Definition of hopelessness | Bee Dictionary of English

I don't care if we're talking No Country for Old Men or the more recent, low-budget hopelessness of Snow Angels the seasoned moviegoer settles in for a long trek in a pickup .
He and his people have struggled all their lives with the audacity of hopelessness.
It's because of Kim Rivers that this record of hopelessness and heroism exists.

It's Time to Stop Thinking of Donal Logue as "That Guy"
Finding himself in South Central L.A. in the early '90s, working as a janitor and seeking sobriety through volunteer work, Donal Logue wasn't really thinking of acting. He'd been in a couple TV movies before moving to California, sure, but the hopelessness of the Hollywood scene had put him in a bad enough place that a turkey sandwich at the end of the day was a blessing. [ more › ]
June 10, 2013 - Austinist
Weight Loss: You cannot hate yourself to your goal
As a weight coach, I often see clients who live in a painful and awkward state of both desperation and hopelessness. They would do anything to be living their goal weight and often verbally beat on th
June 9, 2013 - The Conroe Courier
James Agee lost manuscript becomes new book
Covered in poverty and cloaked by hopelessness, sharecrop cotton farmers in Alabama were discovered by a Knoxville poet-journalist in the summer of 1936. It was life-altering, and neither the journalist nor the wraithlike people of forlorn cotton fields were ever the same again.
June 7, 2013 - Knoxville News Sentinel

President Bush in Reuters
We will continue to cooperate against these extremists who offer nothing but violence and hopelessness,Bush said in a statement.
Barack Obama in Washington Times
We can't continue with the drift, with the increased fear and resentments on both sides, the sense of hopelessness,Mr. Obama said. "We need to get this thing back on track."
John McCain in Detroit Free Press
We rejected the audacity of hopelessness, and we were right,McCain said, a play on the title of Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope."

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