| Most importantly, we have tools to fight the pitiful dispiritedness that has taken over newsrooms nationally. |
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| There is no effort to hide the blandness and utter dispiritedness of that future. |
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| Standing in the middle of the Main Street, looking at the crowd in front of him, his light-heartedness was quickly overwhelmed by dispiritedness. |
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| The dilapidation of border control points is compounded by the dispiritedness of the security services personnel. |
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| He takes with ease to wooing, but it's hard to see in him the magnetism that would turn an army from dispiritedness to militaristic zeal. |
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| Anyone who has been given a negative performance review by a mean-spirited or incompetent boss will be familiar with this effect, but its implications go beyond individual dispiritedness. |
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| Now its brick facade and brown steel doors radiate dispiritedness, and state officials have labeled Lincoln one of the most troubled high schools in the metropolitan region. |
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| The dispiritedness is relieved, though only momentarily, by the usually sombre Richard Jenkins, who shows up dressed in black, looking like, of all people, William Burroughs, and playing some sort of ageless hipster. |
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