Word: despairful
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...knows that better than most. Four or five years after the end of the war, he fell in love with a woman whose parents refused to let her marry him because he was a victim of the A-bomb and who knew how long he would live? In despair, the lovers tried to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills but failed. Eventually they got married, once it became apparent to her parents that he wasn't going to die young. They had three children and seven grandchildren. "I experienced so much pain, but I am happy now," Tsuboi says...
...with myself and Powers that afternoon in ?85, had been riding a late train to his home in Darien, Connecticut, one night many years ago. He had just been to the Stadium, where the Red Sox had lost, naturally, to the Yankees. ?I was deep in my thoughts of despair,? Berry remembered, ?when all of a sudden, from the back of the car, I heard four or five voices raised in song.? It was the refrain of a folk song indigenous to New England: ?Better than his brother Joe, Dominic Di-Mag-gioooooo!? Curious and emboldened, Berry made...
...prey to the politics of hatred: discrimination, poverty and "foreign issues like Iraq and Palestine." Still, he continues, "these issues do not justify acting in this way." It's easy to get British Muslims to agree on one thing; few seem to view U.S. foreign policy with anything but despair. High profile gaffes feed a sense that the U.S. is insensitive to Muslim views, as when the plane carrying Yusuf Islam, better known as the rock star Cat Stevens, was diverted to Bangor, Maine, on its way to Washington from London in September 2004 because his name turned...
...they left the boys out of the will. Finally, I told her about my conversation three years ago with the political leader of Islamic Jihad in Gaza. "What's the difference between suicide, which the Koran condemns, and martyrdom?" I asked. "Suicide," he replied, "is done out of despair. But remember: most of our martyrs today were very successful in their earthly lives." In short, there was a future to live for--and they detonated it anyway...
...think it’s a very hopeful book. I think that, in life, everyone gets into a lot of these tough situations and you can get out of them. In this book, there are a lot of situations where these characters can fall into despair and they don’t. They find hope within themselves and they find hope within the friends around them, who they make their family...