Prisoners would find reasons for hope or despair in the smallest things, leading to painful emotional swings.
But as hard as it may be, we should not, and cannot, give in to cynicism or despair.
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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This book is so good that rivals in the field will, like this reviewer, put it down not knowing whether to feel inspiration or despair.
News Corporation executives speak with bemusement or despair of the boss's obsession with what goes in his papers, down even to the placement of stories.
Or not despair when they see that the cities and countryside are in need of repair, yet find themselves threatened by scarcities of the resources that sustain their way of life.
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.
At which point higher-minded Americans will either despair or go apoplectic.
Some scenes made me feel waves of despair or elation before I recognized I was mirroring the emotions in the game -- truly a sign of an immersive experience.
Pino Arlacchi, its last executive director, was eased out after an auditors' report exposed serious mismanagement, and a lot of other top staff have either departed in despair or been pushed out.
The mood is not yet reminiscent of 2000-style euphoria or 2008-style despair.
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Many of us face moments of overwhelming despair, whether mentally ill or not.
It is also worth noting that in order for mean-reversion-based strategies to work, it is not required that the mean be realized for long periods of time, but that markets continue to behave as they always have, swinging pendulum like between the depths of despair and irrational exuberance , or, from risk-on to risk-off.
And then one afternoon a jury says, 'not guilty' -- or a hurricane hits New Orleans -- and that despair is revealed for the world to see.
Cops don't do well when they can't control their situation or the source of their depression, and they begin to despair when they see that their problem -- the "critical incident" -- is never-ending.
Young people can be embraced as partners in shaping their societies, or they can be excluded and left to simmer in frustration and despair.
Although bitter, resentful and full of despair, they see others, often the former boss or supervisor, as the people who are to blame for their miserable existence.
Somehow, contrary to what every consumer with an Android phone, iPad or unfathomable access to diverse programming content experiences every day, they find nothing but misery and despair.
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Perhaps it is a journey toward the dying city of the gods, or perhaps it is some other story entirely that simply takes place during the same moment of despair.
Not from an inadvertent glance or a yearning gaze did Orpheus lose Eurydice forever, but from an act of renunciation born of existential despair.
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.
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