The rain dripping, a wing flashing, someone passing — the commonest sounds and sights have power to fling one, as I seem to remember, from the heights of rapture to the depths of despair.
They played a great defensive game against the Tennessee Titans, and never had the lead until the final 16 seconds, and then went from the heights of ecstasy to the depths of despair in the final 13 seconds.
And for Eminem the path to love--the greatest expression of human goodness and kindness--all too often finds expression in the heights of human irrationality, the depths of despair and the pains of darkness.
For those of us who live in Baltimore and love Baltimore, the last several weeks have brought us from the depths of despair and isolation to the heights of solidarity and hope for rebirth.
I know how hard it can be when you really like someone: you can't stop thinking about them, you're ecstatic when you're with them and when you're apart, any message from them can either lift you up to the heights of ecstasy or plunge you into the pits of despair.
Through her fiction and non-fiction writings she has captured the despair and the triumph of a country that went all the way from the ignominy of apartheid to the heights of Nelson Mandela's presidency.
At the height of her Season 3 despair, Betty immersed herself in "The Group," Mary McCarthy's novel about a clique of Vassar women grappling with personal and professional dissatisfaction.
She has recounted the heights of success (mostly others'), recanted the depths of despair (her own and her ex-husband's) and now decants the ups and downs of a remarkable man who recovered from 15 years of addiction to be a founder+of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935 and then to travel tirelessly to sustain its growth.
So, at the height of this audiovisual confusion and despair, a more ambitious audience is likely to turn to some old-time heroes.
It moves forward because you reaffirmed the spirit that has triumphed over war and depression, the spirit that has lifted this country from the depths of despair to the great heights of hope, the belief that while each of us will pursue our own individual dreams, we are an American family, and we rise or fall together as one nation and as one people.
It moves forward because you reaffirmed the spirit that has triumphed over war and depression, the spirit that has lifted this country from the depths of despair to the great heights of hope," Obama said in his victory speech at McCormick Place.
