Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might have seemed the Revolution had been fought in vain. A writer like Henry James, for example, in transporting a nuanced country-house sensibility to England, was, almost literally, carrying coals to Newcastle; Miller, by contrast, brought to Europe things it was less accustomed to seeing: naked appetite, hopeless high spirits, French spoken with a Brooklyn accent. And what he brought back was something even richer: the great French passions -- of love and talk and food -- translated into a rough Anglo-Saxon vernacular. Joie de vivre made American...
...Homeboy Alone, hatches broad but pointed comedy from the perspective of a black street reporter (Terrence (("T.C.")) Carson) who lands a job with an all-white news team. But most of the films sketch, in furious strokes, a portrait of the ghetto and of its most feared and hopeless denizen, the black male...
CARSWELL'S further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key. "Wake Up The Grader" phrases--"It What force! What gall! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile...
Folkman likens the recent clinical success in combatting cancer to the nearly hopeless battle against pneumonia in the early years of this century, when the sometimes successful sulfa drug and later penicillin were introduced. Scientists then had little theoretical knowledge of pneumonia, but were nonetheless happy to have some kind of treatment, however flawed...
...plan shouldn't be so massive or create so much noise and pollution that it dooms North Point to a hopeless future. With the right planning, the railyards and sandpits of East Cambridge could become a new Back Bay or a new low income housing development--but not if the present plan is implemented. It is simply too big. It is simply too ugly. And it offers nothing to Cambridge in return...