| Standing in the middle of the Main Street, looking at the crowd in front of him, his light-heartedness was quickly overwhelmed by dispiritedness. |
| 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. |
| Most importantly, we have tools to fight the pitiful dispiritedness that has taken over newsrooms nationally. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
