Word: despairing
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...also wily, vindictive, and--with the audience's help--even manages to one-up Mump a time or two. Both characters grapple with moral issues usually far beyond the scope of clown shtick, and both infuse their comedy with an underlying shadow of self-destruction and despair. Clearly, Mump and Smoot are not the kind of clowns to take small children or mentally unstable friends...
Kozyrev: I'm active out of despair. We simply cannot afford to lose any opportunity, since the alternative is clear: there will be a growing confrontation and hostility, and not just in Bosnia, itself. There is a realistic scenario emerging that is a repetition of what happened ((in the Balkans)) at the beginning of the century, when major powers came into conflict. If the U.S. Congress insists on a unilateral lifting of the arms embargo against the Muslims, how can I convince Zuygyanov and Zhirinovsky and the State Duma to keep economic sanctions against Serbia? This could produce a situation...
...breaks into gentlemanly whining. His fretful brow expresses perplexity -- a thoughtful "Huh?" And then, in the subtlest shift, comic exasperation plummets into agony. Hanks justified his Philadelphia Oscar in one early scene outside Denzel Washington's law office. With no more than a long, longing look, he registers the despair of a dying man who feels utterly bereft, unheard, dismissed. This lovely little revelation has an antecedent in Big, when the overgrown kid sits alone in a creepy hotel room and ponders his dreadful solitude. He's wonderful at portraying someone who's just been sucker-punched by fate...
...despite appearances, thesis researchers need not despair, according to Harvard officials...
...debilitating sort of urban schizophrenia. On one hand, a small but highly visible minority of residents are enjoying the rich possibilities of upheaval. "Life has never been more exciting in this city!" gushes a street entrepreneur. Others, however, are gripped by a feeling of profound disorientation, even despair. "There is no future here," says Vasili Alexeyev, who shares a single-room apartment with his wife and two sons. "Before, life in Moscow was bad; now it is even worse. We live without hope for tomorrow...