Word: despairful
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Greene has a way of decoding signals of despair in a man's face--the hunger to destroy or the wish to die. In Torrijo's "lines of weariness around the eyes," Greene sees what he calls a "charisma of desperation." It communicates an impatience with the inert diplomacy over the Canal issue, but also a desire to leave a mark on history. If he doesn't do so on the dotted line on the document that restores sovereignty over the waterway to Panama, Greene hints he plans to leave it in blood...
...believe this is the only hope for Israel and all of us. Otherwise, prospects remain dismal and if this year passes without definite signs of progress, the fact that hopes have been raised so high will result in despair. We will face a rise of extremist attitudes and turbulence...
Because of the scanty records for most blacks, however, many despair of ever uncovering their roots. Said Mary Gaines, 20, a black secretary at Northeastern University's African-American Institute in Boston: "I know about my great-grandmother, but beyond that it's a dead end. All the old people in my family are gone. I probably won't ever know...
...boorish top-floor tenant (John Christopher Jones), a boozily aggressive littérateur, his girl friend who is soon enough making a stripped-to-the-waist play for a book contract. Others have more powerful claims on him: a brother stunted by failure, an old school enemy in suicidal despair because Simon has casually alienated the affections of the woman he loves, a wife driven into a dismal affair by Simon's emotional sterility. As they attack Simon from many directions, their function is to reveal the seamless perfection of his ability to withstand all efforts to draw...
...arrange things so that his story, the stub of the pencil with which he writes it, and his life will all end at the same moment. It is hard to believe that Beckett will stop writing until he has to. He has made that bur den, after all, his despair and triumph...