Word: despairful
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...name, depicting a Shangri-La of an intersession destination that can only be reached in a, well, “altered” state of mind. Indeed, von Oeyen would be a great spokesman for designer drugs, if it weren’t for the vivid gloom of despair creeping into his spellbinding “Twin Soliloquies...
...concise rendering keeps the audience in a state of constant anticipation and alertness, and the movement of characters and scenes remains fresh. The emphasis on themes like temptation, jealousy, hatred and despair further universalize the play...
...plot deepens, Ba’al travels a path from moral uncertainty to dissolution, and then to despair. Those influenced by the ballim who enter his life—a virgin, a priest and a woman whom Ba’al seduces, impregnates and abandons—further Ba’al’s rejection of self-constraint...
...minute drive into a six-hour one, the checkpoints that stop women in labor from reaching hospitals, the curfews, the siege, the grinding, ever-deepening poverty, the air raids, the incursions, the demolitions of homes and fields and the incremental loss of their lands. And this produces the despair that spawns the nihilism of the suicide bomber, and the rage that makes him (or, if the latest reports are to be believed, her) a hometown hero - and, increasingly, a role model...
...That morning he wrote out the lyrics from Linkin Park's song In the End--"I tried so hard and got so far/ but in the end, it doesn't even matter"--pinned the note to the speakers in his room and signed it to explain his feelings of despair to his father. None of the group members like talking about Santee, in part because, really, what can they say other than that the incident makes them sad? "Yes that kid connected with the lyrics, but so did a million other people, totally different kinds of people," says Shinoda...