Word: despairful
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Periodically, these sensitive souls wake up with positively baroque feelings of despair, which make them scrawl in journals and pen searing poetry about dead people. This is often coupled with wild, opiate-induced highs that eventually culminate in someone chucking a powder compact at Madonna. Well, maybe only in Courtney’s case...
...Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture is in despair. Don Ament told TIME he simply has no idea how many animals have died or will die, or what the future holds. The storm is being likened to the Blizzard of 1949, the worst in the state's history. "As much snow as there is, I am just terribly pessimistic, worried to death. We've requested a major disaster declaration from the President, and we think maybe we can get that accomplished so we can start paying people out there. We need to keep feeding those cattle. You don't just drop...
...life and death of this mass murderer might remind Americans of the fundamental justice of the war. It might cause the American people to wonder why, having accomplished this, they should be so quick to give up on accomplishing more. It might cause them to hesitate before succumbing to despair when confronted by the challenges of continued violence and terrorism. It might cause them to wonder whether tyranny might not still be successfully replaced by liberty...
...Sudan. Parentless, he walked hundreds of miles in search of safety. When he came to America as a young man, his problems started again. Don't read this novel--which is closely based on his life--for any reason other than it's a great document of hope, despair and the will to keep walking...
...river for a minute or longer. As quickly as the swim had started, most people abandoned the Charles by 7:14 a.m., leaving behind doughnuts, Bud Light and spiked hot chocolate as they raced to their dorms to warm up. “Cries of pain and despair from Polar Bear Swim virgins were allayed by the realization that they had summoned the first real snow of the season,” Alaska Klub Co-Presidents Robert E. Furrow ’07, Olivia H. Gage ’07, and Kenneth W. McKinley ’08 wrote...