Sentences with phrase «like despair»

«As I think about the ways I have mourned this loss, I reflect on how quickly I have managed t chase emotions like despair and futility off my plate after the fire.

It isn't like the despair of your thesis committee announcing that you'll have to take your oral exam a second time.

The apples (I noticed when I started but I didn't have an alternative) were a bit green so they didn't get in any way tender and they tasted a lot like despair with a delicious sauce.

I want to be among those who watch and hope, even when the hope feels like despair.

Not exact matches

Finally, if like many of the small businesses who applied for credit, you've been turned down by your bank, do not despair.

If you're anything like me, it's been hard to open a newspaper recently and not feel a sinking sensation of despair.

Despite the apocalyptic language, media heads like Weisberg and Remnick cautioned reporters and readers on Thursday not let succumb to total despair.

If you — like MDY's Galina Datskovsky — despair of finding a financial expert who isn't motivated by visions of big sales, you might consider a consultation with a fee - only financial planner who sells no investment products and earns no commission income.

«I was thinking about in my past having all these moments of despair when it seems like nothing is going right.

When you visit a store like Staples and they've sold all of their one - cent pencils or 10 - cent folders, don't despair.

Don't despair, however, if you can't quantify as many accomplishments as you'd like.

You can't imagine my personal despair when a friend and client, pleased with his long - term performance but exasperated by my avoidance of the «glamour» tech stocks in late - 1999, moved his retirement account to E * Trade, assuring me that he was only going to invest in «solid» techs like Lucent, Cisco, and Sun Microsystems.

«I had to go through the depths of despair to be open to someone like Warren Buffett,» Spier said, adding, «Failure, if it's big enough, has the ability to unhinge you and loosen you up and make you open to new things.»

Like the prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi, Tuesday's 567 point DJIA bounce brought hope where there was despair, light where there was darkness, and joy where there was sadness.

They have the capacity to become enormously valuable — like Titanic lifeboats — in a world where the ordinary saver despairs of keeping his nest egg safe.

Reply to buccakenji — I live in Alabama and, much to my despair, there are many like you here.

We're not like all these non-denomiantional mega - pride / despair factories that are constantly people how to live their lives.

Then, like an evening shadow, Halloween Spreads darkness down the block, and black despair.

The natural tendency is to despair, to give up or to take short cuts like the Zealots.

I do know this for certain, however: the despair inside those cars is being made complete by the realization of utter abandonment - was there ever an abandonment like unto this?

And they were, like we, struggling with the meaning of their faith and with their understanding of God in the midst of triumph and defeat, happiness and despair, stability and chaos.

The Psalter gave him a language for despair, metaphors to describe what it meant to feel poured out on the ground, melted down like a blob of wax, dried up like a broken clay fragment.

It would learn these things not principally from the «content» of the stories but from their «form»; whether a novel is, like O'Connor's, an experience of coming to belief within a recognizably Christian universe, or, like Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse - Five, an experience of deepening despair over the ways of the universe, it would see them both as parabolic stories.

... the world has long been familiar with boredom... but I wonder if man has ever before experienced this contagion, this leprosy of boredom:... a shameful form of despair in some way like the fermentation of a Christianity in decay.

From Nadia Bolz Weber «The Sarcastic Lutheran»: «So when I reject my identity as beloved child of God and turn to my own plans of self - satisfaction, or I despair that I haven't managed to be a good enough person, I again see our divine Parent running toward me uninterested in what I've done or not done, who covers me in divine love and I melt into something new like having again been moved from death to life and I reconcile aspects of myself and I reconcile to others around me.

It was black, like the sky, and as I stared into it, the most terrible, lonely sense of despair rushed through my body.

Like Kierkegaard's aesthete, whose life is tyrannized by irresolution, such persons are always looking outside themselves to find a cure for their despair.

At the end of the first day's session, I was in despair; at the rate we had started (or so it seemed), it would take at least a month for us to hammer out anything like a meaningful consensus.

So a magical all - powerful being living in some fantasy world in the clouds created the earth, placed a modern day man and woman on the earth from whom all humans are modeled in a fantastical garden 4.5 billion years ago, allows «good» people to live in a cloud kingdom where everyone who has ever died lives (like a Florida retirement community in the sky), and sends «bad» people to a fiery pit of despair for all eternity.

The overall effect was very much like a rollercoaster: slightly scary because the riders did not know exactly how the car would twist and turn, but not scary enough to warrant despair, for they knew the outcome.

«Yet,» says Tolstoy, «whilst my intellect was working, something else in me was working too, and kept me from the deed — a consciousness of life, as I may call it, which was like a force that obliged my mind to fix itself in another direction and draw me out of my situation of despair....

I despaired that he was saying things like this at the same age I was when I read it.

Unconsciousness of despair is like unconsciousness of dread (cf.. The Concept of Dread by Vigilius Haufniensis): the dread characteristic of spiritlessness is recognizable precisely by the spiritless sense of security; but nevertheless dread is at the bottom of it, and when the enchantment of illusion is broken, when existence begins to totter, then too does despair manifest itself as that which was at the bottom.

In fear, fear of death, of pain, of despair, of fear itself, I have prayed for strength, for hope, for courage, but perhaps like you I have always felt it foolish to pray that the pain itself would go away, although I have been driven to my knees by the immense force of several terrible events.

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.

Much like Murdoch herself, they wish to retain the liberal tradition's belief in the worth of individual moral action, yet find it difficult to do so in an age in which the enlightened individual is threatened on one side by cynical despair and on the other by the totalitarian excesses of political hope.

A peculiar innocence - wallowing and plain ol' despair come together in songs like Pretty Ballerina then, and in Suffering Season now.

As you can imagine, endless despair can be heaped upon women like me.

The myth of a mystery religion (or the symbol of the comparative - religious school) could only point Out what ought to be; as the «law» of the Hellenistic world it would simply be a new legalism ending like the Jewish law in despair (Rom.

Everything becomes so much easier to understand when you recognize that he was a man, like an other, given to anger (righteous or otherwise) and despair.

In my most depressed state, it was God who kept me moving forward, even though I felt like giving into despair at times.

My biggest blog category is called Sadness and Suffering (or something like that — I forget what I changed the name to) I don't invite you there because I think I have all the answers or because I want to justify something that you might see as sin (a propensity to despair, for example).

Before the mother's despair, words of redemption offer no consolation; instead, like the laughter and music which accompany her child's murder, such words mock her torment and deny the profundity of her suffering.

I grapple with what it is like to cling strongly to God in the middle of despair, anxiety, sorrow, suffering and hard questions on my blog.

Fishon, I hear what you are saying and your honest wondering how it is that people can believe God that we would face suffering, and yet still despair or feel like we are losing hope when we do suffer.

Like the late - medieval humanists and Reformers, they search the sources for indications of present direction in «an effort to combat the culture of political despair, spiritual pessimism, and moral relativism in order to preserve the hard residue of humanistic values... against the barbarian threats of Nazism and Stalinism.»

But, for now, we don't have to know exactly why people are gay to put a stop to harmful practices that have left Justin, and so many like him, with no other option but despair.

His sorrow, his concern, his despair, is selfish (like the dread of sin which at times almost frightens a man into sin) because it is self - love which would like to be proud of itself, like to be without sin — and consolation is what he is least in need of, wherefore also the prodigious quantity of consoling thoughts the physicians of the soul prescribe only make the sickness worse.

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.

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.