Word: despairingly
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...grim events which have compelled the exodus of those millions from East Bengal. I have come here looking for a deeper understanding of the situation in our part of the world, in search of some wise impulse which, as history tells us, has sometimes worked to save humanity from despair...
...teau at Verières-le-Buisson. not far from Paris, beginning a period of almost carefree happiness. Then tragedy struck, as it had so many times in Malraux's life. The day after Christmas in 1969, Louise suddenly died of a heart attack. Malraux's despair was such, relates one of the Vilmorin family, that "every morning we wondered if we would find him alive...
...author comments in a prefatory note to what, among other things, is a murder story. The "arrested violence" of Torregreca- all the bottled-up, soured passion-has exploded here. In the explosion, Miss Cornelisen's wryly fond exasperation with her mountain folk darkens into something like their own despair...
...more. At one point, he brings the bar owner, the only character with roots to his "confessional." The bar owner says that he is content running a small place with a steady profit and with hearing the confessions of his regulars, but he ends his speech with a quiet despair disguised as complacency: "I'll die in the night and I hope it don't wake me up, that I just slip away, quietly." Something is drastically wrong with the whole fabric of society; the bar's one contact with the outside world all evening comes when the doctor goes...
When I returned from Washington after last week's depressing protest, a guy in one of my classes assured me of his deep opposition to the war, but said he questioned the efficacy of the tactics of current antiwar protests. A despair over tactics, a feeling that we aren't getting anywhere, has logically become stronger as the was has continued. Any demonstration observed alone appears in retrospect to have accomplished nearly nothing...