Word: despairful
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...past, such cycles of violence would have provoked frustration, even despair, among would-be American peace brokers. But Bush has staked a large measure of his political prestige on the continued progress of Middle East peace. To keep the parties talking, he must find a way around the contentious issue of the loan guarantees -- and ultimately, the settlements themselves...
...sense of city-wide despair is palpable even among the frowsy tourist interpreters trained to talk up the city. "This is the most humiliating time the city has ever undergone," said one. "Even during World War II it was not like this. Our country is falling apart." When would it get better? someone asked. "When people learn once more the meaning of work, we will have food again," came the answer. Others are not so sure. "The situation is extraordinarily tense," said a city council member. "The old authorities -- the communists -- realize that this may be their last chance...
...Despair in Camden...
...elegant city is at the edge of despair...
...Grammophon, using three virtuoso orchestras: the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. Result: this definitive 13-disc boxed set. Bernstein finds the universal in Mahler's exquisite, often tortured, self-consciousness; the metaphysical beneath the moody, vivid surfaces. In struggling to understand fate, Mahler found despair, strength, ineffable loss and radiant affirmation. Yet it is ultimately in the music's unpredictable juxtapositions, its intensifications and easings, its shifts in perspective, its encompassing grasp of powerful and disparate emotions, that we find Mahler -- and ourselves...