Word: despairs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...It’s a beauty you can’t understand without understanding the despair,” she says. “My hometown is so weird, and rich in its weirdness...
...craggily handsome. She was 23, bright, pretty and vivacious--the word is hard to avoid with Plath. Both were aspiring poets. But Plath's gleaming American smile hid dark, ravenous appetites--for food, for fame, for love, for sex. It also hid gulfs of despair; three years earlier, she had attempted suicide...
That, indeed, is the way this movie goes; it does not blink at the harshness of poverty, but it never gives in to the despair that hovers constantly around this family. Considine is particularly good at treading the edge between these two modes. He may occasionally surrender to brooding, but when his family is dying of the summer's heat, he finds a huge, heavy, ancient air conditioner and drags it through the streets and up the stairs to cool his loved ones...
...give us opportunity to do good and do well simultaneously. We will fight the greedy—whose excesses and crimes have threatened our capital markets and undermined confidence in our economy. We will help the needy—whether in childhood or retirement, in sickness or despair...
...expression about actors playing their reviews. They get great reviews, and then the next night they act out the description of themselves. Feedback is very dodgy. And the presence of a monitor? I've watched inexperienced actors go up and watch themselves, and you can see tragic levels of despair cross their faces...