Word: hopelessness
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...death. A nurse, later adjudged to have been "tired," had bathed his eyes with the wrong solution of silver nitrate, 50% instead of 1%, which had blinded him, seared his cheeks with deep furrows, and with its fumes caused pneumonia. Though his doctor had given the infant up as hopeless, a Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart, which maintained the hospital, obtained the doctor's permission to pin on the babe's clothing a medal of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, founder of the Sacret Heart Order...
...raiders, and births, deaths and marriages taking place in the wagons lumbering along behind. Its patriarchal but still lusty leader was one Hendrik van der Berg, and the main plot of the novel revolves around his harsh, hard-bitten figure: the conflict between his Messianic impulses and his hopeless infatuation for the luscious and youthful Sannie van Reenen. his mind's decay under the strain, his eventual downfall. His followers go down with him, for largely through the bedeviled old man's mismanagement, the emigrants-now at the end of their trek and busily founding a new settlement...
...course, no one is there. I was just wondering if I was hungry, or what I could do to get out of this mood. It's hopeless; I'm no good for anything; I'm through. I guess...
...that we trust too much to human intellect, and will not learn to pray until some overwhclming experience forces us to our knees, is applicable to many of us in this age which considers itself so self-sufficient. Even more significant is the common acceptance of the past as hopeless and the future as not worth worrying over. The faith and determination that move mountains are conspicuous in their absence, now that man has learned so many handy aids to comfortable living...
...coward's drunken action win a V.C. Nurses who served with "Martyr" Edith Cavell show no sympathy for her admirers. Meeting Lenin on his way back to Russia to guide the revolution, Julian wishes him every success. Briffault's spokesman-hero, written down as missing after a hopeless attack, recovers in a German hospital, goes to Russia rather than return to perfidious England after the Armistice. There he finds Zena again, marries her. Though he survives both the Red-&-White civil war and Zena's death, Julian eventually discovers no better niche for himself in the post...