-Hélas! Not much water runs from the smitten rocks of charity. “ɒ l ɒ s” (Means alas, which is used to show sorrow or concern. (Interjection) An example of Hélas is, “Alas, I think we have lost the money/ regrettably/ unfortunately/ exclamatory or declarative conjunction expressing affliction, regret, deception or dissatisfaction unluckily/ sadly/ alas/ sorry to say) -Her mother had died while I was at Cambridge. Reverses did not subdue Mr. Willett's spirits, and the fascination modern "business" had for him seemed to grow in proportion to the misfortunes it had caused him. {American Winston Churchill, a Far Country} (Reversal of fortune: usually means a turn of events that take you from a good situation to a bad situation. The opposite “from …show more content…
(afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement /insane/abnormal/ impractical / senseless / ridiculous / crazy /incurable/ inveterate/ hopeless/ dyed-in-the wool/ fatal/ untreatable/ grave/ not curable / cannot be healed/ beyond the pale/ beyond help/ mad/ demented/ psychotic/ lunatic/ chronic/ irregular/ strange/ odd/ aberrant/ stir-crazy/ He’s got a screw loose /mentally dysfunctional/ something wrong with his brain/ born mentally deficient/ mentally peculiar/ a little touched) -He’s as high as a kite on drugs. (Stoned out of his mind/ intoxicated/ tripping/ on a trip/ delirious/ freaked out/ hyped up/ transported/ on cloud nine/ dazed/ spaced-out/ high on/ drugged/ stoned /high/ intoxicated/ blitzed/ plastered/ smashed/ legless/ drug-fuelled) ~ This is a drug-fuelled enraged man {ID.} -It’s not all doom and gloom. We can still achieve success without a leader. (Abysmal / bad/also gloom and doom/ general feeling of pessimism and despondency/ the feeling that a situation is bad and is not likely to improve/ despair/ sadness/ dejection/ unhappiness/ misery) {Oxford …show more content…
(Prolong the agony {Longman’s}/ to exaggerate one’s distress for sympathy or greater effect {Dictionary.com}/ bring it on/ do your worst/ give it your best shot) -Saudi Arabia does not have a problem with the use and sale of illegal drugs such as exists in the United States. Drug smugglers and those who received and distributed drugs from abroad are made subject to the death sentence for bringing corruption into the country. {Abdullah Aldamer, How culture moulds us} (The penalty of death for the commission of a crime /the punishment of death {Farlex}/ a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime{Wikipedia}/ Capital punishment/the death penalty/execution/capital offences/beheading) -There was plenty of good things to make up for this deprivation (what we have been denied of/ lack/ deprival/ deficiency/ hardship/ suffering/ ordeal/ burden/ absence of/ scarcity/ removal/ dispossession/ starved of/ left without/ starved of/ shorn of /denial/ deficit/ poverty) ~ Basically, prisoners have few rights because they have broken the laws by which the country is ruled. Therefore, prison is for punishment in Saudi Arabia, and that means deprivation of all of life's amenities. Often there’s little or no ventilation and many prisoners suffer from heat stroke and lack of medical treatment. {Abdullah Aldamer, How culture moulds