Word: despairful
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...life here can be lonesome. Wyoming is thought to be the only state without a gay bar. While traveling here, I met a blond, lanky 22-year-old hair stylist whose mother had thrown him out for being gay. I met a man whose boyfriend committed suicide in despair, and I met a lesbian couple who have lived in the same Casper home for 21 years and yet have never spoken openly with the neighbors about their love for each other. Instead, they let people think they are just roommates. Wyoming has constructed an entire culture around the fraught military...
...than half of Koreans in their 20s and a third of thirtysomethings say they want out, according to a recent Gallup poll. That might sound strange for a country whose rapid economic development has made it a model for other Asian nations. But it says a lot about the despair of Koreans, who face a sagging economy, a seething nuclear crisis across the border, rancorous local politics?and an embattled leader who many worry may not be able to handle the challenges ahead...
Look On Our Works, Ye Weak, And Despair...
...Missed Me” and “Coin-Operated Boy.” The former, a song about statutory rape, relies on Palmer’s impressive vocals—which range from warm and frothy to agonizingly tortured—to carry the song from subdued despair to blatant antagonism. Meanwhile, “Coin-Operated Boy” begins as a playful children’s song, only to change mood abruptly with a dramatic bridge that includes the line “This bridge was written to make you feel smitten / with my sad picture...
...place.” Undoubtedly, he must have died a very disappointed man, because he was a peace advocate all of his life. The new Palestinian intelligentsia is still holding fast; it is keeping up hope that the Palestinian flag will be raised again despite the fact that despair and anger are gaining momentum...