Word: despairful
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Perhaps some would say that Dartboard’s despair is a little over-the-top, but she has heard the same cries from others. Cereal is the one beacon of hope lying between you and that pathetic food in the vat before you. It’s purpose? That you may have one moment of dietary joy to light up your ever-so-banal existence...
Projecting over-confidence while feeling under-confidence is the worst of all possible worlds. The trick is to nurture enough confidence to propel high achievement while avoiding either arrogance and complacency or debilitating self-doubt. Arrogance means feeling entitled to success without working for it, despair means feeling too overwhelmed and hopeless to even tackle the work. Confidence is the sweet spot in between...
That kind of despair, 19 months after the U.S. toppled Saddam Hussein, is adding fuel to the angry guerrilla insurgency that the Bush Administration acknowledged last week is out of hand. Important parts of the country, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers said, are controlled by rebels. Principal cities and major roads west and north of the capital are ruled by Sunni insurgents. Al-Sadr's men launch uprisings at will across the wide Shi'ite belt, and even parts of Baghdad are no-go zones for U.S. troops and the frail forces of the interim...
...sees them as armed bandits. And so-in a summer marked by memories of veterans of the swift-boat campaigns in the Mekong Delta and protests by the Montagnards in Vietnam itself-the Vietnam War, that suppurating sore that never heals, will ooze one more trail of bile and despair...
Harold said that she had been impressed that the inmates at the Louisiana prison were not “full of despair.” They built a chapel, ran a radio station that played religious music and gave money to charity...