Word: despairingly
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Keenan's kit includes paradox and irony. "In the most inhuman of circumstances men grow and deepen in humanity," he writes. "In the face of death but not because of it, they explode with passionate life, conquering despair with insane humour." For the better part of his lost 4 1/2 years, Keenan's straight man was the British television journalist John McCarthy...
...That paper on Dickens's use of irony is due in but scant hours, yet Bleak House is sitting on the shelf untouched. Some students, facing this predicament, might throw their arms up in despair. Those in the know, however, don't sweat it--they simply reach for the trusty black and yellow stripes...
...cute kids, their mother dead, their father sunk in despair. A splendid white horse who adopts them. Cruel adults who try to separate boys and steed. A comical-adventurous attempt by the innocents to escape their wicked -- or at least unfeeling -- oppressors...
...existence, seize every opportunity to proclaim that they do not yet trust each other. Trust will grow only if each successive step leads to a measurably better life -- primarily for Palestinians but also for Israelis. If it does not, Hamas and other extremists will thrive on the poverty and despair. Some Israelis euphorically predict that peace will almost automatically make their economy blossom. "I see a good chance of Israel becoming the Singapore of the Middle East, a place where multinational companies will set up their technological and marketing headquarters for the region," says Gillerman. So far, these companies have...
...greatest threat. An acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement that literally means "zeal," Hamas wants nothing less than the destruction of the Jewish state, followed by the establishment of an Islamic Palestine as a precursor to a greater pan-Arab union. The organization was born in the misery and despair of the teeming refugee camps of the Gaza Strip five years ago, two months after the beginning of the intifadeh. Within three years the fundamentalists that the Israelis had once allowed to exist as a counterbalance to the P.L.O. were outlawed as the most serious security problem in the occupied territories...