Word: hopelessness
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...eats you up inside," she cries softly. "Ifelt worthless, hopeless, ugly and stupid. I justhated myself...
...logic, the nation of Eritrea (pop. 3 million) should not exist. The secessionist province's independence fighters ought never to have defeated Ethiopia in their 30-year-long struggle. They were outmanned, outgunned, abandoned or betrayed by every ally; their cause was hopeless. They won by force of character, a unity and determination so steely not all the modern armaments, superpower support or economic superiority of Ethiopia could withstand it. The spirit that saw the Eritreans through 10 years in the trenches of their mountain redoubt at Nakfa has built them a nation from scratch, since independence was finally consummated...
...book about the death of Princess Diana is an insult to the French medical team that fought in vain to save her life last August [BOOK EXCERPT, Feb. 16]. Everyone knows the situation was hopeless. It is tasteless for a couple of American journalists to criticize the heroic efforts of the French doctors and the British intelligence team that have had to pick up the pieces and deal with the aftermath of the accident. The authors can wheel out as many American experts as they like, expound on as many theories as they like of how American procedures could have...
This is a real problem because a large portion of America has fallen into this mindset, and that's why we're always in hopeless search of mental and spiritual fulfillment. Harvard students are no better than anyone else is. We have the same mental and spiritual desires that every human being has, maybe more, and we're not talking about them. And when we graduate and start those lucrative jobs that we're all so in search of, we still won't be talking about them...
...hopeless, however. I can think of some ways to make the Winter Olympics interesting...