This is a mass atrocity that has attracted little attention: a government starving its people, massacring them, raping them, and bombing them — all in hopes of crushing a rebel movement.
Now, suddenly, the talk is of the triumph of experience over hope, of the crushing power of the Clinton machine, of the next chapter in the remarkable story of the Comeback Kids.
Palestinian Christian leaders issued the Kairos (from the Greek word meaning "the time is Now,") document in 2009, as a message of hope in the middle of crushing conditions of pauperization and servitude that their people have endured for decades, and that are growing more desperate by the day.
John Barratt noted that the Royalists had failed in "what might prove to have been their best chance to destroy the principle field army of their opponents, and hopes of a crushing victory which would bring down the Parliamentarian 'war party' lay in ruins".
When a vehicle -- any vehicle -- crosses into the dump site, the children fling their bags of tin cans in front of the wheels, hoping to crush their cans to increase the bag space.
At Palaia Vineyards, Ms. Palaggi hoped to crush six tons of fruit before 3 p.m., when she would open the tasting room.
I believe in hope during the crushing battle of infertility.
Here comes irony, the reader dares to hope, only to have that hope crushed under a pile of pleasantries: Sufiya is a poet, an activist, a wonderful hostess; people "labor to secure invitations to her open house" but "do not have to labor hard" because Sufiya, being permanently good-hearted, "likes to meet new people, of every sort".
Too many black men inflict that violence on one another, feeding a self-destructive cycle of victimization until hope is crushed to the ground and opportunity seems beyond the sky.
But just when all hope seems crushed in a sea of SuperPAC money and Jobs nostalgia, we finally remember what one of us said about imagining the future.
