Word: despairs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Jonathan and I found ourselves driving to the ATM, withdrawing $930 - 41,000 baht - and buying Lek and Tip. It wasn't merely the prospect of these two children steadily building up their collection of chips over the next decade that compelled us. It was partially witnessing the despair of the other girls who had buried all hope with their childhoods. Girls like Pim, who works in a brothel a few meters up the road...
...name, depicting a Shangri-La of an intersession destination that can only be reached in a, well, “altered” state of mind. Indeed, von Oeyen would be a great spokesman for designer drugs, if it weren’t for the vivid gloom of despair creeping into his spellbinding “Twin Soliloquies...
...concise rendering keeps the audience in a state of constant anticipation and alertness, and the movement of characters and scenes remains fresh. The emphasis on themes like temptation, jealousy, hatred and despair further universalize the play...
...plot deepens, Ba’al travels a path from moral uncertainty to dissolution, and then to despair. Those influenced by the ballim who enter his life—a virgin, a priest and a woman whom Ba’al seduces, impregnates and abandons—further Ba’al’s rejection of self-constraint...
...minute drive into a six-hour one, the checkpoints that stop women in labor from reaching hospitals, the curfews, the siege, the grinding, ever-deepening poverty, the air raids, the incursions, the demolitions of homes and fields and the incremental loss of their lands. And this produces the despair that spawns the nihilism of the suicide bomber, and the rage that makes him (or, if the latest reports are to be believed, her) a hometown hero - and, increasingly, a role model...