Sentences with phrase «despairing view»

The film necessarily presents a despairing view of America as its 20th - century glory days recede into the distance, but Schrader isn't one to shirk away from some form of hope for his isolated priest.

Very well - made and solidly acted, this nonetheless has such a grim and despairing view of human nature that it will make viewers feeling more miserable than entertained.

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In the terms with which Oelschlaeger views us, we might be despairing of our poor embodiment of our own values if it were not that apart from those values and their implementation there is no hope for the Earth.

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.

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.

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.