Word: despairs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this bravado didn’t last. I spent the next three years struggling with math demons. A’s were followed by C’s in quick succession, bringing me to the heights of ecstasy and the depths of despair. A few topics in Calculus and PreCalc piqued my interest, and once I even spent a history class trying to solve a math problem with glee. But usually it was the other way around; math class was absorbed by writing sonnets, and I left without having understood the material. I refused to do homework, sometimes even...
...CANDY Despair, Inc. Despair.com) sells BitterSweets, a black, heart-shaped box of conversation candy with an array of snide slogans "for the rest...
...philosophy, German theology, Gandhi's fight with his sexuality, the life of the writer R.K. Narayan, and Indira Gandhi's political fall and resurrection. His masterpiece is a long essay on Calcutta called "The City of Dreadful Night"?a jarring, clangorous, minor-key symphony, alive with the bustle and despair of the city, which ends with Mehta's quietly following Mother Teresa as she walks through a lepers' colony. At their best, his articles and essays throb with unforgettable details?how the English philosopher Bertrand Russell spoke with exaggerated e's, how Gandhi was extremely eager to know more about...
...Wide Awake is an example of the circumstances in which Oberst can be great, Digital Ash proves how fleeting those circumstances are. The lyrics on Digital Ash remain models of thoughtful despair, but the acoustic warmth is replaced by a series of unremarkable synthetic burps and tinny keyboard riffs. One track sounds dangerously similar to Nena's 99 Luftballons. Digital Ash rocks harder but feels emptier...
...should expect the insurgents to throw their worst at us, and judging from their previous conduct we can expect the week of elections to be violent and bloody. As hard as it will be to bare any additional American casualties, we should not despair. We can, and I believe will, prevail in Iraq but only if we fortify ourselves and realize that next week might very likely be the most destabilized time seen since the end of major combat operations. Changing a country from a totalitarian dictatorship to a democracy is a radical step, and the first election will...