Sentences with phrase «at times of despair»

The less - justified reason is that it became a very convenient political target for the larger international climate activism movement at a time of despair coming out of the [2009] Copenhagen climate talks, that Kyoto was dead and there might not be a successor.

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So next time you're about to despair because of how many hours your kid is staring at screens, take courage in the fact that science gives you an ironclad case for stepping in.

At the same time, those who have understood their faith in terms of the New Deal or the more recent liberation movements are plunged into despair.

I hurried back to my hole, and, rage giving place to despair, sought for the potion that was to procure abortion, and swallowed it, with a wish that it might destroy me, at the same time that it stopped the sensations of new - born life, which I felt with indescribable emotion.

If despair is bewilderment (Forvildelse), then the fact that one is unconscious of it is the additional aggravation of being at the same time under a delusion (Vildfarelse).

He wrote, «Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we all lose hope that the suffering in our lives and in the world will ever end.

I live in secrecy In the deep moist banks of darkness depression and despair Always I sneak up on you I catch you off guard I come through the back door Uninvited unwanted The first to arrive I was there at the beginning of time With Father Adam, Mother Eve Brother Cain I was at the Tower of Babel the Slaughter of the Innocents MY NAME IS TOXIC SHAME

How many times, in reading the liturgy for the Holy Communion, I have felt both exultation and despair at the moment of the Sanctus: «Therefore with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify Thy glorious Name; evermore praising Thee, and saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Saboath...» Exalted because, in this language, this place and time and company of momentary lives are interpreted and blessed within the scope of an eternal action of God, released from the tyranny of death and what Dylan Thomas has so movingly alluded to when he laments that

I am still working on renewing my mind and this is such a difficult struggle, And because of this struggle, I slip into despair at times.

At the same time, the horror of hell, as real deprivation on the part of those who were loveless, because they could not love nor accept love, finds its parallel in the state of lovelessness and hence of utter despair, concerning which this psychology has so much to say.

Though the overall message sounds scary — we are all, at times, at risk of falling into seasons of despair and doubt — the sermon is actually one of hope.

It is of course somewhat petty to care overly much about captious atheists at such a time, but it is difficult not to be annoyed when a zealous skeptic, eager to be the first to deliver God His long overdue coup de grâce, begins confidently to speak as if believers have never until this moment considered the problem of evil or confronted despair or suffering or death.

There have been times where I have wept in despair at the loss of my freedom and the terror of never getting better.

His sorrow, his concern, his despair, is selfish (like the dread of sin which at times almost frightens a man into sin) because it is self - love which would like to be proud of itself, like to be without sin — and consolation is what he is least in need of, wherefore also the prodigious quantity of consoling thoughts the physicians of the soul prescribe only make the sickness worse.

Fidelity to the revelatory promise prevents our concluding that the present social order has already met all the demands of justice, and at the same time our hope in the promise delivers us from the temptation to despair of history's and society's possibilities.

The following passage, written at a time when it would have been quite «realistic» to despair of Israel's future, may serve to exemplify the trust to which the revelatory promise calls us, not least in situations of utter desperation:

The moment a time is set, or the type of expectation categorized, then we have an objective expectation which men may love or fear, for which they may wait in hope or despair, but which has retreated out of the range of their immediate experience as they wait for it as something to be experienced at some future time.

At the same time even when I'm feeling okay with myself, it is so easy to get sucked into a social media spiral of despair!

I got a 10 # bag of long grain white rice at Aldi like six months ago, and while I despair that I will never finish said bag, I rejoice that I try my best to make a dent 1/2 cup at a time, with this delicious recipe.

I like your passion for our club but despair of your thinking, at times.

As an oldster, who when young was used to reading impartial and informed journalism almost 100 % of the time, I despair at what often passes for «journalism» today.

I see that a demonstration is planned at Stratford prior to the game, but I hope that the support is right behind the team when the game gets underway, and that we don't see a repeat of the despair that was evident when we went a goal down against Burnley last time.

I remember tears of frustration and pain and felt in despair at times.

As an obstetrician at a London teaching hospital, Dr Gowri Motha despaired of the number of times where her medical expertise was a last resort — being called in an emergency to perform invasive forceps deliveries on terrified mothers when a baby got «stuck» during a laborious labour.

At all levels, there was despair that the furore had turned the spotlight on to Labour's difficulties as a time when the party had hoped to take advantage of the Tories» second byelection loss at the hands of UkiAt all levels, there was despair that the furore had turned the spotlight on to Labour's difficulties as a time when the party had hoped to take advantage of the Tories» second byelection loss at the hands of Ukiat the hands of Ukip.

A lingering feeling of panic, despair and a prescription of sweats - romcom - busywork to keep your mind off it and yet mourn at the same time.

When it was announced that Mann would produce and direct the 1992 filmization of Last of the Mohicans, purists despaired, complaining that the «youthful» director (who in reality was 49 at the time) would unduly modernize, trivialize, and homogenize the story.

Over their shoulders, we could see a real world, the world of Times Square in the 1960s, which at the time seemed bleak and dangerous — but in the less innocent 1990s seems positioned half - way between our current despair and lingering myths of Damon Runyon.

It's a powerful enough word at the best of times, but the exclamation mark gives it that edge of delirium and melodrama and despair — just the way Norman Bates yells it at the end of Psycho.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of transcendent filmmaking in the The Lost City of Z and A Ghost Story, it was the age of foolish Spider - Man remakes / reboots / regurgitations, it was the epoch of a magnificent enquiry into belief by the evergreen Martin Scorsese, it was the epoch of the incredulous return of Mel Gibson in a box office hit, it was the season of Michael Haneke shining a light on our uncaring societal malaise, it was the season of manifold more people watching Baywatch, it was the spring of Aki Kaurismäki's warm - hearted but politically pressing The Other Side of Hope, it was the winter of despair at the box office results of masterpieces like Certain Women, Aquarius and The Death of Louis XIV, we had Yorgos Lanthimos» Kubrickian masterpiece before us, we had a new Kingsman film before us, we were all going direct to cinematic Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.

At the same time, its depiction of the gay lifestyle as one of despair and social invisibility could have proven to further frighten him; in fact, it seems to have laid the emotional groundwork for his cinematic intimations of love as tragic and doomed.»

Full of deep sea despair, massive Great White sharks, and a star from This Is Us, the movie delivers some the best jump - in - your - seat thrills, but at the same time, it's just a series of ignorant decisions made by the characters that will have you rooting for the Great Whites.

Within Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, there seems a deep - seated sadness about the wrongs of the world, but at the same time there's constantly this defiant, almost shrill squeal of laughter against the darkness and despair of McDonagh's fictional world.

Although this article deals with minimum competency tests, which were in policy fashion at the time, about seven policy iterations ago, the contents of the article still have much relevance given where we are today — investing in «new and improved» Common Core tests and still riding on unsinkable beliefs that this is the way to reform the schools that have been in despair and (still) in need of major repair since 20 + years ago.

Present owners of the MediaPad need not despair as the company has announced availability of the update OTA for all existing users at around the same time.

While this need not necessarily stifle anybody's dreams, the narrator finds herself falling into neatly laid out roles, struggling with the smothering of her ambitions while also finding a guiltily satisfying release: «It's an absolute despair and at the same time a kind of sweet relief,» Grushin writes, «to give up worrying about achievements for a spell and surrender to the inevitability of her temporary escape from destiny.»

Grace is working quietly at the point of our desiring, bringing us in time to despair over our own unrighteousness, challenging our perverse dispositions, so that our distorted wills cease gradually to resist the gift of God.

At the same time, I read stories of despair as some potential buyers give up and say that a house is out of their reach for now; they waited too long.

A «Meet the Client» panel at the Opening Forum of ILTM Americas on September 30 in Riviera Maya, Mexico, will be the platform for the global luxury travel industry to hear firsthand and for the first time, the dreams, desires, and despairs of high - net - worth clients from both North and Latin America - in live conversations with their travel advisors.

Don't despair — there will be plenty of time to look around at the coral and the fish as well.

This game is creepy, unnerving, and downright terrifying at times, giving off an atmosphere of almost perpetual despair.

And for the first time, three Zombies maps will be available at the launch of Black Ops 4 — IX, Voyage of Despair, and Blood of the Dead.

Earth Defense Force 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair is a simple game, one that at times can be frustrating, unfair and without guide.

OK, while it's easy to fall into a pit of despair and anger at Nintendo's refusal to take our money, all hope is not lost — it's very likely that the retailers will re-open pre-orders at least one more time before the system comes out on Sep. 29.

He can be your artist on a bad day when some nasty aggressive person pushes you out of line and no one comes forward to help; at a depressed moment when you believe that your life is never going to get any better; at a time when you despair about the realization of the utopian hopes of leftist politics.

At the same time, it can also open the way to more nuanced and less clichéd interpretations of red, white, and blue — which are still our colors — that could inspire redemption and renewal just as readily as they might perpetuate despair.

The despair of the artist is that he can only work on one at a time».7 The very moving nature of the London show of Motherwell's works on paper is in keeping with the opinion of one of his greatest champions, Robert Hughes, long standing art critic for Time magaztime».7 The very moving nature of the London show of Motherwell's works on paper is in keeping with the opinion of one of his greatest champions, Robert Hughes, long standing art critic for Time magazTime magazine.

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He also took «official» images, promoting the ghetto's work efficiency, and at the same time he documented the grim daily life in the ghetto: suffering and despair, starvation and diseases, the exploitation of the workers, the deportation of thousands to death camps at Chelmno and Auschwitz.

At the outset the tone and tenor of Juncker's speech highlights a sense of despair ``... there is not enough Union in this Union...» yet determination ``... it is high time to act to manage the refugee crisis...».