Word: despairingly
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...Hall could have, and should have, contacted more faculty members directly before the meeting. But I do not agree that we represented, even in part, a group of students who make a "fetish of intolerance," "turn a debatable view of history into dogma," or engage in the "tactics of despair...
...tolerance are at times "re-pressive," make a fetish of intolerance, turn a debatable view of history into a dogma, and convince themselves that their identification with the oppressed and the damned of the earth makes of them an equally oppressed group, entitled there fore to the tactics of despair. We cannot allow them either to believe that they have a monopoly on moral fervor and political ardor, or to think that their aims (many of which I share) justify their antics...
...admirer of France's Charles de Gaulle, but now that I learn the poor man is so out of step with the 20th century as to think that the way to solve his country's financial difficulties is to reduce expenditures below income, I must really despair of his ever restoring his beloved country to its former glory. Hasn't the dummy ever even heard of refinancing...
...revolution. For ideology, they look to its apostle, Frantz Fanon, the late Martinique-born Negro psychiatrist, who preached in The Wretched of the Earth that for oppressed and colonized people of the world "violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect...
Foetus Crouch. Bacon, of course, makes no bones about the fact that the obsessive subject of his paintings is homosexual despair. He argues, however, that the despair he has observed among heterosexuals amounts to more or less the same thing. Certainly the horror and fascination with which some viewers respond to his works seem to support his contention...