Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CHARACTERS LIKE John Berlin (Andy Garcia) before: the big-city cop who has burned out his marriage, his career and his spirit in his obsessive, | hopeless pursuit of justice. Now his brother-in-law and sometime partner Freddy (Lance Henriksen) has helped him get what is supposed to be a nice quiet job on a small-town police force in Northern California...
...think to make this information public? Did no one think? All I wanted was to become a more rounded individual--and the endless, mindless, senseless, hopeless morass of Harvard Bureaucracy defeated me utterly...
Game 5 ended in pathos. Fischer's position became hopeless. Ten moves after he should have resigned, he moved his queen -- proud, powerful, the lion of the chessboard -- and retreated it to a corner where it cowered for protection behind three lowly pawns. As Jose Zalaquett, a top Chilean amateur player, put it, it was an almost physical retreat, a folding back into the fetal position, awaiting the final blow...
Frustration over Africa has led some outsiders to the conclusion that Africans are hopeless at organizing anything. The reverse is true: they are ingenious organizers and able businessmen. The problem is bad government...
That may be cold realism. But there are times when realism, a clear-sighted understanding of how things are, shades into fatalism, an assumption that they must stay that way. Eagleburger says he learned from Baker's Middle East diplomacy that persistence in a hopeless task can pay off. But the most interesting paradox about Eagleburger is that a man who is by nature an activist -- a lifelong problem solver who fills up a room with his presence and energy -- also insists that "there are sometimes problems," such as Yugoslavia, "for which there is no immediate solution, and there...