Word: despairful
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...Some of these young people attend meetings up to seven times a week. They drink second-rate coffee and spend hours listening to stories of despair and hope, supporting each other as they try to exist in a city with a bar on every block. At the end of the meeting, gather in a circle, grasp hands and recite: "God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference...
Like most wars, it was fought largely by teenagers. There were triumphant victories, shattering defeats, questionable acts in the heat of battle and tears for fallen comrades. Then, as the fighting dragged on: criticism at home, disillusionment and finally despair. "I am saddened by the outcome of this all," declared prOphet, a one-time American war hero turned pacifist. Blasting his comrades for calling the enemy "gooks and worse," he delivered a 21st century soldier's eulogy to peace, love and understanding: "Just drop this already - on both sides."The first superpower cyberwar lasted nine days. By its end, more...
...five or six languages). Her version, so intimate with the song's poetry that it even became a hit in Jobim's Brazil, contains at the core of its large-hearted refrain a line that reads, "It's the promise of spring, it's the end of despair, it's the joy in your heart." How I wish she had been singing it last weekend...
...terms make the sacrifices his intifada has demanded of ordinary Palestinians over the past eight months seem worthless. And while the Israelis constantly promise to ease the load on ordinary Palestinians and isolate the militants, such promises have meant very little on the ground, where poverty, rage and despair continues to drive Palestinians into the arms of Hamas, Hizballah and other forces more radical than Arafat...
DESCRIPTION OF BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY "A transcendental study of existential despair." "By an Italian reviewer. At last someone has realized how profound I am. Or just possibly something went wrong in the translation...