Sentences with phrase «than despair about»

Not exact matches

I think I have an idea of where it began and why it grew and how it continues to grow — it's a combination of my origin story, of comparison, of our messed - up culture, of over-heard comments, of patriarchal bullshit, of feeling different than the patented ideal, of thought conditioning, of despair, of how we centre women who conform to the ideal, of our fear of getting older, of how the women in my circles spoke about their own bodies and obsessed over calorie counting and wrinkles, of how our culture speaks about women everywhere from the Internet to sanctuaries to coffee shops to our own inner monologues.

So understood, it is rightly said by Mephistopheles in Faust that nothing is more miserable than a devil who despairs; for by despairing must here be understood unwillingness to hear anything about repentance and grace.

«If we can't reach the pinnacle, being overlooked and seldom thought about is a far better alternative than the pain and despair of coming close, again and again.»

Interestingly, after two days of learning about and visiting the programs being implemented by Save the Children and its parters in Bangladesh, I've seen more progress and results and hope than despair.

Don't despair though, even if your little one nurses a little less than others, you can still incorporate some of the tips we talked about above to get the most that you can out of breastfeeding.

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-...]

Sadly, most commentators enthuse about the House of Lords only because they despair of the tribal party antics and unrepresentative voting system for the commons, which places MPs even further down the popularity tables than peers.

Not only is it good for the bottom line (audiences hunger for films with characters they can relate to, and with themes that touch on hope rather than mere despair and destruction), but it can lead to a change in the conversations about our future.»

If there's a way to tell a story about cancer, avoiding downbeat despair and plugging in distinctly English humor without seeming flippant or anything less than honest, director Catherine Hardwicke and screenwriter Morwenna Banks (whose 2013 BBC radio play «Goodbye» was the inspiration) do it well, finding a tricky balance between dignified and accessible.

Shibata named More Than a Score one of «5 Books to Build a Movement for Education Justice» and writes, «When reading about education reform (coded language for privatization), it is easy to fall into a deep, dark pit of despair....

Although it took about four months longer than we all thought it would — prompting many iPhone gamers to despair — Need For Speed Undercover finally made it to the App Store.

Other than that, we're recommending a show about soul crushing anxiety and despair at LUBOV, and a show called «Infected Foot» at Greene Naftali, because sickness also seems like an appropriate theme for the week.