Word: hopelessly
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...sexy teenager who ran away with him for an illicit two-week idyll. But when Parker Nowell took Farmer Eustis' case, that changed matters a bit. Lawyer Nowell was a sour misogynist but he was also a brilliant courtroom tactician who "never took a case unless it was hopeless, and it was a long way from hopeless" when...
Your write-up of the murder of Virginia Braunsdorf disturbs and disgusts me. You give the impression that a spastic is a hopeless case for which death is the logical, if illegal, solution. You should have at least investigated the records on cerebral palsy, the technical term for spasticity...
...prepared to admit that a rebirth of nationalism had brought about the re-emergence of some dangerous elements. But "if there were no rebirth of pride in Germany it would indeed mark a spirit of hopeless futility" that would discourage any hope for a German birth of democracy...
...once saw a newsreel-of a May Day parade in Moscow. When the Communists celebrated a victory they even got native corn whisky. "Wow," said Bender. "We had some bourbon the other night and it tasted like water." But after months of escorted wandering about the village they became hopeless and depressed...
...some of the historical fabric of the picture is fairly enjoyable. It was framed in Berlin itself, and a little of the agony and destruction of the country is caught. A single little shovel digging methodically into an infinite pile of rubble is about as grimly futile as Tantalus' hopeless reach for the fruit...