Word: despairing
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...need to despair...
...country, enamored of itself and puffed up by its social pretensions and inside rituals. That legend now has some scholarly support. Austin Ranney, a resident political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute, points out that the losers in past elections have often blamed the electorate. In their despair they have decided that the voters were "a bunch of jerks," not "the good peasants and yeomen" of yore. This time, says Ranney, the sense of disunion may be greater than ever. The group of inbred Democrats who have controlled the thought and mechanics of official Washington for so long is exquisitely...
...Indian nation watched proudly as she took her father's place in 1966, stared in astonishment as she rose rapidly to power, abandoned her in despair when she destroyed Indian democracy in 1975, and heaved a sigh of relief when she returned power in 1980. India continues to receive favorable reports from economists all over the world; the country seemed to be set for a period of growth when a series of political disasters beginning in 1982 disrupted life in several parts of the country and ultimately claimed the life of its leader...
...Senate. But mostly we see Torrijos the person, confiding in Greene his loves, his fears and most of all his dreams for the future of Central America and U.S.-Latin American relations. Greene is very effective in painting Torrijos as an optimistic man with "the charisma of near despair" at his chances of living to see his dreams come true...
There are images of deep despair in both of Sankai Juku's performance pieces, but they mix now with scenes of spiritual questing and transcendence, all performed with the erotic austerity of some deep sense memory. The style of buto now performed by Sankai Juku is an exercise in selective simplicity, like a piece of wood planed and smoothed so only the knot in the center remains...