Word: hopelessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...conception of Realpolitik, if Italy upsets the balance of power by pitching in with Germany, it would be consistent for Russia to lean the other way, to keep Europe fighting as long as possible without getting into a big war herself-unless Russia thought the Allied case was hopeless, and went in with Germany and Italy to snatch her share of the spoils...
...forget that this is part of war, or of any struggle. In an English election it is always the opponent who has the clever, brilliant, shrewd though wicked leaders and supporters. One's own side, though good intentioned up to a point, is criminally negligent, dense, ill-starred, hopeless...
...fields refugees run desperately carrying whatever they can. Desperately they pile on trains. Sometimes German planes machine-gun the trains. There are gruesome shots of a young Polish woman clutching the train seat in her death spasm, a father shot through chest and abdomen sitting helplessly between his hopeless wife and frightened, bewildered little girl...
Hitchcock uses every directorial device to orchestrate the monologue - the contrasting emotional tones (now expletive, now subdued, now casual) of Olivier's beautifully controlled voice, the dramatic pantomime of his gestures (now hopeless, now resentful, now resigned). Every angle of the fatal room is probed as the camera follows Olivier while he walks about aimlessly or leans restlessly against a wall, a chair, a window...
Last week, steady and alert, the young man marched into a scientific meeting at the New York Academy of Medicine with some 50 patients of 48-year-old Otolaryngologist Julius Lempert. All had been cured of apparently hopeless deafness by an operation of hairbreadth delicacy, developed in Europe 15 years ago. Its name: "endaural fenestration...