Word: despairful
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...victims on from day to day. Surely the worst is over now, they repeatedly told themselves, against the mounting evidence. They won't take me. They need me at the Tobbens factory. This new identification card will keep me safe. Day by day, hope deflected the full, unillusioned despair that, when it came later--too late--roused the ghetto to armed resistance...
...respond to what I see as an unrealistic modern liberalism, I find myself labeled a conservative for my pragmatism. I find myself disgusted by the lack of leadership (and, perhaps more importantly, the lack of heart) in the Democratic Party. All of that frustration, all of those questions, that despair, melted away whenever I heard from Wellstone. He always stood strong for the sometimes-impossible causes in which I believe. Most recently, he stood strong against the war with Iraq despite his tight reelection race...
...office worker struggling to escape job pressures and conformity who stages a one-man rebellion against the clock and the dehumanizing forces of an increasingly mechanized society. O’Gara describes it as “a riveting trip along the boundaries between conformity and freedom, love and despair, reality and insanity.” Emphasizing that the play’s themes are increasingly relevant today, O’Gara says of the cast “we’re really excited and we think the rest of Harvard should be too.” The show...
...Yasin, 30, worked for 11 years as a cloth cutter on the assembly lines of a shoe manufacturer, but a month ago her employer was forced to close after U.S. athletic gear giant Nike stopped ordering sneakers. Yasin has been looking for work, but now she has begun to despair. "Many orders from America could be moved away from Indonesia" she says, in the wake of the Bali blast. "It could make it more difficult for me to find a job. I don't know how I'm going to send money to my mother...
...know they would like me to, but it is just too difficult to work there now. You can't even fly to Baghdad since the Gulf War. You have to go to Jordan then cross the desert in a taxi." Still, residents of London and Baghdad should not despair: Zaha Hadid is used to long hard routes...