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As recalled by Peter Prichard in his book, The Making of McPaper , Neuharth condemned the "old journalism of despair," a "derisive technique of leaving readers discouraged, or mad, or indignant."
Israel is many things to many people: a land of hope, wonder, faith, salvation, contradiction, and sometimes despair.
In despair, she slashes her wrists and ends up in a hospital, where she attempts to explain her bond with the killer to a psychiatrist (Stephen Rea, with an incongruous New York accent).
Anyone who wants coffee must sit languidly in a cafe, gradually feeling overcome with lethargy and despair.
Its real name is despair, that central human emotion in the face of overwhelming odds of which tragedy is made.