Sentences with phrase «despairing about»

Tomonobu Itagaki, the unfailingly modest creator of the Dead or Alive series and the upcoming Devil's Third, is currently despairing about the state of the Japanese gaming industry.

It didn't even need to be an HD Remaster, a simple PS2 classics port for PS4 would've been plenty, because it's way too hard for people to go back and play it these days (and I get people despairing about this on my old YouTube Let's Plays of it all the time).

While some may be despairing about some of the AAdvantage program's latest changes, it's clear that there's still plenty of value to be had, and thanks to credit card offers, it's relatively easy to earn the rewards in the first place.

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It made me feel more isolated and despairing about our culture than any single movie had in years.

It's well worth it: «Rather than despairing about what is going wrong in our world, I feel empowered and positive,» says Bailey.

In the weekend press, we have Tristan Hunt despairing about the inability of the leadership candidates to offer a big picture alternative — in his view dealing with the trivia.

The latest update from Margaret Hodge, chair of the Commons» public accounts committee, is despairing about the «unacceptably poor management» of universal credit, which she says has «wasted time and taxpayers» money».

Whenever he is not despairing about the Athletics, Dave Nelson writes for winetraveladventure.com.

My prediction that these movements will take a few years to burn out (at least among evangelicals) and make way for what Tom Nelson calls «hopeful realism» — neither naïve nor despairing about the church's role in shaping the dominant culture — may have been overly cautious.

St. Augustine's enduring conception of the two cities here receives contemporary development and application as outstanding authors, most of whom are also First Things contributors, address economics, the academy, natural law, politics, and marriage: Robert Jenson on the Church's responsibility, Robert Louis Wilken on what Augustine really meant, Carl Braaten on natural law, George Weigel on not despairing about the ambiguity of politics, Robert Benne on Christian engagement in economic enterprise, and Gilbert Meilaender on the virtue of marriage.

Yet it was these sorts of people who brought themselves to Jesus; split, contradicting themselves, disgusted and despairing about themselves, hateful of themselves, hostile towards everybody else, afraid of life, burdened with guilt feelings, accusing and excusing themselves, fleeing from others into loneliness, fleeing from themselves.

This means we must not despair over despairing about our sins, nor must we abandon faith and instead substitute indifference.

Not exact matches

Even borrowers whom you would expect to be experts, like the Department of Education lawyer who sent me a despairing note this weekend about her own encounters with FedLoan, have trouble getting a firm grip on their loan status.

Therewith the whole point of view is inverted, he becomes now more clearly conscious of his despair, recognizing that he is in despair about the eternal, he despairs over himself that he could be weak enough to ascribe to the earthly such great importance, which now becomes his despairing expression for the fact that he has lost the eternal and himself.

Most frequently, no doubt, the condition of the despairing man, though characterized by multiform nuances, is that of a half obscurity about his own condition.

I am relatively discouraged (although not despairing) about exactly how to take the next two steps: the development of a model for a Christian systematic theology that will be in continuity with, but also a genuine development upon, the earlier model for a revisionist fundamental theology; and the development of a model for a public Christian praxis (or practical theology) which will be in continuity with, but also a genuine development upon, both «fundamental» and «systematic» concerns.

If we understand purpose, then when we meet those who are faltering and despairing, shouldn't we talk about it in sympathetic and persuasive terms.

These success stories also show that many victims themselves don't really embrace this view; instead of agitating for — or despairing over — political deliverance from their plight, they set about changing it through individual, nonpolitical striving.

Now he has indeed become king, and yet, by despairing over his sin, and about the reality of repentance, about grace, he has also lost himself, be can not even maintain himself in his own eyes, and he is precisely as far from being able to enjoy his own self in ambition as he is from grasping grace.

So understood, it is rightly said by Mephistopheles in Faust that nothing is more miserable than a devil who despairs; for by despairing must here be understood unwillingness to hear anything about repentance and grace.

The theologian, however, is neither despairing nor hopeful about the church.

Didn't kenny Rogers pen a song about wenger... The man is a joker can't stand seeing him on the bench any more sitting there like a giant Gallic slug in his stupid sleeping bag... Old tired arrogant failure... That's it really... just want him gone and whatever results determine that are fine with me... I can't believe the club I've supported over three decades has been brought to this state by an indifferent board and an idiot manager... It's utterly bizarre and despairing

It was not the start United wanted when the Hammers took the lead in the tenth minute following a cross from the left that found Sakho unmarked in the box and his effort was deflected by Blind past the despairing dive of De Gea to give the home fans more to shout about.

I was very bummed about that, but remembering to let everything go as it goes saved me from despairing.

Last October, after a fit of angst about the Port Authority's planning processes — a fit that featured one board member despairing, «We don't know what we're doing» — the board authorized an international design competition for a new bus terminal west of the existing one on Manhattan's West Side.

As a strong supporter of the first decade of the last Labour government I am not crowing about being right about Ed Miliband; I'm angry and despairing and frightened of the consequences of his disastrous leadership.

When Lal made a despairing remark about the impoverished soil, Ravelle suggested that the carbon had moved into the atmosphere.

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Instead of despairing, however, Ronnie decided to do something about it.

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There was the dour internet - parable of teenagers and parents «Men, Women and Children,» and the preposterous and over-baked melodrama «Labor Day,» about a despairing single mom (Kate Winslet) who finds renewal from a pie - making escaped convict (Josh Brolin).

One of them is an incisive, sober, sometimes despairing arthouse drama about the exhaustion of grappling with corporate sexism.

It is almost as if the man who made a tv show about nothing but incessant talking wanted to make a bee movie with the same premise, but test screenings left the audience so despairing that scenes featuring Barry trying to stay alive within the machinery of a car or negotiating the impossibly complicated honey factory equipment had to be inserted to keep the children docile.

Normally this delay would spark even more angst than usual about how the awards season perennially makes the Oscars yesterday's news before they've even had a chance to weigh in with their nominations, but we aren't despairing.

«Patrick Melrose,» a despairing yet impressive Showtime adaptation of Edward St. Aubyn's semi-autobiographical novels, is about a lonely little rich boy who is raped by his narcissistic father and ignored by his coldly aloof mother.

It is also a movie about forgiveness, how hard it can be to offer it to another and how a life without it — forgiveness of another and of the self — can be raw and despairing.

Sidney Lumet's Network (1976) with Peter Finch as a despairing newsman was a critical look at TV news, while Sydney Pollack's Absence of Malice (1981) told about an over-earnest journalist (Sally Field) and a wrongly - implicated defendant (Paul Newman).

When the dust clears, Cartel Land comes to equally despairing conclusions about the drug war and the attempts of ordinary citizens taking peacekeeping into their own hands.

The story is about their relationship — how a washed - up old comedian takes a despairing young performer under his wing and gives her the confidence to become a great artist, even as his own career fades into irrelevance.

As a despairing political allegory about crime and punishment (and how the latter doesn't always go with the former), Sisters is weirdly profound; as an exercise in thriller mechanics, it's limber and energizing, wrapping itself around a wonderfully stupid plot about separated Siamese twins (both played by Margot Kidder, one of whom is, naturally, a psycho killer).

Too many individuals were excited about the equity market 18 months ago and were despairing 3 months ago.

Even borrowers whom you would expect to be experts, like the Department of Education lawyer who sent me a despairing note this weekend about her own encounters with FedLoan, have trouble getting a firm grip on their loan status.

Marnie Weber's work has long engaged ideas about the spirit world and her sculpture, Sea Witch (2010 - 2014), a small boat carrying a uniformed pig, a despairing bird wrapped in gauze, and blue - faced woman draped in back, rests on a bed of rocks, as though ready to make passage to the other world.

When asked about global trends and human prospects, I used to call myself a «despairing optimist,» taking that term from the work of one of my heroes, René Dubos.

She looked at my CV and we had a long chat about my work history and transferable skills, and just being in that room with her made me feel like I did at work: anxious, needy and despairing.