With subjects of despair, prayer and redemption by spiritual dissolve, the work craves intimacy.
The shock of President-elect Donald Trump's triumph is reverberating around the media world, with editorial columns ranging from disbelief ("Absorbing the Impossible") to despair ("A prayer for America").
Angels by the River is an antidote against despair and a prayer for action". A turn to the animal is underway in the humanities, most obviously in such fields as philosophy, literary studies, cultural studies, and religious studies.
We must not despair, always be in prayer; And we must never slack the pace.
In interviews this week between sessions, these bishops said that prayer pulls them through, despair is not an option, and in time it is possible to see measurable results.
The aunts, in despair, send a kite with a prayer on it up to the sky asking God to make Lu Sing a good girl.
The buzz: "A four-piece from Bristol who write moving, naked prayers to despair and resignation" – Music Broke My Bones.
And so the diarist's dread came to be described as hope, her terror as courage, her prayers of despair as inspiring.
The donor who commissioned the work, George, duke of Saxony, kneels in prayer in the foreground with glum despair on his unshaven face.
Or the pride that thrills thro' my heart's despair And the hope that comforts the anguish of prayer?
