Word: despairingly
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...that great war, Williams argues, the only cease-fires are the truces of love, in which two people give each other to each other in an affinity of body and spirit. For a brief moment, they are immune to the world's malice, corruption and despair. In a transport of ecstasy, they defy the cruel and inexorable laws of the universe. Inevitably, the war is resumed...
...defeat, however, is not the end of the road, but a bridge to a European integration. His departure will no doubt make progress in revitalizing the American-European Community. As such, all Western nations should support France to help replace despair with opportunity until good becomes better, and better becomes best. This is the only guarantee toward a monetary, economic and political stability in the Western world...
Such men inspire hope that the next stage in intellectual history will be a renewed sense of wholeness and the unity of knowledge. The time has come for intellectuals to study and teach that vision. What they should remember, though, is their own tendency to hope more innocently and despair more deeply than others. Flaubert had some good advice for intellectuals of every stripe: "By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself." That risk is unusually high among today's divided intellectuals; perhaps if they lowered their own idiocy level, the rest...
...characters and all that happens to them are projections of an interior morality play, more interesting, possibly, than what gets staged. This funny, racking battle between unseen angels and demons is what makes Malamud vibrate so faithfully to both the hope and the despair...
...CENTRAL feature of this devastating carnival is a game devised by Michael in which each person places a phone call to the one person "he has truly loved." As the characters take their turns, they simultaneously expose secret reserves of despair almost unbearable to watch...