Sentences with phrase «of great despair»

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Yes, pregnancy can be a time of great joy, but trying to become pregnant can also be full of stress and sometimes, despair.

These statistics depict an extent of deprivation, a degree of misery, a sense of hopelessness and despair, a fundamental alienation that is difficult for that great majority of Americans who lack direct experience with this social stratum to comprehend.

Once one has settled upon one's own mediocrity and despaired of doing or being anything great, one sets one's heart on nothing more than distraction.

Today we are perhaps more disappointed in life than former generations, and the repeated upheavals in the life of society and of individuals may be explained by this mood of despair, because there is so much colourless boredom in life despite its great possibilities.

I know not why I felt a mixed sensation of despair and tenderness, excepting that, ever called a bastard, a bastard appeared to me an object of the greatest compassion in creation.»

is because of our great hesitancy to enter into the anxiety that shapes our own epoch: for the anxiety of meaninglessness and despair, however it may be named, is the most debilitating of all.

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.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

In this form of despair there is now a mounting consciousness of the self, and hence greater consciousness of what despair is and of the fact that one's condition is that of despair.

The book is at its best in its portrayal of a man who, even while being praised as one of the greatest living American writers, was swamped by loneliness and despair.

As a matter of course there is greater consciousness of the fact that one's condition is that of despair.

Moreover there is in this case a greater consciousness of what despair is; for despair is precisely to have lost the eternal and oneself.

Or (to mention a case which is more rarely to be seen in real life, but which dialectically is entirely correct) this despair of immediacy occurs through what the immediate man calls an all - too - great good fortune; for it is a fact that immediacy as such is prodigiously fragile, and every quid nimis [excess] which demands of it reflection brings it to despair.

it seems to my memory that the ones who had the most justification for despair often are the greatest parables of hope and joy.

Joseph Bottum's excellent description of Emil Cioran as «the greatest monster of despair» immediately reminded me of my favorite Psalm, the eighty - eighth, in which the ancient psalmist Heman presents a nearly continuous string of abandonment woes.

With classic terminology but with an emotional insistence not common in the earlier generations of New England Puritans, Cotton Mather preached that the only hope of reform from these various forms of wickedness was to be born again in Christ, to rise again, not with one's own strength but with his.8 As Mather began to despair that any general reformation of this sort would occur — it would not until Jonathan Edwards» Great Awakening of 1740, 12 years after Cotton Mather's death — he dwelt more and more on prophecies of the end of times.

But Jesus» use of the words expresses a much greater despair at the isolation that he was experiencing as he, God the Son, was alienated from God, his own Father.

Back in the 1930s, when the despair was greater and the willingness of people to look for new alternatives stronger, John Dewey, Charles Beard and Rexford Tugwell (none of them Marxists) proposed a planned economy that would eventually blend into democratic socialism.

Both men owe a great debt to Kierkegaard's doctrine of choosing to be a self as the antidote to despair.

If in the ruins of Rome, St. Augustine dreamed of a civilisation that should be the City of God on earth, and penned, even while weighted with despair and expectation of the end of the world, the noble outline of the Christian order which inspired so much of mediaeval thought, how much more reason have we today, with so much greater resources, to expect for our civilisation a resurrection out of our decay.

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!

I do not intend to close on an eristically apologetic note; i.e., «See, oh moderns, how even the greatest genius of our age saw that the only reasonable response to the human dilemma without Christ is despair.»

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.

Feelings of hopelessness and despair continued to invade him, and bursts of great anger.

From the resurrection of Jesus Christ flows hope and confidence that God in the midst of despair can bring the greatest future and life and purpose.»

A great many different motives may lead to an action of this kind; indeed in cases where it is an act of despair, performed in circumstances of extreme human or economic destitution and misery, the guilt may often lie rather with the community than with the individual.

The mystery of the incarnation holds our greatest solace and comfort, namely that wherever we go in suffering, in hurt and sorrow and despair, God has gone there first, goes with us, shows up -LRB-!)

So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.

If we are tempted to protest that the feeling of despair exists inside us, we need to exercise great care.

This passage is steeped in the rot - from - within despair of the 1970s, and it is not a coincidence that King did his best work in the decade of Jonestown and The Exorcist, the Ayatollah Khomeini and The Late Great Planet Earth, the decade that stripped away the confident science - and - progress ethos of the 1950s and early 1960s.

The Great Depression had a devastating effect on the Churches as well as on the nation, for it gave birth to despair and the loss of confidence.

The greatest of all despair is death.

Now and then, that night in Munich comes back to them unexpectedly, the greatest collision of joy and despair in their lives.

Election Day 2016 was a day of hope and then great despair for a lot of people.

As a psychotherapist and parenting expert, Alyson Schafer has worked with a great many mothers who, in the quest to be «good mothers,» have ended up on the doorstep of despair.

As someone who gives a somewhat greater credibility to polls than many, I was not among those of the true faith who never doubted that Labour would do well, and indeed was, until late April, in despair as polls had consistently for about five months indicated a Tory landslide, for which the poor local election -LSB-...]

Until her administration came and put the «Great» back into «Great Britain» (and all that), post-war Britain was a picture of despair for Maggie.

«People come in feeling a great deal of despair.

There is no question that the great specificity of any one conscious perceptual experience — such as the throbbing pain of the socket following extraction of the lower right wisdom tooth, the feeling of familiarity in dj vu, the aha experience of sudden understanding, the azure blue of a high mountain vista, the despair at reading about one more suicide bombing — is mediated by coalitions of synchronized cortical nerve cells and their associated targets in the satellites of the cortex, thalamus, amygdala, claustrum and basal ganglia.

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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?

It's a great rollercoaster of hope and despair with a climax that made me sit back and think about everything that just happened.

With Great Speeches from a Dying World, documentarist Linas Phillips evokes the despair of the Seattle homeless with an unusual approach.

For its authentic engagement with despair, Hannibal earns its wrenching nihilism: It's a great, epic vision of American horror.

Never in the past decade we've seen such a well - built comedy / fantasy adventure game, filled to the brim with great narration, sense of purpose and feelings of joy and despair.

Let's get this out of the way: Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is a great game that you need to play.

by Glenn Dunks June proved to be a great month for key art, especially for Australian films, but Glenn Dunks still despairs at the amount of bad photoshopping going on.

Full of deep sea despair, massive Great White sharks, and a star from This Is Us, the movie delivers some the best jump - in - your - seat thrills, but at the same time, it's just a series of ignorant decisions made by the characters that will have you rooting for the Great Whites.