Sentences with phrase «into despair by»

We were invited to bear in mind that our intellectuals frequently helped to throw people living under Communist rule into despair by playing footsie with Marxist ideology while they one after another hallowed each new earthly paradise it was giving birth to.

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Their furious outbursts trailed off into despair, followed by apathetic detachment.

They expect the pastor to help them cope with joblessness, poverty and discrimination by transforming their despair into hope.

But while one sort of despair plunges wildly into the infinite and loses itself, a second sort permits itself as it were to be defrauded by «the others.»

It is his disclosure of God's love, standing by man through all tragedy and despair, to which we give our witness in the faith that death can not hold or destroy what Jesus was and what he brought into human existence.

For so it is with men in this world: first a man sins from frailty and weakness; and then — yes, then perhaps he learns to flee to God and to be helped by faith which saves from all sin; but of this we are not talking here — then he despairs over his weakness and becomes, either a Pharisee who in despair manages to attain a certain legal righteousness, or he despairs and plunges again into sin.

And if it does not so happen that a man with the years sinks into the most trivial kind of despair, from this it does not by any means follow that despair might belong only to youth.

So here is my resolution for these very days, the days when we are being lured by fear and anger and despair into hopelessness and silence and resignation; here is what I will tell myself:

On the first night the story of the woman caught in adultery from the Gospel of St. John is read, followed by a guided meditation in which the retreatants are invited to enter into the woman's experience of shame and despair.

A good picture of the general squalor, cynicism, and despair in Soviet life was provided by a documentary film Tak Zhit Nel» zya (roughly «We can't go on living like this»), which was released into movie theaters in the summer of 1990.

Al - Hadid sura 57: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful No misfortune can happen on earth or in your souls but is recorded in a decree before We bring it into existence: that is truly easy for Allah: (22) In order that ye may not despair over matters that pass you by, nor exult over favours bestowed upon you.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

The cheeky little Richard Milhouse Nixon Møøse - Beaver of Winnemucca somehow became 142 Mexican Whooping Llamas, and... and... and... I was flung into the depths of despair by being designated a... a... this is very hard for me... a Walmart greeter in Humpagoat Wisconsin.

Mahler brings us into direct confrontation with the world by establishing the counterpoint between joy and tragic despair.

For precisely this it is he despairs of, and to his torment it is precisely this he can not do, since by despair fire has entered into something that can not burn, or can not burn up, that is, into the self.

If a man in despair is as he thinks conscious of his despair, does not talk about it meaninglessly as of something which befell him (pretty much as when a man who suffers from vertigo talks with nervous self - deception about a weight upon his head or about its being like something falling upon him, etc., this weight and this pressure being in fact not something external but an inverse reflection from an inward experience), and if by himself and by himself only he would abolish the despair, then by all the labor he expends he is only laboring himself deeper into a deeper despair.

By becoming Caesar he would not after all have become himself but have got rid of himself, and by not becoming Caesar he falls into despair over the fact that he can not get rid of himselBy becoming Caesar he would not after all have become himself but have got rid of himself, and by not becoming Caesar he falls into despair over the fact that he can not get rid of himselby not becoming Caesar he falls into despair over the fact that he can not get rid of himself.

I am empowered by God not to repeat past mistakes; not to lash out at those who are persecuting me; not to seek vengeance in a perpetuation of the cycle of death and destruction; not to sink into despair over my own seeming powerlessness against whatever forces are defeating me.

Worst of all Ozil claimed to have been «out with the boys» but it was clear the photos were taken by just one person, quite possibly his mum, as he sank ever more visibly into the lonesome despair that grips a man when he realises, like a captain on the titanic, that he's the last player at a sinking club.

Deflection is his first gambit, rolling fluidly into anger, then denial, followed by bitter disappointment, and finally despair.

And he just sat about two feet away and sunk level by level into my despair.

Hormones and digestive ailments can impact the scale readings, time of the day effects weight, workouts can increase weight (due to retention of fluids caused by inflammation — a direct response of working out), even one glass of water can skew the scale numbers — and if those numbers aren't where you expect and want them to be, you can be thrown into a downward spiral of despair.

Given her level of intellectual and moral commitment, and the expectations aroused by the great struggles of the 1960s, how can one fully grasp Simone's ultimate disappointment, confusion and despair, which found a painful psychic expression, without taking into account the betrayals of those struggles?

He was born with the rare power to reach directly into our hearts, to grab us by our throats, to distill our worst anxieties into digestible sentiments and churn our despair into something worth cheering for.

Victor is enslaved by drugs, and their parents, Manuel and Lila desperate to impotence must find a way to help your child sinking into despair and addiction.

Years earlier Eddie's brother was murdered by a toon, something he never got over and slowly sank into an alcohol laced despair; swearing off toons.

Adapted from the 2006, Pulitzer Prize - winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, The Road is an appropriately dark journey into the depths of human despair and desperation.

Instigated by attacks from a revived Man - Ape, Black Panther fell into a state of hallucinations and despair.

A former war veteran who's scarred body reflects the scars and inner turmoil of his mind and this coupled with his own traumatic childhood leave him in a permanent state of suicidal despair where we regularly witness him pushing himself to the edge by asphyxiating himself with a plastic bag and dangling daggers into his mouth.

Tully is a story about Marlo, who, after having her third child, falls into a pit of despair, overwhelmed by the special needs of her 5 - year - old while trying to address the relentless demands of a newborn.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of transcendent filmmaking in the The Lost City of Z and A Ghost Story, it was the age of foolish Spider - Man remakes / reboots / regurgitations, it was the epoch of a magnificent enquiry into belief by the evergreen Martin Scorsese, it was the epoch of the incredulous return of Mel Gibson in a box office hit, it was the season of Michael Haneke shining a light on our uncaring societal malaise, it was the season of manifold more people watching Baywatch, it was the spring of Aki Kaurismäki's warm - hearted but politically pressing The Other Side of Hope, it was the winter of despair at the box office results of masterpieces like Certain Women, Aquarius and The Death of Louis XIV, we had Yorgos Lanthimos» Kubrickian masterpiece before us, we had a new Kingsman film before us, we were all going direct to cinematic Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.

Geraldine Page was Oscar - nominated as a newly spinstered matriarch with OCD who sinks into despair when her husband (EG Marshall) leaves her for another woman (a vulgar dilettante played by Maureen Stapleton).

By confronting his own fears and limitations, he seeks to transform cruelty into compassion, rind into fruit, despair intohope.

Mouillot is haunted by her own nightmares that often pitch her into unexplainable despair, fears that, she learns, are the burden that descendants of the Holocaust must carry.

Surrounded by despair and thrown into as much danger as they left behind, Conor and Aine must cling to the whispers of Comdiu's plans for them and the homeland that depends on their survival.

Years of harsh training went by, causing Falke to spiral deep into despair, wishing for it all to end.

Instead of falling into despair, they sought to invent a new language of art, which by extension would imply a new culture, a new civilization and a new beginning for humankind in general.

For his exhibition at The Power Plant, Landy invites the public to collaborate in building a «wall of protest» by submitting images, words, texts and slogans that represent their thoughts and feelings — of hope or of despair, on matters small or large, from high to low and across the cultural spectrum — to be transformed by the artist into drawings.

Even Nicole Eisenman's languidly empathic painting at the Biennial entitled Breakup exposes the vacuum look of despair induced by a smartphone text that divides existence into before and after.

His personal journey almost founders as he runs into a wall of despair conveyed by analysts warning of mass extinction, forced migration and more.

Before giving into despair however, there is a new paper by Margaret Klein Salamon that every climate activist should read: «Leading the Public into Emergency Mode».

It's hard to put into words the level of despair I feel when I see that someone of such influence, and followed and respected by so many, would do such recklessly sloppy reporting.

What I don't see much value in, is «discussion of the science» by laymen like many of the commenters here (including me), that simply leads people to retreat into despair and hopelessness and a sense that «it's too late» to do anything.

Like quicksand, these self - defeating thoughts pull us even deeper into despair and we may become seduced by seclusion.

Visits by caring, experienced professionals can turn good intentions into good parenting, breaking generations - long cycles of poverty, addiction, abuse and despair.