Sentences with phrase «from despairing»

Their sobering but far from despairing insights will encourage all who strive in applied hope to build a society worthy of nature's legacy and humans» potential.»

The ragtag troupe grapples with keeping Charlotte from running off with the family lawyer (Johnson), sobering up George from his despairing bender, finding a replacement for the trusting ingénue (Laetitia Leon) he's knocked up, and a career - reviving film opportunity hanging in the balance with the news that Frank Capra is in the audience.

Baker has made a surprisingly joyous film from this despairing situation, but even more difficult, he has done so without obscuring the inherent bleakness of the circumstances of this life or romanticizing them.

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

Humanly speaking his destruction is the most certain of all things — and the despair in his soul fights desperately to get leave to despair, to get, if you will, repose for despair, the consent of his whole personality to despair, so that he would curse nothing and nobody more fiercely than him who attempted (Or it may be the attempt) to prevent him from despairing, as the poet's poet so capitally, so incomparably expresses it in Richard II, Act 3, Scene Z:

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With even more coming into effect from Google on June 1, 2018, many ICOs have been left despairing.

We can trust that even in this violent, unjust and despairing world, God's word of hope is true, and we will sing it «from generation to generation.»

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.

While poor people do have their moments of escape from the reality of being poor, their escape pattern usually turns toward the continuous attempt to break out of the trap of despairing poverty.

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.

The despairing man who is unconscious of being in despair is, in comparison with him who is conscious of it, merely a negative step further from the truth and from salvation.

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.

Like the fire which Prometheus stole from the gods, so does this mean to steal from God the thought which is seriousness, that God is regarding one, instead of which the despairing self is content with regarding itself, and by that it is supposed to bestow upon its undertakings infinite interest and importance, whereas it is precisely this which makes them mere experiments.

For in another sense, an ethical - dialectic sense, the despairing man who consciously remains in despair is further from salvation, since his despair is more intense.

Rather than despairing, he thrust his efforts into ministering to the people who had suffered loss from the fire, working to get them back on their feet.

To develop this sense of «belonging» will be a way in which, here and now, life can become meaningful; for in the little cells of Christian faith and love which are our parishes as they ought to be, hope is implanted m men's hearts that lifts them above, and yet sends them back into, the community life of which they are also a part, knowing that they have passed from death into life, because they love the brethren and are therefore empowered to bring a stream of fresh, courageous, loving life to a sadly disillusioned and despairing world.

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.

We see the vivid picture of despairing, painful response from Jesus, «I never knew you,» and the command (quoted from Psalm 6:8), «Depart from me, all you workers of evil.»

When he was depressed and despairing he said that a word from «Pomeranus or Philip or indeed my Katie» would bring him round: «I was comforted as I realised that God was saying this through a brother who was speaking it from duty or from love.»

For there are many doubtful matters which a man can not resolve or find the answer to by himself, and so he takes his brother aside and tells him his trouble... We must have many absolutions, so that we may strengthen our timid consciences and despairing hearts against the devil and against God... I will not let private confession be taken from me.

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.

As one who ascends in a balloon rises by casting weights from him, so does the despairing man sink by casting from him the good (for the weight of the good is uplift), he sinks, doubtless he thinks he is rising — he does indeed become lighter.

Small wonder that America's movies and music and television shows make us enemies in traditional societies around the world — and small wonder, too, that many cultural conservatives, despairing of their country's future, embrace withdrawal from the world into a narrow, well - defended Christendom, where their families and their faith can be protected from the lowest - common - denominator swill that washes against the walls outside.

A whole generation of young Germans had emerged from the last war humiliated, despairing and cynical.

Brave saves from the Blackpool keeper and a shot against the bar from Balogun kept the score down but then Smith - Rowe slalomed through the Blackpool team, and into the area where he was brought down by a despairing Blackpool defender.

On the face of it, there appears to be a hotchpotch list of gripes that have resulted in the fulminating anger of the fans spilling over from time to time when results have not gone our way, and this has led to many supporters despairing of Arsene ever changing his spots.

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.

However in the final few stages of the game, Ibrahimovic struck in dramatic fashion, his looping header from Antonio Valencia's cross beating Mignolet in the 84th minute after a despairing clearance from Lovren, the move kept alive when substitute Marouane Fellaini had headed Rooney's cross against the post.

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».

Instead of despairing over small deviations from your diet, self tracking allows you to see exactly how much (or little) your choices will affect your goals.

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).

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.

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.

Schrader's set - up owes much to Robert Bresson's The Diary of a Country Priest and Ingmar Bergman's severely depressing Winter Light (1963), the fulcrum of which is a plea from the pregnant wife of a despairing congregant.

On show here is the stunning cinematography (from regular Sorrentino DP Luca Bigazzo) and the kind of beautiful despairing decadence that Sorrentino had previously mined with «The Great Beauty.»

Admittedly, there is a level of predictability to the plotting, as it's clear that the idealized Baxter will have an easy time wooing the despairing wife away from the macho, egotistical husband, played well by Aiello.

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.

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

In case you're now despairing that ebooks are heading in the wrong direction, you might also check out this article from Jon Norling on the Teleread blog in defence of the.

[ANDY REVKIN comments: This is why I'm ultimately optimistic (a despairing optimist, mind you, to use a phrase from Rene Dubos).

Last year, I was given a copy of a draft essay from Dubos» final year in which he reflected on the themes that shaped both his bacteriological work the underpinnings of his stance as a self - described «despairing optimist.»

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.

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.

But despite all this despairing history, there now is a glimmer of hope for more sane drug sentencing — in the form of two December 10 decisions from the Supreme Court.

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