Word: hopelessness
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...hardly alone in his hopeless quest. At any given time, an estimated 50,000 aggrieved citizens from all over the mainland can be found in a collection of slums surrounding the ill-named Happiness Road that fronts one of the biggest of Beijing's 30 or so petition offices. This petitioners' village, with its desperate residents pushing plastic bags filled with documents at any interested passersby, is an embarrassment for the central government. So, each year, as the NPC plans its annual meeting in the capital to discuss major legislative and social issues, the police raze the petitioners' shantytown?only...
...precious little about women. "It seems to me once you share a bathroom with a woman, things get a lot less romantic," is one old gentleman's contribution. Thus demonstrating something women have known about both boys and men for a long, long time: we're completely, utterly hopeless...
...however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “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...
Wayland said that he thinks Zedginidze feels his situation could be hopeless...
...charge of civil affairs, though neither NATO nor the U.N. has shown any appetite for these roles. He has been studiously vague about increasing or decreasing troop strength. I asked Clark if it is possible that there is no plausible "success strategy" in Iraq, if it is just a hopeless mess. He replied with admirable, if distressing, candor, "Yes, but I'm not prepared to concede that...