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Description: So I hope that my list of things I'm almost positive about might offer some basic operating instructions to anyone who is feeling really overwhelmed or beleaguered. Number the first and truest thing is that all truth is a paradox.

Paul Hawken

Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeways, and spandex cost. Instead, everything else is giving us accurate information: our beleaguered air and watersheds, our overworked soils, our decimated inner cities. All of these provide information our prices should be giving us but do not.

American Environmentalist

Greg van Eekhout

Back in 1982, when there were still only a manageable number of 'X-Men' titles on the racks (by which I mean just one), Marvel quite reasonably figured the world could stand another team of beleaguered mutant superheroes. And so were born 'The New Mutants,' junior X-Men whose powers had just begun to manifest at the onset of puberty.

Writer

Simon Sebag Montefiore

In Georgia, where I spend much time, the democratically elected pro-western President Mikhail Saakashvili has been beleaguered by a riotous opposition which proposes creating a constitutional monarchy under the Bagrationi dynasty, with a Spanish racing driver, Prince 'Jorge' Bagrationi, as king.

British Historian

Paul Giamatti

I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.

American Actor

Ron Fournier

We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.

American Journalist

Camille Paglia

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.

American Author

Margo Jefferson

Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.

American Critic

Use 'beleaguered' in contemporary contexts to imply ongoing difficulties or pressures.

Modern Challenges

'Beleaguered' isn't limited to warfare; it can describe any situation of relentless trouble.

Not Only Warfare

It often reflects a public view of someone or something under widespread criticism.

Public Perception

Mostly used to describe situations in history where locations were under siege.

Historic Context

Maintains a strong connection to military conflict and defense.

Military Tones

Implies more than basic problems; the struggles are intense and continuous.

Severe Struggles

 So I hope that my list of things I'm almost positive about might offer some basic operating instructions to anyone who is feeling really overwhelmed or beleaguered. Number the first and truest thing is that all truth is a paradox.

12 truths I learned from...

 and health when I first met some of these Afghan Millennials the best and the brightest of their generation they were hopeful almost well forth determined to bring their beleaguer but Beloved Country into their life at the

How the Afghan youth are...

 certain coziness and camaraderie they they always centered around the gramophone and mauson was very collegial he would share messes with with his men always and was one of the guys and you get a sense of how beleaguered

Alone on the Ice: The...

 not only this more cubs were surviving to adulthood than elsewhere in africa this once beleaguered group of lions was staging an extraordinary comeback and it allowed them to fan out into

Beleaguered

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