Word: despairful
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...Prayer for the Dying hits direct about faith and religion, not subtly or from behind. As O'Nan remarks, "Thematically it's precisely the same as all my other books. It's always about hope and despair." Because the reader senses only through Jake, he hears Jake's internal question explicitly...
...avoid the iconic Hemingway. The conference assembled many of the world's greatest living authors to "celebrate Hemingway's life" and to "assess the nature of Hemingway's influence on world literature" through the discussion of "significant themes in Hemingway's writing career including Africa, war, nature, creativity and despair." The many panelists were great writers and journeymen, both: the Nobel laureates Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, Kenzaburo Oe and Derek Walcott as well as critically and popularly acclaimed authors E. Annie Proulx, Tobias Wolff, Chinua Achebe, Frederick Busch, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton and dozens of others. A hundred years after...
...those of you who know me, this piece probably comes of something of a surprise. I was previously the self-proclaimed queen of kvetching. I loved sharing my despair with my classes and the multitude of whiny e-mails which come over uc-general. Even to those of you who don't know me, this piece sounds like a complaint about complaining. Perhaps it is, or perhaps it is an honest, heartfelt, though perhaps futile attempt to put some fire under a couple of large butts out there. It is time that both past and present complainers realize that they...
...There has to be hope. There has to beopportunity," Mitchell said. "Despair, lack ofopportunity breeds discontent, instability," hesaid...
...movie is more than a star-is-born showcase. This story of a girl who rolls down the slope of degradation, and finally has no power but to choose her own grim fate, is a worthy cinematic sister to Mouchette, Robert Bresson's great document of adolescent despair...