Sentences with phrase «between despair»

Hope for me, a most powerful word, has been my anchor in times of great storms; in fact, often the only bridge, between despair and emotional comfort, has been hope.

Her pictures present psychologically charged places and individuals whose emotional states teeter between despair and redemption.

Well, it is pretty much choosing between despair or hope.

So a difference there may well be between the despair of an older man and a youth, but no essential difference, only a fortuitous one.

Real life is far too multifarious to be portrayed by merely exhibiting such abstract contrasts as that between a despair which is completely unconscious, and one which is completely conscious of being such.

Principally, however, despair must be viewed under the category of consciousness: the question whether despair is conscious or not, determines the qualitative difference between despair and despair.

U.S. business groups are pinballing between despair and panic as negotiations over a new North American Free Trade Agreement resume, with the Trump administration's hard - line demands risking a worsening standoff and perhaps the eventual collapse of the talks.

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Between the peaks of success, valleys of despair, nights with lost sleep, and uncertainty, it's no wonder entrepreneurship isn't for everyone.

Yet, unlike him, they do not despair over the seemingly impassable gap between the inner and the outer, the mental and the natural; instead, they reveal that the world is not dreadfully dead (as we have believed since Descartes and Newton) but utterly alive and awaiting our free transformation of it.

Frequently it happens then that the pendulum swings back and forth between false self - trust and despair.

Following Aquinas, Pieper places hope in between the vices of both despair and presumption, and this seems to me to offer those of us who are gay and Christian a useful opportunity to pause and evaluate the way that we conceive of our own «station» on the way.

It is true that a distinction is made also in paganism, as well as by the natural man, between being in despair and not being in despair; that is to say, people talk of despair as if only certain particular individuals were in despair.

And to illuminate this sort of despair more sharply one would do well to distinguish between the active and the passive self, showing how the self is related to itself when it is active, and how it is related to itself in suffering when it is passive, and showing that the formula constantly is: in despair to will to be oneself.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

How do you know the difference between a good question and one that's aimed to create fear, division, and despair?

And this is a matter of course, the ideal also is rare; and only in a purely ideal sense is this distinction between manly and womanly despair entirely true.

Violence on TV, unlike real life violence, rarely occurs between people who know each other well, and most of it does not result from rage, hate, despair, or panic, but from the businesslike pursuit of personal gain, power, or duty.

But is there no essential difference between the two expressions hitherto used as identical: to despair over the earthly (the determinant of totality), and to despair over something earthly (the particular)?

There is a huge difference between Christian realism» which recognizes the limitations of human beings and their societies, while still working to elevate them» and worldly despair, which is the antithesis of Christian faith.

Collapsing the distinction between the two leads to a stale materialism, while preserving a radical seperation leads to the kind of epistemological despair that permeates bad pomo philosophy of science and the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.

In the absence of rational solutions I believe we all have the choice between hope and despair.

Their strength and beauty are found precisely in their honest grappling with despair and faith, and in the sense that the struggle between the two is perilously close.

And this is what can best allay the conflict between light and darkness, exaltation and despair, in which, following the rebirth in us of the Sense of Species, we arc now absorbed.

Newbigin is absolutely right that Christianity, or at any rate Christian mission and apologetics, is always involved in a pluralist tension — the tension between confidence in God and uncertainty about living out that truth in the world, between faith as God's gift and understanding as a form of growing discovery, between knowing who God is and seeking to bring that knowledge into situations of despair or resistance, not to say anything about the diversity and conflict of views among self - avowed Christians.

Faced with the choice between hopelessness and God, too often we choose despair and wallow in the torments that such a decision brings.

I couldn't reconcile the divergence between the praise of Romney as statesman and despair about Romney as obfuscating politician.

If such a metaphysical reversal tends to spread confusion, disgust, and despair among the damned human race — at the same time blurring the distinction between malevolent and benevolent adversaries — it is still possible for toughened optimists to believe that this is only the destruction that precedes fresh creation.

Bergman's constant struggle between the experience of grace and despair is permanently available in his films.

Even the attempt would cause mistrust between priest and penitent, resentment between those judged guilty and those judged not - guilty, and despair in the priest.

The difference in tone between the ending of part III and the beginning of part IV heightens the ambiguity as the reader is shunted from despair to a kind of bittersweet hope.

Mahler brings us into direct confrontation with the world by establishing the counterpoint between joy and tragic despair.

Between tears and fears, I prayed almost endlessly for God's provision, but also for my faith in Him to be strengthened as I began to despair.

We read between the lines the despair of shattered hopes in the words, «We had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel.»

God sacrifices the Christlike Coffey for purposes that remain inscrutable, and the prison guard who narrates the story is left stuck somewhere between hope and despair:

In this debate the issue is drawn between a kind of strident despair and a grim hope.

If you run out of batter before you've baked 10 layers, don't despair — you'll just have thicker layers and therefore thicker frosting layers between each.

Between the price (I'm cheap) and the shock I got when I finally bought BB (Last week was a week of glory AND despair.

This back and forth — between «this is why you never doubt LeBron» euphoria and «fire Ty Lue and here are six Kevin Love trades» despair — is the rule for the LeBron experience.

Fans are in despair as the gap widens between those teams dining at the top table of world football and those which are merely there to make up the numbers.

She explained there will be tears however there is a difference between tears of despair and tears of protest due to change.

It feels like a constant dance between joy and despair as we sit in the spaces of what could have been, what is, and what it will be.

If you have a child between 3 and 4, don't despair if your mealtimes feel particularly crazy - making.

«Between a dynamic liberal cosmopolitan open global free - trading prosperous Britain, or a Britain where we remain subject to a undemocratic system devised in the 1950s that is now actively responsible for low growth and in some cases economic despair.

But there is a difference between internal divisions and Labour MPs tweeting that Corbyn is useless while briefing journalists of their despair.

In a study of relationships between socioeconomic variables and opioid - related drug overdoses, researchers found several correlations that are often not discussed in the current conversation about the nation's deaths of despair, which includes opioid overdoses, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics, Penn State and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

And that's the difference between long term weight loss, and a lifetime of despair.

«This is a mission I have dedicated myself to,» Gore says, a mission that remains «a constant struggle between hope and despair.»

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.

Directors Danielle Agnello and Joe Hall collaborate on this minimalist study of abandonment, abuse, guilt, and psychological despair set against the backdrop of Los Angeles» hipster enclaves and focusing on the broken bond between three once - inseparable brothers.

When Margot is goaded into climbing that tree (suspected to be rotting, the tree doctor gives it a clean bill of health), which stands as sentinel between the childhoods better remembered and the present better forgotten, and finds herself stuck there with a bug crawling into her ear, there is, stark and indelible, the feeling that we've come somewhere in our process of grief — past vengeance, into despair, no looking back.