Sentences with phrase «hands in despair»

Are you throwing up your hands in despair because it seems like you and your partner are constantly fighting about how to raise your kids?

He would throw up his hands in despair at the state of education in the US and flunk every one of them on logic and critical reasoning.

The Chinese delegate said no, and I watched, aghast, as Merkel threw up her hands in despair and conceded the point.

Sometimes I just want to throw up my hands in despair.

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Faced with the many millions of books destroyed during the Second World War alone, some writers quoted in Books on Fire threw up their hands in despair.

It's tempting to throw up our hands in despair and give up.

Instead of blaming them or throwing up their hands in despair, the teachers begin to use language of empowerment and persistence in finding a network of support for their instruction, their school environment, and the community.

A Leap in Leadership True leaders (and their followers) will not resort to throwing up their hands in despair.

It is not acceptable that the Central Bank, should stand aside, wring its hands in despair and despondency, in a manner that suggests helplessness, while many banks are on the verge of collapse.

I am not saying we should stay out of politics or throw up our hands in despair.

It was characteristic of Israelite life that the liberal - minded did not throw up their hands in despair, nor yet accept the situation with pseudopious resignation.

You'll often hear people say, «Nortel couldn't make it, RIM couldn't make it,» and they'll throw up their hands in despair.

Not exact matches

In a sort of «trusting despair,» fiducial desperatio, the sinner afflicted by grace discerns in his afflictions the saving hand of God, whose redemptive love secures itself from abuse by hiding under its apparent oppositIn a sort of «trusting despair,» fiducial desperatio, the sinner afflicted by grace discerns in his afflictions the saving hand of God, whose redemptive love secures itself from abuse by hiding under its apparent oppositin his afflictions the saving hand of God, whose redemptive love secures itself from abuse by hiding under its apparent opposite.

We can slink away in despair and denial or we can crawl back into God's big saving hands, Isaiah proclaimed, and the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus confirmed, that this God who knows all, creates all, controls all and plans all also loves all.

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

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.

Those, on the other hand, who say that they are in despair are generally such as have a nature so much more profound that they must become conscious of themselves as spirit, or such as by the hard vicissitudes of life and its dreadful decisions have been helped to become conscious of themselves as spirit — either one or the other, for rare is the man who truly is free from despair.

On the other hand, the clearer consciousness of himself (self - consciousness) a man has in committing suicide, the more intense is his despair, in comparison with that of the man whose soul, compared with his, is in a confused and obscure condition.

On the other hand, clearness is requisite about oneself — in so far, that is to say, as clearness and despair are compatible.

Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies, and fortunately, when there aren't any cookies we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or a subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys, and nose - plugs, and uneaten danish, and soft spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction.

On the one hand, to regard violence as somehow «built in» to the structure of the world is to despair of Christ's lordship over it.

On the one hand, the social groups appear to be idolatrous in a sense that few of the individuals in them are; on the other hand, the idolatry of the great groups seems to arise out of that despair of God and the meaning of life for which the Gospel supplies the cure.

It was Dr Walley, who has witnessed first - hand the horror of young mothers dying for want of appropriate medical facilities, who suggested that to the Seven Sorrows of Mary an eighth sorrow should be added: the suffering of thousands of women who die giving birth to their babies and the millions who, in despair, turn to abortion.

When the sinner despairs of the forgiveness of sins it is almost as if he were directly picking a quarrel with God, it sounds in fact like a rejoinder when he says, «No, there is not any forgiveness of sins, it is an impossibility»; this looks like a hand - to - hand scuffle.

It was only a week or so ago that some Arsenal fans were wringing their hands with despair and predicting a collapse of form and results that would see Arsenal slide out of the Premier League title race, exit the EFL cup and suffer the usual fate of being runners up in our Champions League group which would see us knocked out in the first knockout stage.

The inspiration was found in experienced defender Emmanuel Ansong, who's long pass found striker Solomon Gyasi in the box, Gyasi strongly guided the ball to Alhaji Mustapha and his beautiful cross was met by the unrushing Dennis Nkumah - Korsah to hand the home side victory with two minutes to end the game and it was all despair in the faces of Liberty Director, and vice president of the Ghana Football Association, George Afriyie.

On the other hand, a friend who listened to me sympathetically when I was in despair at 2 weeks postpartum, hugged me, and said, «Hey, if you want, I could give you the number of the LC I used?

So what is there to do if you can't afford diapers, besides throw your hands up in despair?

Do you throw your hands up in despair if your teenager stomps off to her bedroom slamming the door behind her when she doesn't get her own way?

Successes go hand in hand with set - backs; joy is accompanied by frustration if not despair.

Pragmatists throwing their hands up in despair should think seriously about why the majority of party members have chosen to back a candidate they see as an electoral long shot.

I carried my books in my hands but never despaired; no car to take me to school but never despaired.»

Now, don't let this discussion lead to throwing your hands up in the air in despair and thinking «Why bother?!»

Ready to throw your hands up in despair that everything is toxic?

Because I've lived through the same despair and negative body image that so many women feel, I want to get the solution in the hands of every woman who needs to lose their depressing, unsightly and dangerous stubborn fat deposits...

I was trapped in the despair of depression and the crippling grip of anxiety, with a prescription in my hand as the only thing that was supposed to make me feel better.

Though this execution could verge toward the excessively operatic, as in the heavy - handed De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940), these managerial efforts largely paid off, with a variety of fine performances across the generic and national spectrum: a spirited Lien Deyers in the tongue - in - cheek The Company's in Love; Magda Schneider, who also starred in Ophuls» Love Story (Une histoire d'amour, 1933), as the tragically morose Christine in Liebelei, her final despair registered in an extraordinary extended close - up; and acting luminaries James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Ryan, searing in Caught's three - way confrontations.

ANGELS WEAR WHITE Angels Wear White doesn't throw its hands up in despair about young girls & women having their options limited, but it doesn't hold back its anger either.

A Jim Crow history has had a hand in shaping the issues, but there are also personal trials, hurt, and despair that hinder resolution.

Those who enjoy wringing their hands in Spenglerian despair whenever they see heads bent over glossy black rectangles in public might want to check their pessimism.

In the remaining eleven stories, A.L. Kennedy goes on to depict such towns, such characters, all dealing in their own complex and eccentric ways with despair, longing, and the occasional glimpses of love that enter their lives... If all this sounds incredibly depressing... well, it sometimes is... On the other hand, her sharp sense of humor acts as a rescuing hand reaching into the bottom of a well, offering a saving grace to her characters in their darkest moments of despaiIn the remaining eleven stories, A.L. Kennedy goes on to depict such towns, such characters, all dealing in their own complex and eccentric ways with despair, longing, and the occasional glimpses of love that enter their lives... If all this sounds incredibly depressing... well, it sometimes is... On the other hand, her sharp sense of humor acts as a rescuing hand reaching into the bottom of a well, offering a saving grace to her characters in their darkest moments of despaiin their own complex and eccentric ways with despair, longing, and the occasional glimpses of love that enter their lives... If all this sounds incredibly depressing... well, it sometimes is... On the other hand, her sharp sense of humor acts as a rescuing hand reaching into the bottom of a well, offering a saving grace to her characters in their darkest moments of despaiin their darkest moments of despair.

Student Assignment: Receive Your Student Assignment Help If you have come across the problem that it is rather difficult for you to cope with any student assignment you have been assigned at your higher educational establishment and your professor refuses to give you a friendly hand of help with your student assignment, do not fall into despair; you have an opportunity to receive student assignment help in order to be able to cope with your complicated student assignment.

If you have come across the problem that it is rather difficult for you to cope with any student assignment you have been assigned at your higher educational establishment and your professor refuses to give you a friendly hand of help with your student assignment, do not fall into despair; you have an opportunity to receive student assignment help in order to be able to cope with your complicated student assignment.

Call me lazy... but challenge me to cherry - pick (or avoid) a handful of best / worst days over the course of decades, and I'll throw my hands up in despair.

Naples is a city of contrasts set on the beautiful Gulf of Napoli where grandeur and squalor, gaiety and despair go hand in hand and only a ferry's ride away from the Amalfi Coast.

Ultra Despair Girls does away with the murder mysteries and class trials that the series is best known for, and instead opts to hand Komaru Naegi — little sister of the first game's protagonist — a hacking gun that shoots out computer code using electromagnetic waves to take down an army of robotic Monokumas (the evil black and white bear) in more of a third - person shooter style.

Will it throw up its hands in abject despair if it only sells 30 million units?

The confessional Emin piece, on the other hand, describing the desolation, despair and self - loathing of a young woman living in a hovel and drinking for company, reads, Breese suggests, almost as an introductory text, sketching the scene of the female artist living and working in an androcentric world.

Textiles are a site of mediation: the expressive folds of garments and loin cloth are most legible against the orderly creases in the red hangings, and both are the result of human action: the act of folding laundry, the act of hands being clenched in despair.