He now lives under house arrest in a state of despondency, according to the book.
In a letter to Hemingway, whom he'd met at the Ritz bar shortly after the liberation of Paris, he wrote that he'd been "in an almost constant state of despondency".
Even if most Greeks accept that the over-budgeted Athens Olympics played a huge role in leaving their country bankrupt and bereft, the London Games was meant to be a pleasant diversion from the quotidian worries that have left many in a state of despondency and despair.
After a matter of months, though, he was prompted to take it up in "a state of retrospective despondency… It all came back to me, if possible even sharper than before, the misery of my life before winning the Man Booker prize".
"The Taliban and the jihadi elements are very much opposed to Shiites, and this suits their double purpose of destabilizing the state while creating despondency amongst the people, and especially the Shiite," said Talat Masood, a retired Pakistani general and military analyst.
Camera-ready and compulsively perky — she has twice appeared on Bill Maher's "Real Time" panel as a token conservative — she nonetheless lapses into despondency when talking about her party's current state of denial.
My despondency about the future of our country..
His refusal to endorse the two-state solution has led to skepticism and despondency on the Palestinian side, exacerbated by fears that his government will expedite Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank.
Yet it's clear DeVito is most concerned with the current state of the US, about which his outlook hits Dave Schmerz levels of despondency.
So prospects for talks between India and Pakistan remain remote, as India's ruling coalition, facing a key election on December 12th in the state of Gujarat, seeks to avoid criticism for going "soft" itself.In Kashmir, however, there is despondency that there is no sign of a dialogue between India and even the moderate Kashmiri opposition.
