In his final book, "What It Means to Be a Democrat," released last November, he despairs of an "insidious" political atmosphere in Washington while trying to rally Democrats against "extremism" in the Republican ranks.
Months of crisis have created an atmosphere where despair and resignation alternate with anger and fear.
AN ATMOSPHERE of despair prevails in the village of Shinwari, close to Nangahar province's border with Pakistan.
Egyptian political élites, unlike the makers of street opinion, do not suggest that Israel, either alone or in concert with American extremists, carried out the attacks, but they blame Israel for creating an atmosphere of despair which leads to terrorism.
It's set in a cafe after it's closed and it's about love and despair; there's an atmosphere of abandonment, it's late at night, they shouldn't be there.
The point of these clashing styles is clear enough — when they're not in the air, these characters feel flat in every sense — and yet the film, poised between pastoral lyricism and urban despair, generates an uncanny atmosphere that's not easy to shake.
The chaos after the abduction in which the Administration of Goodluck Jonathan, who was then the President, failed to publicly acknowledge the kidnapping until two weeks after it happened and Buhari's failure to locate them despite a campaign vow to do so have created an atmosphere of despair, confusion, and suspicion.
And here, too, at the heart of the Telegraph's report of stark choices at Harrogate, was the observation that a record attendance and Michael Howard's performance stood "in stark contrast to the atmosphere of despair that gripped the Tories under Iain Duncan Smith".
This only adds to the atmosphere of despair in the comic.
