Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...administrations can point to so much of primary importance, accomplished in so short a time. And of perhaps even greater import, intelligent people can no longer be made to blanch and tremble at the clamors of know-nothings and malicious politicians, that a Laborite regime means hopeless internal disorder, with the abnegation of property rights, and destruction of the family and religion...
...players themselves try very hard to put across a play that is quite hopeless. Houston Richards actually succeeds in making the part of Joe Bagley, the shy and unbusiness-like editor, a thing of great pathos and humour. Mr. Richards can always be relied upon to turn in a sincere and intelligent per- formance--in this particular case, we think he does more than that...
...pathetic the fact that their system is a hybrid, bred by fear in the Victorian era.* Its founders were afraid of liberal theology. ... In Latin Catholicism, the ancestral sacramental paganism of the Mediterranean races is veneered by Christian sentiment. To attempt to graft it on the English church is hopeless...
...persistently for Aaron Burr for president. In 1830 it undertook to nullify the tariff laws of the United States and was called to order sternly by Andrew Jackson. In 1860-61 it first seceded and then fired on Fort Sumpter and forced the rest of us into a hopeless civil war. In 1891 it threw out of the United States Senate Wade Hampton, the greatest soldier it ever has produced, and the man whose magnificent and daring leadership delivered it from the horrors and oppressions of reconstruction, replacing him with a very ordinary politician...
...neurosis and Loeb of a psychosis. In speaking of Leopold, he said: "Yet very few persons understand why he developed this intellectual power-to suppress and repress his own perverse processes. Were the public ready, it could hear of as tragic a perversion of normal instincts, as hopeless and tremendous a struggle against them as was ever made. But no, the psychiatrists had to lower their voices, and even then they were prevented from telling all they knew. . . . The mental and emotional processes by which we first come to recognize the difference between our current standards of right and wrong...