Search results for "Despair" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • When Pandora opened the box, all suffering and despair was unleashed upon humankind, and Zeus had finally taken his revenge. == Worship == ...
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  • began to starve. The Lakota, in a state of great despair, began to look to a radical solution to their on-going problems. ===New religious movement=== ...
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  • help" and attention, or to express despair and the wish to escape, ... painful? Chagrin, remorse, melancholy, despair, have they disfigured to ...
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  • distant dream? To answer 'Yes' is to despair of the future of mankind.Philip John Noel-Baker, [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1959/noel ...
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  • century without falling into pessimism and despair. His plays, at times fiercely ironic, and at times heartrendingly sincere, are among the most ...
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  • From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair. New York, NY: Public Affairs ... * Williams, T. David. 1978. Malawi, the Politics of Despair. Ithaca ...
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  • point, the individual faces a choice: sink into despair and resignation, or take a leap of faith toward what Jaspers calls Transcendence. In making ...
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  • alone by her yangban husband. Often in despair she poured out her sorrows ... suspicions and abuse. Thus imprisoned, her despair had deepened…. On a blossoming ...
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  • 039;Neil's plays is a sense of hopeless despair rooted in the loss of meaning in the modern world. Without a clear sense of meaning and purpose, ...
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  • as she brought beauty, sensibility, anguish, and despair to life through Juliet. The success of Romeo and Juliet led Ulanova to focus on ballets ...
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  • duhkha. Sorrow, lamentation, dejection, and despair are duhkha. Contact with unpleasant things is duhkha, and separation from what one wishes is duhkha ...
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  • rises on the force of hope out of the depths of his despair. His cowardice is replaced by courage. The rigid bonds of his selfishness are broken down ...
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  • of that liberalism, he nonetheless expressed some despair over its failure to address the threat of Soviet tyranny. Seeing socialism as a natural ally ...
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  • women lift de Pisan up from her despair over the misogyny prevalent in her time. Together, they create a forum to speak on issues of consequence ...
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  • and detained at the queen's pleasure. In despair, Defoe wrote to William Paterson, founder of the Bank of England, who was in the confidence ...
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  • was the presence of unresolved emotions of despair, grief, sorrow, anger and ... Through "Despair and Empowerment Work" and more recently ...
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  • tone in some of Frost's poetry, with notes of despair, isolation, and endurance of hardship suggesting the personal turmoil of the poet. ...
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  • from his betrayal of Christ, but from the despair which caused him to subsequently ... on earth. Eventually he succumbs to the sin of despair. ...
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  • married Olga Šplíchalová (Olga Havlová) to the despair of his mother. David Remnick, [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030217fa_fact1 ...
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  • tends toward love as a source of torment and despair rather than happiness. In this regard, Cavalcanti is perhaps the most realistic of all his fellow ...
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