On a more general theme, "Ballad of Hollis Brown" and "North Country Blues" addressed despair engendered by the breakdown of farming and mining communities.
Abroad, it seems, we can do much more to fight terrorism by addressing the despair inherent in poverty.
We know the media will either ignore you or frame the issue as to who may be getting pepper sprayed rather than addressing the despair and hardships borne by so many, or accurately conveying what this movement is about.
Sitting on a carved stool, he shared his doubts about whether, after 10 years of creating dances, he had danced at all: whether his contemporary mixes of words and movement, most of them explicitly addressing the despair-inducing recent history of his country, were too topical, too wordy, to count as dance as his ancestors understood it.
A "short-term" jobs program would address the despair and hopelessness of some 14 million Americans now left jobless.
In interviews prior to this season's première, the creators were open about their desire to address the despair Trump had brought.
Still, most of the two dozen or so people who spoke at the three-hour forum adopted tones of aggravation and even despair in addressing the FEMA representatives and other officials at the meeting, which was led by City Councilman Alan J. Gerson and Representative Carolyn B. Maloney of Manhattan.
What's the difference between me and them?" He ends his heart-rending description of destitution, homelessness and despair by quietly addressing people like us who, from our comfortable homes and offices, keep proclaiming, "'Human rights, human rights'.
Women frequently have more babies to replace the children they have lost, and Webb acknowledges that addressing this particular spiral of despair is "an area we really do need to work on, where we do not have the resources in place".
Lyrically, it's their most insular work yet, with Lambton addressing his own feelings of despair and isolation as well as his steps toward recovery, which he acknowledges is a lifelong process.
Can a new address turn despair into hope, resignation into purpose?
