-16T14:34:00Z As time passed, I switched to writing him emails, which felt about as hopeless as flinging a bottle with a message into the sea. A Tattoo for the Living 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Englander's story focuses on the interactions of the writers and their coming to terms with their hopeless situation. Tragic 'Twenty-Seventh Man' brings power of the pen to bear 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z When I finally went back to visit, at the age of 11, it seemed like the saddest, most hopeless place in the entire world. No country for a Russian-American like me 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z People who are hopeless will do irrational things. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Lloyd Webber was appalled, telling Forman that he was “a hopeless actor.” Andrew Lloyd Webber, Hotheaded Perfectionist 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Winter, in the west, is often depicted as metonymically hopeless. In a world moving at breakneck speed, growing indoor plants is teaching me patience | Mel Campbell 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z “She gets stuck in a lot of hopeless roles.” Yvette Mimieux, Who Found Fame With ‘The Time Machine,’ Dies at 80 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z When a space seems hopeless, people abandon it. Perspective | Think of the debate as a public park. The president was polluting it. 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Nearly half of all college students reported feeling hopeless at least once over the past year, according to the 2013 National College Health Assessment. The College Transition: How to Parent When Your Child Leaves Home 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Joe Brunetti, horticulturist at the Victory Garden next to the American History museum, says you should also look for sunken areas in the stem — lesions from fungal diseases — that would render the plant hopeless. D.C.’s biblical rains drowned my tomatoes. Can they be resurrected? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z He may be renowned for his cuddly rogues, but he also specializes in their opposites — unentitled men who are unassuming and hopeless around women and rumbling with uncertainty. Richard Russo’s Latest Cast Includes Average Men and One Big Star 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z The cause need not even be noble, since a hopeless situation and senseless violence can actually fortify a work of fiction. Books of The Times: On a Fool?s Mission in a Dying Colonial World 2011-06-29T22:32:48Z “Such efforts had become an object of ridicule by 1975, a symbol of the hopeless naïveté of 1960s liberalism,” Forman writes. ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ What Led to Mass Incarceration of Black Men 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z It is so rich in ingredients and skillfully blended that guessing the exact recipe would be hopeless. Tortas, Comforting and Carefully Considered, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Rigorously shot and calculatedly observational, "Time Out of Mind" is a look at a broken man's life over the course of several hopeless, restless days. Oren Moverman hopes 'Time Out of Mind' spotlights homelessness 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The sociologist David Matza summed up the difficulty, in 1964: “When factors become too numerous, we are in the hopeless position of arguing that everything matters.” The Trouble with Crime Statistics 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z “But the idea is that when they come out from their hiding places, when they regroup and return to find their stockpiles ransacked and stripped, they’ll realize their situation,” he adds, is hopeless. A Different Perspective on the Border 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z When an expert declarer is in a contract that looks hopeless, he will look for a winning layout. Bridge: Tom Hanlon Plays Smart Bridge at Gold Coast Congress 2012-03-10T00:20:00Z Others say “Vexations” is a hopeless breakup ballad. What It’s Like to Hear the Same Piece of Music for 19 Hours 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z In the course of Sunday’s episode Morse develops one of his patented hopeless crushes on a suspect, and it gets him busted down from bagman to general duty. Television Review: In PBS’s ‘Endeavour,’ the Detective Is a Poetry Lover 2013-07-05T19:20:32Z The violence is usually attributed to a hopeless cocktail of drugs, gangs and guns. Murder, she wrote 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z As social comedy, I found the sketch witheringly funny and weirdly hopeless, nonetheless. Let’s Talk About the Oscars: An Evening of Squirming 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z I’m here to say that this hopeless feeling is normal. Celebrity moms make me feel better about myself 2013-09-05T22:59:00Z “With everything going on with climate change and the different variants, you do feel hopeless in the face of the holiday where you’re supposed to have so much cheer,” Mx. How the Sexy Grinch Spiced Up Christmas 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z It was a place of clanging bells, and shouting, and endless drills: "The feeling of being on a hopeless journey, an exile that would last for years." James Salter: the forgotten hero of American literature 2013-05-11T13:30:01Z In the charitable sector you are working with people, and working with almost intractable problems that we generally feel pretty hopeless about. "We've got a Marvel movie here": Stephen Gyllenhaal reframes the not-for-profit battle for justice 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z I think I would have been a hopeless spy. ArtsBeat: The Spy Game: Ben Macintyre Talks About 'Double Cross' 2012-08-01T18:12:24Z It was perfect, feel-good telly where the transformed fortunes of even the most hopeless of restaurant-owning chumps left the viewer smiling. When good TV goes bad: how the US ruined Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z David Hooper, a partner with law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain who represented Bloomsbury, called the claims "hopeless and speculative." Harry Potter plagiarism case dismissed in UK 2011-07-18T15:01:34Z We tried to find a farm we’d passed on the road, but it was hopeless. Experience: I almost died in a blizzard 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z With or without Cowell, the first three weeks of broadcast material from nationwide auditions will likely have its usual share of hopeless warblers among the next potential new superstar. Revamped "American Idol" looks to regain its mojo 2011-01-19T13:32:50Z On the swirling album opener, “J-Boy,” which plays like a short, romantic film, Mr. Mars sings of a “hopeless world,” dying reefs and a sense of collective moral complicity. Phoenix’s New Album Arrives in a Darker World, but the Beat Goes On 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z When I was 18, and a hopeless case, I went for a university interview. We're all going on a ... 2011-07-30T23:04:12Z There is also her crack-user boyfriend Boo Boo, a hopeless, bloated, amiable goof. High on Crack Street scores the hits despite The Fighter's fancy footwork 2011-02-02T15:24:32Z In the longer term the prospect for more and better drugs “is far from hopeless”, Friedman concludes. Why 'big pharma' stopped searching for the next Prozac 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z “One evening early this summer, I opened a book and found myself reading the same paragraph over and over, a half dozen times before concluding that it was hopeless to continue,” author Tony Schwartz wrote. The Internet is scrambling our brains: We spend more time online than sleeping — and here’s how it’s messing us up 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Disappointingly, given the trailers, we didn't hear too much candid chat from the Queen, her comforting, twittering bird's voice being rarely caught in full by the hopeless microphones. Rewind TV: The Lady Vanishes; It's Kevin; Our Queen – review 2013-03-23T22:45:01Z That may be a hopeless task, but his case is compelling: The stories we tell are made up, and we can't be quite sure we are not fictional characters. Love and loss in "Asteroid City": Wes Anderson's intoxicating alien-invasion meta-movie 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Uninspired and utterly hopeless about your career and romantic prospects? Everyone’s Resolution Is to Drink More Water in 2020 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z Depending on your perspective, it reveals a great performer in hopeless decline, or an under-rehearsed performer hoping to get by, hidden by all the ceremony around her. Mariah Carey Brings Christmas to the Beacon Theater 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z If you’ve ever worked on a hopeless project that felt like it was going nowhere, you will draw spiritual strength from Merchant’s account of life in the Purple trenches. The iPhone Is 10 Years Old. Here’s the Story of Its Birth. 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z What stopped me was simple: I'm hopeless with numbers. Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos| Book review 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z It is what Pudsey the Dog: The Movie did, by spinning a hopeless plot out of a dog whose only achievement was keeping his nose quite close to a woman’s bum. How to join Rotten Tomatoes’ Zero Per Cent Club 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z I was so tired of being sad and feeling hopeless that I went to my next emotion, and that was anger. Jenny Lawson on ‘Furiously Happy’ and when it is okay to call her ‘crazy’ 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z “Her sense of the matter was that things were generally hopeless and that there was no place for her anywhere,” Taubes writes of the adult Sophie. A Skeptical Heroine, Unconvinced by Religion, Romance or Psychoanalysis 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z “I’m just a hopeless and perpetual collector and I know I’ve overdone it,” she said, “but it’s just very hard for me to say no.” Mar-a-Lago Has a Feisty New Neighbor 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Sacks writes only briefly about his need “to get away from my tragic, hopeless, mismanaged brother”; Weschler might have made this sibling — and Sacks’s flight from him — central to his own explorations. A Biography of Oliver Sacks, Written by His Boswell 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z My life looked like a hopeless mess there for a while," he wrote later, "and the point was I didn't want it to be better. F Scott Fitzgerald's 1936 piece finally appears in print 2012-08-10T21:54:00Z Burned Burned: If you’re looking never to get hurt, then, yes, hopeless is the right word. Carolyn Hax: Should being burned be a reason not to try for relationships? 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z As if we were rational creatures whose motives and desires were ever anything other than a hopeless jumble. The miracle cure that wasn't: 'White Matter' on the personal tragedy of lobotomy 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Henri shakes his head and sighs in what is an almost hopeless gesture, a gesture made when the fight is lost. Teen book club: Lorien Legacies Competition 2012-08-03T07:00:00Z In this festival darling documentary, Smith Ridge Veterinary Center is where the hopeless canine medical cases go after owners have tried everything. The best new movies you can watch from home in March 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Tom Cruise’s career suggests that these operations are entirely possible, as does every other movie about rakish charmers facing hopeless odds. ‘Triple Frontier’ Review: Men on a Mission? Possible! 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z And for the first time, I felt a little bit hopeless about us. Can I date a Republican? 2012-10-05T23:30:00Z The first chapter, for instance, gives readers the heads-up that no case is too repugnant or hopeless for Rudd to take on. John Grisham’s terrific new thriller, ‘Rogue Lawyer’ 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The book ends in the mid-1960s, at a time when the restoration of independence seemed the most hopeless dream. A singular voice 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The officers on the bridge inform Riker that the situation is nearly hopeless. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 4 Recap: A Sinking Ship 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z “I felt pretty hopeless. I was morbidly obese, and I was in my 30s. I just felt like there wasn’t anything for me in my life. I wasn’t taking care of Kathy.” Is Richard Simmons missing? Or is he just dearly missed? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z O'Hanlon was hopeless at maths, so didn't read science at university, taking English instead. Redmond O'Hanlon: A life in books 2011-03-28T06:59:01Z Though the bakery is cutely called Bread & Buttons, and sells crocheted monkeys and mittens along with the scones, he is not just satirizing small town America, with its hopeless reinvention schemes and hapless part-time politicians. Review: Anna Chlumsky and Adam Pally Paint the Town Red in ‘Cardinal’ 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z “He was so ashamed and felt so hopeless that Channing committed suicide,” Mrs. Trump said. Melania Trump asks governors’ spouses to tackle cyberassault 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z I lack skills in all of those arenas to a truly hopeless degree, and the fact that there are people in the world who grasp those concepts is beyond my feeble comprehension. Hooray for “worthless” education! 2014-03-27T17:07:00Z Since his 2011 debut, “+,” he has presented himself proudly as a hopeless romantic. Ed Sheeran Sticks With a Familiar Formula on ‘=’ 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Call us hopeless romantics, but we can at least dream. Can music and marriage mix well? 2010-05-05T14:48:00Z But dark is not the same as hopeless. ‘BoJack Horseman’ and ‘The Good Place’ Took Us to Hell and Back 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z For most who attempt it professionally, playwriting is a hopeless job, with few opportunities to break in and fewer to advance. Review: Rude T-Shirts and Rude Awakenings in ‘A Bright New Boise’ 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Nick seems to be buying whatever Alejandro is selling, Strand and Madison are surrounded, and Alicia, hopeless and alone, eyes that open sliding door. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 9: Lessons to Be Learned 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z And 27 rock bands had let go of their edgy reputations to acknowledge that, while they may not be known for syrupy ballads, they too are sometimes hopeless romantics. The Real Rock Stars Were the Brides and Grooms 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z The show's plot usually involved Burr's character agreeing to represent a seemingly hopeless defendant falsely accused of crimes such as murder. Actress Barbara Hale, loyal secretary on TV's 'Perry Mason,' dies at 94 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z But her aim proved hopeless and she was compelled to dispatch him with her sword. The Walking Dead: season seven, episode four – Service 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z “This is what happens when you dare to hope in a hopeless place.” ‘Made in Afghanistan’ Once Symbolized Hope. Now It’s Fear. 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z “But we get paralyzed by these things. And then we just feel like really hopeless. So we make people feel inspired. Or a little bit better. Or less alone.” In Crisis? Lemonada Media Has a Podcast for You. 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z That’s bleak, but I’m grateful to Walker for not leaving me feeling entirely hopeless about the future of my home and — because this movie is fundamentally about our planet — yours as well. ‘Bring Your Own Brigade’ Review: Some Say the World Will End in Fire 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z But just when all seems hopeless, these plucky British journalists decide to drop their stiff upper lips and fatalism about their futures and take things into their own hands. | 'Alphabetical Order': The Withering Heights and Depths of a Dying British Paper 2010-09-29T02:02:00Z On to more TV lifestyle tips for us hopeless Britons. TV review: The Perfect Suit and Extreme Parental Guidance 2011-07-06T19:00:21Z I was making a connection, and that made me feel less hopeless, and that I'm not the only one. Luisa Omielan: destiny's comic 2013-07-29T18:29:00Z For Bekka, the poet, school is just another required and hopeless step on the path of downward mobility: “Our parents, and their parents, they used everything up. They left us with jobs in retail.” Off Broadway’s Spring Semester: Five New Plays About School 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z But Obama, as ever, refuses to describe their breakup as evidence of a hopeless gap. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z Among the moderns, Yeats, even in old age, feels the tug of hopeless desire: “How can I, that girl standing there,/ My attention fix/ On Roman or on Russian/ Or on Spanish politics?” Perspective | In a time of crisis, poetry can help focus our fears and transform ‘noise into music’ 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Even in my prime, I’d been hopeless at chatting up women in bars or at parties. She Slipped Past My Age Filter 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z So a lot of them felt so desperate and so hopeless. Ti West's 'The Sacrament' finds horror in a realistic cult tale 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z Though the singing on Thursday was hopeless, the drumming said it all. Music Review: The French Band Alcest Performs at Webster Hall 2010-04-30T21:21:00Z From the first scene, we see the hapless, hopeless Edwards, determined to make a sporting success of himself but destined to trip up over his laces at every finishing line. Eddie the Eagle: ‘I was probably closer to the ostrich’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Given how roundly our heroes have been beaten both in this episode and last week’s, one would expect them to be in a glum, hopeless state of mind. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 7: Out of the Ashes 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z I am a hopeless romantic and hope their relationship is mended next season, but not sure that's realistic given the ending. ‘Insecure’ Season 1 Finale: Great Expectations 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z The song asserts Celie’s right to pursue the dream of a “bountiful life,” as she rises above desperate and seemingly hopeless circumstances. Broadway teaches the ABCs of getting girls into school 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z But Goddard reluctantly ruled that he should be allowed to see the evidence in order to mount what seemed to be a hopeless defence: that he wasn’t a sexual predator, but a harmless deviant. ‘I thought, OK, he goes for drunk guys’: friends and flatmates on the Reynhard Sinaga they knew 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Later I speculated, with a kind of hopeless retreat into biographical literalism, whether fatherhood has not been kind to Marcus. The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus – review 2013-04-30T11:41:04Z Photograph: Katherine Rose for the Observer Like a particularly hopeless dame in an especially repetitive melodrama, rock, so the story goes, is perpetually in need of saving. Spector: Enjoy it While it Lasts – review 2012-08-11T23:05:28Z As for Liz, a magazine writer who lives in New York: She’s still clever and responsible, the most perceptive member of the generally hopeless Bennet family, the one who has to sort everything out. ‘Eligible,’ Curtis Sittenfeld’s Update of Jane Austen 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Are there people for whom first dates are always hopeless — people better suited to romance that arrives gradually with a classmate, colleague, acquaintance or friend? Date Lab: He knew how he felt almost immediately 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z When a problem seems hopeless, or when an agency is caught unprepared by a new challenge, send for Mrs. Friedman — she'll fix it. Dig into those archives! The story of a lost code breaking woman of World War II 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z I’m ultimately not sure if “Are we not drawn” is hopeful or hopeless, a hymn to human endeavor or futility. Review: ‘Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era’ Stages a Disaster in Reverse 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z So our first concert was with this long, long, hopeless title. Sir Neville Marriner conducts his 90th birthday tour with grace, humor 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z I did my best to keep up, but it was hopeless. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z There is a hopeless infatuation with an unattainable woman. Television Review: Inspector Morse Returns in ‘Endeavour,’ a Prequel 2012-06-29T23:57:08Z With the world getting increasingly bleak, it’s easy to feel hopeless. Unmaskings, burkinis and vegan cheese: the alternative ‘women of the year’ awards 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Du Bois and Malcolm X. Especially in this moment when it's easy to feel hopeless. Ibram X Kendi responds to Sen. Ted Cruz 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Knight was disciplined about refusing to collaborate, but hopeless with money. Antiques: Knives of William Scagel, Storied Blacksmith, for Sale 2012-03-01T23:48:40Z Seresin now uses the term "heterofatalism" to emphasise how dire, hopeless, and lacking in visions for an alternative, this attitude is. What is "heteropessimism," and why do men and women suffer from it? 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z “Iowa,” she sings, in the number that begins the new musical “The Bridges of Madison County,” and you hear both the heady hope of liberation and the hopeless acceptance of captivity. Theater Review: ‘Bridges of Madison County’ Brings Iowa to Broadway 2014-02-21T03:00:02Z In other words, the situation is hopeless, but not serious. A professor’s lesson: “American democracy is now confronting an abyss” 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z And I think Tyler just called me a hopeless romantic and wandered off giggling. 5 Pros in the Concert Trenches on Getting (Carefully) Back to Work 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Call me a hopeless holdout for live concerts and natural sound. Books of The Times: ‘Reinventing Bach,’ by Paul Elie 2012-10-07T20:25:38Z The strife there, hopeless and cyclical, is soon to rear its terrible head, with consequences for all of them. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Still, Stan is eager for role models and seeks them in the most hopeless of environs. Review | ‘Welfare’ offers a sly critique of public assistance — and capitalism 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z I fear that my frustrations on knowing that my love for my wife is hopeless will make our life together eventually unbearable. My wife wants me to have an affair with her best friend. What shall I do? | Annalisa Barbieri 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z A Transcendental genius and hopeless Romantic, our hero rises dewy in purple night-tide, not unlike a hot vampire in a Y.A. novel. “Dickinson,” from Apple TV+, Is Deeply Weird and Dazzles Gradually 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Willa and Justin exist in their own oppressive bubble of loss and dread, which imbues the narrative with a hopeless claustrophobia, like two captives who have given up looking for escape. When the Family Falls Apart 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z In the books, Elena and Lila’s battle against the Camorra, the inescapable local Mafia, is their life’s mission, their greatest conflict, depicted as a hopeless, grinding struggle. Elena Ferrante’s Naples, Then and Now 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z She would, she says, love to have more children – “I’d like an army of them” – but laughs that she has always been hopeless at making plans. Sienna Miller: 'I feel relatively immune to bitchy criticism now' 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z “It’s all falling apart, man,” he admits to Lonnie, whose situation is only marginally less hopeless. ‘Car Wash,’ a Raunchy 1970s Comedy Brimming With Meta and Mayhem 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z She referred both to its subject — hopeless depression and a man who struggles through it with the help of a beaver hand puppet — and to the turmoil surrounding its lead actor, Mel Gibson. When Art Imitates an Actor?s Troubled Life 2011-03-17T23:17:23Z I don’t know how this scene, this feeling it provoked, got into my head and hibernated there, appearing now and then, often when some seemingly hopeless environmental battle is on the verge of being lost. The Shuttered Lincoln Plaza Cinemas Is a Cultural Crime Scene 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z I was hopeless at everything apart from music and only got two O-levels. Mark-Anthony Turnage: A life in music 2011-01-22T07:59:00Z Violent activists such as the Weathermen dismissed Oglesby as a "hopeless bourgeois liberal." '60s activist Carl Oglesby dead at age 76 2011-09-13T19:01:05Z As a young man, Nixon was awkward, square, hopeless at making small talk. ‘Richard Nixon,’ Portrait of a Thin-Skinned, Media-Hating President 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z It looks hopeless, like he doesn't know what he's doing. Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise; Wodehouse In Exile – TV review 2013-03-26T07:00:03Z The hopeless polarization of American society is both a truism and a taboo. Review: Salma Hayek Skewers a Boor in ‘Beatriz at Dinner’ 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Your so-called work is completely hopeless, not even a joke. Michael Dirda’s ‘Browsings’ offers meditations on the life of the mind 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Rejoined Tories on bumpy path to emerge as national hero in the crisis of 1940 after series of hopeless misjudgments and attacks on inept Tory leadership. Boris Johnson and Winston Churchill: can you tell them apart? 2013-06-04T15:35:01Z David O Russell's film puts the agonised story of Dicky – the hopeless drug-addict and screw-up – into the context of a hopeful, positive comeback story. High on Crack Street scores the hits despite The Fighter's fancy footwork 2011-02-02T15:24:32Z David Simon’s new HBO miniseries “Show Me a Hero,” which premiered last Sunday, is the harrowing tale of a hopeless battle. David Simon: Hyper-segregation is our national dynamic 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z It was then I realized that my position was hopeless. Thief 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z In the First World War, military surgeons reported dramatic results in the hopeless and near lifeless. Blood tales: the magic liquid that keeps us alive 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Screaming hysterically that the girl is a shallow, disgusting creature, Dr. Parker brutally outlines the girl’s hopeless future. Movie Review: ?Detachment,? Starring Adrien Brody, Directed by Tony Kaye 2012-03-15T22:50:47Z For all their surface bleakness, Ms. Guy’s books were far from hopeless. Rosa Guy, 89, Author of Forthright Novels for Young People 2012-06-07T04:23:10Z That is still a useful phrase, and Miss Manners does not consider that its old-fashioned sound makes it in any way hopeless. Perspective | Miss Manners: Well-wishers aren’t responsible for neglected chores 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z This is where you might hear, It’s hopeless. How Parents Make Things Worse For Struggling College Kids 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z I hold to the hillbilly standard that there is no situation so hopeless that, through perseverance, I cannot make worse. When the Winds Died Down 2011-07-18T15:50:05.740Z “I think the reason I make things big is that I’m incredibly unrealistic,” she says, identifying herself as a hopeless fantasist. | A Snow Queen for Our Time 2011-02-02T19:17:16Z The cardinals are depicted as mostly hopeless, harmless old men who worry over their pope, rather than the scheming, powerful and politically savvy princes of the church they are sometimes made out to be. Mixed reviews from church on pope movie 2011-04-21T17:31:06Z If birding is to have a rebranded future as a trendy Zen pastime, formerly for hopeless nerds but now chic, in the vein of quilting or canning, he will be its transformative figure. Birding: The latest angsty Manhattan craze! 2013-01-15T22:48:00Z In August, Trump referred to Smith as “low ratings Shep Smith,” calling him “hopeless and clueless.” Shepard Smith, Fox News veteran anchor and frequent Trump target, abruptly resigns from the network 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Normally hearts can’t be transported more than four hours; that and other things made the possibility of a transplant seem like a real, real long shot if not a hopeless case. Charles Payne on the true joy of Christmas: 'Always something you can do' for others 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z With a shift back to recitative, Phèdre realizes her situation is hopeless and urges Hippolyte to kill her, before seizing his sword herself. An Opera Worth Fighting Over 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z With every case, the situation seems more hopeless. "Sound of the Police" filmmaker tells his son, "No good can come from a police encounter" 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Not just any film festival, but one dedicated to the literary superstar of educated hopeless romantics and held at a 1799 home in Georgetown, where Austen’s American contemporaries swanned around in colonial splendor. The Jane Austen film festival: Chick flicks for D.C.’s highbrow romantics 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Andrew Slater as Rambashi, the hopeless pirate, adds plenty of humour. The Firework-Maker's Daughter; Hallé Orchestra/Elder; Cheryomushki – review 2013-03-31T00:07:03Z It’s a sad vision of the hereafter, but not a hopeless one, as Brockmeier sees more wonder than despair in the mystery of existence. Review | What does the afterlife look like? ‘The Ghost Variations’ offers 100 possibilities. 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z But Johnny notices nothing, or almost nothing; he is too deeply involved in his own hopeless love for his French friend, Bastien. Scandal Puts a Gay Father in Prison. What of His Gay Son, a Generation Later? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z It’s as if this hopeless character, who was planning to flee town and start a new life just moments earlier, had finally found something worth living for. The Leftovers season finale: how much more gloom and grief can we take? 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Will, waiting tables to pay for pâté, lies hopeless next to his girlfriend, consumed. When First Love Is as Lethal as Religious Extremism 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z As he wrote in an earlier, self-published book, “Almost Home,” which is partly incorporated here, he felt hopeless and ghostly for a long time. Books of The Times: “Life After Death,” by Damien Echols 2012-09-19T21:18:19Z Yes I, a writer and apparently a hopeless Romantic, wanted the wild and "troubled" writer character to find true love with the untamable lothario. "The L Word: Generation Q": Shanes I have known 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z When Young and McCartney teamed up for a duet of Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance,” were they just sending more hopeless wishes into the wind? Did rock-and-roll die at Desert Trip? Or did it finally achieve eternal life? 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Of course, not everyone in a wedding band is a desperate optimist or hopeless romantic. Reflections of a Wedding Singer 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z And you can take that survival, you can take any sort of oppression, and feel bitter and feel like things are hopeless. Sterlin Harjo Can Do a Lot More Than ‘Reservation Dogs’ 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z It all looks straightforward and fairly hopeless, but Shigemori sets off on his own investigation in an effort to reduce the charge and possibly save Misumi’s life. Review: In ‘The Third Murder,’ Guilty as Charged Isn’t the Whole Story 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z And please, if you feel hopeless, reach out. Why Kate Spade Felt Like a Friend 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z What sets our project apart is we’re asking, what is the story that makes this seem so hopeless?” Naomi Klein: 'Why do we look away from the horror of climate change?' 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z But prospect of such an understanding now seems less hopeless than then. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z I don't agree with the last bit, about Alicia being hopeless. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 9: Lessons to Be Learned 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z But characters who may seem hopeless begin to suggest a vulnerable side, and none truly deserve the situations that afflict them. ‘Ilo Ilo’: Rebel child stands out in Singapore family drama 2014-04-10T21:07:35Z So too is Pip, experiencing her first hopeless infatuation. Elisabeth Mahoney on The Archers 2010-06-30T07:00:00Z And Children of Men–whose Timothy J. Sexton writes and produces Lottery–took place in the hopeless aftermath of a similar baby drought. REVIEW: The Lottery 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z “Any normal group of people would have realized the situation was hopeless,” Mr. Moore said of Radio Caroline’s exploits during the ’80s, “but these were not normal people.” Ronan O’Rahilly, Pioneer of Pirate Radio, Is Dead at 79 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z Hang on - this cape's all... and the teeth are... oh this is hopeless. Your underwhelming Halloween photos 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z And an important note: U.K. motorists in Europe generally only have accident insurance and therefore would be left carless and hopeless in the latter situation. How to Prepare for Road Trip Abroad 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z A: With all three of these topics, it’s so easy to be hopeless. Matthew Heineman on ‘City of Ghosts’ and his affinity for picking (seemingly) futile battles 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z “What I came to realize was that much of rural America feels forgotten and misunderstood and, frankly, hopeless,” Ms. Howard said. Vivian Howard, a TV Chef, Offers Hope for Her Rural Hometown 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z How does feeling hopeless help in that job search, or being frustrated help in healing your relationship, or feeling incompetent get you that promotion? How thoughts and speech shape our wellbeing | Gary John Bishop 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z “Her physical limitations are appalling,” Wyeth wrote, adding that his aim was “to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless.” The Pilgrims Who Visit the House in Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Q: Spud, the most hopeless character, gets a really surprising story line here. The ‘Trainspotting’ junkies are back, but it’s more than drugs that are eating at them. 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z And I’d just been presented the tab: Present myself as the insensitive guy, hopelessly addicted to his debauched past, whose naïve fiancée clung on in a hopeless struggle for his doomed soul. I sold my soul to Ricki Lake 2013-03-18T01:00:00Z But tests in the last few years have shown that its condition was hopeless. Antiques: Eames Trove to Be Sold at Wright Auction House 2010-04-01T22:41:00Z Trying to get to it from the bottom was hopeless—I’d manage ten steps, then slide back down again. Stepping Across the Ice: Teffi (1872-1952) 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z “I’m sick of being sick. I’m done with feeling down. I’m too young to feel this old. I’m always hopeless, tired now,” McD punched, her delivery like a chair to the face. D.C.’s Bacchae may be fed up, but at Songbyrd, that didn’t stop the band from raging 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z So by the time I met Zana Morris, who runs The Library, I felt pretty hopeless. Suzanne Moore: 'I've joined the gym!' 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z At some points, it looks and sounds like a low-budget feel-good sports film with the usual rah-rah clichés about the thrill of going from hopeless to victorious. | 'The Winning Season': Redemption as a Team Sport 2010-09-02T20:42:00Z To keep going, even when it seemed hopeless? DC Comics under fire for hiring anti-gay writer to pen Superman 2013-02-11T22:09:00Z A poor planner, I tend to cook when hungry, rendering the idea of waiting to eat the finished dish more than a little ambitious—hopeless, really. Summer calls for pisto manchego — with a fried egg on top 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z Flexner declared the majority of the regular schools “utterly wretched” and “hopeless affairs” and discounted all irregular institutions as “worthless” and “fatally defective.” The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z They are no longer young, yet not terribly old, although in that era, a 31-year-old unmarried woman like Sally was considered a hopeless spinster. Review: 'Talley's Folly' is a charming revival 2013-03-06T02:44:09Z “I really know that it is a hopeless affectation,” Mr. Lang said in an interview. where have classical music’s uppercase letters gone? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z “It’s interesting to find a way in it, and adjust. The movie world now is moving surprisingly fast. The stage is more rigorous. I prefer long, arduous, hopeless rehearsals.” Al Pacino: ‘What’s the point of quitting?’ 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z I'm aghast at the tasteless depiction Of sex in contemporary fiction: Just impulsive insertion, Agitation, exertion — Hence, as reader, my hopeless addiction. Style Invitational Week 1088: Our winning F-word limericks! (No, not that F-word.) Most remarkable has been Strayed’s willingness to use her own story, to revisit her most hopeless, fumbling moments — from drug use to infidelity — in answering readers’ questions. Cheryl Strayed: “Tackle love” 2012-07-08T01:00:00Z The impossibility of a match between Wei-Wei and Gao looms large for much of the book, so readers who like their romance high on the angst and hopeless pining will want to snap this up. Sauce Makers and Scoundrels: Four Hot Romance Novels 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Maria’s ambivalence about continuing to pursue what sometimes seems to be a hopeless quest is the dramatic core of the film. Review: ‘Woman in Gold’ Stars Helen Mirren in Tug of War Over Artwork 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z We no longer see her as victim of one or another comical shock, an object of pity or ridicule, or a hopeless case of repression and neuroses. Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell – rereading 2012-06-08T21:55:17Z On the elegiac “I Bet on Losing Dogs,” she commiserates with the helpless and the hopeless: Mitski’s ‘Puberty 2’ Mines Her Scars for Raw Meaning 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Mr Lanthimos’s hopeless characters speak in stilted fashion, seeking matches by advertising their distinguishing characteristics. Beachcombing 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Yet Mr. Cribb is not hopeless; he predicts that we’ll eventually “unlock new insights capable of making profound gains in food production and sustainability on a par with those of the Green Revolution.” Books of The Times: Seeing a Time (Soon) When We?ll All Be Dieting 2010-08-24T21:30:00Z Zach, whom Haas imbues with a blank, sullen self-importance, stumbles through the movie wearing the glazed expression of a hopeless drunk. 'Crazy Eyes': a cautionary tale that doesn't bode well 2012-07-19T20:05:14Z Strangely enough, Thompson had already ridden in a car with Nixon, keeping his promise to only talk football, and later fell for the hopeless George McGovern. If only Hunter S. Thompson could have lived to take on this election 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Whatever this small, wiry woman is attempting, it’s hopeless, yet the here-and-now fact of it is compelling. Karen Sherman’s ‘One With Others’ at the Chocolate Factory 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z She fears that Cowell's franchises, especially in the early rounds where the hopes of the hopeless are dashed, risks exploiting people who may have mental health problems. Ten years of The X Factor, the show-off show with a talent for survival 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z A second goal for Liverpool rendered Roma’s predicament completely hopeless. Perspective | The World Cup will show us soccer is more than just thrilling. It’s art. 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z This harbinger of the US east coast "anti-folk" scene added wry new meaning to lines such as "I am a symbol of endless, hopeless, fruitless, aimless games" by delivering them with his acoustic guitar. Crass's political punk is as relevant now as ever 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z When I saw your headline, I thought, nope, no way, I'm too hopeless to cook. What to Cook This Weekend 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z This Miser may be a hopeless romantic with terrible taste in music, but as a child of the ’70s, she finds it hard to deny the pull of soft-rock superstars like Michael McDonald. Weekend Miser: ?Spoons, Toons and Booze,? Sunday Brunch at Union Hall in Brooklyn 2011-10-27T20:39:45Z All this simpering, soppy mothering, this hopeless quest for a kind of homogeneous perfection, is bad for our health. Mothers, enough of the simpering please! 2013-06-29T06:29:01Z “It was as hopeless as I’ve ever felt,” said Mr. Thomas, who considered releasing the video anyway, then thought better of it. ‘Veronica Mars’ Fans Are Happy to Finance a Reunion 2014-03-05T14:58:23Z In a Gaslight Anthem song, we become endearing anti-heroes, damsels, and hopeless lovers. The Gaslight Anthem's Handwritten Is About You 2012-07-26T17:12:21Z Although I have always enjoyed traveling, I am a hopeless and even feckless planner of vacations. Zurich, for a Song 2010-09-24T18:42:00Z When it came to dating, I felt hopeless. I Wanted to Be Dominated. But Not Quite Like That. 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The brother they'd all written off as hopeless has something to teach them, and likewise Rudd has a gift for getting the audience on his side. Our Idiot Brother: Paul Rudd on a Couch-Crash Course 2011-08-24T00:20:00Z But even the show’s telephonic elimination system wasn’t as demeaning as its season-launching audition process, in which our nation’s most hopeless hopefuls eagerly lined up for unprecedented public degradation. ‘American Idol’ ruined how we listen to singers. Did Auto-Tune fix it? 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z They include: • Cash to the Bush theatre in west London helping it to move round the corner from its hopeless, untenable position above a pub to the old Shepherd's Bush library. Lloyd Webber fund announces new grants worth ?1m 2011-07-28T09:45:24Z Single-handedly correcting the manners of an entire audience is hopeless, but avoiding conversation yourself is not. Perspective | Miss Manners: Minding the manners of smart appliances 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z “Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence reduces the rarest dainty to hopeless insipidity, and the diner to despair.” Year-round, we take onions for granted. Winter is the time for them to shine. 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z The final scene bunched up a group of convicts in bedraggled derangement, some looking menacing, others injured and hopeless. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z It will tell the story of hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare. Histories cast to star in Bard film 2013-05-13T16:16:57Z But people who are clinically depressed also: reject invitations — or accept but then cancel at the last minute, ignore calls, languish at home, dwell on the negative and see their situation as hopeless. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Many problems with ‘giving up’ on friend with depression 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z As hopeless as they may sound, these same Reddit users do their best to, at the very least, reduce the amount of noise that seeps its way into their homes. 7 soundproofing hacks to drown out your noisy neighbors 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Told that there was a nation of hopeless romantics with fingers crossed for the characters, Ms. Ryan replied with a sympathetic, enigmatic, “Aww.” ArtsBeat: After 'Office' Hours, Amy Ryan Plans a Concert Performance 2011-02-03T17:29:38Z And afterwards, as the tower sways and looks set to fall, there is hopeless impotence. Reading group: What does William Golding's Spire stand for? 2013-04-09T12:35:20Z Dickie and Babs have a passionate relationship, which now seems hopeless. Winter Paralympics: Highlights | Women | FlashForward and more | Watch this 2010-03-22T06:45:00Z Or the hopeless romantic Jesse from “Before Sunrise” who, nine years later in the 2004 sequel “Before Sunset,” has a family and a best-selling novel and couldn’t be more miserable. Nearing 50, Ethan Hawke’s latest radical transformation — violent abolitionist John Brown — suits an explorer of ‘intense faith’ 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z I lay lost, hopeless, listless, thinking of everything I could be doing. Tiny Love Stories: ‘Your Husband Will Probably Leave You Now’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Episodes are edited in such a way to make the most of this human drama without cheapening each individual's accounts, circling back to reveal endings of rescue efforts that sound hopeless at first. Nat Geo's "9/11: One Day in America" takes us inside the terror attacks with those who survived them 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z They don't seem hopeless to me at all. Samantha Bee on why she's on tour: "It is feeling treacherous out there to be a woman" 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z He went from administrative incompetence to hopeless incontinence in about as much time as it would have taken him to pull his trousers down. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z Shell-shock being, Rivers believes, a kind of withdrawal from a reality too terrible to contemplate, its victims are involved in a "hopeless attempt to forget". Regeneration by Pat Barker 2012-08-17T21:54:01Z He is really hopeless, disastrous, feeble at telling the American story. Hay festival diary: Simon Schama's advice for Barack Obama 2010-05-31T17:13:00Z And now, the hopeless romantic is getting the musical treatment. ‘Great Gatsby’ Musical Sets Creative Team 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z She confessed to having a hopeless crush on one cameraman, a scruffy 30-year-old named Ben. Reinventing Betsey Johnson 2012-12-19T23:32:46Z If, out of a population of more than a billion, this seems like a quixotic position, Wang doesn't believe it's a hopeless one. Wang Shu: the architect challenging China's obsession with scale 2012-12-16T00:05:23Z A journalist and hopeless romantic, she briefly fell in love and died at 27 in a flash flood. In a Laboratory, Turning Traditional Notions of Opera Upside Down 2010-05-07T20:15:00Z Red Lake, the reservation that Treuer saw misrepresented as hopeless after the school shooting, was one such place. David Treuer’s Rebellious New History of Native American Life 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z They are generally spellbound, and often fairly hopeless. Cicely Berry, voice coach to the stars 2011-07-24T21:15:01Z She waited a few seconds and added, “Am I a hopeless dreamer, or was I born at the wrong time?” The Latest Dreams of Barbara Hillary, the First African-American Woman to Travel to the North Pole 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z They urge Americans afflicted by the “myth of persistence” to abandon “the hopeless pursuit of the unattainable” and to build better goals. Books Of Style: Books Offer Career Advice, and Tips on How to Quit and Find a New Job 2013-12-27T21:44:04Z Fragile, hopeless, confused humans with flaws both internal and external. It's time to embrace daggy selfies 2013-07-17T00:37:00Z Or will it tell the uplifting tale of how a hopeless loser finds love and learns to be a better man? Books of The Times: ‘One Last Thing Before I Go’ by Jonathan Tropper 2012-08-15T20:45:56Z Bewildered, befuddled Romanian society in general is what is culpable: a directionless, hopeless world. Beyond the Hills – review 2013-03-14T21:30:01Z The horrors became more horrific — a mass shooting occurs nearly every day; a gross violation of civil rights spreads across the Internet; foreign policy crises morph and become more hopeless. Can we go on without Jon Stewart? Of course we can. He’s shown us how. 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z I suppose Diaghilev’s hopeless passion for Nijinsky is meant to be a similarly equalizing force in “Fire and Air”: It weakens and humanizes the more powerful figure. Review: An Impresario of ‘Fire and Air’ (if He Does Say So Himself) 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z “I was known as a lawyer who takes hopeless but morally well-founded cases on a contingency basis,” he says. The improbable story of the man who won history’s ‘biggest murder trial’ at Nuremberg 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z The basic situation is one of hopeless stasis. Dance Review: Rebecca Lazier’s ‘Coming Together/Attica’ Evokes 1971 Riot 2013-06-18T19:55:59Z And then there are all the books “shelved” on my Kindle, which makes organization hopeless — a serious flaw in the software. After a Hard Day’s Writing, Michael Pollan Likes to Unwind With a Novel 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z There’s an ominous tone to the song, as if she could kill you in bed or turn you into a hopeless addict. White Female Rappers Challenging Hip-Hop?s Masculine Ideal 2011-12-23T14:30:39Z It's no coincidence that veteran progressive rockers Caravan originally split in 1978, correctly intuiting that their elaborate whimsicality and fussy musical virtuosity made them a hopeless anachronism in an era of back-to-basics two-chord brutality. Caravan – review 2013-01-10T13:46:21Z When I was singing it again, it was for the lost and hopeless of today. "The original rage was intact": Bob Geldof on The Boomtown Rats' comeback, even during the pandemic 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z "Goodness," said Ruth, gazing at the hopeless tuft of thread she had spent the afternoon weaving meticulously through a series of pins. TV review: Edwardian Farm and The Apprentice 2010-12-09T08:00:00Z When finding love in a hopeless place, it’s hard to imagine better source material than a memoir by a former Soviet soldier, who recounted his affair with a pilot during the Cold War. ‘Firebird’ Review: Square Jaws and Cold Shoulders 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z “I was hopeless in school, I never passed a single exam.” Michael Gough, Known as Butler in ?Batman,? Dies at 94 2011-03-18T04:32:44Z Like, “My God, I’m in a hopeless situation.” Q&A with Dr. Fauci: ‘We will get out of this and we will return to normal. Don’t despair.’ 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z He talks about Four Lions, in which hopeless suicide bombers target the London Marathon. Riz Ahmed: actor, rapper, ranter 2013-04-27T08:00:00Z To do that means you are left hopeless. "The Persian Version" director on creating a film that is "playful in terms of sexuality" 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z She grew up moving around Europe, then was sent to boarding school in Berkshire, where she concluded she was “hopeless” at acting. 'I did the first nude in Vogue': Marisa Berenson on being a blazing star of the 70s and beyond 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z No one wants to feel hopeless, and we don’t need to feel hopeless. The new documentary “Trapped” takes viewers to the bloodiest battlefield in the American “war on women” 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z She haunts tag sales on the East End for hopeless furniture and wallows in neon colors and carbohydrates, including the Asian duck pizza at World Pie in Bridgehampton. Of All the Taco Bells in All the Towns ... 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z I look at imminent nuclear Armageddon and the subsequent hopeless war with unfeeling, self-replicating machines who possess murderous capabilities that might as well be necromantic magic. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Despite the fact that the restaurant, to our eyes now, looks like a hopeless sea shack — plastic lobsters hanging from the ceiling, tiki cocktails galore — it was meant to be the swankiest place in town. You are what — and where — you eat: From the Lanford Inn seafood buffet to those “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” organic strawberry donuts 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z A few pages later, Prose nails why cliched descriptions are so hopeless at conveying experience, explaining, for instance, why the sentence "Tom bit his lip" is a pointless banality. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose – review 2012-05-26T23:07:19Z “Whitney was so much more mysterious — she was hopeless giving interviews, always surface-level, and she never wrote her own songs. So it’s really about the nonverbal message she’s imparting.” How a Director Uncovered Whitney Houston’s Secret Pain 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Beware of the voice in you that says it is hopeless. We were breast-fed really late 2012-05-21T00:00:00Z The longing to be anointed, once and for all, as “the real deal” is a fundamentally hopeless desire. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z We see how “gender traitors” are dealt with, flashbacks reveal how quickly attitudes towards women shifted and Offred has to come to terms with the hopeless reality of her new “half-life”. The best TV episodes of 2017, from The Deuce to Line of Duty 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Artists became disillusioned, and by the end of the 1980s, so much work, both good and bad, had been considered art that nothing new seemed possible and authenticity appeared hopeless. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z “The only way to guarantee peace is to make the prospect of war seem hopeless,” Tommy argues in Season 3. Saying Goodbye to Tommy Shelby, a Traumatized TV Antihero 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z But even that offered a glorious sneak preview of next year's Oscar winners, hopeless turkeys, and maybe a hidden treasure or two. Toronto closes after very public festival 2012-09-13T10:22:04Z It requires the keenest acumen to stay standing, even when your movements seem silly or hopeless. An iPad Studio Tour Finds Bruce Nauman Pushing Limits 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z For a noir novel about hopeless criminals on the run, “Randy Kennedy” seemed too good to be true. Lee Child Reviews a Debut Novel That’s Vintage Texas Noir 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z We both yanked at the hopeless suit for a while. While training for the Tokyo Paralympics, my biggest triumph came in the locker room 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z Expecting anyone to speak English is hopeless, because there are few English-speaking visitors. Romania and Bulgaria by bus, train and minivan As a stepmother, she says, she was "hopeless". Susan Cooper: a life in writing 2012-12-21T22:54:02Z “There’s a phrase,” she says, “‘the situation is hopeless, but not serious’. The death of a sibling: ‘It makes no sense and never will’ 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z But all seems hopeless until they meet up with the wealthy Frank Conner, who comes up with a daring plan to launch the scandalous Miss Nightingale. This week's new theatre 2011-01-15T00:06:08Z But those opinions originate from the same hopeless place that keeps affirming the widespread belief that a woman's anatomy doesn't entirely belong to her. The unreasonable, degrading expectations imposed on stars' bodies 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z I read like some hopeless, awkward, teenage book nerd with a skin condition. My constant fear: Am I a lousy father? 2014-01-17T14:00:00Z But as Andrei’s lifeless body rests at the front of the stage, ignored as the cast erects an ornate podium for Kutuzov to lie in state, Tcherniakov leaves the audience with a hopeless message. Review: The Time for Prokofiev’s ‘War and Peace’ Is Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z “It’s a hopeless cause to look at an artist and go into their biography,” he said with some annoyance. Raymond Pettibon: Pictures, Literary Voices and Surfers, Too 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z His wife Lesley, usually loyal beyond the call of duty, has told me he was a hopeless ham, the kind of actor he would be least likely to cast in his own films. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z That was the thing about those turbulent years: during the late sixties and early seventies, you felt angry and afraid much of the time—but never hopeless. Fake News, 1969: My Infamous Role in the Harvard Antiwar Protests 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z He had apparently been very distressed by a Channel 4 documentary that had followed his desperate, hopeless attempts to join the glam rock comeback trail. Glam rock bottom: why did it go so sour for Sweet? 2010-09-23T21:56:00Z “Life is hopeless — but it isn’t,” he said. Mike Nichols, ‘The Graduate’ director, dies Children are unlikely to be captivated by this unconvincing melodrama of abandonment and reconciliation, and adults will be moved by it only because we’re hopeless crybabies. Review: ‘The Lego Ninjago Movie’ Sticks to the Instruction Manual 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Hapless, hopeless, elusive: these seem to be aspects of the artist as well as the art. Thomas Schütte: Faces & Figures – review 2012-09-29T23:05:27Z I was hopeless at school, messy and terrible at spelling. My iPhone has revolutionised my reading 2010-04-06T18:30:00Z The Story: A hopeless romantic, Mindy is ready to pour her heart out to anyone she's emotionally invested in, whether it's a casual fling, a one-time hookup or a committed partner. 9 TV shows that center on South Asian desire, from "Mismatched" to "Starstruck" 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z Well, I think there’s still some fight in her even though she’s a bit hopeless. Paula Hawkins on Why Her Book The Girl on the Train Is Being Called 'The Next Gone Girl' 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z In her earlier reports, from Mexico, she said that the people were “worse off by thousands of times than … the slaves of the United States” and that “their lives are hopeless, and they know it.” Nellie Bly's Lessons in Writing What You Want To 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z And Victoria Clark’s performance as the hopeless yet hopeful Kimberly made us feel somehow that her song was ours. Best Theater of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z There's a sly nod to a gal-pal world of female secrets withheld from the hopeless guys who think they're in charge of everything. Nora Ephron was serious about comedy 2012-06-27T12:12:07Z The protagonist is an outwardly ordinary-looking hit man who’s as physically unassuming as he is inevitably nihilistic: Other people are awful, the world is hopeless, “we’re living on a pile of corpses,” etc. ‘The Killer’ Review: He’s a Deadly Bore 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z In a story heavy on romance, the Doctor once again proves himself hopeless with women, but still ends up inadvertently marrying Marilyn Monroe. Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol ? Christmas special 2010 2010-12-25T19:00:01Z Or he would also write little notes, like "hopeless" or "no good." Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z When I try to be nice they look at me like a hopeless simpleton. Why are L.A. people so mean? 2012-12-20T01:00:00Z She sits back, confident in the knowledge that her performance is so resolutely hopeless that she doesn't stand a chance of being nominated for any awards at all. Sandra Bullock proves the Oscars curse exists | Stuart Heritage 2010-03-19T15:14:00Z But imagine a would-be player in a “Real Housewives” show, with no media outlet — other than a dance — and there you find Mr. Cordeiro’s rather hopeless character. Review: Volmir Cordeiro, Assuming an Aspiring Celebrity’s Identity 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z A former office temp, who worked as a PA for Comic Relief, she rose to fame with her television sitcom Miranda, in which she plays a hapless heroine who is hopeless with men. AUDIO: Miranda Hart on her comical life 2012-10-09T08:47:07Z He is, in the artist’s words, “distraught and hopeless as he contemplates his future.” Year of “The Forgotten Man” 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z New in paperback: the Seattle food writer's story of teaching nine "hopeless" cooks to reorganize their kitchens and learn basic cooking skills. NW Books: the trials of Amanda Knox's boyfriend; a YA novel by Elizabeth George 2012-09-24T20:32:04Z Yet the opera’s final moments are not without a certain hopeless hopefulness. Review: A Composer Creates Her Masterpiece With ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z The singer knows that her love is a hopeless illusion, and pretty as the music is in the moment, it can’t stave off the inevitable. Beauty Confronts Doom on Grimes’s ‘Miss Anthropocene’ 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z So people might say: Well, does that mean it’s hopeless? An evangelical scientist on reconciling her religion and the realities of climate change 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z “When all the world is a hopeless jumble . . .” it begins. Perspective | Renée Fleming and Vanessa Williams sang at the Kennedy Center. And it turned the electricity back on. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z The images of all those young black men, their faces emotionless, eyes hopeless, slouching because their hands were bound by cuffs, broke my heart. Did my black life matter?: When I was roughed up in front of my house, I was surprised by who helped — and who didn’t 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z But I would share my own experience, which is that I've been in the darkest and most hopeless places. A former advice columnist on the pain problem that persists and his enduring answer, 15 years later 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z She smoked three packs of Gauloise a day, spoke in a booming bluster to the accompaniment of “lava, stones and thunder,” and was a hopeless romantic in the crumbling mold of 19th-century Russian novels. Underneath Romain Gary’s Many Masks 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Instead, the production devotes itself to conjuring the geography of the hopeless, horizonless wasteland in which young people often find themselves when their hormones fully kick in. ‘Let the Right One In,’ a Stage Version of a Vampire Novel 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z She succeeded despite the "three hopeless strikes against her," as critic Leonard Feather put it 1951: She was British, white and a woman. Jazz pianist Marian McPartland dies 2013-08-22T10:30:31Z The row follows the broadcasting of the audition rounds – the annual stomach-squirming spectacle where genuine talent shines through while the hopeless are encouraged to embarrass themselves before a baying live audience. Fans suspect X Factor of enhancing singers' pitch with Auto-Tune 2010-08-22T20:11:00Z He is nothing like the hopeless sons on “Succession.” James Murdoch, Rebellious Scion 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Russell Janzen is a natural to this world; there was something touchingly hopeless about his ardent hope. Review: City Ballet Celebrates Balanchine and Heeds Mother Nature 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z He's shambolic and hopeless and not of the real world, but also utterly charming. TV review: Country House Rescue; Waking the Dead; Celebrity Naked Ambition; How To Buy a Puppy 2011-03-14T08:00:03Z One would not describe this as a state of nonattachment, exactly, or Don as on the edge of satori, certainly, but he is no longer such a hopeless case. 'Bravest Warriors,' 'Mad Men,' D-Day recalled, Rickles honored 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z They were hopeless in their native countries, and like me, they are willing to do anything to find freedom. 40 years ago, I fled South America for freedom. I am one of the lucky ones 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z When I saw your headline, I thought, nope, no way, I'm too hopeless to... What to Cook This Weekend 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z I’m just glad it’s a comedy, because if I had to do dramatic acting with 30 cameras going off, it would be hopeless.” film: Much Taller, Still Plastered 2010-08-27T19:23:00Z But to answer your question, it’s been challenging to be in this much sadness in a fairly hopeless world. The Lynn Shelton That Marc Maron Knew 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z It's bitterly cold, and dark, and bleak, and hopeless. The Village; Perspectives: Hugh Laurie, Copper Bottom – TV review 2013-05-06T05:59:02Z If we feel hopeless all the time, if we’re always in crisis, the natural response is to give up and stop trying altogether. Uncovering the secret to collective happiness | Helen Russell 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z Much of this book, the part that isn’t mired in hopeless financial brambles, is devoted to the buoyant stories for which the film’s production will always be remembered. Review: ‘Orson Welles’s Last Movie,’ by Josh Karp 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z And the alternative is not to throw up our hands and declare the effort hopeless — it’s to recognize that when all precautions aren’t possible, the possible precautions become all the more urgent. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: During a pandemic, keeping your distance is an act of love 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Once more his brother's face is gaunt and hopeless. Russell Brand: My life without drugs 2013-03-09T08:01:00Z “If I was a man, they wouldn’t be doing this to me,” she mutters to Rachel; it’s true, but it’s also an oddly hopeless sentiment for this shark. ‘UnREAL’ Season 2, Episode 3: War Is Easy 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z In truth, Dixie was a hopeless and nasty drunk, while Crosby, aided by his wife, doled out harsh corporal punishment to keep the boys in line. How Bing Crosby Changed the Course of Pop Music 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z “I am really very bad at responsibility of any kind. Unless it’s my work, I’m hopeless.” Christopher Plummer, Actor From Shakespeare to ‘The Sound of Music,’ Dies at 91 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z On dating, she can sound hopeless, talking about her fear of dying alone. Leslie Jones Is Ready to Rock the Boat, Hard 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z But Ran was tongue-tied this time, since in fact he was hopeless at directions, and was always getting lost when he drove around Jerusalem. A Brief History of Death 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z His ideas about hopeless bureaucracies crushing the souls of determined individuals were first presented in his 1971 film “The Hospital,” which also won Chayefsky an Oscar. News Anchors Mad as Hell in ‘Network’ and Suicidal in ‘Kate Plays Christine’ 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z “She’s a hopeless romantic. She loves love, and she gets so much joy out of rich stories that honor that beautiful connection between two people.” True Romance: Janet Mock on the Final Season of ‘Pose’ 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z I am no longer a comrade but lapsed rank-and-file who would rather stay at home and yell at the television that endure another moment spent in hopeless love with a vanished past. TV review: Whitlam: The Power and the Passion 2013-05-27T00:10:21Z “He was scared and worried. Being helpless, he felt hopeless.” William Steig’s Books Explored the Reality That Adults Don’t Want Children to Know About 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z A grim show, shadowy and hopeless and unlikeable, it’s finally less about trauma than it is a murky contest between revenge and rehabilitation and the term that floats between those: responsibility. Jessica Jones: shattering exploration of rape, addiction and control 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z “Oh my hopeless wanderer,” she sings at the start of the track, tracing an upward arpeggio in a minor key. The Playlist: Burial and Laura Marling Slip Deeper Into the Void 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Zach, whom Mr. Haas imbues with a blank, sullen self-importance, stumbles through the movie wearing the glazed expression of a hopeless drunk. Movie Review: ‘Crazy Eyes,’ Directed by Adam Sherman 2012-07-05T21:53:57Z IN THE early years of the Enlightenment, a few brave philosophers challenged the Christian order—an apparently hopeless task. The search goes on 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z This “will spare you sinking down into the hopeless despair that can sometimes overtake the lone brunch prepper.” ‘Prune’ cookbook: Gabrielle Hamilton speaks directly to her line cooks Mahler’s five songs are five steps of mourning, from hopeless incomprehension to a longing for peace, for allowing light to be light. Dudamel gives Schubertian tragedy a surprising buoyancy 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z “There was literally plasticized gunk oozing from every inch and, in truth, saving the sound quality of the recordings looked like it was going to be a hopeless task,” Mr. Hoover said. Lost Bob Marley Tapes Are Restored After 40 Years in a Basement 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Both novels are inspiring, not in spite of Tambu’s hopeless situation but because through it all she never loses sight of herself while, at the same time, never underestimating the brutal reality of her predicament. 30 Years After Her Acclaimed Debut, a Zimbabwean Novelist Returns to Her Heroine in a Sequel 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z That unmistakable figure, all elbows, chin, nose and great unwieldy backside, suggests someone between middle-aged and old, and yet also like a gawky, maladroit teenager or hopeless boy. Film review: The Illusionist 2010-08-19T21:52:00Z But it establishes a pattern that dictates their relationship going forward, throwing Tallent into the hopeless task of trying to undo “my sense of being loathed by her” by becoming unassailably without defect. Why Did an Accomplished Writer Fall Silent for Two Decades? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z But their dark and hopeless world wont change without a fight. Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion - review 2013-03-31T14:00:00Z “I was a hopeless magician, so I jazzed up the act,” he told Life. George Segal, Veteran of Drama and TV Comedy, Is Dead at 87 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z But by the next scene N and the Guest are brotherly travelers, roaming over mountains, staring into abysses, suffering storms and feeling hopeless. Music Review: Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm?s ?Dionysos? at Salzburg 2010-08-01T22:45:00Z Sunil looks lost, hopeless, humiliated and at the point of complete despair. "In Treatment" recap: Have Sunil's sessions come to an end? 2010-11-30T13:30:00Z Even so, remains the most impressive movie to deal with the fighting men in that hopeless Asian war. Which Is The Better Best Picture: Casablanca or Platoon? 2012-02-13T13:59:29Z Unfortunately, the hopeless is more evident than the romantic. Midlife crisis badly played out in 'Jake Squared' 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z They are a mosaic of symbols, and, haiku-like, combine disparate images in a single picture which, we have to accept, is as paradoxical, as hopeless and promising, as "the human condition" itself. Poem of the week: Peter Riley 2011-07-11T10:20:00Z His two daughters told him his chances were hopeless. Moving Through the Lens 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z The Times critic Jesse Green wrote of his performance, “With his confident voice, unlined face and television polish, he never seems hopeless or, viewed from our time, too old for a new start.” Jim Parsons Takes the Romantic Lead 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Environmentally the traditional incandescent bulb is hopeless: only 15 percent of the energy it generates is used to produce light. Design: Good-Looking and Responsible Design 2011-08-05T17:30:07Z In the middle of an emotional storm, we often become fused with the catastrophizing, critical or hopeless voice in our head. Need a quick stress-reliever? Try one of these surprising science-based strategies. 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z “The air conditioning system is hopeless,” said Rory Jeffes, the leader of Opera Australia, who for many years was managing director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, which plays in the opera house. The Sydney Opera House Goes Quiet. Finally. 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Our heroine, Ellen Hopper, is a scientist on a mid-ocean rig, trying to focus on her studies and ignore the tawdry, hopeless reality around her, including her failed marriage to a journalist named David Gamble. Review | There’s no shortage of novels about what happens when the Earth stops spinning. ‘The Last Day’ may set a new standard. 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z It didn't reside in laughter about something that felt hopeless. Did the “The Daily Show” make us smarter voters or not? Two satire experts face off 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z "People are hopeful when they can touch the thing. When something seems so far away, it feels hopeless," says Marley. Is it possible to decolonize the wine industry? 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z How Bobby goes from hopeless to hero is the stuff that second-grade dreams are made of. Best 2014 books for kids: Fiction, nonfiction and picture books 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z With Cat Stevens on the soundtrack at Mr. Kors’s show, you just sort of hummed along until you fell into a hopeless groove. Fashion Review: Long as a California Summer 2010-09-16T05:30:00Z “I feel a lot of men haven’t benefited either. I know that men have coasted too long in power – but come on! Having to be aggressive? Despising showing your feelings? All that’s hopeless.” Chris O'Dowd on playing Rosamund Pike's husband: 'She could clearly do better!' 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z I have spoken to mates in London and Manchester and they sound genuinely frightened and hopeless, and the details of their stories place this outbreak beyond the realms of any political idealism or rationalisation. UK riots: Big Brother isn't watching you 2011-08-11T17:18:00Z It does require a basic proficiency in Microsoft Office, and I wondered what happens if, say, you’re hopeless at Excel spreadsheets. When the Critic Is Also the Star. And the Audience. 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z At school I was happiest in the art room and all the other subjects fell away – I was hopeless at sciences, mathematics. Ralph Fiennes: ‘I wish I’d been more of a punk, but I'm not anarchic' 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z The future, he said, in his own way, is hopeless, just like the past. 'Game of Thrones' Season 5 Premiere Recap: Stannis Emerging, Tyrion Unboxed 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z So why was Geoff so good at looking after others, but hopeless looking after himself? How we ‘fixed’ our diabetic dad – and saved his life 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z This is an odd question, but what makes you feel hopeless? Cheryl Strayed: “Tackle love” 2012-07-08T01:00:00Z This what troubles me most and makes me feel hopeless on so many levels — the inability to protect your children, let alone yourself, from unforeseen racism. How racism found my son on Fortnite 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z Young and reckless, existential and inarticulate, hopeful and hopeless. ‘Therapy Dogs’ Review: It’s Time to Be Real 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z We come together to discuss a book that gives strength to the weak, succor to the afflicted, hope to the hopeless. ‘Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It’: Really? We need to talk. 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The director revealed his enduring preoccupations in the Sembènian heroine: Broadly speaking, she was principled, defiant, inclined to revolt, however outwardly hopeless her odds appeared. In These Ousmane Sembène Films, Women Are Revolutionaries 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z Hope, the Sandman argues in an earlier episode, is the most powerful force in the universe, paradoxically continuing to exist even in hopeless situations. "The Sandman" and the American Dream: Donald Trump is the Corinthian 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z People grumbling about their hopeless governments, about the elemental and irreversible dysfunction of their countries. A Hologram for the King – extract 2013-01-26T21:00:02Z Sala's conceit turns upon a hopeless Ravel/Unravel pun; still the music soars undiminished. 55th Venice Biennale – review 2013-06-01T23:05:00Z “Solitary Nation” is about as hopeless an hour of television as you can imagine, which is exactly the reason to watch it. Television Review: ‘Frontline’ Looks at Jail in ‘Solitary Nation’ 2014-04-21T22:16:48Z Stragglers crush in tight, as if the instrument were some magnetic field or centrifugal force or — never mind, I’m hopeless with physics. The Tipsy Diaries: Getting a Kick From Piano Bars 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z She agreed, and then expressed the most earnest expectant-motherly sentiment I had heard from her: “I’m ecstatic and furious,” she wrote, then: “And pleased and peaceful and manic and hopeless and so hopeful it’s crazy.” Amy Schumer Doesn’t Care What You Think (That Much) 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Ben's the hopeless slob who "now that people have stopped doing things for him, doesn't do anything for himself". Pappy's: the boys who never grew up 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z Marshall “clings so tenaciously to a seemingly hopeless job,” one observer noted. A Marshall Plan for China? It Existed, but Even Marshall Couldn’t Pull It Off 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z But in “Years of Longing,” he has tethered himself to hopeless, uninvolving source material. ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ Review: Desire, Once Upon a Time 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Call it the pity paradigm: A novel can be judged a success if it generates the right amount of sympathy for a character, no matter how flawed, hopeless or confused that character might be. You May Not Like Lionel Shriver’s Characters. That May Be the Point. 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z He denounced the “shouting mediocrity” of three-quarters of the poems that he published in an early private booklet, dismissing the verses as “hopeless old friends whom you know will never get a job.” Books of The Times: Philip Larkin?s Complete Poems, Edited by Archie Burnett 2012-04-09T21:28:30Z Tom, an Italian immigrant and “hopeless beta” who overstays his visa to play professional poker. Las Vegas, ‘the Most Honest City in America’ 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z And I mean all kinds of narratives: classical epics and homey fairy tales, barroom ballads and chronicles of hopeless love, multigenerational family sagas and ghost stories with a body count. Review: A Thrilling ‘Ferryman’ Serves Up a Glorious Harvest Feast 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z “The film is a protest against what sometimes seems a hopeless impasse for women in Hollywood.” Cinema trains lens on role of nude scene: artistic, erotic or gratuitous? 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z But no one cared in the least about Edith's hopeless plight because Lady Mary was preggers, which is to say her belt may have been loosened by one hole. Rewind TV: Downton Abbey; Restless; Loving Miss Hatto; The Girl; David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Paul – review 2012-12-30T00:06:04Z "I knew that our situation was pretty bad, almost hopeless, and everyday that we survived that was another day gained in our lives," he said. My grandfather survived the Holocaust. Here’s what his story tells me about today 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Given the sparse records of the ratification debates and the ambiguous, conflicting evidence of the founders’ and ratifiers’ intentions, neither justice was willing to be bound by the hopeless search for a single “intention.” Scalia’s shameless political agenda 2012-10-01T19:53:00Z In fabricating their hopeful visions of their hopeless lives, O’Neill’s barflies are always performing, for themselves as well as the others. Review: In an Energized ‘Iceman,’ the Drinks are on Denzel 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The inky landscapes filled with abandoned buildings and vehicles add to a claustrophobic and hopeless atmosphere. Despair all ye who board the joyless "Train to Busan" sequel, where even the zombies feel generic 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z I still think about it nearly every time I find myself dicing carrots like the hopeless, bereft of knife technique slob I am. Comfort me with food memoirs, the only books I want to read right now 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z This is the first book by Mr. Ansari, a stand-up comedian best known for playing Tom Haverford, a hopeless Lothario and jauntily deluded entrepreneur, on the late, great television show “Parks and Recreation.” Review: Aziz Ansari’s ‘Modern Romance’ Explores Dating in the Digital Age 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z In person, though, Ms. Krall will bluntly point out that she is “hopeless in a gown, because when you sit down at the piano, everything shifts and you just get so frustrated.” Diana Krall on Handling Grief, and ‘Finding Romance in Everything’ 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Did you know that doctors used to lie to terminally ill patients when their prognosis seemed too hopeless? How to Say ‘No’ This Thanksgiving 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z In spite of their esprit de corps, they had few military successes, and the situation seemed hopeless most of the time. Priya Ramrakha’s Brief, Heroic Life as a Conflict Photographer, in Africa and Beyond 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z When you live in an existence where everything seems so hopeless, it's an amazing gift they will never forget. Justin Bieber stages concert at Las Vegas school 2011-12-16T14:57:14Z Maybe because I am a hopeless introvert and when I read a book, especially if it’s a novel, I forget about the author. The Turkish Novelist Elif Shafak Wants You to Read More Women 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z In "An Untamed State," Mireille observes of Haiti that "there is nowhere in the world both as beautiful and as ugly, as hopeful and as hopeless." Roxane Gay's 'An Untamed State' gives torture survivor a voice 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Eliot fell in love with the married critic George Henry Lewes when she was 32, a hopeless spinster by the standards of the day. Hadley Freeman's 10 awesome women: from Katharine Hepburn to Miss Piggy 2013-04-22T15:38:00Z For most of my 20s and 30s I equated love with pain, plunged into hopeless relationships and staggered out of them further reduced, so that I became almost invisible to men. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z By contemporary mores, Macaulay is a hopeless bigot. Macaulay by Zareer Masani – review 2013-07-22T09:00:00Z Reading about climate change, inequality and rising extremism can make us feel hopeless and adrift. Terrible husbands and homicidal in-laws: why online advice columns are so addictive 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z I realise, "perfect" seems dangerously prim and old-hat, an ultimate proof of hopeless gentility. Brief Encounter: No 1 2010-10-16T10:54:00Z Would people pay to see that, or would the prospect of watching one hopeless contestant after another attempt to find an appropriate charade for "community content strategist" or "information designer" put the public off? Bullseye: which other gameshows deserve a live comeback? 2011-08-03T13:34:28Z The author and her subject also show how much more hopeless life often is for women in these camps. A Civil War, Then the Long Limbo of Life as a Refugee 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z It’s that hopeless sort of anger that arises from when there’s really not anyone to take that out on, so the times that there is, it’s usually yourself. Danny McBride puts the Homer in homeroom: “‘The Odyssey’ finds its way into everything we do” 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Are they just violent nihilists foisting an outdated ideology on tribal people, goading them into a hopeless insurrection? Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part One 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z With his confident voice, unlined face and television polish, he never seems hopeless or, viewed from our time, too old for a new start. Review: Off Broadway, Jim Parsons Meets the Small Bang Theory 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z You would think the resulting wine would be a hopeless multicultural jumble, everywhere-tasting wine in the middle of nowhere. An Unexpected Wine Sanctuary in Baja California 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z When I left Oxford and wrote Oranges in my spare time, to be a writer was still the most hopeless and reckless of ambitions, as lofty as it was unlikely. Jeanette Winterson: teaching creative writing 2012-05-18T21:50:01Z Paul Dano’s hopeless, deluded loner is brilliantly wrought and perhaps a comment on the kind of characters he usually gets cast as. The best films of 2016 ... that you probably didn't see 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z You're hopeless at birds:can't get wren into your head – too tiny, you try to tell me:it comes out as rain or ring. Poem of the week: Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock 2010-10-20T12:52:00Z The Worst Witch: Jill Murphy It's hard enough to be hopeless in any school but, when it is spells that go wrong, the results can have unpredictable consequences. The best children's books: 5-7 year-olds 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z This only fuels the desire of young Wayne Matthews to captain his country; an event unlikely to happen not because he is black, but because he is completely hopeless at football. There's Only One Wayne Matthews 2010-04-05T21:30:00Z “God bless him,” Hopkins said, “but I do remember him saying, ‘Oh, you’re hopeless.’” Anthony Hopkins Makes It Look Simple. (And Maybe It Should Be.) 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z KK But, realistically, are you serious – what chance do we hopeless human beings have of achieving peace? When Sam Taylor-Wood met Yoko Ono 2012-06-16T23:06:00Z She declared herself — and her fans — ”hopeless romantics,” but her cool, systematic ambition was just as clearly on display. Music Review: Her Fans, Squealing, Won?t Hold Their Peace 2011-07-21T22:00:06Z Since then he's become a hopeless alcoholic which, if nothing else, at least explains why he has to shout all of his lines this time. Man on a mission: is no sequel impossible for Tom Cruise? 2010-10-19T10:56:00Z The opera opens with a prelude depicting the hopeless despair of the oppressed Hebrews. Review: The Met’s New ‘Samson’ Succeeds Only as Kitsch 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z He’s so hopeless with customers at the family general store that his mother sidelines him to making deliveries and stocking shelves at night. Jeffrey Lent’s ‘Before We Sleep’ follows the long shadow of war 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z I know it is hopeless to seek to dent Boris Johnson's self-portrait of a carefree British patriot in this moment of Olympic euphoria, but it's all an act. Simon Walsh: the vindictive persecution of an innocent man 2012-08-11T23:11:00Z In an apparent reference to "American Idol", executive producer of "The Voice" Mark Burnett said his show would feature none of the hopeless wannabes seen on other talent shows. Cee Lo Green chooses "Voice" over "X Factor" 2011-04-15T21:46:19Z The Sex Pistols, who initially existed just from 1975 to 1978, were often portrayed as products of London’s most hopeless precincts. ‘Lonely Boy’ review: Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones riffs on an era of theft, drugs and punk 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z "Our message is one of hope, and when people are hopeless and desperate, it becomes easier to turn to extremism," he said. Young filmmakers thank the academy at Student Academy Awards 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z The main reason though, is that this is a very dark, hopeless scenario, and having the dog gives the book a lot more joy. "You have to think about hope": Author Silas House on democracy's demise, climate refugees and dogs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Even if they reject us as their hopeless inferiors, it might be because they are a species just as neurotic, just as riddled with petty bigotries. Would aliens want to talk to Brian Cox anyway? 2012-11-08T17:15:01Z "It's still hard not to feel disillusioned watching the most powerful man in the world sound so hopeless," the British HBO host said. John Oliver takes aim at Confederate flag after Charleston shooting 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The Trump election has left so many kids devastated and feeling hopeless, and they need adults they know to encourage them and offer support and let them know that this is not hopeless. 13 YA authors on writing in the age of Trump 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z She tells students at Camberwell College that their work is hopeless and to try teapots "for discipline". Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter by Emmanuel Cooper 2012-05-25T21:54:01Z “If people have to march one more time, and rage and feel helpless and hopeless, they win,” she said of her anti-abortion opponents. Using Comedy to Push for Abortion Rights 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z No question Patti Smith, though being a hopeless classical geek I don’t pretend to understand her world — but she has such flowing, open, heartfelt prose. Why a ‘Peanuts’ Collection Has Stuck With Jeremy Denk, Concert Pianist 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The vice mayor is insistent that there be no delays, and Zhou resigns himself to the hopeless task. In ‘The Dog,’ Jack Livings Writes of a Modernizing China 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Better yet, he only knew hopeless ways to try to attract her. Why I loved Charlie Brown and the Peanuts cartoons 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z It’s disturbing to see Levine glamorized in this video as some kind of hopeless romantic, because all his psychopathic behaviors are recast as attractive qualities. New Adam Levine Video Confuses Violence and Love 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z On Saturday she shared stories of developing ulcers and contemplating suicide, and had the audience grimly laughing at her accounts of sessions with a series of hopeless psychiatrists. Two Pianists, Two Recitals, Two Deeply Personal Statements 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Rather, it's a hopeless system of dead-end jobs and political powerlessness he wants to challenge. Artist of the week 200: Sam Dargan 2012-07-26T16:18:06Z If Clinton was the icon of ambivalence, and Bush the icon of incompetence, the icon of hope has been transformed into the truly hopeless image of political gridlock and apocalyptic rancor. | Let Us Now Praise Infamous Men 2013-09-04T19:12:10Z Dickens was horrified by what he witnessed — the “torturing anxieties and horrible despair of hopeless solitary confinement” that left prisoners “dead to everything.” Criminal justice reform in the U.S. has a long history of repressive outcomes 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z He captured quintessentially American moments in indelible literary hues, from the demonic to the hopeless to the unstoppable. Review | John Steinbeck and biographer William Souder make a perfect pair 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z You don't have to be a hopeless romantic to lament the death of letter writing or to find cheer in the Hollywood fantasy that young people somehow still care about it. Hollywood Keeps Letter Writing Alive 2010-04-01T22:41:00Z You may have begun to feel hopeless and want to give up. We were breast-fed really late 2012-05-21T00:00:00Z And that's my way of not being helpless and not being hopeless. Vintage chat: Moyers and Stewart 2011-05-18T16:30:00Z The scenery is stunning, but the community is trapped in a hopeless cycle of poverty and drug abuse. Laura Wilson's crime fiction roundup – reviews 2012-08-17T21:55:03Z It seems clear, though, that the filmmakers consider that battle hopeless as far as the Afghans are concerned. Television Review: A Mission Documented With a Filter of Despair 2011-02-16T22:47:19Z I'm really trying to remember that those people didn't feel hopeless and they still fought the good fight. Ibram X Kendi responds to Sen. Ted Cruz 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The Wire was sometimes accused of implying that its characters were locked in a hopeless cycle; events seem to bear out this sense of fatalism. ‘Progress is painfully uneven’: Baltimore, 15 years after The Wire 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Ever since then, Dunn’s moment of cheeky rebellion has been Exhibit A in countless attempts to explain why smart, independent women are so hopeless at relationships. Feminism isn’t ruining your love life 2014-01-08T00:00:00Z All these changes came amid gridlock in Washington, a political backdrop that had left many feeling hopeless. A guide to a hopeful 2016: a Guardian list of things to look forward to 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Actors Jeff Bridges, on the other hand, is taking a somewhat milder approach to this new administration, opting to be more hopeful than hopeless. Jeff Bridges “rooting” for Trump to “do the cool thing” a la “Big Lebowski” 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Kline has spent more than a decade depicting the United States as bankrupt, hopeless, doomed. Josh Kline’s Survival Art for 21st-Century America 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z But I am also not delusional or stupid enough to think this is rational, which strands me in some awkward netherworld between hopeless romantic and self-aware realist. Modern Love: Casting Call: Bit Player, Male 2011-03-10T22:08:55Z Is she behaving in a manner similarly hopeless and deluded as this young man? ‘Preparations to Be Together’ Review: Mysteries of Love 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z In the movie, your character is such a hopeless romantic. Daniel Radcliffe Does Not Find Tinder Addictive At All 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z To her, it’s inhibiting — and hopeless — to think about how others see you. Twyla Tharp and Her Body of Perpetual Motion 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z If there’s a theme to this week’s recommended titles, it might be that things aren’t as hopeless as you think. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Lee’s “Pachinko,” with its attention to mundane detail and its harsh but not hopeless fatalism, resonated strongly with what I know of their lives. ‘Pachinko’ Review: K-Drama, American-Style 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z And I offer prayer, even when things seem lost and hopeless. Why I prayed for my testicles 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z The movie’s tree-falling-in-the-forest-with-no-one-to-hear-it denouement is an apt but not entirely hopeless metaphor for the condition of its characters. Review: ‘Radio Dreams’ Builds a Spiritual Home for Stateless Souls 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z The current situation is hopeless: what should be one the most exemplary shows to be held in London this decade is being thoroughly spoilt by a lack of sensitivity towards the audience and the art. Malevich: Master of the avant-garde 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Anon was hopeless at football and rugby, always the last person to be picked for the school side: Nick Bell took up fencing as a soft option to rugby. The Secret Olympian by Anon – review 2012-05-25T08:00:02Z It was a hopeless yearning he regularly felt compelled to quash. Modern Love: GPS on a Path to the Heart 2011-02-11T01:08:11Z Are their motives racist, homophobic or the nihilistic ennui of a hopeless generation? Avignon festival week one roundup: Complicite is masterful, Camille captivating 2012-07-19T13:16:45Z A multi-billion-dollar industry is teetering on the brink of collapse, a disaster that could leave millions jobless and faced with the grim choices of a hopeless existence, perilous emigration or violence. Can Middle East tourism ever recover? 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Cynics thought it hopeless, given a basic human reflex for rage and convulsive war. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z The film is correct that Lennon was a hopeless pupil, going on to fail all of his O-Levels. Nowhere Boy is everywhere faithful to John Lennon's teenage years 2012-10-11T09:02:08Z The oppressive sense of suffering all around her – as oppressive as wildfire smoke – spurs her to become a leader, taking action in what appears to be hopeless circumstances. Quarantine book club: Reading for mental health in a plague year 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z With one arm all bandaged up, Adam's pretty hopeless at some things. Doctor Who and A Passionate Woman 2010-04-12T05:45:00Z People can end up distraught and hopeless if their camps are raided and the sheds then reject them, said Gwen Wu, an attorney with the Oakland-based Homeless Action Center. California is moving homeless people into sheds – but is it right? 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Elizabeth Bishop is said to have been hopeless at the podium. John Maynard Keynes Can’t Save You Now 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Or will Lafayette and James find love in a hopeless place? How vampires die: clues to how True Blood will finally end 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Pitiless in its intent, and hopeless in its sense of sorrowful dereliction, “The Dark and the Wicked” fully earns its horrifically distressing final scenes. ‘The Dark and the Wicked’ Review: Home, but Not Alone 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z “Maybe it’s a little hopeless glimmer of hope that I might somehow, with a change of scenery, change,” as he puts it. Theater Review: ?Title and Deed,? by Will Eno, With Conor Lovett 2012-05-21T02:00:00Z Leaving a note on the toy car, the thoughtful stranger identified themselves only as a "hopeless romantic." Kids, 6, go on Valentine's Day date at McDonald's drive-thru 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z After a few minutes of snapping, I realized it was hopeless, but it didn’t seem to matter. Explorer: In New Zealand?s Remote Fiordland 2010-07-31T04:30:00Z The site’s future, like its recent past, looked bleak, if not hopeless. Art Review: ‘Echoes of the Past,’ Chinese Buddhist Cave Art, in New York 2012-09-13T21:22:46Z Terrible habits have taken root in many homes, leaving parents feeling frustrated, exhausted and hopeless. Perspective | How does a parent support good sleep habits for tweens and teens? 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Some 81 percent of Americans under 30, along with 70 percent of those age 30 through 44, report feeling nervous, depressed, lonely or hopeless at least one day in the past week. As coronavirus pandemic continues, many Americans are feeling lonely, anxious: report 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z Suicidal people want to believe that it is not hopeless, that their problems are solvable, that somebody truly loves them. Suicide isn’t painless 2012-08-24T19:30:00Z Harry also tries to tell jokes, but he’s such a hopeless nerd that they always involve cheese. Review | Kate Atkinson’s dreamy detective returns, and his first case is a tangle of sex and lies 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z I'd tried out teaching – hopeless; advertising – I was rather good at advertising, but I disapproved of it. Joan Bakewell: 'Women have a different way of being thick-skinned' 2010-04-04T20:00:00Z I might feel hopeless, I might feel energised, I might feel pushed away, I might feel demanded of, I might feel pulled to find solutions. How can a therapist get the most out of therapy? 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z “There were three months where I didn’t play the piano because I felt hopeless,” she said. Shots, and a musical serenade, at NYC vaccination center 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z And their best — God bless us — is often pretty hopeless. The Bizarro Worlds of Quentin Dupieux’s Comedy 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z “I see it as a guiding principle that leads us forward. Anyone who feels hopeless and alone, know that you are unconditionally loved for the uniqueness that is you.” Onstage Slap Rattles Oscars, Before ‘CODA’ Triumphs 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Most short-term prisoners get no help on release and fall back into the hopeless downward spiral of crime and drug abuse. Should Chris Huhne be able to resume his life in politics? 2013-05-18T16:58:01Z 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 "On this all-new unscripted series . . . one hopeless romantic is given a second chance at love in the search for a partner with whom to share the sunset years of life," ABC said in a statement. "It’s never too late to find love": A 71-year-old grandfather is ABC's very first "Golden Bachelor" 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z "I have a strong want and desire for Anthony to be successful in life, he left an incredibly hopeless life and no one got involved to help him until he shot his father." "I Just Killed My Dad": A closer look at the true story behind the Netflix father-son murder series 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z “The supreme court is about to lurch to the right for the foreseeable future, and if things seem hopeless right now, it’s because, to be completely honest, they basically are.” John Oliver on Amy Coney Barrett's likely confirmation: 'It's going to hurt for a long time' 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z No track masters the familiar “Gaucho” balancing act — between clinky rhythm guitar, bobbing bass, interleaved horn arrangements and whispery female vocals — better than “Jack of Speed,” a lament for a hopeless addict. Listen to 13 Essential Walter Becker Songs 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Her 2017 album, “hopeless fountain kingdom,” topped the Billboard 200 chart. Ticket alert: Pop star Halsey coming to Seattle area this summer 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z “I will become captivated by the design on the cover of a manhole. Then take another three steps and stop to admire the intricate masonry of a curb. So I am hopeless in Tokyo.” ‘Tokyo Vice’ Revisits a Faded Underworld 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z After the band raced through “Have Mercy,” an early Judds hit about a hopeless cad, Wynonna grabbed a stack of scrap paper. Wynonna Judd, on Her Own 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z He casts a quick glance at the short stories of 50 years ago: They reflect “a harsh world, but not a hopeless or narrow one.” Revisiting American Short Stories Selected by John Updike 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z "It's not great anywhere right now because we have a feeling of hopelessness. It's not hopeless." "We've got a Marvel movie here": Stephen Gyllenhaal reframes the not-for-profit battle for justice 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Kuz uses Woody Allen’s films as an example of the typical Western interpretation of Dostoyevsky’s work: existence is hopeless and nihilistic. ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: Understanding Dostoyevsky Courtesy of Woody Allen 2011-09-13T17:21:46Z Let me reassure you, you are not a hopeless philistine if you find this all a bit foolish. A (Grudging) Defense of the $120,000 Banana 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z It was a hopeless and desperate task, made impossible by the fact that her father was an alcoholic. My 700,000 children 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Appearing at the dawn of Ronald Reagan’s “new morning,” Mr. Passer’s movie was a hopeless outlier. Cursed Films, Blessed on Blu-ray 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z “Isn’t it pretty,” Clerc writes, “to think that such a jumble of things might keep a hopeless man alive merely by liberating and intensifying the appeal of existence?” Can a List of Someone’s Stuff Double as Literature? 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z The new French film “Rogue City” tramples it, positing that corruption is pervasive and we live in a hopeless, brutal world from which there is no escape. ‘Rogue City’ Review: An Action Movie Skimping on Action 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z And though full-length musicals are at this point pretty hopeless online, individual songs suit the medium well. Love Theater? Jesse Green Recommends Streaming Options 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that the men it depicts are either toxic or hopeless? Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z Handlebar baskets look good but are hopeless when it rains, while dangling shopping bags from them is a shortcut to A&E and nobody wants to end up there. Beware jeans, avoid the gutter, keep your saddle dry … 10 tips to make cycling a delight 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z As pop archaeology it’s hopeless, but as a performance it’s pretty sharp. New Music: ‘Bankrupt,’ by Phoenix, and ‘The Beat,’ by Boney James 2013-04-22T22:07:35Z “To send a message that it’s completely hopeless,” she said, “that you’re not going to get justice if you go to the police, that’s doing a disservice to women.” A Post-Cosby-Trial Question: Is the System Stacked Against Women? 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Regina salve: Don’t pass on this Hail Mary solution for hopeless rashes. Style Invitational Week 1256: Picture this — a caption contest 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Working on the show, with its odd mix of goofy and hopeless, allowed Forte to tap into both his comic and dramatic sides. 'Last Man on Earth' has the last laugh 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z But thrown in at the end of a sour comedy about a hopeless man who’s forced to beg to return to a job he hates, it hits like a hammer. Why Matt Groening's new adult fantasy Disenchantment will find the fun side of hell 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z It’s not an influence for my show, because Beale is a hopeless character who ultimately does not succeed in what he wants to do, and is killed. ArtsBeat: Stephen Colbert on 'Network': Great Film, or the Greatest Film? 2011-05-19T15:14:27Z A selfless and self-sacrificing man, I might add, known for his sense of humor, who deeply loved his country while remaining a hopeless romantic when it came to socialism. | Abroad: Take My Bulgarian Joke Book. Please. 2010-10-27T17:57:00Z With the turn of each page, R becomes more and more human in the glow of Julie's presence, and soon the idea of changing their hopeless world doesn't seem so unrealistic. Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion - review 2013-04-29T08:00:00Z If we have feelings of overwhelm consistently, and we begin to have automatic thoughts telling us that the project is hopeless, then we may succumb to depression. How to work with an illustrator 2013-02-15T01:00:00Z Some of the short stories are about losers fighting hopeless odds as they try to make good. George Pelecanos Explores New Terrain in ‘The Martini Shot’ 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Many of us, he said, may feel hopeless because of things like climate change, or “our government’s inaction.” The Melting Face Emoji Has Already Won Us Over 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z She says that despite his lies she won't leave him because "I'm hopeless when it comes to you". New Lloyd Webber musical tackles '60s Profumo affair 2013-12-20T01:19:01Z If only this surly Beckmesser could be more honest about himself, he might not seem so hopeless a marriage prospect, even for Eva. Music Review: Reimagining Wagner’s ‘Meistersinger’ at Salzburg Festival 2013-08-05T21:45:01Z Still, there’s a little bit of hope here in a seemingly hopeless conflict. Review: In Documentaries on Syria, Much Despair and a Dash of Hope 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Except "timeless" is a hopeless adjective to employ when trying to describe The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby: F Scott Fitzgerald is right on time 2013-05-07T13:41:06Z Colquhoun was hopeless at school and started to make his mark as an academic only after a miserable couple of years as an apprentice pharmacist in a branch of Timothy Whites & Taylors chemists in Birkenhead. David Colquhoun, Twitter-addicted scourge of scientific quackery 2013-04-21T08:00:08Z But what really works is the dream of hopeless young love and the way it turns to violence. The films that time forgot 2010-08-19T20:59:00Z Could anyone else handle grouchy, socially hopeless House as well as Wilson? Six to Watch: True bromances 2010-08-06T11:49:00Z At 25 — a hopeless spinster! — she’s constantly reminded that “no man of note wants an unattractive wife.” Review | ‘The Four Winds’ is Kristin Hannah’s next inevitable bestseller. Don’t forget the tissues. 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z In another, much bleaker poem, “He Is Not Worried,” a hopeless migrant smashes his head against the wall. The Remarkable Forgotten Life of H. T. Tsiang 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Then Andrea Catania comes on, flicks a hopeless glance at the audience and collapses, apparently lifeless, on to a pile of soil. Vincent Dance Theatre – review 2012-11-18T00:06:05Z She says she feels “hopeless and defeated” by the proposed terms, under which Weinstein would not have to pay a penny to his accusers or admit any wrongdoing. Weinstein accusers' lawyers could get 10 times more than clients, sources say 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z Relations with others seemed hopeless in this light. Modern Love: Stuck at the Border Between the Sexes 2011-05-19T21:19:57Z On the level of battle, Brown was a hopeless strategist, miscalculating position, support and avenues of escape. 'Midnight Rising' illuminates John Brown 2011-11-03T22:11:08Z The sentiment is as touching as it is hopeless. Books Of the Times: Ivy Pochoda’s ‘Visitation Street,’ Set on Brooklyn’s Edge 2013-07-21T21:49:10Z Dynamic, too, was Nicole Car as the widowed schoolmistress with hopeless belief in Grimes’s salvation. Review: A Tenor Claims His Place Among the Met Opera’s Stars 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Just as I was settling in to the familiar hopeless mind-set of Day 1 in a new foreign city, jet-lagged, sleep-deprived and, more or less, lost, I glanced off to the right. Discovering the magic of Edinburgh 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z He's built a reputation for playing weak, vain men with a superficial charm that can't hide their hopeless neuroses. Rewind TV: The Kennedys; The Crimson Petal and the White; Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis; My Brother the Islamist 2011-04-09T23:05:33Z “Intervention,” on A&E, holds out the promise that if a hopeless case is confronted by a Road to Damascus moment, he or she would choose the right fork. Arts & Leisure: Wrestling With Recovery Is No Fairy Tale 2011-06-29T12:00:06Z He did this thing to join this girl, knowing that it is hopeless. "The Man Who Sold His Skin" turns a chivalrous refugee into merchandise in the name of love 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z In her work in family court, "she believed she brought reasonableness to hopeless situations." In 'The Children Act,' Ian McEwan chronicles a marriage in crisis 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z For the rest of his teenage years, Kodak continued on this path, returning time and again to themes of hopeless circumstances, existential frailty, perseverance blended with nihilism. Kodak Black Grapples With Tough Questions in His Music, but Nowhere Else 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z I didn’t realize what a hopeless desire that was. Monica was our sex-ed teacher 2014-05-11T00:00:00Z But that's not to say that baking without butter is a hopeless endeavor. The best butter substitutes for baking (that actually work) 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z One of those hopeless days, I challenged my father to a game. The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon – extract 2013-02-23T08:00:19Z Mostly hopeless: she tends to bat off inquiries. Laura Marling: 'Americans – they're just a lot more poetic' 2013-04-27T23:04:02Z The book is more a demonstration than an argument: The situation isn’t hopeless! ArtsBeat Blog: Book Review Podcast: Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum's 'That Used to Be Us' 2011-09-09T20:49:46Z All of this is not to say that “hopeless fountain kingdom” isn’t appealing at times, but it is appealing only in the most conventional ways. Halsey’s Second Album: Something New, but a Lot Borrowed 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z |
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