Word: hopelessly
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...ensuing course of accusation and revelation seems solid enough as psychology, but if the exhausting process succeeds as drama-and a viewer finds himself veering toward mutiny-it is mostly because the two actresses are superb. We feel stingingly the hopeless adoration of the little girl of 30 years ago (played in brief flashback by Linn Ullmann, Liv's daughter) for the glittering mother who ignored her, and the destructive frustration of the mother who could not show the emotion except through the ordered avenues of music...
After winning seven straight games and mixing in some bad starts, culling a 10-10 record by August, Lee was not allowed to pitch at all, except for two very short relief appearances in two hopeless games...
THERE IS A certain theory of the psychology of comedy that would have the comic think everything funny. For myself, I will laugh at almost any incongruity. When I go to The Comic Strip, a club in New York featuring unknown comedians, I giggle at each hopeless tyro while my companions self-consciously sip their beers and check their watches. Thus I have found this theory quite encouraging, and even fancied myself something of a comic...
...Bell, now a senior correspondent in Boston, went to Kenya in 1959 and was told by British colonial servants that Kenyatta was confined, or "rusticated" as they put it, near the Somali frontier. The militant Mau Mau leader was said to be a "hopeless alcoholic." A year later, Bell met Kenyatta in a village in northern Kenya. He was tall and dignified, and Bell remembers him manipulating a fly whisk with great style and grace. At first he spoke haltingly, "not because he was a gone alcoholic," Bell recalls, "but because he hadn't spoken English in seven years...
...then repeat their tales to Willie, who would fashion them into stories. When his lover died of tuberculosis in 1944, Maugham was incurably stricken. "For 30 years he had been my chief care, my pleasure, and my anxiety," he told Robin. "Without him I am lost and lonely and hopeless ... I am too old to endure so much grief. I have lived too long...