Word: despairing
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...after which his mother stood outside in the cold for two hours. "I wanted to make them stop," he begins, "I wanted to go outside and get her, but I couldn't reach the door knob." When an adolescent's earliest memory and Dillion's sympathetic demeanor suggest such despair and evoke such pathos, it becomes difficult to accept his outward show of confidence...
...counting on you to cast your votes for hope, not despair--for responsible men and women who are pledged in help us, not hinder us on the road to recovery," he said...
There were six of us sitting in the darkened living room, watching in despair as the flames flickered and flared up the coast. The smoking rails of the coral and the huge crossbeams of the Forests' house across the streets still glowed faintly through the dark, but the engines had long since abandoned the hopeless effort and gone clanging off to some other front where they were more desperately needed. The fire had disappeared over the hill, leaving only the charred grasses, and the stooped figures, silently picking their way through the smoldering ashes...
...instrument in the slowest motion, to see it grasped eagerly or laconically, at last to shudder. So one shudders picturing Stanley and Theresa Janus in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, stunned over the death of Stanley's brother Adam a few hours earlier, the couple sitting in despair at the kitchen table, about to reach for the Tylenol...
...decided to invite national leaders throughout this hemisphere to attend a signing ceremony on Sept. 7. As Torrijos and I waited in a small office before entering the large assembly hall, he tried to thank me for ending generations of frustration and despair among the Panamanian people. But before he could finish his statement, he broke down and sobbed as his wife held...