Even though the US might consider civilian deaths as collateral damage, they inspire despair and anger which can be exploited by reactionaries for their Islamist jihad agenda.
There ought to be a word for the feeling of misguided-cheapness-inspired-despair that comes from buying your fourth paring knife in a year because each $3 knife from the dollar store breaks apart in some new, inventive way -- or else is so dull you find yourself stabbing fruit like it's wronged your family.
Inspired by despair after the death of his three-year-old daughter, it ends on a note of reconciliation and spiritual harmony.
It rallies against despair, inspires extraordinary acts of defiance, values moral principle over external authority, and places inner conviction above brute force.
That despair inspired the writing of a book to "prove my father wrong".
There is a great deal that is still unknown about what transpired last night, but the immediate details — a single white male shooting; a horrific act of desecration; nine people, including the church's pastor, the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, murdered during worship — are enough to inspire something beyond despair.
There is a great deal that is still unknown about what transpired last night, but the immediate details—a single white male shooting; a horrific act of desecration; nine people, including the church's pastor, the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, murdered during worship are enough to inspire something beyond despair.
Do they inspire hope or despair?
We'd had Alan Bleasdale's ground-breaking TV drama Boys from the Blackstuff which inspired, horrified, brought despair or hope; choose all or none of these.
It may come as a surprise, then, to know her most recent two studio albums were inspired by personal despair.
