• But the rhetoric with which she expresses her despair and revulsion around motherhood is perhaps less familiar.

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  • Brenda Heist sat, in her despair and isolation, crying on a park bench.

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  • After Laura's death, a note telling of her despair at the prospect of being separated from her friend was discovered.

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  • Clearly, something terrible had happened to Firestone, but it was not her despair alone that led Millett to choose this passage.

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  • There are some first-rate people in the EEAS. But the stories of chaos in her entourage and despair among her subordinates are worryingly commonplace.

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  • Isabella Swan (Kristen Stewart), a lovely, slender, self-possessed high-school junior, moves to a new school in rainy Washington State and sees a tall, inordinately pale boy, Edward Cullen (the square-jawed Robert Pattinson), glowering at her in despair.

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  • After her mother's death, Penny, too, felt as if she were being dragged into despair with the rest of her family.

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  • Further down the same line, a woman who gives her name only as Marie is in despair.

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  • She looked at her with wild eyes, her face eaten away by who knows what despair.

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  • After his two losers, Jack (Peter Beard) and Leo (Martin Greenbaum), spend seven years courting the same woman, Vera (each has his own version of her, played by different actresses), she runs off with a third man, and her jilted suitors head for the wilderness in raucous despair to live out a survivalist fantasy that joins Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway to Charlie Chaplin, W. C.

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  • Titania could not conceive of the way they were made, except as distillations of sadness and heartbreak and despair, since that was how she made her own poisons, shaking drops of terror out of a wren captured in her fist, or sucking with a silver straw at the tears of a dog.

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  • Although Mr Rudd drove many to despair, the brutal manner of his exit has left her with problems.

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  • But instead of sinking into despair, Serlin started looking for a way to feed her two young children and keep a roof over their heads.

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  • She was a drifter, moving in a miasma of angry despair in and out of speakeasies and other people's beds because her father had refused to let her go to college, even though she'd won a full scholarship to Sarah Lawrence, and even though he would certainly have let her brother go.

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  • Her contention, supported it seems by a leading hiring site, is that techno-despair is a global trend.

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  • Above all, she was struck by the spirit of the poor of the Deep South and her pictures capture not just their suffering but also their dogged refusal to give way to despair.

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  • Angelina Jolie won best supporting actress for her work in "Girl, Interrupted, " a film based on a true story of mental treatment, despair and struggle.

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