| It is not a matter of sport wishing its life away, when every match is dispiritingly seen as a preparation for some other match. |
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| And when the new millennium arrived, it brought not a new age but a dispiritingly commonplace popping of a bubble of earthly greed. |
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| I found it dispiritingly easy to knock together a vastly superior top ten in a couple of minutes. |
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| Yet if that is indeed what the Kims are determined to avoid with their bomb-making, the chance of success is dispiritingly slight. |
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| And so the deluge of emotion in the concluding scenes comes off as dispiritingly false, even if the storytelling talent which preceded it was undoubtedly real. |
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| There's a distinct lack of ambition of wit as the script sets the comedy bar dispiritingly low and persistently fails to clear it. |
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| Somewhat dispiritingly, it holds that large-scale reform is highly improbable at this point. |
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| But most dispiritingly for both sides, 36 per cent said they didn't trust either of them. |
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| The pub is situated at the end of a dispiritingly bricky suburban street. |
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| All of which means that the public's level of trust in business and government is dispiritingly low, according to surveys such as Edelman's Trust Barometer. |
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| The palpable relief, as the cold war ended, that the threat of Armageddon a nuclear fight to the finish between the Soviet empire and the West had been lifted, has proved dispiritingly short-lived. |
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| Yet the list of issues on which they are at odds is dispiritingly long: Afghanistan, Iran, nuclear trade, climate change, market access, arms sales and more. |
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| After a while, there is a dispiritingly drab sameness about their stories. |
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| Mobile, Alabama in autumn feels mutable, sunshine floating down on its filigreed iron railings and azalea gardens, then, suddenly, dispiritingly humid. |
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