11) Sitwell. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Although all were noted for their frivolity, precocity, and sophistication, a somber despair with the modern world underlies many of their works. 1 Edith SitwellAn...
12) Fassbinder, Rainer Werner. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...harsh originality, political and social cynicism, and a pessimism that often shades into despair. Influenced by Brecht, Marx, Freud, and the filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard...
13) Falkland, Lucius Cary, 2d Viscount. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth
Edition. 2001
...Parliament in Sept., 1642, and was with Charles at Edgehill and the siege of Gloucester. In despair at the prospect of the civil war continuing, he is supposed to...
14) Van Gogh, Vincent. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...29 months of frenzied activity and intermittent bouts with epileptoid seizures and profound despair that finally ended in suicide. In his grim struggle Vincent had...
15) Gary, Romain. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...his last novel, King Solomon (1980, tr. 1983), written under the pseudonym Emile Agar, the despair evident in much of his work is unleavened by his usual wit. A year...
16) Moravia, Alberto. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...between the creative and the sensual, while the underlying theme is the apathy and despair of modern people. Moravia's characters have lost faith in the values on...
17) Baudelaire, Charles. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...debts, misunderstanding, illness, and excesses, and his work unremittingly reflects inner despair. The main theme is the inseparable nature of beauty and corruption....
18) Dolabella. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...As a result he was outlawed by the senate. Dolabella was captured in Syria and, in despair, ordered one of his soldiers to kill him....
19) Cowper, William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...expressing the hope of the new humanitarian religious revival, often gave way to religious despair and self-distrust. After Newton left Olney, Cowper, having recovered...
20) Duras, Marguerite. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...many of which have been made into films and most of which deal unsentimentally with love, despair, and sexual passion. They include Un Barrage contre le Pacifique...
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