Word: despairful
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...vaguely pre-modern ideas like duty, self-sacrifice and the value of defending a lost cause. True, the drugs keep coming, no matter what the police do, and the drug lords get away with murder and come out all smiles, and sometimes the cops die and other times they despair--and yet the war goes...
...wonder some Atlanticists despair of the next four years. ?I?m pessimistic about this,? says one American diplomat. ?I think it?s going to be ugly.? In the worst case, American unilateralism will embolden anti-American forces in the E.U. and result in petty feuds between the two continents. But there?s a more hopeful outcome. Champions of a more integrated, autonomous E.U. have long traded on fears that, as a U.S. diplomat puts it, ?America is going to eat our lunch unless we get cracking.? Now Europeans have the opportunity to move beyond such laments about American hyperpuissance...
Such attitudes fill Dink and other Turkish Armenians with despair. He denies the view of the diaspora that Armenians living in Turkey are being held hostage. They believe that it is years of silence on the part of Turks themselves that has resulted in the current impasse. "I want to be proud of my country with its past and present," said Nazar Buyum, the head of a large Istanbul advertising firm. The first step, in this way of thinking is to stop labeling legitimate attempts to examine history as some sort of conspiracy...
They were Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward to a subculture of disenfranchised goth fanatics. But beneath the opaline makeup and behind the strong, godless front, MARILYN MANSON and ROSE MCGOWAN were hiding domestic despair. "There is great love," the couple noted in a statement announcing the abrupt end of their three-year relationship and almost two-year engagement, "but our lifestyle difference is, unfortunately, even greater." While both enjoyed displaying their iridescent rear ends at award shows, re-creating the Kennedy assassination for kicks and generally freakin' out the straights, McGowan was reportedly unhappy about her fiance's vagabond tour...
...gone, replaced by the languid inertia of drink, drugs and sex. Putin is desperate to change his country. The kids in these photos are desperate to change their lives. That should be a recipe for hope, but in this lawless, rotting city, it has become a prescription for despair...