Word: despairingly
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...paying plenty of attention to them, both to their excesses and to the underlying causes of their despair, if despair it is. In fact, some observers believe that the radical movement in the U.S. has passed its peak. Harvard's Seymour Lipset notes that "terrorism can mark either the beginning or the end of a movement...
Beirut, maintains that there are two ways to view the terrorist. "The sympathetic approach holds that the individual is overcome by despair that he will ever accomplish anything by conventional means, and one implication is the severance of the last ethical link with established values in society." The hostile approach, he says, is to "see a common denominator in childhood experience, psychic debility or even derangement...
...their lives in several versions while attempting to choose the right dress (role), and end up, I guess, where a lot of us are now. Mary gives in, for a while at least, smiling and twisting as the men chant, "Pose, Smile. Change," again and again. Aili screams in despair...
Buckley the candidate softly rakes "the voices of doubt and despair," claims to rap with the Silent Majority, curries the hardhat vote and?essential to his Nixon-Agnew support?promises to vote with Republicans in organizing the Senate...
...naked, with drooling fang and club at the ready. Dealing in the artifices of well-made verse and well-made novel, she convincingly suggests that the overcivilized and the barbarous are one. Yet the Atwood message is beyond formulated pessimism; it has the rhythmic cycling of hope and despair natural to life itself. A lyricism as honest as a blade of grass in a boulder's crack keeps thrusting through. And so marriage, under the toughest scrutiny by Atwood the novelist, eventually is seen by Atwood the poet as "the edge of the receding glacier" where we crouch- where...