Sentences with phrase «despairing at»

Here I am in 2016 trying to understand why the hell anyone wants to watch egocentric videos of strangers on Snapchat and despairing at the predictions that the written word will soon be completely replaced on social media by visual content.

Despairing at global foot - dragging, some climate scientists now believe that a turn to Plan B is inevitable.

I will be hammering on this in parts II and III of decision making under uncertainty, if i ever get to that (I am despairing at this point).

People such as Bill Gates are despairing at the lack of leadership in Washington — investing his own money in development of advanced reactor designs.

If by now you're despairing at the scale of the project to assemble a well - stocked, competitive ebook retailer, help may be at hand.

Despairing at the lack of clues, Lorne receives help with solving the case from an unlikely source.

I don't feel despairing at all.

She's the eldest of hundreds of sisters whose parents are aquatic goddess Gran Mamare (Blanchett) and the nearest thing the story has to a villain, a former human called Fujimoto (Neeson) who's now the guardian of the sea, despairing at the filthy humans» exploitation and pollution of his home.

Having failed to get anything resembling the deal he promised, the Prime Minister is now despairing at the failure of the polls to decisively shift for Remain.

After that it was just exhausting, and often left me hopeless and despairing at the end of the day.

If Walcott had listened to the fans, he might have been weeping in the dressing room despairing at how they expect him to perform if he is such a «useless c ***»...

Not exact matches

At the end of the 19th century Jesus was Adolph von Harnack's teacher of «the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of mankind»; in the early years of the 20th century Albert Schweitzer's despairing Messiah; in the «30s, Rudolf Bultmann's preacher of obedience.

If it does not stay at that point, merely marking time, and if on the other hand there does not occur a radical change in the despairer so that he gets on the right path to faith, then such despair will either potentiate itself to a higher form and continue to be introversion, or it breaks through to the outside and demolishes the outward disguise under which the despairing man has been living in his incognito.

A young man suffering from AIDS, who at first had a completely negative and despairing approach to the onset of his disease, was greatly helped by Victor Frankl's account of how prisoners in concentration camps who could find some sort of hope survived, when others succumbed to the terrors around them.

What this all adds up to is an unsettled and anxious, even at points despairing, world.

Despairing of any larger religious or social redemption, we can at least rely on murder mysteries to solve individual crimes and bring malefactors to justice.

The first and perhaps most important is the fact that the human heart formerly disquieted, divided, rebellious, and at the same time despairing, becomes peaceful.

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.

By sin, that is to say, by despairing over his sin, he has lost every relation to grace — and to himself at the same time.

A failed attempt at chesting the ball over the net triggers a despairing «Nooooo!».

Then Arteta tries to raise his boot where his head would have done and an unmarked Skrtel scores, next once again we have an unmarked Skrtel with Koscielny this time throeing a despairing leg at thin air.

Clearly bookmakers are of the same opinion as me, that Blackburn have shown some encouraging signs of mounting a recovery whereas Wigan cut a despairing figure and are generally a team to avoid at all costs right now.

And at the end, a solemn, almost despairing, coda on Blair's grappling with the democratic dilemma: Do you do what the people want?

And that aversion to objective truth is eating away at the left as well, with a whole generation now convinced of the despairing nihilism of Michel Foucault's philosophy — basically that our only truths are personal ones dependent on our place in time and power structures.

Canoeists stuck up a river without a paddle possess a better chance of floating to safety at the moment than despairing Labour MPs.

There has been a decline in the number of new cases of diabetes in US adults at a time when most of us were despairing of the relentless upward trend of this...

I try on 10 diferent pairs, I'm lucky if I find one that fits (and right now I'm looking at summer hiking pants and despairing...)

Its tone spans the gamut from exultant to despairing, the content decidedly adult in places for a picture that looks like something Charles Schulz might've drawn on acid and the jabs Satrapi takes at American policy are gentle all things considered.

To give you some idea of what Harvey and Bob think of Charles Burnett's The Glass Shield, they blocked the film's release for a full year, forced Burnett to write and direct a less blunt and despairing ending after some test - marketing, refused to let the original version be shown at a Burnett retrospective in New York, and finally, after sending Burnett on a few interviews, shoved the picture out earlier this month.

Further to that, Darkest Dungeon's tone is already so at the limit; so despairing in the absolute and cosmic sense, I couldn't imagine topping what had gone before without straying into the realm of mindless parody.

It's not so much a crossover as a mosaic, and it sets out — among other impossible tasks — to shuffle the colourful, light - hearted hijinks of James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy films and Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok with the angstier, despairing, politicised tone of the Russo brothers» Captain America sequels, while at the same time reconciling the science - fictional and magical worlds of Iron Man, Black Panther, the Hulk and Dr Strange.

Exceedingly grim, even despairing — so much so that Entertainment Weekly's Melissa Maerz publicly renounced it at midseason — «The Leftovers» begins weakly, with two diffuse, dour episodes that scarcely signal the remarkable, stricken work to come.

So it's not surprising to find him at the center of this brooding, melancholy, almost despairing X-Men film set in a future world where bad things not only might happen, they're pretty much guaranteed.

Alternately beautiful and despairing, the art hints at this vibrant dystopic world, always managing to find the light even when the world is at its darkest.

If Denis Villeneuve's Sicario offers a slick, thrilling look at the bleak and despairing world of the War on Drugs, then Matthew Heineman's Cartel Land can act as the gritty, real - world side of the same coin.

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).

Hitchcock made the merciless, despairing Frenzy at 73.

Bessie, despairing, took up permanent residence at the small hospital, never once straying from her husband's side, refusing to heed doctors» advice and get on with her life, shuddering each time she heard the vile e-word spoken.

At night the house looks like a Victorian orphanage housing a hundred despairing souls, but when the clouds part and it is lit by moonlight, the house appears to be enchanted.

The exhibition's dualistic title, Nihilistic Optimistic, responds to the oppositional forces present within these works, and indeed within the artists themselves; the show is at once constructive and destructive, hopeful and despairing.

This has been interpreted as a despairing comment on art's impact, but in the years before its appearance at Tate Britain it seemed more plausible that Creed was making a plea for economy in art.

Overall, Solomon said she wasn't despairing, labeling herself «a technological optimist at heart.»

Actually before RC came on line I was despairing that either the climate scientists were going over to the dark side in droves (to the contrarians), possibly for filthy lucre, or were afraid to speak out due to various repercussions they might face at their universities or gov institutes.

Despairing, at this point, of ever getting you to recognize the crucial difference between processes with continuous, as opposed to discrete, spectra, I leave you to take pride in saving microsecnds of CPU time at the expense of greater generality of DFT programming.

Volt Aire, Interesting point and one that you may want to make to George Monbiot over at the Guardian (suitably phrased so as not to be moderated: o) he seems mighty despairing today and together with a copy of the book by Camus that I am currently reading it might provide him with some consolation; o)

This is the take in which, despairing of other avenues to rapid, large - scale change, we look to peak oil to at least save us from the more extreme forms of climate disaster.

A lot of Americans were despairing, and said the Soviets have a command economy, they can beat us at anything they want.

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.