Word: hopelessly
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...better make that the civilization - of the eponymous Venus (Jodie Whittaker, a young actress making an utterly fearless debut). She's Ian's grandniece, up from the provinces and supposed to be tending the old guy - cooking, cleaning, giving him an arm to lean on. She's hopeless at all these tasks, and a potty-mouthed layabout besides. Nevertheless , Maurice takes a mentoring shine to her, perhaps seeing in her something of himself, independent and instinctive. He finds her a job (posing nude for an art class), takes her to the theater, even lets her accompany him on a film...
...citizens of Aburiria queue for weeks to sign up for jobs that don't exist, while the poor lie dying in the streets. But their bloated, inept Ruler is more concerned with building a tower to heaven. Hopeless, the people turn to a wizard who cures their emotional ills using a mirror and advice so good it seems like magic. For the fictional Aburiria, think Africa. In Wizard of the Crow, Kenyan author Ngugi draws a folkloric tale out of the continent crippled by inequality, corruption and aids. But he sees the funny side, too. Wizard of the Crow...
This leads to candidates who do not further the debate but instead confuse it. Some may argue that Harvard students are smart enough to see through the fog of hopeless promises, but many Harvard students are too uninformed about the UC’s inner workings to know the difference between a good idea and a bad idea that sounds good...
...Institute of Europe. In the 1990s, Furman wrote critical commentaries about politics and society for leading Russian newspapers. Today, no newspaper will take his pieces, but he sees some hopeful signs. "The network of liberal dissent in Russia is powerful," he says. "It is really beginning to realize how hopeless the existing regime is. It is also exhausting its own illusions, about Western help in particular...
...despite their outr? occupations and preoccupations they are, at heart, just the rest of us, pursuing, say, a promotion or a new job or a teasing, out-of-reach lover; pretending not to care, pretending not to heed the gnawing in their vitals, but haplessly imprisoned by their hopeless dreams...