Shortly after the Nov. 8 election, the two managed their despair by founding Grassroots Comedy DC, a group that now produces monthly comedy fundraisers for lefty causes, including Planned Parenthood and the Chesapeake Climate Action Network.
And "Black Nativity," which opens Wednesday, was the movie she needed to make now, as it helped her manage her despair over the loss of a beloved sister, a blow that had Ms. Lemmons wondering if she could ever complete the script.
The streets around Fourth Avenue, though, have been dirty for 40 years, and its graciousness resides in going on, in managing to get along and in not giving in to despair, despair being the route along which the gates are always open.
There are EMDs who feel competent and experienced in managing these cases, and other EMDs who feel insecure and despair.
Staff considered that patients' disappointment at not managing their overweight made them lose confidence, and feelings of guilt, frustration, despair and low self-esteem were often apparent.
He observes the institutionalised humiliation endured by an unwanted underclass damned to despair; yet manages to render the bleakest of situations bitingly funny.
While the news cycle around them projected prominent incidents of death and despair, they managed to do their best work in spite of 2016's worst fortune, and in many cases, because of it.
In her letters from those first nights, as she described her reactions to the prisoners' degradation and her part in it — ricocheting from childish mockery to casual swagger to sympathy to cruelty to titillation to self-justification to self-doubt to outrage to identification to despair — she managed to subtract herself from the scenes she sketched.
For example, an owner we manage for was recently despairing over the cost of a new bathroom he was about to construct for a tenant of his rent-controlled apartment building.
How do we manage the tension of racial despair?
Far from being a place of order, rationality, discipline, and unchallenged state power, the prison was marked on a day-to-day basis by the struggle to manage mania, delusion, depression, and despair.
