Word: despairingly
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...ideal way to "put a mantle of Christianity" over the lonely crowd of the modern city. "Half of Sydney's population has lost all contact with the church," he says. "The problems emerging from the city cover the whole gamut of human need, from plain loneliness to suicidal despair." Since the Centre opened, the switchboard has taken more than 15,000 calls-including 90 from people who were threatening suicide. "We haven't lost one of them," says the Centre's director, Peter Stokes...
...German obit writers remembered to mention that he was a U.S. citizen who had not lived in his homeland for 25 years. His works stand as a crown to the German baroque tradition, and in his early music especially, there is an almost impressionistic reflection of the anarchy and despair that gripped Germany after World War I. He wrote within a range of dark emotions that makes much of his music seem alien and bitter-but it is historically accurate as well...
Since Shakespeare's only patron was the young Earl of Southampton-a delicately hued blond boy who for years was the despair of his family because he took no interest in girls-the sonnets might seem, to any reasonable man, to have been written to him. Ah, but wait. They are prefaced with a dedication signed T. T., addressed to W. H., "the only begetter of these poems...
...town has a notorious record of police brutality. I don't agree that there has to be violence in the future, but this will depend on events. For instance, if a filibuster in Congress stands in the way of meaningful legislation, the Negro could be driven to despair and violence...
...family, King developed from his earliest years a raw-nerved sensitivity that bordered on self-destruction. Twice, before he was 13, he tried to commit suicide. Once his brother, "A. D.," accidentally knocked his grandmother unconscious when he slid down a banister. Martin thought she was dead, and in despair ran to a second-floor window and jumped out-only to land unhurt. He did the same thing, with the same result, on the day his grandmother died...