`` I think Montero did right '', Amy said firmly.

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.

I could not cling to my past nor did I wish to.

My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??

I wished to prepare myself but did not even know what sort of clothes I ought to be wearing.

For weeks I wandered about this neighborhood of warehouses and garages, truck terminals and taxi repair shops, gasoline pumps and longshoremen's lunch counters, yet never did I cease to feel myself a stranger there.

I did it for the valley.

If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!

`` No, I never did see his face.

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.

If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

Suddenly a treble auto horn tootley-toot-tootled, and, thumbing hopefully, I saw emergent in windshield flash: red lips, streaming silk of blonde hair and -- ah, trembling confusion of hope, apprehension, despair -- the leering face of old Herry.

But to me Beckett's writing had seemed permeated with love for human beings and with a kind of humor that I could reconcile neither with despair nor with nihilism.

Lamenting the negative reaction to his deed, Booth wrote in his journal on April 21, 1865, while on the run, " ith every man's hand against me, I am here in despair.

Describing Polanski immediately after Tate's death, Farrow testified, " Of this I can be sure — of his frame of mind when we were there, of what we talked about, of his utter sense of loss, of despair and bewilderment and shock and love — a love that he had lost.

In AD 590, a little over two centuries after Evagrius wrote his list, Pope Gregory I revised this list to form the more common Seven Deadly Sins, by folding ( sorrow / despair / despondency ) into acedia, vainglory into pride, and adding envy.

A lot of us at the Home Office are very much against it, I can tell you, but the interests we are working against are ...' Hallam raised flat palms in a gesture of despair.

In despair, she looks at the entrance to the d ' Urberville vault and wonders aloud, " Why am I on the wrong side of this door?

Convinced that I was destined to die young, I struggled to leave something of meaning behind, to rise above the darkness and despair.

There was one other cut made after Gilbert's death: Separate lyrics for Elsie and Point, not found elsewhere, were cut during the " All frenzied, frenzied with despair they rave " section of the Act I finale.

Of this period, Robert Smith later went on to say: " My brother was also crazy about Captain Beefheart, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, so much so that when I was 7 or 8, to the despair of my parents, I became some kinda little devil fed on psychedelic rock ".

Self-esteem encompasses beliefs ( for example, " I am competent ", " I am worthy ") and emotions such as triumph, despair, pride and shame.

I am born of a people who are heroes and heroines [...] Patient because history is on their side, these masses do not despair because today the weather is bad.

It has connotations of decadence, which are seen as typical for the last years of a culturally vibrant period ( La Belle Époque at the turn of the 19th to 20th century and until World War I ), and of anticipative excitement about, or despair facing, impending change, or both, that is generally expected when a century or time period draws to a close.

In assessing Fraser's poetry book, I ’ ve Laughed and Sung Through the Whole Night Long Seen the Summer Sunrise in the Morning, the critic Louis Dudek wrote: " The poems have wit and a perfectly authentic consistency — a subtle play against a constant background bass of despair or cosmic absurdity.

" One day apparently in a peak of despair Tony Bicat went to the wardrobe department in Pebble Mill and out poured his woes and he said: ' I really don't know what to do, we start shooting in two weeks ' and the wardrobe lady said: ' There's a girl in Birmingham you really have to see because she's an oddball and she has brightly coloured hair and she's like no one else we've ever met and she does extra work '.

Kean ’ s delivery of the three words “ I answer — No !” in the part of Sir Edward Mortimer in The Iron Chest, cast Macready into an abyss of despair at rivalling him in this role.

He returned to the public eye with a speech to the January 1935 UFA convention attacking Aberhart's plans to implement social credit in Alberta alone: " I would impress you that nothing but disillusionment, loss of hope and additional despair can follow any attempt to inaugurate a system of that kind, because the Province has no jurisdiction in these matters.

" I was in the depths of grief ," said Bright, when unveiling the statue of his friend at Bradford in 1877, " I might almost say of despair, for the life and sunshine of my house had been extinguished.

I was shocked that it continued when I pulled the plug in despair, and I fervently hope that it lasts.

I am concerned here, however, with the Northern liberal's attitude toward the South.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

The traditional strategy of the South has been to expose the vices of the North, to demonstrate that the North possessed no superior virtue, to `` show the world that '' as James's Christopher Newman said to his adversaries ) `` however bad I may be, you're not quite the people to say it ''.

I will reserve discussion of it for a moment, however, to return to President Kennedy.

Helion, however, clung to the belief that `` in escaping from the Stalag I had also escaped from Abstraction ''.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

I would, however, like to suggest that, wrong though I may be, the tendency to see dilemmas rather than solutions is one of which I have been a victim ever since I can remember, and therefore not merely a senile phenomenon.

I believe that these proposals, however meritorious in terms of world needs, go far beyond our capacity to realize them.

I prefer to speak, however, of Sam Rayburn, the person, rather than Sam Rayburn, the American institution.

For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;

They looked so formidable, however, so demanding, that I found myself staring at them in dismay and starting to woolgather again, this time about Francesca and her husband.

At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.

If, however, it would help to intensify your anguish, I can delimit the powers of a few of the divinities you've affronted and describe the punishment they meted out in one analogous instance.

In his analysis, however, he touches upon but fails to explore an idea, generally neglected in discussions of the book, which I believe is central to its art -- the importance of human hands as a recurring feature of the narrative.

I do mean, however, that I take them for granted, and that everything I shall be saying would appear quite idiotic against any contrary assumptions.