Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upon the world with a dreamy eye of listless melancholy. For years I have seen him stand, day after day, at certain hours, upon the curbing or near the fence hard by some well frequented thoroughfare, and gaze - gaze with an unutterable yearning in his countenance and such a hopeless expression of resigned patience in his look that many times I have been tempted to stop and commiserate the sorrows of this noble unfortunate. Cold conventionality has held me back. And I have asked with Homer, "Who is he and whence among men; who were his parents and where...
...paragraph in yesterday's Boston Herald makes mention of the proposition for a consolidated nine at Harvard, but adds that the prospects of such a scheme are not encouraging. We hardly believe that matters are as hopeless as the Herald correspondent puts it. Indeed, we have reason to think that by a very little effort on the part of the managers of base-ball, the project might readily be brought to a successful issue. The advantages of the scheme are obviously commendable, and the objections to its inauguration seem mainly to consist of the fear that this extra nine will...
...Wilde is not entirely without humor, as his Boston Music Hall audience knows; and therefore it may not be altogether hoping a hopeless hope to hope that, if he really is in earnest and is serious in his "movement," he may in time be brought to see the absurdity of his position in this country, and to appreciate the fact that he is really doing more harm than good to the cause he professes to have at heart. Our hopes in this way are brightened by some recent utterances of his given in the course of a newspaper interview, wherein...
...Nation's Oberlin correspondent, on the other hand, displays such a lamentable confusion of ideas and of statement that the attempt to answer him is rather hopeless. It is to be regretted that such petty envy and calumniation in this matter should be shown by college men of any sort. It is simply misrepresentation and misstatement to say of Harvard's system that "It dazzles us with the rich variety of electives, and, somehow, produces the impression that a student can take them all in the four years." It would certainly be a very foolish person who would receive such...
Guiteau's case is generally regarded as almost hopeless, but every one praises Scoville's defence in the highest terms, and the lawyers regard it a most skilful piece of work throughout. A doctor has made a bona fide offer of $1000 for Guiteau's body...