Word: despairingly
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...tells us. The small size of the Cabaret, the low ceilings, and the nightclub atmosphere have helped to create a good audience-performer rapport, and the singers have sung as if they were confiding in us and letting us share their frustrations. So when Brel's tone shifts from despair to hope in the final song, and the performers walk on stage holding hands and quietly singing "If We Only Had Love," we're completely taken in by the sentiment. Suddenly there is an antidote for all of the pain...
Extremely Sensitive. Both men credit their success to drudging pursuit of the facts. But it was their handful of well-connected informants that basically accounted for their success and was the envy of the Washington press corps ?and the despair of the White House. Foremost among their key sources was a man whom the authors still tantalizingly refuse to name. They called him "Deep Throat," and report only that he was a preWatergate friend of Woodward's, a trusted and experienced Executive Branch official with "extremely sensitive" antennae that seemed to pick up every murmur of fresh conspiracy...
...they are also wearying. The movie Conroy is unafflicted by the moments of despair that overtook the real one and made his efforts heroic. Finally fired for continually bucking the system, Conroy in his book had the grace to wonder if his intervention had not done more harm than good. Perhaps it was cruel to elevate hopes to a level impossible of realization...
Compounding the alarm?and further weakening faith in governments ?is the uncomfortable feeling that no one quite knows what to do about inflation. The experts themselves are not immune from this despair. In the U.S., John Dunlop, head of the Cost of Living Council, asserts: "I don't believe it is clear that mankind today knows how to control inflation...
Faced with all these pressures, some economists throw up their hands and contend that the best way to deal with inflation is to accept it as permanent and make adjustments to anesthetize the pain.* That is a counsel of despair. Such an approach tends to make, say, a 6% inflation rate officially acceptable?and, with that established as a base, other pressures will push the real rate...