Word: despairful
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...being laughed at. She takes what she needs and gives what she can, and expects no favors from anyone. She earns enough to pay for the roof over the heads of her brother and daughter, and to keep Guy in beer, but if she couldn't she wouldn't despair. She prefers to come up smiling (and what a wonderful smile she has); she guards no impenetrable depths; she revels in basic pleasures. Michelle seems unhappy only when faced with the accusing, recriminatory jealousy of Manon, but even then her unhappiness stems simply from bewildered helplessness...
...thinking or saying. They just imitate. The nightclub in Trust is a world where no communication is possible, nothing makes sense, nothing is real. Except pain. And Elvis has chronicled his pain, sometimes flaccidly, sometimes with the near-precision that is art. At 23, amazingly, he has earned his despair...
...Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, George Wallace, now Ronald Reagan. For the last two decades, American history has been pockmarked, redirected, twisted by bullets. It is cause for jubilation that the president survived Monday's attempted assassination; the bloody scene outside a Washington hotel, though, is also cause for despair. Despite all the lessons, all the grief, we have failed to end the reign of violence that is our shame...
Mechai's antic approach to family planning has made him a national hero. Condoms are now known as Mechais, a fact that he frequently bewails in mock despair. Half Scottish and related to the King of Thailand by marriage, Mechai, 40, is an economist by profession and, as director of Community-Based Family Planning Services, a performer by necessity. As most of the nation now knows, he will do anything to get his message across. Last year, on the King's birthday, he offered free vasectomies (146 accepted). He makes a prize stud hog available at half price...
...have an imagination that takes you from Ireland to the Italian Riviera, but a budget that doesn't stretch past Marblehead, don't despair. With careful research and lots of discount forms, you can summer in Europe at a minimal cost...