"To have such a sense of hopelessness, bleakness.
In the case of Vinter it was argued that his very hopelessness made him dangerous.
But Leviathan has been widely attacked at home: church groups have objected to its depiction of a corrupt Orthodox priest; the head of the town where it was shot complained that the film shows a "dirty, unwashed Russia"; and culture minister Vladimir Medinsky commented that films "with a sense of despair and hopelessness over our existence should not be financed with taxpayers' money".
The individual is left in a position of hopelessness whereby he cannot progress whatever occurs".
"The longer a conflict lasts, the more insecure [IDPs] feel and when hopelessness sets in, many will cross borders and become refugees," said Volker Türk, assistant high commissioner for protection at the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
This combination of hopelessness and hopefulness is hard to fathom for someone like me; I can find everything I need spiritually and materially in the city where I live, London.
There was never this sense of hopelessness, when you understand that everything that was good has already passed and now there will only be shit.
You see the complete hopelessness in the eyes [of enslaved people].
That sense of hopelessness hasn't featured in this election campaign, but I've heard much more of it travelling around London and Britain than any happy-clappy rubbish about "securing a brighter future".
You can sense the hopelessness of the poor masses.
This proved electrifying.It suited the ANC to make a messiah, and if necessary a myth, out of Mr Mandela, first to galvanise the masses at home, then to keep spirits up during the long years of repression, military impotence and political hopelessness.
