The Lift album was the work of a mad genius, a conceptual record about Texas being the rock of the world when the apocalypse comes; Elbow's was personal, deeply moving and hopeful.
As poems, they're pared-back, unadorned – and deeply, breathtakingly, heart-catchingly hopeful.
He also realizes that he is free in a way his father never was, a revelation that strikes him as "both deeply tragic and extremely hopeful".
He's sanguine about questions of success and recognition, and strikes me as a man whose writing is intensely hopeful and deeply understanding about the nature of despair.
These and so many other Campbell hits — "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife," "Where's the Playground Suzie," "It's Only Make Believe," and "Rhinestone Cowboy," among others — identify as rural and Southern, but with strong middle-American appeal, hopeful but deeply melancholy.
These and so many other Campbell hits—"Dreams of the Everyday Housewife," "Where's the Playground Suzie," "It's Only Make Believe," and "Rhinestone Cowboy," among others identify as rural and Southern, but with strong middle-American appeal, hopeful but deeply melancholy.
I felt so hopeful and deeply grateful.
The Chilean enters and he stays there, hopeful and deeply grateful.
Always thoughtful, hopeful, compassionate, he cared deeply about his family and the environment.
Although her expression was hopeful, as she sat deeply in the couch, her patience was wearing thin.
