Fontaine's death reignited anger and despair at the thousands of missing and murdered women in Canada, and prompted fresh calls for a federal inquiry into the matter.
Swollen ranks of missing and chronically jobless workers are the human equivalent of idled factories — a waste of resources, a diminution of wealth, and a sign of despair.
Not just Sophie and her illness, which is related in lyrically poignant prose, but also – and here I must be careful not to give away those tingling twists of plot – Zoe, whose past is an orgy of death and despair; Tom, whose missing front teeth are a constant reminder of his missing family; and Kate, whose bland amiability is the response to a catalogue of traumas recent and ancient.
However, he said that the contract was less important than the feeling of despair left by missing out on being the first Hibs team to lift the cup in 110 years - and in the first Edinburgh derby final since 1896.
They certainly will not care that the play-off final was a low-quality spectacle and that, after 120 goalless minutes, they were pushed to the brink of despair as they missed their first three penalties in an epic shootout.
Teel shook his head at the 45, but he did not despair at a missed chance for points in the first half of the Papajohns.com Bowl.
The album cover was designed by Slayer's longtime collaborator Larry Carroll and features Christ in a "sea of despair", with amputated arms, missing an eye, while standing in a sea of blood with severed heads.
Ought we to despair of utopias?
He seems to despair of himself daily.
I do despair of politicians.
