Word: despairing
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Suddenly, the court is quiet. The talk stops and those dozing in the rear wake up. Sometimes, once a day maybe, reality intrudes here in this funnel of misery, where the unhappiness and despair of three cities is channeled. But the interest evaporates quickly enough. The license is suspended for 90 days, then she will be able to drive again. She will enroll in the treatment program. The next case, please...
When the worldwide Great Depression came, the German economy collapsed. Promising to end reparations, rebuild Germany and restore German national pride, Hitler capitalized on the people's despair. The Nazis rose to power (through democratic elections, it should be noted) in 1993 and wreaked worldwide havoc for the next 12 years...
...Lucy's children, however, McDermott offers a life-affirming lesson that promises to puncture the family's despair. As May's wedding day ends and her death approaches, a relative begins a drunken lament of the family's woes. Suddenly a young cousin huffs, "Who cares? Who really cares?" With that brushstroke, McDermott points the way toward a brighter future...
...This ground-breaking is earth-shattering," said John Shattuck, vice president for government and community affairs. "There's a vision for housing instead of homelessness, a home instead of despair, a pulling together not apart...
...himself--the coward, the sinner, the betrayer--seem real. The viewer will remember him nonetheless, if only for the violent climax of the first act. To the accompaniment of Gavin Friday's Next, he writhes on stage in an agony of what might be orgasmic ecstasy or wild despair...