Word: hopelesses
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...techniques and the tropes of American environmentalist literature. What these techniques come down to, at bottom, has always been the recognition that logic will not suffice in altering the common perception of human responsibility.The environmentalist's have believed that, ultimately, it is not logical consideration that brings people to hopeless irony, and that redemption too will be effected not through logic but through passion and commitment.The use of the exemplary self is the attempt to convince not through argument but through moral suasion: if I can act this way or believe these things, the speaker suggests...
...feels good because of all the hard work I put in," Wilford said. "It sometimes seemed hopeless, having a classmate who had started since freshman year. Everyone's happy for me, but it's not me versus Rich. I think the team is happy with either...
...could desire. But his body had been battered by injuries and his brain by alcohol, and the "one true sentence" that he said would get his writing humming became harder and harder to find. Still, he persisted on a project he must have known, at some point, had become hopeless...
...environmentalists say, is to show it's possible to reduce greenhouse gases without sinking the economy. Solutions include cleaner cars and better wind- and solar-power technologies. Says Greg Wetstone, program director for the Natural Resources Defense Council: "When these kinds of options become available, people will feel less hopeless." Of course, it's also possible that only when people feel less hopeless will they press their leaders to make the solutions available...
...playing with instruments donated by VH-1, the unsentimental general gets misty-eyed. At Colin Powell Elementary School in Grand Prairie, Texas, the kids wanted to talk about the mystery of how those two boys at Columbine with their BMW and pampered, obstacle-free days could have become so hopeless. A child asked the general if he ever got sad. "Something makes me sad every day," he answered, and said that helping others is the best way to work yourself out of it, that if those two lost souls in Littleton had coached a soccer team, visited a hospital, come...