How To Use Hopelessly In A Sentence

And I feel hopelessly undereducated, with all the MAs around me.
It is no more a sign of weakness to change leadership in wartime if success depends on it than it is to remove a baseball pitcher who is getting shelled in order to prevent the game from becoming hopelessly lost.
What is tragically evident from the Harry Read Me file is the picture it gives of the CRU scientists hopelessly at sea with the complex computer programmes they had devised to contort their data in the approved direction, more than once expressing their own desperation at how difficult it was to get the desired results. Coyote Blog » 2009 » November
This week, we got the clue about the French Protestants of the Reformed Tradition, and the one about St Paul's Letter to the Galatians, but got hopelessly stuck on the clue that simply said "discombobulated". Archive 2008-02-01
From that moment, it was doomed to become a huge, sprawling, one-story conurbation, hopelessly dependent on the automobile.

In their opening and closing games England's lumbering back four were hopelessly outmanoeuvred by bursts of fast, mobile, unpredictable attacks, like tankers anchored as speedboats darted around them.
I was hopelessly out of my depth in college chemistry classes.
At the bottom of Rover's long-term failure is a hopelessly crude conception of what constitutes enterprise and business success.
My friend looked and walked like an exceedingly tall, lame ostrich with his legs hopelessly entangled in brightly colored cloth.
The internal struggles of the group are hopelessly dramatised, reading off like the plot mechanisms that they are.
A few comments say our view of the new Alpha roadmap is either hopelessly optimistic, or unfairly negative.
No matter how hopelessly demode it may seem, it will come back again, eventually. Times, Sunday Times
The notion that on-the-spot 100 fines will bring sanity and serenity is hopelessly naive. Times, Sunday Times
This week my graduate seminar students (at Parsons Fine Arts MFA) and I had a great discussion leading from Robert Smithson's writings on entropy to issues of pessimism about social change and what might be the point of human intervention towards ideals of progressive social activism in an entropically irreversible situation: interesting in this light to read Bob Herbert Op-Ed piece in the October 26, 2010 copy of The New York Times, "The Corrosion of America": do we just go along "haplessly"/hopelessly with the flow of entropy and the corrosion and ruin of our infrastructure (a ruin which is in a sense "always already" from before its inception, in Smithson's example of "The Monuments of Passaic") creating or suggesting an art which does not try to impose an idealist order or moral value to an entropic situation of urban and suburban decay, or do we believe enough in human labor despite ultimate futility or mortality to make the investment in our near futures by fixing the infrastructure? Mira Schor: Corroded infrastructure 2010/Robert Smithson's Writings on Entropy, 1966-67
The currency was hopelessly debased, the government corrupt, the armies more interested in plundering the provinces than protecting them; many people believed the dissolution of the empire was at hand. Superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism
The responsibility for unrelenting global crisis and hardship lies more appropriately with a rudderless global financial system drifting hopelessly without a solid anchor.
The snow cruiser proved hopelessly unsuited to Antarctic conditions.
The phrase is not stronger than that with which the Grammar of Science challenged the fight: Anything more hopelessly illogical than the statements with regard to Force and Matter current in elementary textbooks of science, it is difficult to imagine, opened Mr. Pearson, and the responsible author of the elementary textbook, as he went on to explain, was Lord Kelvin himself. The Grammar of Science (1903)
Update: I hope the hopelessly "overstuffed" Po Boy Preservation event didn't factor into the Presidential Debate committee's unfortunate decision. Archive 2007-11-01
These ‘comic’ stereotypes, regressive even in 1968, make the show seem not so much offensive as hopelessly dated.
We found ourselves hopelessly outnumbered by the enemy.
He is, however, quite impatient with the clods and dullards who do not find the tradition hopelessly retrograde.
The Spanish were hopelessly outnumbered in the battle.
She struggled, kicking out hopelessly, and her heart almost burst with panic.
Kenji's tennis shoes dragged against the ground hopelessly.
Now hopelessly swamped in scandal and corruption, high taxes, firearms boondoggle, sponsorship scandal, etc, they are again using bribery as their last resort.
As early as 1984 I can remember working on a highly-innovative, game-based videodisc for pharmaceutical reps, that used all sorts of fab video effects including a nevigatable 3D mock-up of a hospital, that won an industry award, appeared on the BBC, but which was hopelessly off-beam in terms of its application. The big question for January: quality v speed
The rule which I have tried to follow has been this: when the word has been hopelessly Latinised, as 'Phoebus' has been, I have left it as it usually stands; but in other cases I have tried to keep the plain Greek spelling, except when it would have seemed pedantic, or when, as in the word 'Tiphus,' I should have given an altogether wrong notion of the sound of the word. Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
May one say that this is so without sounding hopelessly snobbish?
He has always lived his life by a hopelessly quixotic code of honour.
Raúl experiences a stifling home life in what already feels like a hopelessly backward and decadent society. The Times Literary Supplement
Englebert's own songs seem to emerge from the angst of a man who is unashamed of confessing he feels hopelessly miserable without love.
He sighed hopelessly as he slowly began to walk back towards the direction he came from.
None of her propeller shafts could be turned, and the port rudder was hopelessly buckled. Times, Sunday Times
Women use them as a yardstick for measuring their own attractiveness, thus arriving at a warped perception of their own physical attributes as being hopelessly deficient.
She never gets anywhere on time. She's hopelessly disorganized.
I am sorry to have to confess to so much ungallantry; but the only effort which I made, in common with the others, was to avoid her -- she was so hopelessly dense. A Boy's Voyage Round the World
A tripping, folkish vocal stitched to a coruscating harmony produces an endlessly pleasant bump that has simplicity written all over it, but is still hopelessly infectious.
The student who enters grad school intent on becoming a traditional humanist is the student who will be labelled as hopelessly unsophisticated by her peers and her professors.
Life in the tumbledown bathhouse seems hopelessly anachronistic.
It would be ironic if courts, seeing opposing expert witnesses giving odds of correct identification differing a million-fold (105: 1 versus 1011: 1), were to decide that DNA evidence is hopelessly unreliable, and turn instead to eye-witness identification (odds of correct identification diazonium salt -- couples to enzyme tyrosine groups Archive 2004-12-01
The dialogue was so hopelessly unfunny that it boggles the mind.
An old woman, hopelessly blinded by glaucoma, and her daughter sit together. Times, Sunday Times
All of which makes me hopelessly unsuited to being the wife of a politician - and a bit of a headache for him indoors and his aides. Times, Sunday Times
England won a hopelessly one-sided game by an innings and 202 runs. Times, Sunday Times
The night-sisters moved softly to and fro on the beeswaxed boards, smoothing tumbled pillows, adjusting a splint or a bandage, calming the bearded children who fretted because they were hopelessly "out of it. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions
The world of international banking is now full of aggressive, bright, but hopelessly inexperienced lenders in their mid-twenties.
I have found myself many times in foreign lands hopelessly trying to refold enormous maps back to their original pocket size.
After forty-five years of the playless life of a serf to blighting seriousness, the wonder is that sourness had not entered to hopelessly curdle all chances for joyous living. Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
The leadership of the family values Right is hopelessly compromised by its long-term adulterous affair with the Republican Party. An Empire of Widows and Orphans
He owned a chocolate-box house that was hopelessly impractical. Times, Sunday Times
He was a wonderful companion but hopelessly impractical.
Like Paris handsome [34] and like Hector brave, but as pious as Aeneas; "a rich fellow enough," with blood hopelessly blue and morals spotlessly copy-bookish -- in other words, a Sir Charles A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
Calling for al-Fatah Islam to act responsibly is hopelessly naiive. Matthew Yglesias » Smearing Human Rights Groups
The old man shrugged hopelessly and plodded on up the hill. Day of Honey
Also bought a natty little pasta machine today… hopelessly bourgeois!
I know that if I start watching a soap opera I immediately become hopelessly addicted.
Originally we were supposed to conduct the interview on bikes (or "awheel" as the British say) but it ended up snowing and I was afraid that, in the event of a fall, Mr. Thurston (coddled, as are all of his countrymen, by free medical care) would find himself hopelessly embroiled in our country's labyrinthine health care system. Keeping it Reeled In: Hope or Delusion?
They went almost hopelessly into the great wilderness of trees where it seemed impossible to find anything.
I wanted to find out just how stupid, reckless or hopelessly innumerate they could be.
“The markedly driven patient who studies constantly and voices dissatisfaction with anything but perfect grades often distresses the parents who recognize the drivenness and hopelessly attempt to persuade the patient to work less and enjoy herself more” Mintz, 1983, p. Clinical Work with Adolescents
Dormer suggested that she had become hopelessly entangled in the brush, which he called a "tough, desolate, tangled mess. Long Island Serial Killer: Remains Of Shannan Gilbert, Missing New Jersey Prostitute, Found Near Oak Beach
I guess I'm hopelessly naive, but what are dichondra? Our dichondra seeds need a car ride
Shame the only thing holding DADT together (at least as a social issue) are these fundie idiots who still think that every gay man or gay woman who sees them will fall hopelessly in lust with them, and fall over themselves with their crazed lust to try and have their way with the fundies. Think Progress » Gordon Brown Calls On America To Repeal DADT, Calls UK LGBT Soldiers ‘The Pride Of Our Country’
He often experienced the self not as infinitely removed from particulars but as hopelessly enmeshed in them.
Here again, he fears, his preferences are hopelessly at odds with popular tastes.
As an internet slang user and English Language student, any text- or netspeak we've been given to study has been--perhaps understandably--hopelessly out of date. On txtng
The view that dreams are merely the imaginary fulfilments of repressed wishes is hopelessly out of date.
I, too, have argued Detroit's business model is hopelessly broken, that its costs were indefensibly high, its brand image tarnished, its culture mired in denial, its management and union leadership too often willing to accept short-term expedience at the expense of long-term success. Detnews.com - Local
She, apparently, also has noticed that I am hopelessly outnumbered and outvoted.
We found ourselves hopelessly outnumbered by the enemy.
But he is still, of course, hopelessly in love with his childhood sweetheart Pandora Braithwaite, who has become a prominent MP with a nose for a photo opportunity.
The restaurant was hopelessly mismanaged by a former rock musician with no business experience.
In a large number of life's most basic practical skills, I am quite staggeringly, hopelessly incompetent.
`I must die,' he said hopelessly
Some fanatical moron is wibbling on about something hopelessly biased, and hopelessly wrong.
Our champagne glasses were miraculously topped up at every opportunity and I'm so hopelessly out of practise at the heavy drinking lark now, that I was hopelessly sozzled by about 4pm.
He searched about hopelessly round the stones and in the nooks, all hard and frostbound; there was the shell of a snail, dry and whitened and empty, as was apparent enough even at a distance. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
A problem that lies at the heart of the taxi situation is the fact that there are simply too many of them and the market is hopelessly overtraded," he said. ANC Daily News Briefing
The world of international banking is now full of aggressive, bright, but hopelessly inexperienced lenders in their mid-twenties.
At dusk, and with the plane hopelessly off course, a decision had to be made whether to abandon the aircraft or crash-land.
The amateurs from Halifax never showed any sign of throwing in the towel even though they were hopelessly outclassed all across the park.
Hague looked hopelessly windswept as his strands of hair got blown about.
The restaurant was hopelessly mismanaged by a former rock musician with no business experience.
He was hopelessly miscast as the romantic hero.
I know that if I start watching a soap opera I immediately become hopelessly addicted.
Current efforts at law enforcement and the administration of criminal justice were considered hopelessly ineffective. The Politics of Redress - crime, punishment and penal abolition
It looked so hopelessly harmless, the way it was lying around sleepily.
In contrast to the dazzling young debutante, Princess Mary looked hopelessly plain despite wearing a light green dress.
As the afternoon wore on, he resorted to covering his grizzled features with his hands, as if finding it hard to face further evidence that his scheme is hopelessly impracticable as well as offensive in principle.
The word Coptic, for instance, had now its proper significance in her mind, and the terms dynasty and century were no longer jumbled hopelessly together. There was a King in Egypt
They are like blind rowers hopelessly trying to prevent their boat from going over a huge waterfall.
But the sub-text in all affirmative action debates is the fallacious belief that blacks selected to benefit from it are hopelessly and helplessly genetically inferior -- that their DNA is chromosomally deficient, if not defective. Irene Monroe: Theory of Blacks' Intellectual Inferiority Rears Ugly Head at Harvard
He's hopelessly inefficient , but I suppose he means well.
It means he was outfought, outdone - and even more importantly, hopelessly outclassed!
Lately I keep finding myself moving the pushpin from the “pure evil” quadrant up towards the “hopelessly incompetent” quadrant. Through The Eyes Of Madness | ATTACKERMAN
The monetarists are hopelessly hamstrung by their fixation on narrow money.
This was his ‘big idea’ and it was a hopelessly ill-conceived and ludicrously expensive one.
I regret to say, however, that his approach remains erratic and hopelessly undisciplined. THE CALLIGRAPHER
Ring vaccination is at once rendered hopelessly infeasible; and whatever the quantity of vaccine available, assume inadequate distribution channels - which is not at all unlikely.
To be interested in the changing seasons is ... a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana
he hung his head hopelessly
I was hopelessly lost within the pit of Moria. There were no stars to guide my path. There were no trees to whisper of their unique location and the air never stirred to indicate direction.
The upper echelons of American society are hopelessly corrupted and morally decayed.
The performers were anything but word perfect and hopelessly forgot or confused their business, which, more especially in a play of such a type as this romantic comedy so full of busy and complicated detail demanding close and continuous attention, was enough to mystify the audience completely and foredoom the piece to failure. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I
His disastrous management of the 1993 federal election showed that he was hopelessly out of his depth and totally ill equipped for the task.
To be on-message dressing down is the norm while dressing up is for the hopelessly sad who are not relaxed enough to get in sync with New Labour's New Britain.
Bush Jr, inevitably; the warped, sometimes demented Nixon; but John F Kennedy, hopelessly in thrall to a world of lust, isn't pavilioned in praise either. American Caesars by Nigel Hamilton
One critic described the movie as "a stale and hopelessly contrived comedy".
The Times is not alone for demonstrating again a ‘news judgment’ hopelessly skewed by liberal bias.
The fishing lines had become hopelessly entangled.
Does it reflect your belief that you are hopelessly absent-minded?
I'm no good at dancing - I always get hopelessly out of step.
His monetary analysis is hopelessly contaminated by the attempt to explain the variations in the relative value of the copper, silver and gold coinage by a political sociology.
Does it reflect your belief that you are hopelessly absent-minded?
They have a simple shrewdness, which, under a better system, had made them enterprising; but this quality has degenerated into cunning and cheatery, -- the weapons which the hopelessly oppressed always use. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
In the store the long shelves upon one side held dry-goods, while upon the opposite shelves a miscellany of groceries was displayed; toward the rear was the storekeeper's assortment of hardware near a counter piled high with sweaters, boots, chaparejos, all jumbled hopelessly. Man to Man
So, Mr millionaire Broon's a bodger - and so mean and hopelessly impractical that he gives children dangerously faulty electrical toys to play with. Gordon Gives Himself a Shock
The first round of dodgeball took up the rest of the period, since both of us were pretty skilled and kept trying to peg each other with the ball, and hopelessly missing each other.
The ground underfoot was still hopelessly boggy, and as I jumped the half metre distance from the van to the floor, little specks of mud flew everywhere.
This Charles question is not really about him being a fogey with hopelessly reactionary ideas.
Hit and Runway is indeed like a bunch of hopelessly lost screen cretins looking for a script doctor.
In their elephant-cord hipsters, tab-collared shirts and Carnaby Street suede laceups, they exuded an ineffable and hopelessly unattainable cool.
In fact, Nathan had concluded that if anyone did participate in the uprising, the numbers would be small and those involved would be hopelessly disunited.
Their shameless lack of intellectual consistency has certain advantages, that being one of them. hopelessly wrong, matt Says: Matthew Yglesias » Why the Budget Will Never Be Balanced
I strayed a few blocks in the wrong direction and became hopelessly lost.
Assume the past resembles the simple patterns and clear verities of myth and the stories we write and call history will be woefully incomplete, hopelessly simplistic, and shamefully neglectful of others who were there.
They met at university and fell hopelessly in love.
I strayed a few blocks in the wrong direction and became hopelessly lost.
At the bottom of Rover's long-term failure is a hopelessly crude conception of what constitutes enterprise and business success.
Unfortunately it seems DEAD SNOW is a flick that arrives at a time when the Zombie genre has become hopelessly oversaturated, with the Zombie Comedy subgenera also reaching a point where everyone has pretty much thrown their hands up. Flixnjoystix.com! » New Release Tuesday: February 23rd, 2010! A Look At The Week’s Blu-rays: THE INFORMANT!, THE BOX, & More!
No matter how hopelessly demode it may seem, it will come back again, eventually. Times, Sunday Times
And so there is a part of us that cannot help but love it, hopelessly, bottomlessly. Erica Heller: The Catch-22 of Book Readings, The Taste of Mackerel
Geniuses are supposed to be eccentric and hopelessly impractical.
The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart.
But "The Crack-Up" suffers from all the small dishonesties one finds in any work that relies on an unsullied "before" and a hopelessly tainted "after. Borne Ceaselessly Into the Future
A man who is not a hopelessly bad critic, though he may not have in him the _catholicon_ of critical goodness, may fail to appreciate _La Morte Amoureuse_ because of its dreaminess and supernaturality and all-for-loveness; _Carmen_ because Carmen shocks him; _La Venus d'Ille_ because of its _macabre_ tone; _Les Jeune-France_ because of their _goguenarderie_ or _goguenardise_. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
Nor is there any suggestion that publishers are hopelessly inaccurate when estimating future sales.
We are hopelessly entangled in dust, work and the British monetary system.
My light clothing was hopelessly inadequate for the cold Japanese winter.
Washington is starting to write off the Democrats 'chances in Hawaii's 1st because of a hopelessly fluked and flawed special election, in which the party had brawled over which candidate to support as voters, for the first time, cast mail-in ballots in an all-party election. Cook: GOP chances up in Hawaii's 1st, down in Pennsylvania's 12th
Many of course would stop here and dismiss this inherently nostalgic call for a revalidation of the beautiful as hopelessly retrograde and unproductive.
Perhaps my notion of wilderness is romantic and hopelessly out of date, but I have to say that I find paragliding an intrusion.
Could this hopelessly dated, hokey, predictable bit of nonsense with dime store special effects possibly be the series that once scared me so much I insisted all the living room lights be on when we watched?
Their manufacturing methods are hopelessly out-of-date.
It's just shockingly uncool and hopelessly out of date.
The strangely melancholy beauty of these places can't be traversed - we're hopelessly distanced from nature.
But this would be hopelessly burdensome, so budgets are used instead. we might argue that the cost of this artificiality is less than than the cost of weighing everything on an organization-wide basis. Government Incentives, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
There is a subcult of kinky people who are hopelessly turned on by bears. Come Hither
Smith ain't the answer, and anyone who tells you he is is either hopelessly delusional or a spin doctor in disguise.
Commodities were hopelessly unchic after a decade of low prices. The Great Grain Rush
He's a brilliant scientist but hopelessly absent-minded.
Okay, okay, the word breakthrough has been hopelessly overused … and thus cheapened beyond recognition. MARKETING AESTHETICS
Yet this hopelessly overbroad generalization about the connection between art and life that motivates 600-page biographies of writers and artists is what is usually trotted out as justification for these exercises in voyeurism and speculation. The Biographical Fallacy
Some were hopelessly ruined with damp, others torn and trampled with muddy hooves, and some were no more than fragments. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
a _real_ four-mile man you will be left hopelessly astern; but when he gets upon his favourite "one in one" slope, then does he simply sail away, with the tiffin coolie carrying a fat basket and all your spare lumber in his wake, while you toil upward and ever upwards -- gasping -- until with your last available breath you murmur "Asti," and sink upon the nearest stone a limp, perspiring worm! A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
Within five minutes it was clear that the midfield battle was being hopelessly lost with neither a break or a clean catch coming Carlow's way.
He was a wonderful companion but hopelessly impractical.
At the bottom of Rover's long-term failure is a hopelessly crude conception of what constitutes enterprise and business success.
I would discover at odd times (generally about midnight) that I was totally inexperienced, greatly ignorant of business, and hopelessly unfit for any sort of command; and when the steward had to be taken to the hospital ill with choleraic symptoms I felt bereaved of the only decent person at the after Falk; Amy Foster; To-Morrow
Hopelessly and regrettably diluted, diminished by relentless overuse, reduced by popular culture, trendified to the point of empty nothingness. Times, Sunday Times
The opinion polls were hopelessly wide of the mark.
And so he hung there, a superhero in abeyance, shrugging at the audience hopelessly. Times, Sunday Times
I remember this with amusement because now, with months of childproofing our apartment behind me, I realize that this is one case where the distinction between literal and figurative meaning is hopelessly blurred.
We are hopelessly undermanned, the medical services have been run down and at least 10% of our frontline forces are unfit for duty.
Yet the easiest way to describe it is as a pop album recorded on hopelessly outdated equipment.
Their dreams of love and marriage are hopelessly romantic.
Training was hopelessly unsuited to a modern, fast-moving game. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
Not surprisingly, Protestant reformers later rejected that move as hopelessly unscriptural.
Yet it's the far more numerous black farm workers who've suffered most as their jobs disappeared, the land usurpers - primarily government and "parastatal" officials, Zimbabwe's cronies - hopelessly inexperienced at commercial farming. Thestar.com - Home Page
the papers were hopelessly jumbled
I have found myself many times in foreign lands hopelessly trying to refold enormous maps back to their original pocket size.
I'm no good at dancing - I always get hopelessly out of step.
'In the nineteenth century the Turks were hopelessly beaten, and the Porte was falling to pieces under the world's eye, yet the Austrians were flogging their peoples to keep them in subjection exactly as if there were a terrifying enemy at their gates.' Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV
He was hopelessly impractical when it came to planning new projects.
I strayed a few blocks in the wrong direction and became hopelessly lost.
The slammers and hip-hoppers doubtless would find this collection hopelessly literary.
I would discover at odd times (generally about midnight) that I was totally inexperienced, greatly ignorant of business, and hopelessly unfit for any sort of command; and when the steward had to be taken to the hospital ill with choleraic symptoms I felt bereaved of the only decent person at the after end of the ship. Falk, by Joseph Conrad
Romantics is by now "hopelessly naive, escapist, and self-deluding," distinguishing between romantic lyric and conventional neoromanticism; while Altieri examines in detail how Arnold’s Wordsworth constructed Introduction
I'm hopelessly uneloquent and I'm not sure how to respond. In My Mailbox - 01/17/2010
But I also have to face the facts: sometimes a good concept can be hopelessly scuttled by budgetary limitations.
Plenty of guys always have a bit of wedge in their pocket but I've always been either hopelessly broke or stupidly rich.
But the out-of-sorts striker rushed his chance and hopelessly miscued his shot wide of Peter Schmeichel's right-hand post.
You may have caught Mr. Craig playing a hopelessly sinister and useless South African Jew in Steven Spielberg's laughable Munich ( "the ownly blid thit mitters to mee is Jewish blid"). Bottoms Up
The lorry had become hopelessly bogged down in the sand.
To be interested in the changing seasons is ... a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana
She'll be smashed to matchwood in a minute, the after-fall has unshipped; "then whipping a knife from the belt of one of them he severed the remaining fall, and saw the boat plunge down sternwards and outwards from the side just in time; another half-minute and she would have disappeared under the steamer's bottom to be hopelessly stove in. Tessa 1901
We're hopelessly pessimistic about life expectancy. Times, Sunday Times
The amount of his remarks is that we are hopelessly beaten.
An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product.
Choosing that one would yield a hopelessly ungrammatical result.
Wisely, most campers leave the wild edibles to game show contestants and the hopelessly lost.
You sensed it all along, but the knowledge was hopelessly muddled by the inherent drive to author new life.
As I've often said about Orson Scott Bigot, it continues to astound me that a field so dedicated to open minds continues to attract so many folks whose minds remain hopelessly closed ... and proudly so, at that! TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley
The more detail that is demanded the better, because it will concentrate the minds of a group of people who tend to be hopelessly vague and woolly.
The new big noise displayed a chronic lack of professionalism and failed hopelessly to live up to his billing.
If the foregoing also sounds familiar in our context - this use of tribal prejudice to inform choice at election time - then we may conclude that the value of evolution has been hopelessly overestimated.
That Mrs Proudie installed gaseliers in the Bishop's palace for her first formal reception in Trollope's Barchester Towers was an indication of her hopelessly middle-class background.
He built an hospital for the sick of all kinds, but the objects of his predilection were the lepers, and those hopelessly afflicted. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
'I'll never manage it(Sentence dictionary),' he said hopelessly.

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