Word: despairing
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...brave new technologies stir up conflicting feelings, breeding hope and despair where once there was resignation. The high price of in vitro * treatments (ranging from $6,000 to more than $50,000 per live birth) means that only the rich and well-insured can afford them. Patients who have undergone round after round say it is like riding an emotional roller coaster; you never know when you are going to run into a brick wall and have your heart broken...
Will that anger endure, along with Republican control of the White House? Neither author provides a ballot of hope to Democrats yearning for reversal of fortune soon. But the party that celebrates its 200th anniversary next year has survived long exiles in the wilderness before. Partisans suffering terminal despair should recall that in 1964, speculation about the imminent demise of the G.O.P. came awfully cheap...
...dapper new president told the eager first-year students, including many who skipped the end of the Giants-Rams football game to attend the ceremony, that there would be moments of triumph as well as moments of despair during their undergraduate years...
...overcome by frustration, Anderson banged his head on the wall until his scalp bled. But later, when a French hostage, Marcel Fontaine, said he hoped not to die a prisoner, Anderson replied, "I don't want to die anywhere." Like Anderson, Sutherland experienced days of despair. Several times he tried, but failed, to suffocate himself with plastic bags...
...however much he tried to school himself in foreign masters of despair -- Mishima, say, or Celine -- Miller could not help remaining a fearlessly joyous soul, "100% American," as he put it, right down to his repudiation of America. No one ever embraced life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness more lustily. An Emersonic boom was his, and Whitmanic energy. Like Emerson, he saw the Greek roots in enthusiasm -- the word means divine possession -- and knew that the poet "speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly . . . Not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar." And like Whitman...