Sentences with phrase «almost hopeless»

It takes the deepest courage to make that first phone call to a therapist, and couples often wait until they feel almost hopeless.

Fairly standard fair these days, but back in 2006 it was a novel approach, and really immersed the player in the bleak, almost hopeless situation.

In many cases, it's almost hopeless to even devise a metric.

Current days it is almost hopeless to think about modern life without the Internet or a computer.

It's some of the first good news in a struggle that has at times appeared almost hopeless, as this voracious, invasive species has wiped out 95 percent of native fish in some Atlantic locations.

«I think my community was at the point where they thought it was almost hopeless,» said O'Neill, recalling when she first took office in January 2013.

The state of healthcare is almost hopeless.

«It's almost a hopeless job,» Clarke says, «because there aren't many players who can skate with Orr.»

Dostoevsky, on the other hand, is brilliant wherever extreme effects are called for, but almost hopeless at creating a substantial world around the delightful clamor of his characters» voices, or at creating a credible psychological personality behind any of those voices.

His early life seems so remote from anything today that in many ways it seems almost hopeless to suggest him as a role model for today's bishops.

I learned this lesson from a student who came to me in a tragic situation which seemed to me almost hopeless.

The Hunger Games trilogy does a similar thing, and likewise suffers from an almost hopeless conclusion.

Not exact matches

Instead of being reduced to such desperate measures as almost - hopeless appeals of its failed «extraordinary challenges» of past NAFTA panel rulings, the US and its lumber coalition are back in the driver's seat.

Seven - in - ten Canadians (72 %), including even almost half of the Hopeless (46 %), say that Canada's development aid efforts make them proud to be Canadian.

For nearly five decades it devoted itself to alcoholics when almost everyone else considered them hopeless.

It made you desperate — almost but not completely hopeless that you could save yourself before your health meter emptied and your vehicle exploded in a little atomic mushroom plop.

Kansas State was the most hopeless program of the 1980s, but Oregon and Oregon State were almost equally directionless.

Changes are certainly required from the team that failed to impress at Watford; not just because almost every player was hopeless but also because the team was so unbalanced.

In the same way, a hopeless Atleti almost achieved an amazing comeback in the semifinals.

The almost endearingly hopeless police murder squad who are inexplicably sent to interrogate him can not comprehend or articulate his political «crimes», preferring instead to yell «Conman!

Part of their surprise almost surely stemmed from an uncomfortable truth: people with BPD are often regarded as hopeless individuals, destined to a life of emotional misery.

I'm a hopeless romantic, a very loyal and caring lady, almost to a fault.

Of course, it's hopeless, but because the young man is a very nice guy, and because he knows no one in town, and because it doesn't once cross his mind that a woman almost 40 years his senior could be interested in him, they develop an odd but warm friendship.

The feeling of the film is overwhelmingly hopeless, so despairing that it almost becomes funny.

A few scenes fleetingly mitigate the almost total dearth of laughs by injecting weird poignancy: a return visit to the stripper played by Heather Graham plays out an interesting idea about the passage of time since the first movie in 2009, and Melissa McCarthy livens up the picture in a couple of scenes as a pawn - shop proprietress with eyes for Alan, suggesting that maybe what the otherwise hopeless case needs is the love of a good woman.

Almost inevitably, teacher pessimism was a significant barrier, with teachers regarding themselves as «hardworking martyrs in a hopeless cause.

The air smells of smoke and night sky; there is a hopeless amber sinking beyond the woods, almost a sunset.

But as algorithms change, almost on a monthly basis, writers are feeling more hopeless than ever at securing their social media status.

In a nationwide Centers for Disease Control study of tens of thousands of high school students in 2011, almost 30 percent had felt hopeless and depressed for more than two weeks running, just in the previous year.

Typically I needed to radically alter my design from this «almost close» solution to actually finish the puzzle, but I really enjoyed that I never started a level feeling hopeless.

Indeed, this retrospective confirms that Koons is almost totally hopeless in two dimensions.

With global temperatures rising and vast stores of fossil fuels waiting to be tapped, we are in a «precarious — ... almost - but - not - quite - finally hopeless — position.»

It took almost 5 years and numerous contracts on a hopeless situation for our family, after we had to move to another city because of my job situation but they got done and we were finally able to find a buyer and close on our home.