Sentences with phrase «despair on»

She will not worry about it for the next 10 days then despair on Christmas morning.)

To work for the little guy, in isolation and in anonymity, with little or no financial reward or social recognition, and sometimes with no success, is to feel despair on a daily basis.

You can see his disbelief and amazement and sometimes even read the despair on his face.

As PC users celebrate the recent arrival of The Shadow of New Despair on Steam, I'm reminded yet again about how everybody loves EDF.

The bartender tending the empty bar, his defeated posture, the look of despair on his face, the shiny graphics in the foreground quickly fading to emptiness in the background... it all paints a perfect picture of the game: D

Those who have lost loved ones, those who have lost their homes... Kanata will meet many people in despair on his journey.

She was walking briskly with despair on that hot summer day.

Most attention has been paid to Mo'Nique's vile portrayal of a wounded soul revisiting her psychological despair on her daughter, but it's Gabourey Sidibe's feature debut that deserves the lion's share of accolades.

Holed up in his shuttered, second - floor office, the father (Olivier Gourmet) summons Louis (Martin Nissen) from a happy game of soccer to load the full weight of his despair on the innocent's shoulders: «I'm going to kill myself.»

This occasioned some slight despair on my part.

Yet director Hirschbiegel — who gave us the almost - as - impressive The Experiment — makes sure that this is more than simply a study of Hitler's final days, and he skillfully interweaves the pressured claustrophobia of the bunker with the helpless despair on the streets outside.

Imagine yourself sitting on the weight at the bottom end of a pendulum, swinging wildly from joy on the right to despair on the left.

6 Don't try whipping up a frenzy of despair on the one day things are vaguely looking up.

Ghana was thrown into a state of despair on Monday, May 29, 2017, when the news of the lynching of a military officer detailed at Denkyira - Obuasi in the Central Region broke.

And it wasn't good enough that whenever he appeared on TV, his description of a process, or his analysis of a problem, ended in confusion or despair on the party's position — Article 50, counter-terrorism, «7.5 out of 10» on Brexit.

He has done his best for this club and I always see the despair on his face whenever he substituted - I know he loves this club and its culture but it just has not worked out for him.

There was a look of despair on one guests face when I revealed there was not enough for seconds...» - Phil, markbittman.com

Inflicting a crushing despair on your fellow humans.

It flips despair on its back and says, «You're not robbing me of today!»

Recently, the American Conservative's Rod Dreher mentioned his «despair on the gay marriage question,» while two paragraphs later, assured readers: «If I thought there was nothing to be done but surrender, I wouldn't even bring this stuff up.

However, I do not by any means wish to deny that on the part of women there may occur forms of manly despair, and conversely forms of womanly despair on the part of men.

In one of the early sessions I was suddenly reminded of Elijah's posture of despair on Mt. Carmel (1 Kings 18:42) and of the later Christian hesychasts» imitation of this posture in the practice of the Jesus prayer — their theory being that the posture expressed physically the «bringing of the mind down into the heart.»

If there is despair on the part of these poor communities or the theologians who live and write in solidarity with them, it is less due to the change in Eastern Europe than to the prospect of facing unrestrained U.S. hegemonic domination within the emerging «New World Order.»

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You read about the struggle of 13 - year - old Clarisse Kambire working a cotton farm, subsisting on one meal a day or less, and you despair.

I also fought my loneliness and personal despair by keeping a journal and by relying on my new friendships for comfort amidst the frustrations of dealing with new daily struggles.

Great empires throughout the ages have dared others to look on their works and despair.

Despite the apocalyptic language, media heads like Weisberg and Remnick cautioned reporters and readers on Thursday not let succumb to total despair.

The Retail Revival provides no - nonsense clarity on the realities of a completely new retail marketplace — realities that are driving many industry executives to despair.

This is possible to be happening, given that the traditional financial industry, kept in itself, without being able to see that there are new ways of doing transactions, until the idea of money created by the blockchain - bitcoin technology emerged, this left the industry on the verge of despair.

We despair at Italy's persistent tinkering with electoral laws, an obsession based on the false assumption that other systems would produce fundamentally different outcomes.

Consider not just the appalling record of the twentieth century; consider as well the sullenness of so many high school students today, the emptiness of their elders in college, the despair of the underclass, the desperate fun - seeking of the jet set, the divorce rate, the incidence of child abuse, and on and on.

I didn't look on the situation with despair.

Judas on the other hand despaired and committed suicide.

In regards to pluralism (the philosophical system), it is simply a product of the syncretism, synthesis, and despair that has resulted from the rise and dominance of existential philosophy (existentialism having given up on the quest for truth a long time ago).

Still, at the end of the day, when the atrocities in Bosnia and elsewhere make one despair of human perfectibility, of moderation, of a universal moral law based on reason, reading so fine, learned, and humane a book is, if not a consolation, at least a relief.

Richard draws on Reinhold Niebuhr and John Courtney Murray to suggest how the American story requires a more determinative story if it is to be saved from the twin temptations of despair and presumption.

We shouldn't speculate on where Judas is, but Peter repented after denying Christ, Judas despaired and killed himself.

In light of historical events, one might argue against her views on the Eichmann trial but most certainly not that the theme of banality reflected anything other than despair over the German Jewish community's failure to recognize the pervasiveness of the system and the corrosion of the legal groundwork of its Nazi - infected mass movements.

That said, I despair that every single one of the candidates for the most powerful position on the planet is evidently willing to seek guidance from the little voices in their heads as if they were real.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

He's been called to proclaim hope in the midst of despair, to tell the exiles in Babylon that God is on the way to deliver them just when they have begun to seriously doubt it.

Reading this account, which covers the period from 1492 to 1783, while following reports on the 2016 presidential campaign, will enable us to maintain a degree of philosophical detachment rather than falling into fits of apoplexy or despair.

On the other hand, we may not keep them and not hear the gospel and despair entirely...

They do not despair, although they do not base their hopes on guidance from national and global leaders.

In despair, Elijah woke up to find fresh bread baking on hot stones and water — left just for him.

The Psalter gave him a language for despair, metaphors to describe what it meant to feel poured out on the ground, melted down like a blob of wax, dried up like a broken clay fragment.

Cobb goes on to say that in spite of one's tendencies to complacency and despair, it is possible to experience the Spirit in one's life, calling forth realistic hope.

Yet Christians, as Thabiti Anyabwile notes, can resist «the temptation to hopelessness,» even in the «thick fog of despair that settles on entire blocks of families mangled and maligned by mass incarceration.»

On the other hand, prayer which, too naively confident, defies the restraints which surround us is likely to end in frustration and despair.

Once one has settled upon one's own mediocrity and despaired of doing or being anything great, one sets one's heart on nothing more than distraction.