People want these sorts of order with different degrees of necessity, secure them with different kinds of success, and, when they don't succeed, react to failure with different degrees of despair and disengagement.
Andy Murray has spent years wrestling with his emotions but after what he agrees has been the most tumultuous week of his career, he reckons he is in good mental shape to make a grab for the Australian Open title that has slipped through his fingers with varying degrees of despair in four finals.
"This method pushes Palestinian citizens to a certain degree of despair and frustration.
It's amazing the extent to which a football team can occupy someone's life, and the degree of despair and absorption involved.
At a brooding eight and a half minutes long and featuring a lengthy, vocal-free introduction, you can just imagine the degree of despair at Atlantic Records HQ over this supremely radio-unfriendly single.
MAYA RUDOLPH, a star of "Bridesmaids," opening May 13 Speed (1994) FOR people over a certain age (16) the phrase "summer movie" summons a mouth-drying dread, a degree of despair that is only exceeded by the phrase "summer movie season" -- an endless desert of the bloated and the moronic.
"It may very well be that in these countries at some point the population will say, 'We don't believe things will get better".' The degree of despair would have to be high to risk leaving the euro group, "but if things continue, if unemployment goes up to 30 percent," he added, "in Spain, there certainly is a danger that might happen".
Dr. Margo Maine, psychologist and co-author of "The Body Myth," writes, "The degree of despair we are seeing among adult women about their bodies is unrivaled," as the bar is set for many at physical perfection.
It is most valuable as a history of thought about the varying degrees of sadness and despair that have been consistently experienced from antiquity to the present day.
Set in the aftermath of the recent revolution and hinged on a woman of privilege, Reem (Menna Shalabi), who riskily crosses the class divide and tries to stir up revolutionary feeling in a destitute family, the movie is effectively a political argument come to dramatic life, with the characters embodying divergent views and degrees of commitment and despair.
