Word: hopelessness
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Such optimism, said members of the mission, was not justified. On the inside, the surviving buildings were empty shells. Even when the fire had not burned them out, the blast had punched through the doors and windows, churning the interiors into hopeless ruin. Example: from a distance, the Nagasaki Medical School looked almost untouched; inside, it was a wreck...
...Robert Donat) moves speechless and heavy-lidded about the drab little flat. First, the clean collar, the neat cravat. Then a cup of tea, a glance at the clock, a peek at the barometer, and down the stairs and off to his job as a bookkeeper, a symbol of hopeless, conventional timidity...
Things were far from hopeless-at a Madison Square Garden rally honoring Vladimir Lenin he pointed out that strikes were being conducted "on a high level," that the present vast uproar over wages might well get bigger and louder, that corporations were "lousy with money...
...extinguishing fires. As night passed, the people standing beside bonfires outside began to understand how slowly the terrible work was going. As the new day dawned, a rumor ran wildly through the crowd: 31 men had been found, all dead. It was denied, but believed-for the fight seemed hopeless...
Stork Club is no substitute for a visit to a night club. But it is a good way to see: 1) what Barry Fitzgerald can do with even a thin role, and 2) how Betty Hutton can almost put over a hopeless lyric...