Word: despairful
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...heart and mind or of one whose feelings are too intense for satisfactory verbal or conventionally melodic articulation. He can?t tell it to you. He can?t even sing it to you. He has to cry out to you, or shout to you, in tones eloquent of despair -or exaltation. The voice alone, with little assistance from the text or the notated music, conveys the message...
...blink watching Osment. He has a, well, sixth sense for the hint of ecstasy or despair in a glance. Inhabiting such a character, letting humanity seep into him: that's not artifice. It's a fine actor's art, and enough to make any mother love him. Not to mention his two fathers, Spielberg and Kubrick...
...years ago, a man passed out while foraging for food in Gregg Bourland's garbage. Bourland was minding his own business - a video store in Eagle Butte, S.D. - when he found the guy. "Why do people drink like that?" Bourland asked himself, but he knew the reasons: unemployment and despair. Bourland went to the tribal chairman to ask what he was doing about all of the above. Answer: nothing. "He was interested in government handouts, not development," says Bourland. Later that year, 1990, Bourland, whose Native American name is Eagles Watch Over Him, ran for tribal chairman. "I wanted...
...years ago, a man passed out while foraging for food in Gregg Bourland's garbage. Bourland was minding his own business--a video store in Eagle Butte, S.D.--when he found the guy. "Why do people drink like that?" Bourland asked himself, but he knew the reasons: unemployment and despair. Bourland went to the tribal chairman to ask what he was doing about all of the above. Answer: nothing. "He was interested in government handouts, not development," says Bourland. Later that year, 1990, Bourland, whose Native American name is Eagles Watch Over Him, ran for tribal chairman. "I wanted...
...blink watching Osment. He has a, well, sixth sense for the hint of ecstasy or despair in a glance. Inhabiting such a character, letting humanity seep into him: that's not artifice. It's a fine actor's art, and enough to make any mother love him. Not to mention his two fathers, Spielberg and Kubrick...