The problems are daunting but, as for Africa as a whole, despair is no more use than callous indifference.
Nevertheless, he said he visited his son four days ago and the man appeared fine and gave no hint of the despair that could drive him to take his own life.
As historian of science Stanley Jaki spent his life documenting, the pagan world view was one of endless cycles, of oscillations, of rise and fall, golden ages of glory, bronze ages of decline, iron and stone ages of despair, with no genuine permanent progress.
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No reasonable person can imagine how despair could possibly lead to premeditated mass homicide.
For if a new wrapping machine did not operate as efficiently as anticipated, or if a slogan failed to capture the imagination of shoppers, there would be no escape from shuttered houses and despair in the suburbs of nearby Verviers.
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.
Mel Gibson, who has not taken a leading role not in the movies, anyway for quite some time, returns looking older but no less determined, with an uncomfortable hint of despair.
Dr Subhadra Menon is Head, Communication, The Public Health Foundation of India and author of No Place to Go: Stories of Hope and Despair from India's Ailing Health Sector, published by Penguin Books.
It means that no child should be left to drown in conflict and despair.
With no money to go around Greeks now face shortages and despair.
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Even so the bet must be that the Greeks reluctantly, sullenly, will go along with new austerity but I have sensed a despair that last year just wasn't there and no-one knows where that will lead.
Because there was no hope and the situation was so frightening, I was between hope and despair, between life and death.
In January 2011, when my 9-month-old son, Ronan, was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, an always-fatal illness with no treatment, I needed a way to give order to my rage, confusion and despair, all of which compelled me to write.
Consider that we already grasp, no matter how much we wish to deny it, that even a victory under those conditions traces back to despair, if despair is our point of departure.
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