half-despairing

Returned to the city and subwayed downtown to the NY Is Books Country festival, where I was doing a signing along with a host of other half-despairing authors on this gorgeous Sunday afternoon.

Sunday in the Park with Jim: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

I brooded over the futility of life as I listened to that half-despairing, half-hopeful album, in which Gaye asks whether anyone cares enough to save "a world in despair."

Archive 2007-10-01 Ann Althouse 2007

He who had commanded the old Second Corps on the road to Gettysburg now had 3,000 oddly assorted, half-despairing troops, some of them veterans, some of them clerks from closed government offices in smouldering Richmond.

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

He who had commanded the old Second Corps on the road to Gettysburg now had 3,000 oddly assorted, half-despairing troops, some of them veterans, some of them clerks from closed government offices in smouldering Richmond.

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

He who had commanded the old Second Corps on the road to Gettysburg now had 3,000 oddly assorted, half-despairing troops, some of them veterans, some of them clerks from closed government offices in smouldering Richmond.

Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

He who had commanded the old Second Corps on the road to Gettysburg now had 3,000 oddly assorted, half-despairing troops, some of them veterans, some of them clerks from closed government offices in smouldering Richmond.

Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

He who had commanded the old Second Corps on the road to Gettysburg now had 3,000 oddly assorted, half-despairing troops, some of them veterans, some of them clerks from closed government offices in smouldering Richmond.

Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

The mad, half-despairing struggle we have waged all these long centuries, can find only in 'the Son of Man,' in the omnipotent 'Son of God,' its explanation and its end: 'God was manifest in the Flesh, reconciling the

Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

The girl had noticed that her father's eyes always rested upon her in a mute, half-despairing appeal, yet she had not courage to question him upon the matter.

Marguerite Verne Rebecca Agatha Armour

The analysis was an exhaustive one, and the intelligence displayed by the landlady was every way worthy of the shrewdness indigenous to her country; but her answer was not so lucid to her listener as to herself, as appeared by his bewildered looks, and his further half-despairing interrogatory.

Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair