Almost simultaneously Clayton regained his feet, and without thought of the utter
hopelessness of it, he rushed forward to drag the ape from his wife's prostrate form.
That she shared my sentiments in this respect I was positive, for on my approach the look of pitiful
hopelessness left her sweet countenance to be replaced by a smile of joyful welcome, as she placed her little right hand upon my left shoulder in true red Martian salute.
Within, the young woman lay upon a filthy sleeping mat, resigned, through utter
hopelessness to whatever fate lay in store for her until the opportunity arrived which would permit her to free herself by the only means which now seemed even remotely possible--the hitherto detested act of self-destruction.
During this journey he, as it were, considered his life afresh and arrived at his old conclusion, restful in its
hopelessness: that it was not for him to begin anything anew- but that he must live out his life, content to do no harm, and not disturbing himself or desiring anything.
And again every detail of his quarrel with his wife was present to his imagination, all the
hopelessness of his position, and worst of all, his own fault.
I say, in earnest, that I should probably have been able to discover even in that a peculiar sort of enjoyment--the enjoyment, of course, of despair; but in despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the
hopelessness of one's position.
With each jerk of the ship his hand holds were all but torn loose, and though he knew that eventually they would be and that he must be dashed to the ground beneath, yet he fought with the madness that is born of
hopelessness for the pitiful second which but prolonged his agony.
Without moving and being part of the yeast there would be no
hopelessness. But,--and there it is,--we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move.
Tom was trembling from head to foot with excitement and a sense of the
hopelessness of the situation.
But in this case, Anne had left nothing for advice to do; and though Lady Russell, as satisfied as ever with her own discretion, never wished the past undone, she began now to have the anxiety which borders on
hopelessness for Anne's being tempted, by some man of talents and independence, to enter a state for which she held her to be peculiarly fitted by her warm affections and domestic habits.
The utter
hopelessness that was reflected in his face must have been the counterpart of what I myself felt, but in that brief instant I determined to hide my own misgivings that I might bolster up the courage of the others.
All memory of the past, all thought of the future, all sense of the falseness and
hopelessness of my own position, lay hushed within me into deceitful rest.