Word: despairful
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...Soup books have been sold is not just a "publishing phenomenon"; it shows that the American public is sick of having gore and mayhem shoved down its throat by the media. The Chicken Soup series creates an alternative to the usual media fare. We offer hope where there is despair, comfort where there is pain, tears and laughter instead of sarcasm and snide remarks, and inspiration to help our readers overcome the challenges they face. It's correct that our stories do not moralize, but it is wrong to say they provide "uplift without morals." PATTY HANSEN, Co-Author Chicken...
These first hand interviews give The Unknown City an edge that you do not often see in sociological texts. Gen Xers who talk about the urban decay that trails de-industrialization let readers into the most intimate crevices of their lives, with a despair that lingers long after you have put down the book. There is the girl who sleeps in her clothes in case she hears her father beating her siblings and has to run to get help in the middle of the night. We read about the teenage drug dealer who tells us how he was confronted with...
...boasts a teeming gallery of low- and medium-lifes--surely the densest, funniest supporting cast since the '40s farces of Preston Sturges. The church, school and pub are places of refuge and anxiety. But home, 742 North Evergreen Terrace, is where the show's heart is, where everyone's despair is muted by familial love. Homer (whom the writers hold in a sort of amazed contempt) bumbles into some egregious fix. Marge fusses and copes. Lisa sublimates her rancor by playing her sax. And Bart is...Bart...
Much to its customers' despair, the Tasty was forced to close because its landlord, the Cambridge Savings Bank is renovating the building which houses the restaurant...
...sick and tired of having to eke my way through life. I'm sick and tired of being a nobody. I'm sick and tired of having nobody." Sharing the scene with a bowl haircut and a chipped tooth, Carrey nevertheless evinces a real sense of despair. Director Peter Farrelly says the scene took seven or eight takes to get right; each time, Carrey's eyes welled with tears on cue. "His emotions," Farrelly says, "are at his fingertips...