Word: despairful
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...characters entangled in a malevolent fate. The Travel's namesake, an assimilated Irish Catholic detective, finds himself constantly having to defend arsonists and murderers, partially because his lather, also a lawyer, committed suicide after being convicted of a white-collar crime. Slowly sinking in a quagmire of guilt and despair. She a still finds time to draw some colorful characters into his world...
...that genre. As the voice shifts from omniscient narration to eavesdrop on Shea's thoughts and colorful dialogue. Dunne makes us painfully aware of his hero's growing depression as he begins to believe that he is trapped--by what his girlfriend labels the self-fulfilling prophecies of despair and his priest would call the wrath of a vengeful...
Wright does tend sometimes to toss over his shoulder the wealth of material he sees. In "Old Bud," he writes, "His unbelievable Adam's apple purpled and honed like the burl on the root of a white oak, and he sang his God Damns in despair." Now you see it, now you' don't--the white oak disappears, and the central character. Old Bud, who does has the potential to run wild and become larger than the poem, twists into another image. In cases like these, the prose poem proves even more confining for Wright than the traditional form; everything...
...author's South Bronx was not a sinkhole of poverty and despair. In fact, the neighborhood was a big step up from the Lower East Side. Pappa was a skilled shoemaker who made prototypes of new designs. Mamma was known as "the Princess" because she refused to appear on the street in a housedress. She also had a part-time job and unconventional advice for her daughter: "Don't get married, at least not until you can support yourself and make a careful choice. Or don't get married at all, better still...
...those neon signs," he says to an aide as he bustles along on his frequent midtown tours. "They're ugly. We have to do something about them." And to another aide: "Those mailboxes with the peeling paint. Do something about that." The two aides exchange looks of despair. "You don't have to do it today," Kollek reassures them. "Tomorrow is soon enough...