She provides a front-row seat to the early-twentieth-century social-justice movements and to the scene in New York City, and she writes plainly and frankly about her own dealings with the despair, sadness, and, especially, the loneliness that she sees at the core of the basic human struggle.
I believe the audience can still relate to the despair, sadness, danger and joy.
"That you're always dealing with despair, sadness, injury, things that are really quite troubling.
The young child's reaction to such a loss is parallel to the grief reaction of an older person, with progressive changes from protest (crying and searching) to despair, sadness, and withdrawal from communication or play, and finally detachment from the original relationship and recovery of social and play activities.
As a Hospice and Palliative Care R.N. with over 20 years of experience and more than half of that dedicated to providing direct care for our senior population, I have frequently witnessed the despair, sadness and loneliness in their lives due to strained finances, high medical bills, decline of their health and mobility and even dementia as they contend with daily decisions and activities.
He turns despair into sadness and softens bitter into wry.
As the days passed and the survivors became fewer and fewer, despair and sadness set in across the city.
The songs are filled with more despair, more sadness, more triumph, more faith in the supernatural, much deeper feelings".
Songs of American blacks frequently expressed despair and sadness over the oppressed labourer's plight (e.g., "What's the use of working so hard in the morning?/ My gal works in a white man's yard").
Although my book would be filled with depression, despair and sadness (because that's where my life was), I knew no one would want to read it – unless I made it funny!
