Word: hopelesses
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...nothing fitted anything he had to do in the world. Thus, when fired from his first good job as the world's worst railway freight clerk, he spoke that night in his self-taught Gaelic to a Gaelic League meeting on the character of Goethe. In short, a hopeless case. If ever a man became a writer because there was nothing else in the world he could do, it was Frank O'Connor...
Nick Adams, as the police lieutenant, has a good voice, but he wages a hopeless battle with the love songs. Philip Lund, as the madam, and K. C. Sulkin, as the hoodlum boss, are competent, but Lund in particular suffers from too much dull straight material. Dick Tucker has an effective blues number in the beat coffeehouse scene that closes the first...
...cyst?" he asked. "No," answered Silgardo, "it looks as though a tumor has spread." The old man asked: "Do you mind if I get my hands in there?" A nurse helped him into his surgical gloves. The two doctors proceeded to do surgery's best in a nearly hopeless case...
There are no conclusions yet, but the psychologist I talked to was confident that volunteers can bring patients a long way toward recovery. "The process is long and heart-breaking," he said, "but there is no such thing as a hopeless patient. I've seen too many bad cases come too far.""The Saturday Evening Post...
...justice begins to seem absurdly excessive and inappropriate. All at once the spectator understands, vaguely and perhaps a little guiltily, that the young punk he has been sneering at for an hour or so is after all a human being. Gently, the priest shows him that the situation is hopeless, leads him sobbing to the waiting...