| With a large staff and entrance fees discouragingly high for small exhibitions, the future of these Hermitage Rooms is regrettably unsure. |
| Labelling effects in the laboratory have been discouragingly fragile, however, and factors that favour them are poorly understood. |
| The tune of her life had never sounded so discouragingly faint and inutile. |
| Others, even more discouragingly, said the questions were simply unanswerable. |
| Three pairs of US army shades turned on me, and a couple of American guns waggled discouragingly in my direction. |
| In regard to the return of internally displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija, discouragingly little progress had been made since the arrival of the United Nations presence. |
