Word: despairingly
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After the venture failed, those who made their way back to Petit-Trou found a very different village from the one they left. Before the expedition the town was tense, fearful, expectant. Today it is hollow and listless, its surviving residents thin with despair. In the past three months no mail has been delivered and no trucks have arrived with supplies. There are no stores, no cars, no doctors. There are no books in the schools, which doesn't matter because most parents can no longer afford to send their children. The hospital has ceased to function, and the only...
...into walking, don't despair; the trusty T can take you to most spots on the various trails...
...while he found Volodya abandoned at the Moscow railway station -- together with thousands of other youngsters who have turned the terminal into a street urchin's paradise. Once victimized by the violent gangsters and pimps who control the sex trade, most children end up addicted to alcohol or drugs. Despair is the norm; suicide is common...
...What may be less familiar is the film's unsparing honesty. Tom, who talks freely and candidly to the camera before he cannot talk at all, swerves from petulance (left alone in the car while Mark does some household errands: "We were gonna go right home!") to nearly unbearable despair ("I feel so empty, and I feel so pointless, and I have so much trouble remembering anything good I've done...
...South Africa for 30 years, has perhaps the most visceral connection to the story: while covering the unrest after Mandela's 1990 release from jail, he was struck with police bird shot, and the pellets are still embedded in his chest. "South Africans swing between moods of deep despair and cautious hope," says Hawthorne. "This week hope is again ascendant." It seems optimism comes from a place too deep for any firearm to reach...