And indeed you know falling into despair is sometimes a c .... comfortable option.
It is very easy to give into despair when the odds are against you.
After her mother's death, Penny, too, felt as if she were being dragged into despair with the rest of her family.
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.
And the Pakistan squad was plunged into despair by the death of Woolmer, who died after collapsing at his hotel hours after the Ireland defeat.
The planets were out of kilter, and the letter writers knew in their anxious hearts that the country was sinking into despair and rage and desperate self-harm.
After a brief stint as a psychiatric hospital for children and teenagers in the 1980s, the building fell into despair in the late 1990s and sat vacant for years.
But joy was quickly turned into despair as "Shrek" -- as he is fondly known to his friends due to his gap-tooth smile -- failed to qualify for his first British Open at St Andrews in 2005.
But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.
But sometimes the music or what he was reading would all of a sudden cease to act on him or, worse, he would fall into despair or irritation, no longer able to see the bright horizon promised to him by music, by reading, by the art of imagination and the excitement of a sensitive heart.
It hurts to look into the despair on the children's faces, to see a toddler barefoot on the gravel.
Once places where desert aborigines came looking for work, they degenerated into pools of despair.
As Americans become more aware of the division of wealth among classes, they have turned their anger and despair into activism.
When I said goodbye to my son at freshman drop-off day, I was thrown into a black despair over how much I'd miss him.
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Relegation from the football league would sink the club into the depths of despair.
She said the changes proposed by her bill would help inform individuals of the full range of agencies able to support them "instead of allowing them to fall into the hands of some of the fee-charging companies who propel them into further debt and despair".
In brief, Werner Herzog has checked into New Orleans and metaphysical despair is loosed upon Bourbon Street.
Discuss the size of the European Union budget with him, and his face crumples into a picture of exaggerated despair.
But in the depths of despair a year into a yearned-for premiership that had misfired on most fronts, Mr Brown turned again to his former friend.
By committing to fiscal discipline, are member States making the current recession even worse, dragging Europe into a spiral of poverty and despair?
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"Faced with such horror, we are compelled to turn the despair in our hearts into unshakeable resolve that this will not happen to our children, " she said.
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His effort should have been gathered easily by Keller, but somehow he let the ball slip from his grasp and could only look on in despair as it trickled into the back of the net.
Down through the years I have seen despair and frustration evolve into optimism and progress and, even now, we must not abandon efforts to achieve permanent peace for Israelis and freedom and justice for Palestinians.
No doubt Chirac will take the vote as an invitation to do as he pleases, but for the French, who pride themselves on their logic, the next five years promise a descent into an abyss of cynicism, corruption and despair.
Such visions of despair tend to evaporate once you step into St.
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Despair for many Conservatives seeing themselves forced into third place in a seat they need to win to form a majority government in the future and by a party they now fear will rob them of that chance.
Christ was born into the Pagan world of Rome, a world of cyclical despair.
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It turns them into winners and transforms them into people who can never, ever be conquered by fear or despair ever again.
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Once the poster child for urban despair, New Orleans may develop a blueprint for turning a devastated region into a role model not only for other American cities but for struggling urban regions around the world.
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