Word: despairingly
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...spot on the ticket appears to be increasingly within the grasp of a talented and tainted Texan who can outdazzle either Republican-and just possibly the Democratic ticket as well. The prospect of John Connally as a candidate for Vice President evokes emotions ranging from outright delight to abject despair, for few politicians engender less neutrality than Connally, the millionaire international lawyer, former Governor and Treasury Secretary whose assets and liabilities are formidable...
...LYING, DESPAIR, JEALOUSY, ENVY, SEX, SUICIDE, DRUGS, AND THE GOOD LIFE...
Demonic Notion. The wrongheaded assumption that no possibility lies beyond the conscious will is, Farber convincingly suggests, the central and tragic mistake of the American Dream. People who actively pursue happiness practically doom themselves to lying, despair, jealousy, envy and the rest of the punishments on Farber's marquee...
...watch with respect, sympathy and anxiety-and sometimes almost with despair-as Americans endeavor to cope with the political and moral results of their own wealth-creating economic system, and to give international meaning to the principles laid down by the founding fathers of their nation...
...with love and hate, forgiveness and the lack of it, madness and death-the themes appropriate to Greek tragedy. But she must deal with them in the terms of the well-made suburban novel. Panic equals the rattle of father's ice cube in one-too-many martinis. Despair equals the hundred small ways a Christmas Day falls apart, even when the keys to a new Le Mans for Conrad lie under the tree. Loneliness gets spelled out in the instructions on a frozen TV dinner...