Word: despairingly
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...well as the passing of a time when everybody of consequence in England knew everybody else-and an unbelievably clubbable lot they were. Nicolson casually notes, for example, that he popped in on Anthony Eden at the time of the Sudetenland crisis and found Eden in despair but still unable to make up his mind about what he would do. Nicolson was horrified at Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler, and he gives a vivid picture of the discord it caused among his upper-crust friends. When Chamberlain announced that he was making a second trip to Munich, he noted...
...told the nurse to let her in. Through the day, Jackie refused to change from her blood-spattered clothes so that, as Manchester quotes her, "they can see what they've done." Another section that disturbed Jackie was Manchester's account of her feeling of emptiness and despair when she went to bed at the White House on the night of the assassination. In helpless, futile anguish, she tore at the pillow that night...
...fashioned butter churn. That is the conclusion to be drawn from the 148 sculptures chosen for New York's Whitney Museum annual, which opened last week. One newspaper critic was driven to suggest that a young sculptor, viewing the exhibit, might want to cut his throat in despair. Actually, the pulse of contemporary sculpture, as recorded by the Whitney's new curators, may be measured to the point of monotony but it is strong and rhythmic...
...looking over works, many shown in the current retrospective, Leymarie recalls Picasso's exclaiming, half in frustration, half in despair: "How can a spectator live a picture the way I have lived it? How can anyone enter my dream, my instincts, my desires, my thoughts? Above all, seize what I put into them, perhaps against my own will...
Since 1925, Figaro has been housed in an ornate town house on the Champs-Elysees that is the delight of tourists but the despair of newsmen. Some of the staff enjoy the luxury of spacious salons; others are cooped up in maids' rooms under the eaves. Within La Maison, as it is affectionately called, a hierarchy of sorts is maintained. An ordinary reporter is known as "notre collaborateur." A slightly more important reporter is called "notre excellent collaborateur." And a member of the French Academy is honored with the title "notre excellent...