Word: despairful
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...ASIA Many are trying to save the southern Chinese Nushu, perhaps the world's only language just for women. Often written on silk screens, one of its popular sayings is "Beside a well, one does not thirst. Beside a sister, one does not despair...
...culture of peace, carefully nurtured over the previous decade has been completely shattered,” he said with regret. “In its place have come growing despair and a belief in the inevitability of violence...
...courses and is beaten by him; a third girl hit by her father because she chatted with a shepherd, then forced into a loveless marriage with a rich man who will pay her family's rent. The last two women set themselves on fire in protest and despair. Yet the film can also burst into comic atonalities: the rich man who has a security alarm on his refrigerator (it's where he keeps his money), the shepherd on a cell-phone call to a pal in St. Petersburg. Life is sad; life is odd; life goes...
...outraged father. But the film doesn't blame only the Iraqis. Two Iranian fathers beat their daughters, one because she didn't tell him she was taking pre-med courses, the other because she chatted with a shepherd. Both women set themselves on fire in protest and despair. Sometimes all the oppressed can do is laugh. In the initially slapstick, then tragic Iranian film Songs of My Mother's Homeland, Kurds pour across the Iran border from Iraq. It's chaos for all concerned - except a peddler whose business is booming. "They bring disease but they also bring money...
...saber. But they are never limp, wooden or uninteresting. Goya's immense appetite for life always keeps rasping through their imagined breathing. That is why one can never get bored in front of them, and why every Spanish painter since has seen him, with a mixture of delight and despair, as the man against whom no comparison...