Word: despairingly
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...fail to survive the staggering competition for entrance to top universities-100,000 this year-and go on to study on their own or attend high-priced cramming colleges to prepare for another feverish try. Ronin who have made three or four yearly attempts are not uncommon, and the despair of constant rejection often leads to suicide, the leading cause of death among Japanese between the ages...
...troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed but not in despair; persecuted but not forsaken; cast down but not destroyed...
...Trainer. Still, Hubert remained unabashed. He kept on talking, and criticizing, and introducing liberal bill after liberal bill. He suffered rebuke after rebuke, defeat after defeat. Finally, in despair, Humphrey took stock of himself. He had come to Washington to get things done. But his brashness, his refusal to kowtow to his Senate elders, were obviously rendering him ineffective. And late one night, in a moment of truth, Hubert Humphrey confided to a friend: "I'm going to stop kicking my foot against the wall...
...Paul denounced it by name. He called atheism "the most serious problem of our time." Yet he seemed to encourage keeping lines open to the Communists. "The Church should enter into dialogue with the world, in which she exists and labors," he wrote, and added that "we do not despair" that atheistic ideologies such as Communism might one day be able "to enter into a more positive dialogue with the Church...
What saves Scott's poems from sentimentality or empty despair is an astringent stoicism. One of his children breaks a shell that Scott has treasured since childhood...