Word: despairful
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...name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ / Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.” –Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias?...
...generally not religious fanatics. "Within Palestinian society, in the past year, a very broad mechanism of social approval has been created that makes it possible for even less religious people to commit suicide," says Ehud Sprinzak, a political scientist at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. "There's enormous despair. There's no meaning to life...
Titus is not completely lacking in artistic merit, however. In general, the actors turn in quite stellar performances. Most praiseworthy is David N. Huyssen ’02, who is captivating in the title role. His maturity and composure hold the production together. As he lingers agonizingly between quiet despair and stentorian wrath, he is monstrously sympathetic. One cannot help but feel pity and anger for his horrible situation and bewildering deeds...
...Bush administration is wisely attempting to restore a non-violent channel for pursuing Palestinian national aspirations - to create hope, because suicide terrorism thrives on despair. McVeigh's acolytes were few because even those who share his grievances have other channels of expression in a democratic society. Right now, most Palestinians see violence as the only way to pursue independence and an end to the occupation...
...Israel today, there is no hope. There is only despair, and intimations of the abyss...