Word: despairful
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...instantly familiar from the Sennett shorts: a girl (Marion Davies) falls in love with the voice of her radio Romeo. ("Oh, she mewls, "you're just a voice that croons about something that once was real.") In a nice melodramatic turn, Bing plays a man driven to drink by despair - an ancestor to his Oscar-nominated role in "The Country Girl." In 1932, though, Bing really did have problems with alcohol. Here, acting was autobiography...
There were a lot of unnecessarily broken hearts around Harvard Square last Saturday night. After the sold-out men's basketball game vs. Princeton drew to a dramatic close, the Harvard faithful dragged themselves from Lavietes Pavilion in despair, looking like something they believed in had let them down...
...leave a gym feeling like sports are the Way and the Light as well as Life, the Universe and Everything. Maybe they are, if a couple of hours of action can make people leap out of their seats with jubilation or plunge them into speechless despair...
...overwhelming fact is we made the link to state-sponsored terrorism," said Aphrodite Tsairis, whose 20-year-old daughter Alexia was killed on Flight 103. Many families had stopped daring to hope for a conviction, and it came as the culmination of a draining struggle against complacency and despair. When Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was on the Pan Am flight, heard the verdict, he fainted in the court gallery. But the ruling also underlined another challenge: to start from this now legally established link and go up the chain to the real instigators. President George W. Bush said...
...boys look at the future with despair. "It is very bleak," says Tsepho, kicking aimlessly at a bare wall. He had to quit school, has no job, will probably never get one. "I've given up my dreams. I have no hope...