Word: despairful
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...safe. "I'm looking for my mother," says Brian Daniels. "Her name is on the website that she's fine, but I don't know where she is." He doesn't know that many of those listings are false, and no one has the heart to tell him. The despair is unrelenting, and the funerals have hardly begun...
...citizens who care deeply for the future of our country, we must keep from letting our despair push us into destructive actions that may ultimately make the situation worse. There is a thin line between the pursuit of justice, which will promote healing and security, and the pursuit of revenge, which will only serve to expand the scope of this tragedy...
...different person since I'd written them," Dylan recalls, "and, frankly, they mystified me." The members of the Grateful Dead, however, loved the old songs and wanted to play some of them with Dylan. The realization that he had grown so estranged from his art drove Dylan to despair. "At that point, I was just going to get out of it and everything that entails," he says...
...name calling: "I'd go to the beach, but I have to answer some slut who wants my advice. Like how that felt? ... Accept that you hurt like hell, that you need time to mend, and resist the urge to do anything that would make your dignity sigh in despair...
...live in a culture not your own means learning a different language - not so much in the sense of mastering foreign words but of rethinking the English you thought you knew. In Japan, "denial" seems to mean denying a despair that can be of use to no one, while "repression" means repressing the impulse to put your own circumstances before everyone else's. "Fatalism" is just a less happy word for faith. Often I'm reminded of the people I know in my native England who tell me that the country enjoyed its finest hour during the Blitz, when...