Word: dispiritedness
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A tired, sick, dispirited man emerged from 10 Downing Street, climbed into his official car, and sped through the chill January darkness to Buckingham Palace. Minutes later, the palace announced that Queen Elizabeth "was pleased to accept" the resignation of Sir Anthony Eden. Swinging out through the palace gates, Eden...
Having packed the Senate by appointing only loyal Nationalists to 41 newly created seats (TIME, Dec. 5), Prime Minister Strydom was in a hurry to get on with his designs. His bill proclaiming the supremacy of a Parliament not answerable even to the courts, and striking the last 50,000...
Among the gauds and gods of sinful Babylon, the young and earnest Isaiah is a prophet without honor or glamour. Beaten and spit upon, the visionary nonetheless convinces a hard core of the faithful that Babylon will be overthrown and the Jews restored to their ancient homeland. At novel'...
The actors are obviously to blame, yet they are only partly responsible; they have played as directed. Charles Boyer is a general who better resembles a priest. His deliberateness makes him dispirited in a part which calls for shrewdness. Seeing his wife off on a train, his rapt expression conveys...
It was Labor's white flag. A few guns kept firing and a few final grenades arced through the political air. But Labor, divided and dispirited, had already fallen back to the simple hope of averting a Conservative landslide.