Word: despairful
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...Because the characters of this production are so alive, and want so much to be alive in the face of certain death, the opera stops just short of being harrowing. While this work is certainly capable of keeping its audience up all night in despair, it is more satisfying when not so over-the-top. In any case, the production doesn’t need to work too hard to convey the horror of the final scene, as the singing chorus of Carmelites are silenced one by one by the guillotine...
...refreshing selections. 2005 was a year of great pain and frustration as a result of the war in Iraq and devastating natural disasters. It would have been easy and predictable to choose someone who personified the war or the horrific Hurricane Katrina disaster, but in a time of despair and anguish, Bono, Bill and Melinda bring hope. The work that unlikely team does for the world's poor makes me believe that if we band together, it really is possible to change the world for the better. Megan McCann Homewood, Illinois, U.S. I was pleased with Time's choice. global...
...year of great pain and frustration as a result of the war in Iraq and devastating natural disasters. It would have been easy and predictable to select someone who personified the war or the horrific Hurricane Katrina disaster, but in a time of despair and anguish, Bono, Bill and Melinda bring hope. The work that unlikely team does for the world's poor makes me believe that if we band together, it really is possible to change the world for the better...
...blessed Bono with a beautiful voice and a beautiful soul. He is not another misinformed celebrity with a cause. He has done his homework, made friends on both sides of the partisan divide in Washington and worked to bring hope to those in despair. I would ask anyone who dismisses him as a pompous rock star, What have you done to help those plagued by poverty and disease...
...that he has called this the first war of the 21st century, a different kind of war. ?This is a war in which the enemy is going to have to be defeated by a competing system,? he argued. ?The long-term victory will come by defeating the hopelessness and despair that these killers exploit with a system that is open and hopeful. And the only such system is a free system...