Word: despairful
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...local bars have begun selling "recession beer" at $2.60 a glass, compared with the normal price of $6 or so. But with more layoffs and further turmoil expected, it will take more than hearty stew and a pint of cheap cheer to rescue this nation from economic despair. - by Jonas Moody
...vard, you went to Har-vard,” Goldberg sang. “Don’t despair, Har-vard. With that degree, you cannot fail...
...Fear and despair returned to Asian stock markets on Friday as a drumbeat of bad economic news helped send share prices across the region plunging to historic losses...
...from its own emotional and spiritual vitality. "We no longer have the presumptuousness to believe, as they did in Sartre's day, that a novel can change the world," Le Clézio has said. "Today, writers can only record their political impotence ... Contemporary literature is a literature of despair...
...colleague who, in response to the sage scientist’s fervent pleas for nuclear disarmament, quipped: “Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?” I’ll never plunge into such depths of misanthropic despair, but I could with some degree of sincerity ask the same question about the disappearance of the United States...