Word: despairingly
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...fiercer an enemy than Ted Kennedy, whom Carter comfortably defeated here. A little jaded, Carter's workers take comfort in his recent upsurge in the national polls, and go through the motions, driven by the impossible dream of a New Hampshire upset. But their efforts are tinged with despair. They hope to see Walter Cronkite lift his eyebrows and declare, "In a tighter race than expected, Ronald Reagan barely held on to New Hampshire's three electoral votes...
...puts his mouth in gear before his brain is running. And that bothers me in a delicate foreign situation." What Andy would like is some way to protest the choices. After the candidates' names on the ballot, he'd like a "no preference" line to show his despair about the choices. Says he: "What we need now is a President. What we really need is a leader...
...abstract, his victories seem pyrrhic. By the end of his 17 essays, any reader will beg for a solution to the problems he has raised. Although each essay contains a trace of hope, Bell always falls short of an answer, or even advice, leaving the reader in despair...
...elation turned to despair," recalled harrier captain Becky Rogers, but she added, "We still ran a really good race. We kept on saying, 'If only we'd done a little better', but that's a destructive thing to do. I can still say we ran well...
...takes its cue from the camp surrealism of modern Germanic directors like Daniel Schmid and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg. More important, however funny-peculiar the plot, Union City tracks its characters' shabby lives and squalid passions so relentlessly that it becomes a portrait of lower-middle-class despair. And Lipscomb's performance is devastatingly acute. His gestures are just too broad, his harsh voice much too loud; Harlan's swagger and insecurity go hand in white-knuckled hand. Lipscomb throws himself into Harlan's impotent pettiness with a vigor that is sometimes hard to watch...