Word: despairful
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...holiday, however, there must be an exit. For a drug to be widely popular it must be thought to be nonaddictive. That was cocaine's early, and false, claim to fame: the perfect high, it gets you there and back. (It is only those living in utter despair who choose a drug like heroin that takes you there for good: they are seeking not to holiday, but to emigrate.) The spirit of the psychic holiday was uncannily captured by Steven Spielberg, when he called Michael Jackson's peculiar child fantasy world (Disney dolls, cartoons, asexuality) a place where...
...journalist, a self-avowed "moral butterfly" with an airline ticket out, finds himself bored by Cuyama almost as soon as he lands. He has seen poverty and post-colonial delusions of grandeur before, and will again. Dina sinks further into liberating despair, secretly desiring the destruction her husband campaigns against...
...Naipaul, the author's older brother, may find such condemnations of the Third World familiar. Shiva's views seem harsher, more absolute and, in consequence, less intellectually engaging. But his portrait of a land sinking back into savagery is deft and diverting, a vividly colored paradigm of despair...
...least one athlete who does not expect to lose. Not she. She has never lost. Yet she will lose today. She will pit her enormous will against her battered body, and come in second, third or ninth. One looks for the shock on her face, beneath the fatigue or despair. The shock is everyone...
Amid this chaos and despair, the professor irrationally hopes. A mad, glorious scene near the end captures Danny's self-contradiction. At a wedding reception in Toronto, the guests become obsessed with recalling gallows-humor stories about a Kostelec hangman who forced condemned prisoners to shave, and shave again until the blood trickled from their chins as they mustered to face their doom. Then he would shout: "Back to your cells, gentlemen. The execution is postponed...