Word: hopelessness
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...drive was difficult to make because the electorate, battered by hard times, seemed in no mood to be sweetly reasoned out of its grouch against the Administration. Most Republican managers, despite their required official optimism, admitted off the record that the party had on its hands an ominous, perhaps hopeless fight...
...much modern stuff is so bitter, so hopeless." explained Isamu Noguchi. "To me, at least. Miss Expanding Universe is full of hope...
...sensitive, spoiled child, morbidly dependent on his mother. He grows older, spends vacations in the country town of Combray, the seaside at Balbec, falls in love with little Gilberte Swann. The story of M. Swann's hopeless love affair with Odette is introduced. Later the narrator takes up with Albertine, is desperately unhappy with her?among other reasons, because he suspects her of Lesbian tendencies. She runs away from him and is killed in an accident. During the War the narrator takes refuge in a sanitarium, emerges to find his social world tottering, aged, ready for death...
...quicksilver, run together again. After a bevy of tender, and to their elders, scandalous escapades, during one of which they even manage to spend an innocent night together in an empty house; after Halcyon turns her hand to the drama, and Eden makes a name acting in her hopeless play, the two children, for all their frequent scrapping, come to marriageable terms. Wringing a grudging consent from their parents they set off on their honeymoon. Their trials and tribulations on their wedding night, their subsequent reconciliation in a hall-bedroom not included in the bridal suite, must have their hotel...
...story enters more familiar ground. But the actualities of the trip, the landing at Plymouth, the first buildings, the first plantings, the first Indians and their strange ways, all are materialized by Authoress Carlisle in fascinating detail. Meanwhile the struggle between John Dexter and Eleazar takes an unexpected turn. Hopeless of his brother's wife, Eleazar transfers his unholy zeal to an orphan, Purity, whom Anne has adopted on the Mayflower. His passion, countering the similar passion of John's son, David, is ended only when he violates the maid, leaves her to drown herself...