Word: despairful
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...games I've ever seen. Humanity came out of its interdimensional scrap holding the silver medal, and now we live in an alien-run police state enforced by collaborationist thugs and towering three-legged monstrosities. Long, ringing silences, too bright sunlight and empty streets deepen the sense of Orwellian despair...
...crowd gathered outside Cardullo’s on Wednesday is any indication, at least I won’t be alone in my despair for the next four years. As thousands of Bush-Cheney supporters screamed and cheered on the screen, I studied the faces reflected back at me in the autumn-themed window. Resting on bodies of various heights, ages and fashion styles, each bore the same expression: hollow-eyed despondence. I couldn’t find a trace of the happiness of the nearly 59,000,000 citizens who voted to keep Bush in office...
...reality of their situation set in, the men started to despair. They began to take chances they knew could result in death. One day, for example, they went looking in the attic for electrical insulators to weigh down a fishing net they were surreptitiously making to help boost their meager food supply, and found an array of microphones instead. On another occasion, they traded dozens of socks they had saved over many months for a small fishing boat. Once, they swam across a river at night to steal a bag of coal tar from a government construction site. "We used...
Women, don’t despair: the company is looking for volunteers from both sexes to help promote the competition by distributing promotional materials on their campuses. The girl who gets the most guys to enter will receive a $200 reward. The law school already has its own Miss America: now it’s time for Harvard’s first Mr. Intimo...
...heritage sends Davey into a suicidal depression, leaving his wife to fend for herself. The play’s other victim is Harry (David B. Rochelson ’05), a mild-mannered businessman who cuts through the play’s apathy with a brief moment of genuine despair when no one tries to stop his suicide attempt. Rochelson is reincarnated in the second act as Larry, a drill sergeant who forces the family into a semblance of normality while ignoring its real problems...