Sentences with phrase «with despair over»

Oh Angie — I have just woken up too early with despair over what to wear today after travelling for work for 4 days, and straight into a couple of back to back 12 hour days... what a lovely treat and inspiration to read your post with my coffee this morning!

Just when one is sodden with despair over the possibility of making alive the massive biblical symbol of fire, for instance --

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U.S. business groups are pinballing between despair and panic as negotiations over a new North American Free Trade Agreement resume, with the Trump administration's hard - line demands risking a worsening standoff and perhaps the eventual collapse of the talks.

All of sudden the despair ended with a year over year growth print while inventory down year over year.

And it is because I see this problem as so far from solution, yet so central to my own sense of satisfaction with our public life, that I despair over our government's lack of commitment to its resolution.

Over the centuries, human beings consistently broke and neglected God's law, then struggled with the results of despair and misery.

It's just death and resurrection, over and over again, day after day, as God reaches down into our deepest graves and with the same power that raised Jesus from the dead wrests us from our pride, our apathy, our fear, our prejudice, our anger, our hurt, and our despair.

As the suffering continues, there settles over him finally a dull despair, broken only rarely by an unnatural and terribly enfeebling intensity, as when the gambler hopes on and on that some day he will meet with luck.

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 herein consists the obscurity, especially in all lower forms of despair, and in almost all despairers, that with such passionate clearness a man sees and knows over what he is in despair, but about what it is escapes his notice.

which would run through his mind a hundred times together, until one day out of breath with retorting, «I will not, I will not,» he impulsively said, «Let him go if he will,» and this loss of the battle kept him in despair for over a year.

The strange truth is that when men live in dependence on God, they are enabled to act with more vigor and courage and with less likelihood of despair and disappointment than when they falsely assume that they are lords of all they survey and act as if they were sovereign over the Creation.

A few of the obvious drives that pack us off, daily or weekly or episodically or, for some, in hope, permanently, are fear or even terror in the particular given set of circumstances; the sheer discouragement and exhaustion of facing questions without answer; profound disillusionment — it takes many forms — with the pertinent, prevailing system or systems; deep and bitter contempt for one's own society, bred of the abysmal failure to attain in consistent practice even a semblance of the justice professed and acclaimed; despair — so it was with the college generation of the late sixties — over the formidable obduracy of a political establishment in going its merciless way quite apparently deaf to the cries of anguish of its empathetic and real victims, victims by the tens of millions here and around the world.

Jews, both pious and secular, who want to find some way to live at peace with Palestinians despair over the zealotry of the Gush Emunim, who believe God has given their people land on which Palestinians have also dwelt for generations.

Their lives (either with a certain childish and lovable naïveté or in sheer banality) consist in some act or another, some occurrence, this or that; and then they do something good, then in turn something wrong, and then it begins all over again; now they are in despair, for an afternoon, perhaps for three weeks, but then they are jovial again, and then again they are a whole day in despair.

To indicate the character of this potentiation from sin to despair over sin one might say that the former is the breach with the good, the latter is the breach with repentance.

Either in confused obscurity about oneself and one's significance, or with a trace of hypocrisy, or by the help of cunning and sophistry which is present in all despair, despair over sin is not indisposed to bestow upon itself the appearance of something good.

And after all we had seen with World Vision in Bolivia that week, this statue of Jesus, though beautiful, seemed so still and so removed from the people below, looming over a city where hunger, abuse, poverty, and despair still hide in shadowy corners.

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«However, as a law - abiding party, we hereby urge our members and the people of Kogi state to remain calm and not despair over this slap on democracy as the courts would soon deliver justice with regard to the authentic governor with the mandate of the majority at the election.»

Stage theories «impose order on chaos, offer predictability over uncertainty, and optimism over despair,» explained social psychologist Carol Tavris, author of The Mismeasure of Woman (Touchstone, 1993) and co-author, with Elliot Aronson, of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)(Harcourt, 2007), in an interview with me.

Rather than surrendering to despair and impersonal medical treatments, growing numbers of cancer patients are empowering themselves with information and control over their therapies.

Daniel Schrag gets visitors all the time — graduate students in despair over their dissertations, fellow faculty members dropping by to chat about the Cretaceous sulfur cycle or some equally abstruse topic, or visiting scientists collaborating with him on one of the scores of scholarly papers he has churned out in a career that has earned him a professorship in Harvard's department of earth and planetary sciences and a MacArthur genius grant.

I had found myself sitting where Annie sat over and over again, greeting engaged friends with a heart full of joy, yes, but also an uncomfortable mix of sadness, despair, worry, and embarrassment.

Nixon as Hamlet, Nixon as Lear, Nixon as Blanche DuBois, Nixon as Krapp — clutching every last tape to his breast with the wild fury and despair of a man on the precipice... Nixon in his study, poring over his past, gazing at his own multiplied mo...

Dice is mostly a warmed - over attempt to ape Larry David's «Curb Your Enthusiasm,» with just a dose of the existential despair seen in Louis C.K.'s «Louie.»

Still, there's something unsettling about the downbeat chronicle of a ruined California dream at the movie's core, especially if you consider how Catherine's despair over her failed motherhood and disability is juxtaposed with the lascivious display of healthy women's bodies and the elaborate mating rituals that take place at Starbody.

But it's Benedict Cumberbatch who is left with top honours as Alan Turing, mingling «intellectual superiority» and «social outcast» with experienced excellence while nurturing a growing internal despair over something his character can not reveal: his homosexuality.

Bruce Dern, even though he has canny - actor - in - a-calculated-putdown-role stamped all over him, gets at a lot of the despair «Big Bob» feels even as he strives to stay unaware of it, and in one long - take, traffic - noisy reminiscence in a parking lot — about a date he almost had with Liz Taylor the night she ran off to marry Nicky Hilton — he nails down that sense of Life's Big Moment Missed that Ivan Passer and Carroll O'Connor strove for so conspicuously and so unsuccessfully in Law and Disorder.

Barring minor miracles, and an unlikely volte - face from both Jackson and the Tolkien estate over the writer's other fantasy works, this will be the last time we hear the pitter patter of tiny Hobbit feet down the local multiplex, a prospect that will drive some to despair, but fill others with relief.

It's not a far reach for them to access the despair that's essential, I think, to a certain kind of creation, and Porterfield allows them each a moment to express themselves in song: one in a basement before Oldham destroys his instrument, the other on stage and then over the closing - credits, with the coda being a sigh from Taylor and a little shake of her head.

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.

Two thirds of the way through as I wiped tears from my face and not for the first time, I remember thinking with some despair that there was such pure evil in the world and then I was reminded that for every ounce of that evil, there is also pure & true & honest love that will always triumph over it.

Reason for despair: I despair over the growing number of so - called Religious Freedom bills that would grant licenses to discriminate — even for education professionals working with children — and at the schools that seek permission to discriminate by getting religious exemptions to their Title IX responsibilities.

People with bad credit used to despair about their chances of getting a loan, but those days may be over.

I was reliving Yogi's horrible experience, and beside myself with anger and despair — and it still wasn't over for Hopper.

No need to put up with unruly doggie manners — or despair over behavior problems like fear, aggression, or protectiveness of toys and food.

Dark Souls is a twisted, depraved, unforgiving bundle of death, hopelessness, and despair, and I mean that in the best way possible because if you can overcome the many, many obstacles it will throw at you over the 20 + hours it takes to complete, you will come away with a sense of accomplishment that few other games can match.

The bitter disappointment of the work's subject toward her fading beauty, and her apparent state of insecurity and negativity, seems all too relatable in this day and age, where countless women despair over their appearance and struggle with their identities.

On NASA's Vital Links blog, Laura Faye Tenenbaum writes about a conversation she had with Director Susan Hassol on how to move past fear and despair over climate change and instead face it with courage, optimism, and integrity.

And those who also feel overwhelmed at the idea of making legal arguments similarly emphasize their despair over navigating procedure, completing documentation correctly, and dealing with the other side.

There are probably other parents in Katy, in Houston, all over the world doing their best with their children and feeling the same simultaneous despair and desperation right along with you.