Such contradictions, Wood says, help explain our perpetual grapple with the Founders' ideas, "our despairing effort to make them one with us, to close that terrifying gap that always seems to exist between them and us".
Like the other two works, "Miriam's Flowers" wants to be suspended in the ether, but despite Mr. Anzuelo and Ms. Ríos, who is almost supernatural as a woman in a frantic, despairing effort to channel her grief, it is still anchored by old-fashioned American pretentiousness.
Despairing of efforts to protect privacy in the face of the approaching technological deluge, David Brin, an American physicist and science-fiction writer, proposes a radical alternative its complete abolition.
In a moment of despair, after every effort to save my wife had failed, her mother pulled me aside.
Two years later, however, with the uprising transformed into an armed insurgency, drawing strength in part from jihadist groups, even some staunch opponents of the government, like the Aleppo blogger who writes as Edward Dark, have started to despair of the effort to unseat the president through force.
Medics in eastern Aleppo spoke of their despair at international efforts to alleviate their suffering and anger at the continued assault on the population.
Some officials in the Finance Department itself, as well as the expert whom Ms. Stark hired this year to help overhaul the agency, but who then quit in despair, say her efforts have been timid or, worse, counterproductive.
"There's been anger and rage as a result of this hurt, and some young people teeter on the brink of despair, thinking that efforts to evangelize won't work because of the scandal, because of this evil, and because the Church has lost some credibility because of this," McGrady said.
Steven Whittaker played a great ball into the channel for Redmond and the England Under-21 winger struck home a low effort past a despairing Konstantopoulos to send one end of Wembley into an unexpectedly early ecstasy.
Neither side settled for a point, however, and Manset popped up with seconds remaining to tap a sneaky effort past the despairing James from McAnuff's centre to claim all three for the Royals.
Carrick's despairing lunge then blocked Danny Graham's goalbound effort as the home side's pressure grew in the final 20 minutes.
