Word: despairful
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...no” for an answer. Aeneas uses Dido’s love to fortify his ships and companions, then deserts Dido to seek the promised land of Italy and build a “new Troy,” the Roman empire. Dido, crazed by despair, burns herself to death, driving those who love her to similar fates...
Pressed to think of happy events, the main character in Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women can only come up with two: breaking her back and dying. Such despair and bleak humor characterizes the play, which plays through March 12 at the Loeb Experimental Theatre...
...vindictive ex-partners and courts that favor mothers in custodial disputes is destroying fathers' relationships with their children. DiD meetings begin with a minute's silence for the five men who commit suicide in Australia each day, on the assumption that many of them have acted out of despair over separation from loved ones...
Even through the glass of the closed window, I could hear President Summers. I missed the beginning of his chant, but I managed to catch the end: “...And so, Lucifer, Lord of Darkness, Prince of Despair, Master of Deception, King of Flies, I call upon you! Lucifer, grant me my wish, provide...
...sure, nursing for a year is a chore, and mothers who can't go that long should not despair. "If you stop earlier it doesn't mean there aren't any benefits," says A.A.P. spokeswoman Dr. Ruth Lawrence. That's the kind of sound advice any parent can embrace...