Word: despairing
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...report hints at the ravages and despair that can attend advanced AIDS, and of the partnership that can develop between long-term HIV patients and their physicians. But its findings can be used by either side in the legal debate. Champions of a perceived constitutional right to assisted suicide will argue that if so many doctors lacking Kevorkian's idiosyncrasies feel impelled to break a law on their patients' behalf, that law probably needs retooling. Opponents, however, may suggest that the current system works just fine: a statute outlawing assisted suicide, loosely enforced, will be reluctantly violated by doctors when...
...final scene, Tatiana is in her room reading a love letter from Onegin. He comes to see her, and once again they are swept up into a passionate pas de deux: clearly, Tatiana's feelings for Onegin were never completely crushed. The tortured feelings of love and despair are captured both by the climaxing score and by Cranko's choreography. Ponamarenko and Berdo complements the technical perfection of their steps with an intensity of emotion that draws the audience to a breaking point as Tatiana pulls Onegin across the stage only to fall on his chest. In the end, however...
...every classic story of courage triumphing over adversity, the hero or heroine must first fall into the depths of despair, rise again, then confront the enemy, all the while proving the skeptics wrong...
...monthlong E-mail correspondence with "TheKing610." Last Tuesday, "TheKing610" revealed himself to be Howard Eskin, 45, an abrasive Philadelphia TV and radio sportscaster nicknamed Pain in the Airwaves. "All I was trying to do was brighten her day," he told his radio audience. "I sensed loneliness. I sensed despair." Her E-mail messages, he said, were "somewhat provocative" but "not X-rated stuff...
...game in Dallas, they took the lead in the fourth quarter, only to lose yet again to the Cowboys, 38-27, after Favre threw a costly interception. White, who says he could have played better in that game, was either showing his age--34 at the time--or his despair at the burning the week before of the Inner City Community Church, the Knoxville, Tennessee, house of worship in which he is an associate pastor. Nobody could fault Favre's on-field performance, but there were a few close friends who felt he was in denial about his addiction...