Word: despairingly
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...overreaching rhetoric may be as ready as the experts to settle on the step-by-step changes that draw on both liberal and conservative perceptions. These changes promise not to cure but to help. They constitute a pragmatic program that Americans should support, not merely because of their despair over the present situation but because making justice faster and firmer will also make it fairer...
...speeches droned endlessly on, the white-haired scientist turned in despair to a fellow dinner guest and sighed: "I have just got a new theory of eternity." Albert Einstein's ennui at a function of the National Academy of Sciences was hardly unusual. Though the prestigious organization likes to consider itself the supreme court of American science, it has all too often resembled other self-perpetuating honor societies, like baseball's Hall of Fame or Hollywood's Oscar judges...
...people? Our farmers own their land. Our workers can buy shares in factories. We will have popular elections soon. Studies are free. We are subsidizing food. They have nothing to sell, so they take recourse in this disgusting method of terror. They are not human. What motivates them? Despair. They are Marxists, and they know they cannot sell this ideology. And they are outlawed in our country. There are only maybe 100 or 150 of them, but they will never be finished as long as we have international subversion. One organization is liquidated, and another is formed...
...terms with the secular world; they embraced the belief that God had become incarnate on earth in the person of Jesus Christ, as well as the Jewish idea of a "good" creation. It was the world-hating Gnostics, says Robinson, who "expressed most clearly the mood of defeatism and despair that swept the ancient world...
Today Gnosticism survives as a living religion only among the Mandaean marsh dwellers of Iraq. But Robinson believes that the Gnostic world view has had a kind of underground existence throughout Western civilization, surfacing in such classics of existential despair as Albert Camus' The Stranger as well as among today's alienated youths. Says Robinson: "The Gnostics were colossal dropouts who opted for an otherworldly escape...