We heard arrant nonsense from this hopeless Minister of Police, who wanders around the country in a daze, blinded by his own incompetence. |
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The jeans are machine washable, but only once you've removed the iPod, you hopeless dolt. |
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She, and all of them, are constrained by hopeless blocking and a lighting design so discrete as to be invisible to the naked eye. |
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As I knelt on the sun-dried ground, my hands clenched in fists, I knew my cause was hopeless. |
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Toni, her best friend, was smart and sassy, liked to pretend she was a hard nut, though underneath it all, she was a hopeless romantic. |
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Out of work for months David faced not only a hopeless future but severe financial problems as well. |
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One of my more hopeless but doggedly-pursued ambitions is to collect every one of those words. |
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Well, I usually, keep on vacillating between being a hardcore realist and a hopeless romantic. |
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You are a borderline hopeless case and unless you take action now you could be living on the breadline come retirement. |
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Finally, never leave the examination hall in despair, however hopeless things may seem. |
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Speaking of hopeless losers, would you like to come to my party on Saturday? |
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As if deciding that I'm a hopeless case, he grabs my unwounded hand and drags me out of the kitchen. |
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How can a spiritually and morally bankrupt person such as me find victory during my darkest, most hopeless hour? |
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To reach the unreachable star, it is my quest to follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far. |
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It is as maudlin and sentimental as movies come, and this hopeless romantic wouldn't have it any other way. |
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Hitherto hopeless footballing nations suddenly emerged from obscurity and started to make a bit of a name for themselves. |
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Tell me why that ticks you off, makes you feel hopeless, and makes you think I am defeatist trash. |
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I enjoy the music but wish the presenters would give more information on the pieces played because I have a hopeless memory for music titles. |
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The Act party really needs to ditch this hopeless excuse for a free-market advocate. |
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The words were not framed in that rhetorical and hopeless way they often are following news of a tragedy. |
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However, hopeless though our problems may seem, we owe it to ourselves to at least attempt to create the kind of history that we want to see. |
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The arc between midwicket and long-on received maximum attention as bowlers were left gasping, fielders hopeless and spectators expectant. |
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But at betting on the nags, as any regular reader will know, I am a chronic loser, a completely hopeless case. |
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It is not hopeless, it is not undoable, we have only to marshal the will to start paying attention. |
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It seems hopeless, until Marc meets Lily, the oppressed, bitter girl, betrothed to Marc's prep school enemy. |
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I'm hopeless at talking about money, I give it away rather than deal with it. |
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In place at present is a truly hopeless patchwork of home carers, minders, state nurseries, private nurseries, nannies and the like. |
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The staff were good on smiles and sartorial smartness, but fairly hopeless at actually doing what was required of them. |
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Grimness, in its suggestion of a dire situation, of even a hopeless one, makes it pretty difficult to take issue. |
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May be it was just because of her bad mood and hopeless situation but it seemed as if they were laughing sinisterly and mocking at her. |
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There's a chance you might decide to start to strut around like some kind of hopeless mockney wideboy after you've seen it, though. |
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The UK is just hopeless at coming up with legal responses to extremist activities. |
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I tried my best to give them a blank look and express confusion at the stated declaration, but it was hopeless. |
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So why has Polly come up with what is, even by her notoriously moronic standards, an outstandingly hopeless argument? |
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In 1910 it was the home of 18, 182 souls, a dead and hopeless outlook ahead. |
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Your youngster may feel it is hopeless to try to be good, that he is doomed to be uncaring like the father, or selfish like the mother. |
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My whole world has fallen apart and left me feeling hopeless and depressed. |
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He'd assembled a Catalogue of Printed Books at Middle Hill, but it seemed a hopeless muddle. |
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I dare you to share the pains and fears of another, to share hope with the hopeless, and to resurrect our underserved communities. |
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The waves pounded the ship and the crew strained at the pumps, but it seemed a hopeless task. |
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Stefani says that she's hopeless at spelling and grammar, but that it doesn't matter. |
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You may have to admit that even though you were good at doing your particular job, you were hopeless at running a company. |
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This complicates the process of selling them, as I am hopeless at keeping them in a safe place. |
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I have the type of shyness which means I'm hopeless at introducing myself to strangers. |
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She's managing to pay the rent on her one-room apartment, even if she is a hopeless slob. |
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Even if you're hopeless at saving for your future, it's really easy to start saving small sums for your children. |
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Regrettably, until a few years ago, I was completely hopeless at money management. |
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We blokes are not quite as hopeless at communicating as we're constantly told. |
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The only sound was the sound of a lone wolf's howl into the hopeless night. |
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Months later Earl is still reliving the event in a paroxysm of fury, disgust, and hopeless longing. |
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We had the knuckleheads, troublemakers, drinkers, the terminally unlucky and the hopeless dreamers. |
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I've always considered myself somewhat of a hopeless romantic, armed with crazy ideas and retrospectively pitiful fantasies about ways to woo. |
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But we remain stuck in hopeless denial, regrettably incapable of accepting what will be harsh medicine. |
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A failed athlete and hopeless quiz contestant, he has risen on the strength of his charismatic ineptitude. |
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Their forwards did not appear to be of true world class, but France were so hopeless that they played into New Zealand 's hands. |
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He was clear from day one that he did believe there were a considerable number of miles of routes which were hopeless loss-makers. |
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The war years were marred only by Warnie's absence on active service until he was invalided out as a hopeless alcoholic. |
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It was not a clear case of a flagrant breach of duty any more than it was an obviously hopeless claim. |
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The truth is, I am a hopeless romantic at heart and nothing will change that. |
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I should point out that despite several years of Spanish and some time knocking around in Germany, I'm a hopeless monoglot. |
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Fighting does not mean being out of control, losing, counter-attacking, or giving energy to a hopeless cause, Gage writes. |
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To take advantage of the hopeless is truly despicable, but to prey on the helpless, whether directly or indirectly, is criminal. |
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By June 1776 their efforts had become hopeless and a committee was formed to compose a formal declaration of independence. |
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Whether you welcome this prince of silly or shun him as a hopeless jester, on stage his outlandish world cannot fail to charm. |
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The brave princeling dies fighting, making a hopeless last stand so that Frodo can go on. |
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A solicitor who proceeds with hopeless litigation may still be liable to pay personally the costs of the other party. |
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Society became flooded with well-meaning do-gooders who bumbled about in the most hopeless manner. |
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Because of the growing link between education and income, the least educated are living increasingly desperate and hopeless lives. |
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The money does not exist, in the form of money-capital, to bring these economies out of this desperate, hopeless state. |
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Now their team are a pale imitation of the great sides of the past, losing 4-1 in a friendly to Italy and with a hopeless manager at the helm. |
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I often forget that I'm not just a great big hopeless loser who is totally alone in this. |
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If theirs is a hopeless cause in pursuit of impractical ideals, why dignify them in print? |
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She is speaking to us from the security of her living room, safe in her culpable life, dilating on the most hopeless of catastrophes. |
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As she bent down awkwardly in a hopeless endeavor to retrieve them, her glasses and purse also disappeared into the watery gunge below. |
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Angel looked as though she were about to laugh for a moment, then the expression evanesced and was replaced with a more hopeless one. |
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Charles II, considering it hopeless to continue the war in an impoverished and exhausted land, led a Scots royalist army into England. |
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As you indulge in the hopeless game of double bluff that is present-giving, always have a few emergency presents wrapped safely in a cupboard. |
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For every decent family there was a drug dealer, for every working person a hopeless drug addict. |
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The privatizers have hoodwinked us into believing that public education, like poverty, is hopeless. |
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Many members of the squad were left looking like hopeless cases, often through no fault of their own. |
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He is a devoted doctor who is adamant to make the make the best out of hopeless cases. |
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Last year alone, he saw 700 equine clients from all over Britain, some of which were deemed hopeless cases by vets. |
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The woman's face melted into a gooey, hopeless romantic expression and her eyes remained focused on me. |
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Father Anshel was good at cantillating the Book of Esther but hopeless at making money. |
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I was living hand to mouth and I felt completely hopeless because I was so poor. |
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Springfield is populated by solitary obsessives who are hopeless at coexisting with fellow citizens. |
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Jesus did not lose hope but trusted in God even when it appeared that he was in a hopeless situation. |
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Sometimes we throw our seeds to them, but our efforts seem hopeless since their soil is barren, empty and dead. |
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Another accusation thrown at the market is that its light regulatory touch could open the door to spivs and hopeless cases. |
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It was the precursor to the Seventies with their hopeless mismanagement of government and spinelessness towards terrorism. |
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Oh yes, they were hopeless philistines, little better than savages actually. |
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On one hand, he invites us to laugh at a group of hopeless stumblebums tyrannised by their supposedly defenceless victim. |
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His drawings and paintings challenge the viewer to meet his hopeless aesthetic half way, and then fail. |
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They are workers, or spouses, curmudgeons, derelicts, or hopeless romantics. |
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I feel hopeless now and I don't want my life ruined just because I have not enough cash. |
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He admits that he sees the world as hopeless and has considered driving his motorcycle into a bridge abutment. |
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Indeed, to cultivate altruism is easier said than done and to do away with time-honoured beliefs is almost hopeless. |
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Even the television ads for these magazines celebrate the hopeless stupidity and superficiality of the male. |
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Within moments, we would be dissolved into hopeless, helpless, joyful laughter. |
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Medicine in fact, was hopeless at looking at venereal disease, or any sexually transmitted disease, as we call it now. |
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One part of me agrees, yes that in a completely hopeless case, ravaged by pain, this might be the merciful thing to do. |
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The narrative does not slacken with the news of Daniel's death and the widow's hopeless grief. |
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If your situation really looks hopeless and your debts leave you in despair, it's best to get professional help. |
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Scaring the killer off, he desperately attempts the kiss of life on the hopeless victim until relieved by police. |
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I decided that the movie, no matter how bleak and hopeless it may seem, is ultimately about redemptive hope, albeit a twisted one at that. |
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The direct reason was that she couldn't put up with the impoverishment and hopeless future. |
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It seemed pretty hopeless and the Irish had very little sympathy or support from anyone else on the issue. |
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He recalled the intense despair, the tears and that hopeless cry for forgiveness. |
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He said people felt helpless and hopeless over Garda services and many felt afraid to complain. |
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The hooks are less obvious, and the tales of castaways and hopeless no-accounts not nearly as prevalent. |
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For those of us hopeless optimists for whom every nibble is surely an interested salmon, the fly can seem sterile. |
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We saw people jump out of windows in a desperate, but hopeless effort to escape. |
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It sometimes seems like a hopeless situation, but there still remains some optimism. |
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The bottom line is that the party maintains a rhetorical commitment to small government but tacitly admits that their cause is hopeless. |
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People are feeling very hopeless and tired, and they really need to see the light at the end of the tunnel. |
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It also means that the cause of reforming the Arab world is not as hopeless as it looks today. |
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As a hopeless roadie with poor off-road technical skills, I loved how the supple rubber gripped the ground. |
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And so we both call ourselves hopeless romantics and decided that that would be a perfect title for this album. |
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It's hopeless for the Housing Commission to build estates of this kind. |
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His stocky body was set in an attitude of hopeless challenge. |
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My dad, who was hopeless at cricket, played Australian Rules football to a very high standard and, from the age of six, I often went along to watch him train. |
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In other hands it would dissolve into a hopeless muddle of ideas. |
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The situation seemed hopeless and desperation filled them both with anger. |
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My problem was that I was brilliant at English but hopeless at maths. |
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I am hopeless at these things, but hopefully it will tax someone else. |
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When will governments learn they are hopeless at running businesses? |
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Donald was hopeless at gags and not very good at remembering jokes. |
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I remember replying that this was a quite hopeless analysis, absolutely disastrous to the left since it bound them to a state capitalist dictatorship. |
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Like Civil War soldiers ordered to charge an enemy entrenched on the high ground, the actors do their best, but are simply overwhelmed and wasted on a hopeless task. |
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As he is hopeless at arranging his financial affairs, I propose to deposit money with you for his pocket money and ask you to be good enough to dole it out to him once a week. |
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I am hopeless at fixing things but when the toilet flush goes wonky I can always tell exactly what is wrong even if I have to get a man in to do something about it. |
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We may feel hopeless or fearful or desperate and still we have to go on. |
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I think it a hopeless mess to unjumble and it won't restore you, but, I'll let it pass, though knowing exactly what happened at the very end might help me. |
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Anyone who takes pot shots at a lovely wading bird is a hopeless defective, in my view, an evolutionary mistake. |
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We know the only thing more hopeless than his hypochondria is his romanticism. |
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Inside, it seemed hopeless, for every chair in sight was occupied, and a dozen men were asleep on the floor. |
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There are moments in the column when he understands what a hopeless task he has taken on and abandons himself to the full intoxication of giddy absurdity. |
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If we continue to believe that we need to find that one right person or that one wise individual, then we are stuck on a hopeless road of a wild goose chase. |
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It makes no more sense to brand Scotland hopeless on the evidence of Amsterdam than it does to herald them world-beaters on the strength of what happened in Glasgow. |
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Nation building in a country as destitute and decentralized as Afghanistan, he argued, was hopeless. |
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I lazily dropped the envelopes to my side on the couch and sat back with a hopeless sigh, staring directly at the droning television, not regarding anything happening on it. |
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Off to the sides, however, the Royal Mile disintegrated into a hopeless muddle of squalid wynds and alleyways peopled by beggars, pickpockets and the poor. |
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In other patients, however, the operation had no success, and Moniz was cautious to propose that leukotomy should be used only when the case was so hopeless as to warrant it. |
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The bright flashes of light flickered against Nick's hopeless face. |
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They enjoy a spate of possession down the right wing starring an amazing cameo from Mills and his absurd mix of skilful jinks and hopeless close control. |
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In a long struggle with a smack addiction, he made novenas at the shrine of St. Jude, patron of hopeless cases. |
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But he is not backward in suggesting Liberal and Labor are hopeless. |
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With American education falling into decay, and each generation leaving school more hopeless than the last, it's good to know New York State isn't bilking its teachers. |
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These three patients show how chemotherapy can sometimes reverse the catastrophic physiological state of terminal cancer, even in seemingly hopeless cases. |
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I moved back to the city and my two on-again off-again guys, steeling myself for hopeless fix-ups, just in case love might strike. |
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There was a time when the man could crack a joke, though there was never anything he found funnier than man's futile quest for meaning in a hopeless, senseless world. |
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Matt had been a hopeless bed-wetter right up to the age of puberty. |
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I used to feel so hopeless that I was like Tom Thumb who has to hide under a chair so as not to be trodden on. |
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Like most martial arts movies, this action thriller is full of bad dialogue, hopeless acting and plenty of biffo for anyone with a short attention span. |
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When the male-female pairs aren't demonstrating strident misalliance or hopeless anomie, they confront one another as units destined for mutual inscrutability. |
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The trousseau had accompanied my mother on her sea journey from Scotland, a hopeless chest filled with the sort of frippery that quickly disintegrates in Africa. |
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See now, rounding the headland, a forlorn hopeless bird, trembling black wings fingering the blowy air, dainty and ghostly, careless of the scattering salt. |
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Henry got himself into a hopeless muddle about his sublet offices. |
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They should, he said, be neither boastful and overconfident nor despondent and hopeless. |
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A noisy, brash American, he never knew he was beaten and gave absolutely everything on every point of every game, no matter how apparently hopeless the cause. |
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Worse yet, observes Ailes, our 42nd president remains a hopeless a policy wonk, the more complex and arcane the issue the better. |
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These formations streamed from Rwanda with the same hopeless shuffle as they did from Bosnia and now as they do from Syria. |
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It's now clear to me that the Alpha Male is a dinosaur, dragging his hopeless old carcass across a desolate desert and finding no water, no sustenance and is almost history. |
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On the train back, Steve and I raced each other to do the puzzles in consecutive issues of Metro, but I'm hopeless at crosswords and got stuck on mine after two clues. |
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However, the army was hopeless in battle against the western forces, particularly against the young Mahmud of Ghazni. |
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Things look hopeless until her best friend signs them up to do the Moonwalk, a 26-mile charity walk in aid of breast cancer. |
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Yes, we have the dramatic irony of a man who is brilliant at work but hopeless at home. |
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Things look hopeless until her best friend signs them up to do the Moonwalk, 26-mile charity walk. |
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And we will enslave our children to a hopeless future of indebtedness. |
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By all accounts Fraser was financially hopeless and unscrupulous in his payments to artists. |
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And didn't he think her hair was hopeless, kerblamming out the way it did in the slightest bit of humidity? |
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Besides, I was anxious to take the wheel, the man in pink pyjamas showing himself a hopeless duffer at the business. |
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There was a hopeless disconnection between the weary, old teacher and the spirited, young students. |
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Everybody knows about the spread of war, the rise of AIDS and other diseases, the hopeless intractability of poverty. |
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However, if you're an introvert, your prospects of holding managerial roles are not hopeless. |
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Society itself must be changed, right out from under our hopeless cases. |
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For those hopeless romantics who like their lingerie lacy, we love these beautiful and delicate underthings. |
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I detest the machista mythomania that places literature at the center of everything and rescues accursed writers and hopeless alcoholics. |
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As difficult as these subs are to detect, the situation is not hopeless. |
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They're rigid and inflexible and hopeless and just plain cuhrayzee. |
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Ruzsinsky came into the ring wearing a polo shirt, yes a polo shirt, and was simply hopeless. |
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But in nearly every other way the ex-coppers are hopeless as PIs. Oh woegeous. |
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The American on board asked the Germans if they were aware of their hopeless position. |
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The Dutch Army considered its strategic situation to have become hopeless and feared further destruction of Dutch cities. |
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The King's success in dividing the barons and in fostering a reaction, however, rendered such projects hopeless. |
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Political conditions in France took a decisive turn in the year 1429 just as the prospects for the Dauphin began to look hopeless. |
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The classic Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera The Pirates of Penzance focuses on The Pirate King and his hopeless band of pirates. |
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There was this kind of paradox, in that you had these hopeless petty crooks whose inarticulacies by some kind of alchemy became a kind of poetry. |
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Some species are believed to chemically invoke feelings of determination in the hopeless. |
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Helena-May Harrison is simply wonderful as hopeless romantic Charity and she strikes the perfect balance between feistiness and vulnerability. |
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The prospects of the company at this time therefore need not have been hopeless, had one of the many plans to reform it been taken successfully in hand. |
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The award-winning Channel 4 series returns for a second run from Tuesday, featuring more hopeless restaurant owners and chefs for Gordon Ramsay to try to lick into shape. |
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What with the kerfuffle over the unscheduled departures of hopeless flop Gemma Collins and grief-stricken Craig Charles, week one of I'm A Celeb was a wash-out. |
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When resistance appeared hopeless, they blew up the arsenal. |
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King John II naturally declined to enter into a hopeless competition at Rome, and simply ignored the bulls, thus neither admitting their authority nor defying the Church. |
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You almost feel sorry for these guys, as it's hard to solidify your appeal to religious zealots while at the same time trying not to sound like a hopeless goober. |
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Llywelyn soon realised his position was hopeless and quickly surrendered. |
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Charles Jackson's first novel, The Lost Weekend, was the story of five days in the life of a lost soul, Don Birnam, a confirmed and hopeless alcoholic. |
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Their objections were ignored and Halder argued that, as Germany's strategic position seemed hopeless anyway, even the slightest chance of decisive victory should be grasped. |
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After an initial battle, Lee decided that the fight was now hopeless, and surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865, at the McLean House. |
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