Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...always control, and, through his mother's family, a dash of mysticism sometimes resembling second sight. His physical and mental powers were not always in the happiest mutual adjustment: he became easily the prey of moods and fancies, and knew the alternations from wild gaiety of spirits to black despair. The firm moral consistency of Puritanism was always his, yet his playful remarks about belonging in a hospital for incurable children had a measure of truth in it also...
...shadow Huns have voices. Ghosts speak, but behind their words is neither substance nor reason, only terror and despair gasping a last few envenomed phrases, phrases lost in the great roar of the machinery they could not stop and the tramp, tramp, tramp of a million men. New York...
...those hopeless believers in despair who prefer at all costs to credit the worst, it is sufficient to say simply this: Either the camp is going to continue in practical conformation to original schedule or not. If it is, they have nothing to worry about, for they will get what they expected. If it isn't they have either learned a great deal which is of unforgettable value, or they haven't. If they have, they have nothing to worry about, for they are the possessors of wisdom. If they haven't, they are incontestably stupid, and would learn nothing...
...only remains to add that the lady, on receiving a conjugal salute from her husband on the morning of her birthday, remarks in a voice of utter despair: "Triste baiser...
...play deals with the problem of the punishment of the innocent and the security and immunities of the wicked. It attempts to solve the problem through the sufferings of Job but gives up in despair...