Word: despairful
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...There is a lot of male invisibility going around these days. How should an out-of-date hero spend his time? Must idealism always be corrosive, as well as ennobling? Jessie does not know, but she is busy with the children. Can Carll see any glimmers of hope or despair? The reader never finds out much about this man, because Brown does not take the trouble to give him a fully drawn character. As things are, what we are given by this gifted author, who wrote the much praised 1978 novel Tender Mercies, is chiefly a very long list...
THERE IS A SENSE OF DESPAIR in recent writing on the nuclear armaments dilemma. The works continue to arouse emotion and indignation and to make us curse the technical advancements that gave us the tremendous power of the atom. Yet it has been several years since the flood of writing and protest began, and the nuclear threat is still very much with us. Can we ever get rid of the bombs, or at least of the imminent threat they pose? Proposals for world government have resurfaced lately as a possible answer, but, given the success of the League of Nations...
...terms of plot, the show is merely the stuff of any normal television soap opera: rape, plunder, anguish, despair. But the yearlong Japanese TV series Sanga Moyu is causing a real-life melodrama of its own. Based on a popular novel, Two Homelands by Toyoko Yamasaki, it is the story of the Japanese-American Amoh family, immigrants to the U.S. whose national loyalties are tested by World War II. The homeland they choose does not choose them, and the Amohs live through racist humiliation, imprisonment in a California relocation center and other indignities. The show has been so popular...
...inevitable arrives, when he has lost his job, when it is clear that his sons have been ruined by his belief that success is just a matter of concealing the needle of sharp practice in a hand gloved by fraudulent gladness, his suicide is only in part dictated by despair. There is this insurance policy, and if Willy can contrive to make his demise look like an accident, then he will have achieved in death what he never could in life-a legacy for his family and, better still, that edge on the system for which he had always angled...
...watching Enrique and Rosa crawl for miles through a tunnel to reach America, the viewer cannot help but shake his head over their delight upon spotting the light at the end. The odds are stacked miserably against them; but unaware of this fact, the two march almost inexorably toward despair...