My Facebook page has been nearly jumping out of my laptop, with Pakistani friends despairing, truly despairing at their government's inability and ineptitude at holding fundamentalists at bay and getting to the root of the problem - to be a proper, responsible, strong, in control, legitimate government.
The concert featured music of Miss DiDonato's new CD, Drama Queens (EMI), which showcases arias from Baroque operas sung by mad queens, usually either in a jealous rage or truly theatrical despair.
So when Nancy Spector, the chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and a longtime champion of Mr. Cattelan's, kept broaching the subject of a retrospective, "it put me in so much despair, truly," he said.
When she cuts loose for the conclusion of Mr. Sondheim's "Ladies Who Lunch" from "Company," there's a truly scary fever of despair in her voice and her eyes.
In Slate, Laura Shapiro called one representative new recipe "truly a cry of despair from the dark night of America's culinary soul," and in The Times, Kim Severson deplored the new book's "cloying coat of nostalgia".
It's truly our anthem of despair.
But Bonneville truly sounded a note of despair about Klein, Drum and what he calls the "feckless discourse" of Obama and his base on immigration: Obama's base is as feckless as he is, which is why he expresses no compunctions about the policy choices he makes.
What truly floods me with regret and despair has nothing to do with love or kids, it's the fact that I've made it this far in life without ever having experienced a threesome.
"Nothing ever struck me with such despair and disbelief as the truly cold heart," he writes in his autobiography, A Better Class of Person.
