Word: hopelessly
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...adult jail for the rest of his life with no hope of parole? It seems a needless waste of his life and of state resources when the same sum could be used to try and rehabilitate him at the same time he is punished. Rehabilitation may be nearly hopeless for some hardened adult criminals, but youth is more supple and amenable to change. Why so easily give up hope that O'Brien may one day become healthy enough to qualify for parole? Why so easily give up on America's future...
...scintillating that it shines light on another flaw in Nicholson's text: it needs to be written in the first person. The peculiarities of Nicholson's style--in particular, his penchant for sprawling over-description--sound flat in the voice of an outside observer: "He knew what a wasteful, hopeless emotion jealousy was," or "[Absence] was what she called it, though it was not the most obvious term. It was not any sort of physical absence." Since Stuart and Stuart alone is allowed to heave his heart into his mouth, one leaves the book with the odd feeling that...
...feel hopeless," Whiting said...
...fellow rulers, Look at what I've done here. In the 11 years Museveni has run Uganda, he has brought a country savaged by dictators and murderous wars back from the dead. He has implemented free markets, controlled inflation and cut the civil service. A middle class has emerged, hopeless state-owned enterprises have been privatized, agricultural productivity is soaring, roads crisscross the country. A devil for investment in local enterprise, Museveni charmed Egyptian businessmen into manufacturing muteete-grass toothpaste and urged South African moneymen to start a banana-juice factory. If prosperity has barely begun to reach...
...many readers, intriguing book appeared in 1968. Published as a novel, A Fan's Notes excited considerable curiosity about its previously unknown author, Frederick Exley, and its central character, a hopeless drunk and a lunatic rooter for the pro football New York Giants also named Frederick Exley. Who was this guy, so the question went at the time, the accomplished author or the alcoholic burnout he portrays...