Sentences with phrase «despair at»

Often I despair at the abject failure of well - intentioned policies to make a substantive difference to the appalling conditions in which too many indigenous Australians live.

Once a child feels connected to important adults in his life, it is a short step to developing a can - do attitude, which, as we all know, is a defense against depression and despair at any age.

It is hardly surprising, in the light of this, that the first instance judge expressed his despair at the greatest shambles he'd seen in twenty four years in the family courts:

Priority financing goes to research (without regard for the library's essential supporting role) and to faculty and staff salaries while our infrastructure crumbles and students despair at the diminishing levels of service and support.

I also apologize to the women who experience feelings of anger, frustration and despair at hearing of these events.

Great Barrier Reef at «terminal stage»: scientists despair at latest coral bleaching data.

Those of us hoping for real solutions often despair at the unnecessary political gridlock and the lack of traction for widespread solutions.

He would throw up his hands in despair at the state of education in the US and flunk every one of them on logic and critical reasoning.

Some trenchant remarks (especially in the comments) at RabettRun express my disgust and despair at the ongoing effort to fill the airwaves with useless talk.

There's a building storm of indignation out there among those literate in science — who have gone from depression and despair at the tsunami of fossil fueled ignorance that's passed for reporting and discussion of climate issues, — to real resolve, and a willingness to fight back, not just for the planet, but for the very idea that objective truth exists, and that science is a tool to find it.

I am in utter despair at this shabby shambolic pretence of independence.

I sat in utter awe of both men, raising my fist, yelling, «yes», vacillating between inhalations of great pride for Mr. Gore and his colleagues; their eloquence, tireless work; urgency, facts, warnings, hearts, hope, faith and intelligence, then exhaling in gut wrenching despair at what could have been if Mr. Gore were our elected President today.

«then exhaling in gut wrenching despair at what could have been if Mr. Gore were our elected President today.»

Rappolt accepted that some people might despair at the list being dominated by money.

Other than that, we're recommending a show about soul crushing anxiety and despair at LUBOV, and a show called «Infected Foot» at Greene Naftali, because sickness also seems like an appropriate theme for the week.

In this way, games like Destiny and The Division have mutated into services — and although some gamers despair at the new era of endless DLC, season passes and add - ons, it is working.

Seeing Ned and Nyx so smitten with Dorian, her despair at complications in her own romance with Blackwall, and my pursuit of Cassandra, I was constantly reminded of Morrigan from Origins — and not just because I was anticipating her eventual arrival in Inquisition «s story.

The more I play Marvel vs. Capcom 3, the more I despair at how it's not made for me.

Please enjoy my despair at the beginning as all the wireless - enabled readers interfere with the microphone.

The explanation buffers my despair at seeing her like this, but still, it scares me.

With illustrations by popular artist Taeeun Yoo, it's the type of book you look for when you despair at the sleaze and vulgarity drowning your kids these days.

And before you despair at his manic productivity and your own relative lack of ambition, it's important to note that the stories have been appearing in nearly every literary magazine imaginable, including The Indiana Review, Tin House, Epoch, and The Seattle Review, over the last decade.

Jing - nan's multi-lingual engaging patter puts wary sightseers at ease and conceals his melancholic despair at the seeming immutability of his life.

Those opposed to the politicization of the Hugo Awards, to say nothing of the larger SJW assault on culture, might very well despair at this point.

Take a glance at this concept, and despair at what an unrealized performance variant of the Corvair could have looked like.

I despair at the countless number of students leaving school with pitiful knowledge and slanted interpretations of their country's turbulent past.

It has been five years since the 2008 Mumbai bombings flared tensions between India and Pakistan; four years since that first tweet went out in the Iranian 2009 «Green (Twitter) Revolution»» three years since the world shook in despair at the mass destruction and human suffering in the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, two years since the first cries for democracy and equality were tweeted out in the «Arab (Spring) Uprising» began; and one year since the Occupy movement occupied the world's curiosity but failed to get its full support.

There is hope for instructors who despair at the number of Web sites they would have to survey to nab a student who has plagiarized a term paper or an essay or «cut and pasted» different sections from various works to create one term paper.

I despair at the back to basics knee jerk responses to these figures.

See it and despair at the fact that they don't make rom - coms like they used to — certainly not as custom - fitted for stars as luminous as Roberts was in her prime.

Ken's conflicted feelings towards his profession of choice, and Ray's despair at what he's done both slowly seep out during their conversations.

As much as the 1946 adaptation of The Postman Always Rings Twice has earned its place as an important American Film Noir, so too Ossessione is essential to Italy's history of lurid, intoxicating giallo cinema.16 Ossessione provides a perfect bookend to Calamai's final performance as Marta in Dario Argento's Profondo Rosso (1975): in both films Calamai embodies a similar bug - eyed feminine insanity, both characters pushed to the edge of violence and despair at their seeming invisibility to the men in their lives, and to society in general.

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.

Birdman, arguably, has a solemn dimension to it, but not really The Grand Budapest Hotel, despite being inspired by a writer (Stefan Zweig) who famously committed suicide in despair at the rise of the Nazis.

Later, as they ride away, Jay laments not taking the children with them, and Selleck dismisses his concern, Fassbinder grips his leg in an outward display despair at being forced to leave the children to starve.

We applaud the idea, but despair at the delivery.

As Senator Jay Billington Bulworth, Beatty sits at his desk weeping in despair at his TV image reciting the litany, «We stand at the doorstep of a new millennium.»

Why these Christian, Muslim and Jewish women despair at religious dating sites.

I totally get where you're coming from re airports — I still despair at those people opening their suitcases at the front of the queue to remove excess weight from their luggage!!!! Enjoy your trip to France.

«People living with mesothelioma often tell us that among their first reactions to diagnosis is despair at the lack of treatment available.

There is no question that the great specificity of any one conscious perceptual experience — such as the throbbing pain of the socket following extraction of the lower right wisdom tooth, the feeling of familiarity in dj vu, the aha experience of sudden understanding, the azure blue of a high mountain vista, the despair at reading about one more suicide bombing — is mediated by coalitions of synchronized cortical nerve cells and their associated targets in the satellites of the cortex, thalamus, amygdala, claustrum and basal ganglia.

Idiocracy drew little comment on its initial release, but has become a touchstone among those who despair at what they see as relentless dumbing down of social and political discourse.

Personally I despair at the way British politics as become so personalised.We should be attacking policies not personalities and the government not just its leader.

I despair at Labour's meltdown.

Soft left MPs, who wanted to give Corbyn a chance and worked with him at close quarters daily, are now uniform in their despair at his leadership.

Purchase spoke of his despair at the pragmatic rightwing views which he believed the Labour leadership had stolen from the Conservatives and which failed to meet the needs of those he called «our people».

Mandelson, who was in despair at the way in which Balls allegedly bullied Darling in government, is now said to be warming to the shadow schools secrertary.

The wording of online application forms was also criticised, after it was claimed good candidates were not selected for interviews while some consultants reportedly walked out of interviews in despair at the poor quality of candidates selected by the system.

One former shadow cabinet member, who quit in despair at Corbyn's inability to lead in Parliament or appear a potential Prime Minister, stopped me the evening of the 184,000 surge was announced.

But Conservatives should not despair at the claims.