Sentences with phrase «personal despair»

But for some of those moments, I realize that the light IS there — but my sunglasses of cynicism and personal despair were just too dark to notice it.

He is ultimately critical of Picasso's having squandered his genius on the merely subjective and of the way in which Picasso's work ends in personal despair.

Even though to cosmic pessimism the universe outside of us appears to be devoid of any objective meaning, this is no cause for personal despair.

that is personal despair.

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 also fought my loneliness and personal despair by keeping a journal and by relying on my new friendships for comfort amidst the frustrations of dealing with new daily struggles.

Not exact matches

In the same way a mother can fall into a depression when ending of a intensely emotional, highly personal child - bearing experience, a founder can experience immense despair when her company is no longer a vital part of her everyday life.

Harmony with nature and one's own body, a more «feminine» and less dominating attitude toward one's self and others, an ability to accept feelings and emotions — including feelings of weakness and despair — a willingness to accept personal variety, have all been valued and tried in practice.

The «Fourth World» of nations, devoid of purchasing power, political stability or personal hope, will implode under the enormous pressures of overpopulation and despair.

And personal technologies break no private faith with the public belief in technique to solve our problems, a belief that curiously persists despite our underlying despair of the social chaos.

Even if my intellectual history is questionable, the collocation of ideas gave me a key to understanding why the practice of silent solidarity might have deep political as well as personal effects: the unleashing of «dark,» subversive divine power as the antidote to racist despair, marginalization and repression is symbolically encoded in this practice.

Violence on TV, unlike real life violence, rarely occurs between people who know each other well, and most of it does not result from rage, hate, despair, or panic, but from the businesslike pursuit of personal gain, power, or duty.

«In his preoccupation with the analysis of the capitalist system, he (Marx) failed to do justice to the sphere of the personal and the subjective, the sphere where the human drama of hope and despair, love and hate, death and survival is enacted... Had Marx paid sufficient attention to these existential problems, he might have been led to a more critical assessment of his atheist stance.»

Salvation works in the struggle for economic justice against the exploitation of people by people; in the struggle for human dignity against the political oppression of human beings; in the struggle for solidarity against the alienation of person from person; and in the struggle of hope against despair in personal life.

Along with public failure, we find an erosion of our personal sense of life, a restlessness that generates anxiety that drives us to greed, and finally to despair that it won't really work out.

But we can not live in despair, and for a hundred years many sensitive Westerners have been coming to terms with the possibility of a history and a personal life without morality and without meaning.

Adopted With Love originated from our personal experience of becoming parents through adoption: a rollercoaster ride with ups and downs, tears and laughter, uncertainty and hope, despair and blessings.

Had I not already breastfed two children to 2y2m and 2y7m (without any formula whatsoever - my personal goal), I would have probably given up in despair.

From the personal and local, to the national and global, things seem to be getting more extreme and polarised, and it can be easy to sink into despair and hopelessness.

If a personal trainer is completely out of the question, do not despair.

What emerges is a portrait of a man sinking rapidly into a pit of despair as he comes face to face with his own darkest nightmares of personal failure.

From the grief - stricken Kristen Stewart contemplating the existence of her own spirituality as Maureen in Personal Shopper to the burgeoning determination that manifests slowly but surely in Mildred Loving's (Ruth Negga) incorrigible spirit in Loving as she seeks justice for her so - deemed illegal interracial marriage, to the existential despair of Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) in A Quiet Passion that is largely shaped by the suffocating position women had to endure in the 1800s — to say nothing of the micro-nuance on display in the tripartite Certain Women — I could ramble on for thousands of words about the things I've learned during this festival watching beautiful, brave, and flawed women characters try to move through their lonely fictional worlds.

Perhaps it is watching George Bailey grow up, agonizing with him when his slapped deaf ear starts to bleed, sympathizing with his desire to see the world, appreciating the great personal sacrifices he makes for those he loves, chuckling over his romantic endeavors, admiring his commitment to values, or understanding the despair that has him contemplating suicide.

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

With regard to dealing with fear, despair, hatred, rage, and violence, the Axial sages gave their people and give us, Armstrong says, two important pieces of advice: first there must be personal responsibility and self - criticism, and it must be followed by practical, effective action.

These essays are then collected and published in a red - covered book, known as the Red Book, the mere sight of which causes most alumni to drop whatever it is they are doing to pore through the stories of personal triumphs and failures, tragedies marring otherwise successful lives, and humor and hope even in the midst of despair.

Five teenagers, each forced to leave home, offer personal accounts of the despair that comes with being a refugee.

But you don't need to despair; there are many ways to increase your chances of getting approved for a personal loan even with bad credit.

If you are a foreign national in need of a personal loan, there is no need to despair because financing is available.

Herschel Bentley, a 27 - year mortgage veteran who segued into real estate investing in the early 2000s, faced his own personal financial crisis — but instead of giving into despair, ultimately found a way to help thousands of people as the Founder and Executive Director of the Tampa based company National Credit Federation.

But don't despair — there's a way to bring order to your personal financial chaos that doesn't involve tedious budget lists and penny - pinching.

It's set throughout three distinctive missions, every of which has its personal map: The Nine, Voyage of Despair, and Blood of the Dead.

Margaret May will be presenting works from the Vignette Series, an intensely personal series that evokes images of memory, longing, sexuality, joy and despair.

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

It's only a personal opinion but I don't think you should despair.

If you're going to despair of personal knowledge (the fallacy of Argument from Ignorance) and surrender to the fallacy of Appeal to Authority, then you ought not appeal to an authority that has made clear statements entirely the opposite of your claim:

Before you despair of the time, energy and personal or even firm resources you're pouring into your legal blog (s), I would point out a couple of things:

How We Get Paid If you don't have money to hire a personal injury lawyer, don't despair.

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[jounal] Kahnm, J. / 1985 / Depression and marital disagreement: The social construction of despair / Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 2: 447 ~ 461