Word: despairs
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Reactions to the announcement ranged from deep despair to optimism...
...courtroom, as the first "not guilty" sounded, the dead man's mother had allowed herself a measure of despair. Her shoulders slumped; her bearing, which had been formidable in the face of four weeks of graphic testimony, finally gave way. As the 24th verdict was uttered, she clutched her brother's hand. Then, with the court adjourned, Kadiatou Diallo walked out, tears streaming down her face, refusing to make eye contact with the four defendants and their families, who were giving themselves up to elation, hugging and making the sign of the cross. The Muslim woman, her ex-husband beside...
...like the pleas of despair," he says." There are lots of things people haven't tried...
...photography, Shahn captures something about everyday life that makes it more than a picture, but a document of personal and historical despair and triumph. Shahn gives us a taste of what life in New York was like during the Depression for ordinary people. He has an amazing way of capturing the hurt and the despair--as well as the hope and the innocence--in the hearts of the people. Walking through the show, you feel almost as if you were walking with the people in the photographs, feeling their emotions, seeing their hurt first-hand--and somehow knowing that...
...viewer is led to question, understand and empathize. Shahn's making of New York City during the Great Depression is a historical documentation of not only the physical realities, but also the realities of the soul of humanity. His works highlight the ordinary in a time of extraordinary loss, despair and, dare we say, hope...