Word: despairingly
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These children are "damaged," explains forensic psychologist Shawn Johnston. "They are in pain inside . . . acting out their pain on innocent victims. In the case of the Central Park beating, they picked a victim that was mostly likely to shock and outrage. That speaks to how deep their anger and despair...
...Upon arrest, police said, the boys joked and rapped and sang. Asked why he beat her head with a lead pipe, Yusef Salaam was quoted by investigators as saying "It was fun." The boys have not yet been taught to say they did it because of rage, pain and despair, because of the sins whites have visited upon them and their ancestors. But they will be taught. By trial time, they will be well versed in the language of liberal guilt and exoneration...
...toasted mush, and the elongated white cardboard containers that held the toasted mush so that one could make a game of trying to gnaw on the hot-dog mush without getting one's hands and face entirely covered with the dripping glop -- a game that, to one's parents' despair, one invariably lost...
...would be difficult to imagine the events of last week. There could hardly be more dramatic evidence of a break with the old thinking than the recent events in Poland. Solidarity leader Lech Walesa signing an agreement, smiling even, with Polish Communist officials. The union grew out of economic despair in 1980 and was crushed the next year by the imposition of martial law, one of the last ironfisted displays of Brezhnev-style authority...
Volodya has known his share of despair. Having drunk heavily since his teens, he says, "I thought I would never be able to stop. I went to clinics where I would dry out, but I could never stay sober. I felt I did not have what it takes to help myself. And then came the group. It was like a miracle...