Sentences with phrase «with despairing»

It is an attempt to paint a new Waste Land after the Holocaust: the gatehouse of Auschwitz stands above a beautiful landscape of trees and hills, inspired by La Tempesta by Giorgione, but here strewn with despairing or dying figures.
But finally his fingers had to loose their hold, and with a despairing farewell to life, he let himself drop.

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With even more coming into effect from Google on June 1, 2018, many ICOs have been left despairing.
Even borrowers whom you would expect to be experts, like the Department of Education lawyer who sent me a despairing note this weekend about her own encounters with FedLoan, have trouble getting a firm grip on their loan status.
David Bazan, the lead singer and creative force behind the band, has recently teamed up with friend and fellow musician T.W. Walsh to release yet another despairing and disturbing album that through all of its disquieting elements delivers its own feeling of hope.
In the terms with which Oelschlaeger views us, we might be despairing of our poor embodiment of our own values if it were not that apart from those values and their implementation there is no hope for the Earth.
and of the lost condition of man, who seeks a way out of his complex of «despairing power» — what is really new is that Christians today find this prideful attitude excellent and consonant with the dignity of man.
The despairing man who is unconscious of being in despair is, in comparison with him who is conscious of it, merely a negative step further from the truth and from salvation.
I am relatively discouraged (although not despairing) about exactly how to take the next two steps: the development of a model for a Christian systematic theology that will be in continuity with, but also a genuine development upon, the earlier model for a revisionist fundamental theology; and the development of a model for a public Christian praxis (or practical theology) which will be in continuity with, but also a genuine development upon, both «fundamental» and «systematic» concerns.
And if he does not essentially develop with the years, nor yet sink into sheer triviality, that is to say, if he remains pretty much a young man, a youth, although he is mature, a father and gray - haired, retaining therefore something of the good traits of youth, then indeed he will be exposed also to the possibility of despairing as a youth over the earthly or over something earthly.
Yet it was these sorts of people who brought themselves to Jesus; split, contradicting themselves, disgusted and despairing about themselves, hateful of themselves, hostile towards everybody else, afraid of life, burdened with guilt feelings, accusing and excusing themselves, fleeing from others into loneliness, fleeing from themselves.
Like the fire which Prometheus stole from the gods, so does this mean to steal from God the thought which is seriousness, that God is regarding one, instead of which the despairing self is content with regarding itself, and by that it is supposed to bestow upon its undertakings infinite interest and importance, whereas it is precisely this which makes them mere experiments.
Theism deals with «wishful thinking», «make - believe», fantasy, magic — hopes of despairing men famously hallucinating in the desert who then «see» exactly what they want to see.
A man has sinned, so he can bear the punishment for it without despairing; but without blame to be singled out as a sacrifice to pity, as a sweet - smelling savor in its nostrils, that he can not put up with.
A technique for testing the relevance and empathic qualities of one's preaching is to listen to a tape of last Sunday's sermon while imagining that one is a despairing person with whom one has counseled recently.
Nor should we be too harsh with the cynical or the despairing; there certainly is sufficient reason for despair.
It was not an optional Faith that withdrew apart, under the holy tree, on the banks of the sacred river, to contemplate the «massa damnata», the «great unleavened» with an infinite, a despairing compassion.
We believe in heaven, it seems, because we can not bear not to, because we are either too optimistic or too despairing to deny ourselves the consolation of looking forward to a blissful reunion with the loved ones we have lost.
In real life the sin of despairing of the forgiveness of sins is generally misunderstood, especially now that they have done away with the ethical, so that one seldom or never hears a sound ethical word.
After Jesus» despairing cry and the misunderstanding of some who thought he was calling upon Elijah, Mark and Matthew relate the offer of a sponge soaked with vinegar (Mk 15:36; Mt 27:48 - 49), recalling again Psalm 69:21.
Didn't kenny Rogers pen a song about wenger... The man is a joker can't stand seeing him on the bench any more sitting there like a giant Gallic slug in his stupid sleeping bag... Old tired arrogant failure... That's it really... just want him gone and whatever results determine that are fine with me... I can't believe the club I've supported over three decades has been brought to this state by an indifferent board and an idiot manager... It's utterly bizarre and despairing
Then Arteta tries to raise his boot where his head would have done and an unmarked Skrtel scores, next once again we have an unmarked Skrtel with Koscielny this time throeing a despairing leg at thin air.
Bursting with ideas on how to see past conventional strategies and adapt toilet training to suit your child, this book outlines methods that have helped even the most despairing of parents and caregivers.
Parents often liken it to an emotional roller coaster, with some days being exhilarating and others despairing.
And at the end, a solemn, almost despairing, coda on Blair's grappling with the democratic dilemma: Do you do what the people want?
But the instincts they brought with them - the commitment to the anti-hero, the despairing themes, the radicalism, dislike of authority and rain - drenched aesthetic - became part of the DNA of American comics.
And that aversion to objective truth is eating away at the left as well, with a whole generation now convinced of the despairing nihilism of Michel Foucault's philosophy — basically that our only truths are personal ones dependent on our place in time and power structures.
In the weekend press, we have Tristan Hunt despairing about the inability of the leadership candidates to offer a big picture alternative — in his view dealing with the trivia.
He is a passionate advocate, lambasting the medical and scientific professions for their narrow mindset regarding causes and treatments for cancer, despairing of the needless sacrifice of millions of people and animals with toxic and ineffective regimes.
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The great Trintignant now looks like the aging Picasso with more hair, and if his manner is sophisticated, his eyes gleam with hints of a knowledge too despairing to share.
He hasn't exactly shaken up his approach since 1988's «Damnation» (that said, this writer — probably like most — isn't familiar with his crop of»90s short films), and if despairing (yet deeply moving) minimalist films composed of stark black - and - white single takes doesn't tickle your fancy, this film won't change your mind.
It's not so much a crossover as a mosaic, and it sets out — among other impossible tasks — to shuffle the colourful, light - hearted hijinks of James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy films and Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok with the angstier, despairing, politicised tone of the Russo brothers» Captain America sequels, while at the same time reconciling the science - fictional and magical worlds of Iron Man, Black Panther, the Hulk and Dr Strange.
He has no awareness of the separate path that others are on, and although he pretends to laugh with the tourist, he looks visibly hurt and despairing.
Exceedingly grim, even despairing — so much so that Entertainment Weekly's Melissa Maerz publicly renounced it at midseason — «The Leftovers» begins weakly, with two diffuse, dour episodes that scarcely signal the remarkable, stricken work to come.
Having directed heavy and despairing dramas of note such as Crazy Heart and Out of the Furnace, he crafted a well - written script into a well - formed crime drama that competes with the best of its kind.
The film feels like a more optimistic take on Agnès Varda's Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond, 1985), with an ambiguous rather than despairing conclusion.
It would be a cultural study, see, this way to tie the death of the Sixties with a director who for me definitively speaks to the rises and valleys of that decade, and who paved the way for the despairing paranoia flicks of the 1970s.
One of them is an incisive, sober, sometimes despairing arthouse drama about the exhaustion of grappling with corporate sexism.
Bill's affable cynicism pairs well with Mildred's despairing nihilism, and the two share a clear admiration for each other that leads to surprising moments of tenderness.
It is almost as if the man who made a tv show about nothing but incessant talking wanted to make a bee movie with the same premise, but test screenings left the audience so despairing that scenes featuring Barry trying to stay alive within the machinery of a car or negotiating the impossibly complicated honey factory equipment had to be inserted to keep the children docile.
Normally this delay would spark even more angst than usual about how the awards season perennially makes the Oscars yesterday's news before they've even had a chance to weigh in with their nominations, but we aren't despairing.
Of the good cast, Elisabeth Shue is a standout as Riggs» wealthy, despairing wife, lock - jawed with good breeding.
Also facing daunting odds: the despairing detectives of AMC's dour The Killing (Sunday, 9 / 8c), who hit roadblocks wherever they turn, with vague witnesses, uncooperative guardians and a stubborn boss.
Sidney Lumet's Network (1976) with Peter Finch as a despairing newsman was a critical look at TV news, while Sydney Pollack's Absence of Malice (1981) told about an over-earnest journalist (Sally Field) and a wrongly - implicated defendant (Paul Newman).
As a despairing political allegory about crime and punishment (and how the latter doesn't always go with the former), Sisters is weirdly profound; as an exercise in thriller mechanics, it's limber and energizing, wrapping itself around a wonderfully stupid plot about separated Siamese twins (both played by Margot Kidder, one of whom is, naturally, a psycho killer).
On show here is the stunning cinematography (from regular Sorrentino DP Luca Bigazzo) and the kind of beautiful despairing decadence that Sorrentino had previously mined with «The Great Beauty.»
Bessie, despairing, took up permanent residence at the small hospital, never once straying from her husband's side, refusing to heed doctors» advice and get on with her life, shuddering each time she heard the vile e-word spoken.
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