Word: despairful
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Caddell went on to become a trusted adviser for Jimmy Carter. Sometimes his advice went badly awry. It was Caddell who urged President Carter to deliver his controversial 1979 "malaise" speech, which suggested that the nation was gripped by despair and self-doubt...
...policemen walk on fault lines In six novels and one nonfiction work, Joseph Wambaugh has followed their uncertain footsteps, recording the gallows humor and suicidal despair of California's blue knights. But readers have generally been able to take comfort in the notion that the men were, after all, fictive; surely real life was less melodramatic. In this tragic documentary, no such consolations are possible...
...barely pushing 50' And while it's inspiring to see his famous piercing gaze undimmed by the passing years, his vigor vitiates his attempt to portray a man to whom death has dropped a broad hint, just as it undermined his try at alcoholic despair in The Verdict & year ago He does his best to hide his glow, but the effort makes him seem absentminded...
...violent death of Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut [Jan. 30], is yet another source of despair for the Lebanese. Kerr was an idealist who shared with the Lebanese people the hope that Lebanon would remain the intellectual powerhouse of the Middle East. Terrorists' bullets have shattered that hope...
...where last year's straw ticks lay rotting, to come across other networks of honeycomb cells, where the new servants, hanging up their shining liveries, their boots or aprons, after the day's work was over, resumed their semblance of private lives, soon aborted by fatigue and despair. . . But none of the Venturas ever went down to the cellars...