But Giants fans maintain a low-grade level of despair, sometimes allowing for joy.
Ross had the sort of editorial personality that caused his deputies and writers to weep, sometimes in despair, sometimes in gratitude.
Bridget-the-parent is like a character in a Russian novel, lurching constantly from ecstasy to despair, sometimes in the course of a single paragraph.
(Sellable is entirely different to marketable - I despair sometimes when I still see ridiculously high asking prices that bear absolutely no relation to economic realities).
About the play, which is on view at Classic Stage Company through October 17th, Plachy writes: For three hundred years, Orlando lives, loves, and laughs, and occasionally falls into despair, sometimes as a young man and sometimes as a woman.
I also understood that — despite the fact that we were sure that it was our year, our destiny, our time to finally break the Cubs' cycle of despair — sometimes things outside our control run the show.
This splendidly economical way of indicating ironic despair — sometimes accompanied by an image of Captain Jean-Luc Picard covering his face with his hand — is just one of the useful lexical innovations the internet offers to those who actually read it.
Topics like depression, panic attacks, and feelings of romantic doom all served as fodder for the creator's stylized expressions of feminine despair: "sometimes i remember i exist and i'm just like 'gross' "; "every ten seconds a girl feels insecure and that girl is me".
The world is anarchic and cruel and can drive all of us to despair sometimes, but good art is a realm unto itself, he tells us, and thankfully we can escape into it from time to time when we need to regain our senses.
There is a real, human yearning for mercy in it — Mariah's true cry for help from a place of near-suicidal despair: 'Sometimes this life can be so cold /(Lord) I pray you'll come and carry me home'.
