How To Use Dispirit In A Sentence

I realized how our leadership brings forth mediocre organizations and dispirited people.
Activists who have fought land rights battles inspired by the Constitution are a weary, dispirited lot.
Most of the children are dispirited because of some adolescent problem.
There is no effort to hide the blandness and utter dispiritedness of that future.
Neither, which is most important of all, has this Peace been attained by a surrender to Necessity, or any compact with Delusion; a seeming blessing, such as years and dispiritment will of themselves bring to most men, and which is indeed no blessing, since even continued battle is better than destruction or captivity; and peace of this sort is like that of Galgacus's Romans, who 'called it peace when they had made a desert.' Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

At present the day was drizzling and chilly, while the huge volumes of smoke from a whole forest of factory chimneys tended to impart a deeper shade of dismalness to the dispiriting landscape.
The Daily Telegraph said Capello desperately needs to shake up his team to get the best out of players like Frank Lampard and a "dispirited" Rooney before the final group C game with Slovenia. The Age News Headlines
But Pietro is too lost in his own daydreams and dispirited behavior to pay attention to his studies.
This was unforgivable form - but I was hot, sweating, badly sunburnt, my feet were freezing, wet and blistered, I was frantic with thirst, hungry and utterly dispirited.
You can embrace your fears and become a timid, dispirited, wounded person for years—perhaps for a lifetime—or you can reject your dread and believe what God has said to be true. Recovering From Religious Abuse
Lessing that what he wrote under the dispiritment of failure should be the most lively and vigorous. Among My Books First Series
I take objection to being grouped in with the dispirited parents.
Here's one bit of news chez Juliette - I've finally struggled back into my swimming cozzie, stuck on my goggles, and plunged back into the cold and dispiriting pool of online dating - only to immediately come face to face with three drowned wasps and a floating condom. Dater Archives
Blessed is the voice that amid dispiritment, stupidity, and contradiction proclaims to us, _Euge! The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
What is perhaps most dispiriting about this book is the tone of these criticisms.
It was wildly dispiriting, yes, but as policy it was actually effective in stanching a financial meltdown - you only have to look to Europe where the clamoring for a similar program grows louder every day their current mess deepens. Benj Hewitt: A Liberal Defends Obama
He was a dispirited man, on the brink of destruction by the abrasive world of society and business.
Under these dispiriting circumstances, the few voices calling for toleration were accorded increased attention.
That alone was easily enough to overwhelm their depleted and dispirited numbers, but the army outside also numbered several battalions of foot soldiers.
I left eventually at six o'clock feeling utterly dispirited and depressed.
To stare at an empty vastness would be dispiriting; perhaps also it would bring about too great a sense of isolation.
Came the last act and the conviction among the frozen and dispirited cast that in front of us were overcoated tailor's dummies. GOODBYE CURATE
I left eventually at six o'clock feeling utterly dispirited and depressed.
The setting of the poem is a midtown bar where the poet sits musing dispiritedly about the onset of WWII.
He came to Devizes in 1989 to take over a rather dispirited congregation, which had suffered from constant changes in clergy over a short period.
A stooping, dispirited Adam and a wistful Eve walk slowly through a lush garden with gravid fruit trees and a profusion of animals, as a flaming red cherub, his sword raised, glowers against a possible return.
We can't let the furious, intense opposition from Wall Street, the insurance companies, Big Oil and the far-right fringe discourage or dispirit us. Robert Creamer: 10-2-10 Rally Gives Progressives a Chance to Stand Up Straight
Standing in the middle of the Main Street, looking at the crowd in front of him, his light-heartedness was quickly overwhelmed by dispiritedness.
To say that these last years have been dispiriting is an understatement. Balkinization
And while seemingly well adjusted, Ruben too is dispirited, trading on the bodies and brainlessness of his fighters for a few dollars and the dream of the big time.
All Montanes, a steady baseliner playing his 10th French Open, had to do was win two out of the next three points against a wounded, dispirited opponent who couldn't run and couldn't serve harder than 80 mph. Hard-Luck Story for Fognini
Any bars that are still left standing have dispirited serving girls.
And you know how, when the battery's flat, your car makes a dispiriting grinding noise as you try starting it?
He is author of "Allenby," "A Dispirited Rebellion: Essays on Contemporary Israeli Culture" and the forthcoming "The Settlers & the Struggle for the Meaning of Zionism. WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook
Seven days previously they were dispirited and downhearted after being well beaten by Salford yet by Sunday they'd recovered to the point of putting on one of their most complete displays of the campaign.
Trojans put their recent woes behind them as they brushed aside a dispirited Beckwithshaw side.
It is kind of dispiriting to realize how batshit a lot of the Obombers really are. Hillary Hits Critics For Taking Her RFK Assassination Remarks "Out Of Context"
How dispiriting it must be for young Scottish players as talented as Craig Gordon to see their prospects diminished by the unholy alliance of the media and the Old Firm-driven football establishment.
The Leeds defenders who played were subjected to a dispiriting ordeal.
While the Republicans still have failed to cultivate a national identity, still fielding posers for presidential notions, they have been able to ride a tide plucking on that anger, dissent and dispirit. B.D. Gallof: One Year Ago, No Different Than Today: A Political Observation
Finn and Larkins started to walk away from the bench that seated the 3 dispirited boys, all of whom were sighing with misery and woe.
For a year and a half, you did that dispiriting, desperate drudgery.
A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line, but random and chaos, a calamity out of nothing, a prosperity and no account of it, a hero born from a fool, a fool from a hero, — dispirits us. Representative Men
The examining magistrate 's office was on an upper floor along a dispiritingly yellow-painted corridor. MOONDROP TO MURDER
Consider the dispiriting view that everybody always acts out of their own self-interest.
No Greg, YOU stop with the "dispiriting" nonsense and the fraudulent numbers that Clinton is pushing. The Latest Popular Vote Counts
As Argentina's presidential election approaches, many dispirited voters are planning on turning in blank ballots or not voting at all.
Since this is the season when humidity especially soddens and boredom particularly dispirits, mightn't we impute the same high taste to Bill Bradley's choice of a day in August for announcing that he cannot endure further service in the Senate? Bradley's Escape
The really dispiriting part of this whole show is that the best work, Third Eye, was unsold when we visited.
She refused to be dispirited by her long illness.
The dispirited day, is in the ruins quiet dying embers.
Thirdly, why we should perhaps not be too dispirited and demoralised about public life.
She had had enough of that dark dispirited house with its gloomy, self-flagellatory paintings and its almost relentless aura of doom. Beneath an opal moon
And my children's friends have suggested they find reading "serious news" "dispiriting" because it makes them feel helpless. T r u t h o u t
But these are checked by dispiriting reflections on my melancholy temper and imbecility of mind.
By rights, it should be obvious cannon fodder for a dispirited Opposition. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
For Campbell, the past few months have seen a rebirth, after a dispiriting struggle in America with a shoulder injury.
He continues however to sit croaking at Ghent, chagrinned, discontented, and dispirited. Robert Morris
Dispiriting experiences like this will quickly damage the reputation of UK higher education abroad.
The "dispirited" part is an obvious gaffe, but it seems that it's entirely possible to be a "conservative liberal," depending on what you mean by those terms. My campaign will be dispirited, because I'm a proud conservative liberal...
I hate to dispirit my readers like that, but that's just the way things go sometimes.
The smaller ones have been closed, so the choice is a drive or a bus to Dulwich Village, or standing in a queue which is never less than 30 people, with four windows out of over 10 open in the grungey and dispiriting Camberwell Green post office. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
A year ago the National caucus was dispirited and dejected.
Handed a dispirited, defeated force, he instilled into it the will to win.
A dispiriting run without a league win in September and October was broken by a win at Liverpool in November.
In doing so it will hopefully help puncture the ideological claims that have done much to demoralise workers and dispirit potential students of work and employment relations.
He reached the edge of the penalty area and the dispirited Croatia defence opened up for him.
“Sitting!” repeated Mr Meadows, with a yawn, “O worse and worse! it dispirits me to death! it robs me of all fire and life! it weakens circulation, and destroys elasticity.” Cecilia
This is essential if dispiriting reading for the tender-hearted and tough-minded alike.
The cast members are illiterate, dispirited convicts with a leading lady who is about to be hanged.
Poor Paul! hunger and dispiritment track thy sinking footsteps: once or at most twice, in this The French Revolution
A 21-year-old secretary related how she lined up for several hours, but became dispirited watching young girls argue furiously with elderly women over queue-jumping.
The dispiriting fact is that no negotiated two-state agreement is likely in the near future.
She assembles familiar ingredients in a way that satisfies the everywoman while dispiriting the adventurous.
the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances
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She never looked dejected or dispirited, though she had all the reason.
This must be one of the most dispiriting exhortations ever issued by a political leader.
Such a dispiriting fate should not befall Lawrie on this occasion.
Demoralising idleness and the humiliation of charity or relief work left the unemployed dispirited, apathetic, or divided.
Hillary Unites and Excites Republicans while she divides and dispirits democrats. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | What's Next: The Battle For Edwards Delegates And Supporters
As was the case with Bryan Robson's shoulder, which popped its way dispiritingly through the late-1980s, sound-tracking the decade as clearly as any plunking Roland synthesiser, the temptation is now there to become wrapped up with Carroll's lager tally, to assume a condition of relentless ambient anxiety over the state of his ongoing lager thirst. England's Andy Carroll is not the first with a thirst for success | Barney Ronay
The public, after a dispirited delay, revolted.
The condition of peasant children, their sorrows and joys, their sports and bickerings -- the coarse insolence of the richer, the timid dispiritment of the needy, all stood in lively remembrance before his fancy, which liked to go back into that first and only period of his freedom, though, perhaps, also of his beggarhood. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828
I tried to start an office lacrosse pool, but everyone was too dispirited to participate. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Discrimination in Child Naming Law
Older people can quickly become dispirited and depressed by chronic illness.
Keeping vibrations of hope on the pulse through dispiriting times was part of the task she set herself.
Out of chaos emerges dispiritedness, because it is impossible to make a reasonable choice. THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
He said it had to be the most dispiriting place in the world. MR STARLIGHT
the first dismal dispiriting days of November
Famine and disease had ravished and dispirited the people and emigration had drained the land of most of its youth.
The decision to euthanize is always dispiriting and sometimes heart-wrenching. Mike Stark: 'No Kill' or Torture? Nathan Winograd and His Animal Sheltering Movement
Even though the dispiritedness of some of our colleagues disempowered the organizations, they continued to renew themselves in quality and in quantity went from 20 groups to 40 groups.
In effect, they are a kind of ongoing social experiment in how long people can live in a state of chronic poverty, and dispiritedness, before their bodies give way and their health falls apart. November 2003
The archetypal sin in the Bible is, we see, the sin of dispiritedness, of self-deflation that inevitably leads to more horrible sins. The Ten Commandments
There was more dispiriting news yesterday for Russia.
The floors are covered in polished terrazzo, and the walls seem to have been plastered with a purposefully cheesy sixties-era Formica laminate reminiscent of DiSpirito's old family home.
The talk was that the Irish would lose by a ton but Gatland's previously dispirited team conceded a late try and went down 18-16.
Masters, the 33-year-old Essex seamer, is in many ways the archetypal journeyman cricketer but here he seized the advantage of a helpful pitch and a dispirited opposition to claim the outrageous figures of eight for 10 as Leicestershire were brushed aside for 34 in 88 balls. Essex v Leicestershire | County Championship match report
Watching President Obama address the White House Press Corps apres le deluge is a dispiriting affair. Bob Jacobson: The President Is Dispiriting
It was somewhat dispiriting, to see this ancient archiepiscopal city now sadly deserted. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
I guess this is the price Zambia has to pay for failing to beat Ghana in Lusaka but having to win in Ghana should inspire rather than dispirit the players.
Famine and disease had ravished and dispirited the people and emigration had drained the land of most of its youth.
Like McCain, I'm not dispirited by the notion that Congress will have to revisit the issue every few years.
The bosses of the leather-curing establishments he met were by and large a dispirited lot.
All who went out, returned back dispirited from the vain and weary search, and even the most sanguine began to grow sick at heart. Parables From Nature
An aging and dispirited workforce cannot continue under the stress much longer.
Among the pleasures of this rather dispiriting collection are Chandler's verdicts on his fellow writers.
But biotechnology craves to subdue this creativity, to rob nature of its own nature, to denaturalize and dispirit it.
The delays are poisoning the political atmosphere and daily making the prospects more and more dispiriting.
Bill Kristol thinks that Obama now regretting "looking like a tax-and-spend liberal Democrat" is the very first White House concession that should dispirit lawmakers. TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
Blessed is the voice that amid dispiritment, stupidity, and contradiction proclaims to us, Euge! The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
Finally, the dispirited animal would come to accept that from now on, it had exchanged freedom for servitude. TANK OF SERPENTS
The story describes a recent exercise involving "top Pentagon leaders" that simulated their response to "a sophisticated cyberattack aimed at paralyzing the nation's power grids, its communications systems or its financial networks" - with "dispiriting" results: ArmsControlWonk
Accordingly, as a gloss on the whole affair, the young gallant dispiritedly notes ‘Tricks are repaid’.
Some dispirited broadcasters left radio and television altogether.
After all, although there is much to dispirit us with the state of our school system, it does educators no good to assume these ills have merely been "imposed upon them," and that they have no choice but to keep hoping, as passive victims, that better days lie ahead. Sam Chaltain: What's Your Declaration of Education?
Even then, a good gallop afterwards, or a cigar and a glass of punch, with some lively fellow who is no philosopher, will do him far more good than a fagging walk of so many measured miles, with the studious companion whose head is stuffed as full of such matter as his own, and whose talk will be of disputed passages, and dispiriting anticipations of a "dead floorer" in the schools. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
Neither, which is most important of all, has this Peace been attained by a surrender to Necessity, or any compact with Delusion; a seeming blessing, such as years and dispiritment will of themselves bring to most men, and which is indeed no blessing, since even continued battle is better than destruction or captivity; and peace of this sort is like that of Galgacuss Romans, who called it peace when they had made a desert. Criticisms and Interpretations. II. By Thomas Carlyle
‘I really need to start looking at these,’ she said unenthusiastically, picking up the nearest college prospectus to her and flicking through dispiritedly.
a dispirited and resigned expression on her face
Comforting to know that I'm not the only one to find this tough, although it's dispiriting to know that some bright bunny will tootle along saying; Quick crossword No 12,690
One of the chief advantages of flow is that it enables people to escape the state of ‘psychic entropy,’ the distraction, depression, and dispiritedness that constantly threaten them.
All this “moderated” Give him a Chance Tone just dispirits the troops I mean, Conservative voters - IMHO anyway Are Republicans Finally Uniting? - Erick’s blog - RedState
Everyone was tired and worried and the rubberneckers were making them feel "dispirited", he said. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
Economically, we were on the cusp of a new and dispiriting era.
Under a Republican administration, such cavalier dismissal of urban prosperity, even by a career HUD official, is dispiriting.
The rain ran into his eyes, down his body, its blows heavier, more dispiriting -- THE LAST RAVEN
My point is that not only are these pundits often wrong, but their message either dispirits the troops (in the case of convincing them that they can't win the race), or it lulls the troops into a false sense of security, which is dangerous as hell. 06/03/2004
The exchange of ideas and information becomes a battle of wills, a futile and dispiriting activity.
This made a dispiriting start to the evening, which is something one doesn't often say about Balanchine.
He said that hundreds of Hamas's fighters has been killed and the mood was 'dispirited', with Hamas launching fewer than 30 rockets a day compared with 70 or 80 when the war started. Home | Mail Online
Breyer, lamenting the court's "dispiriting" decision, said he knows of no other supreme court in the world that has closed its main entrance. Supreme Court closes its front doors to the public
The sameness of these teen girl movies is dispiriting.
And it shows in a general -- I think it ` s a dispiritedness you ` re seeing about the choices in the field. CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2007
He does tend to carry an air of dispiritedness about him," admitted Mingo. Darkness of the Light
To stare at an empty vastness would be dispiriting; perhaps also it would bring about too great a sense of isolation.
Germania Ford; but the resultless fighting dispirited and demoralized the people, while it only harassed and weakened the army. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
In an act of admirable but ultimately misguided loyalty, the national coach Andy Roxburgh stood by his dispirited keeper.
You can dispirit the Iraqi people by sending mixed messages.
I'm not sure whether this is enlightenment or dispiritedness on my part. Class Warfare and "Mary Poppins"
This is essential if dispiriting reading for the tender-hearted and tough-minded alike.
I just understand that if you are constantly behind, it dispirits people.
The rapid accumulation of rejections was a dispiriting sign of how much I had aged. THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
This was a blow from which the already dispirited Newman never fully recovered.
Never have I seen enviros so dispirited or in such disarray.
A Broken System: The problem of combat stress and reintegration is an old one extending back veterans of the Civil War who we labeled as having "soldier's heart" -- a crushed state of mind that led to withdrawal and dispiritedness. Dr. Anthony Hassan: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Who Will Provide Mental Health Care to Our Veterans and Their Families
His attitude and approach threatens to dispirit further not just his base but all Americans. Bob Jacobson: The President Is Dispiriting
How are we to break free from the dispiriting sequence of dictators and their henchmen?
But it was too late to stop what should have been a morale-boosting victory from turning into another dispiriting, muddled mess.
The Marriage Movement recently got hit with some dispiriting news.
Kildare were a dispirited bunch but it was to get much worse before a late rally put a little respectability on the final scoreline.
But I want those number on that Republican turnout because the adjustive we've heard is dispirited. CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2008
Behind in races, he would find himself becoming dispirited and not fighting as hard as he should.
They looked dispirited as they trudged off for half-time cuppas but they had a rejuvenated look on the restart and took just seven minutes to draw level.
Obama will be Jimmy Carter squared, including blaming Americans for the great dispiritment, and turning away in thought which will ensue following the rest of the world's cynical use of his dangerously naive ideas to our detriment. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
And if, in the depiction of our trade, perceptions of our benignity and those of our power have been locked in a dispiritingly inverse relationship, what, if anything, can be done?
I even invited her to the mall, and I was dispirited when she turned me down.
To shake or destroy the courage or resolution of; dispirit.
By rights, it should be obvious cannon fodder for a dispirited Opposition. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
I left eventually at six o'clock feeling utterly dispirited and depressed.
No doubt taking up intelligent design is a dispiriting business.
An outsider could immediately sense the dispirited pessimism that overtook Azariya.
He is understandably dispirited by the accession of the new pontiff, but expresses his concerns in language that seems to me overwrought and misplaced.
Handed a dispirited, defeated force, he instilled into it the will to win.
a dispirited and divided Party
Our lack of progress is very dispiriting.
a "prolonged period" and said businesses are "dispirited" by tax and regulatory changes. FXstreet.com
Politically, yesterday's election returns were far more dispiriting for the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Boston.
Their departure brought a dispiriting end to their heady arrival in Baghdad two weeks ago.
However, nothing dispirits, and nothing seems worth while disputing. Moby Dick; or the Whale
On an island in the middle of the pond, cormorants hunch like dispirited monks.
While previewing a new manuscript from my friend Stephen Covey, I came across some terribly dispiriting figures from a Harris Poll of 23,000 full-time U.S. workers in key industries.
And you know how, when the battery's flat, your car makes a dispiriting grinding noise as you try starting it?
He took a broken and dispirited fleet and turned it quickly into the force that would win the Pacific theater.
Even more dispiritedly, the old remedies to these ills no longer inspire confidence.
Barack Obama had levitated himself above the usual, dispiriting muck of politics. Obama's Likability Gap
The ragged and dispirited Americans made camp at Valley Forge.
The 71-year-old justice labeled as "dispiriting" the decision to refuse entry through the front steps, although visitors may still leave the building that way. Justices lament closing main entrance to high court building
It is a short step to lording it over your dispirited, lonely and inevitably disappointed wife, and your deracinated offspring.
But for the occasional doldrums or moments of dispiritedness, I like the following remedies: Gentle Healing for Baby and Child
Breyer said he knows of no other supreme court in the world that has closed its main entrance, and lamented the court's "dispiriting" decision. Supreme Court to close front doors for security reasons
According to a "dispirited" WikiLeaks activist, the group's "secrecy and compartmentalization are apparently hindering its operations," since only Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
A number of dispiriting things have happened recently.
Personal wealth hardly dispirits the adventure-seeker, eh? A Remarkably Ignorant Posting from a Former NASA History Writer - NASA Watch
The ragged and dispirited Americans made camp at Valley Forge.
Delusion -- a seeming blessing, such as years and dispiritment will of themselves bring to most men, and which is indeed no blessing, since ever-continued battle is better than captivity. Thomas Carlyle
Establishment pols say political infeasibility makes single-payer healthcare a non-starter, but the recent political tragicomedy unfolding in VFWs and gymnasiums across America have only left the Left dispirited and brought the Right, smelling blood, to the warpath. Daniel Denvir: Why Bad Healthcare Policy Makes For Bad Politics, Too
Such an interpretation cheapens the meaning of the First Amendment and dispirits Americans from fighting to keep those protections. Breasts are not bad « BuzzMachine
Finally, the dispirited animal would come to accept that from now on, it had exchanged freedom for servitude. TANK OF SERPENTS
Most importantly, we have tools to fight the pitiful dispiritedness that has taken over newsrooms nationally.
Even a flagging campaign can be presented as evidence of McCain's fundamental goodness; noting that McCain seemed "dispirited" in early 2007, Newsweek offered, "It may be because he is not, at heart, a politician. David Brock and Paul Waldman: Excerpt from Free Ride: John McCain and the Media
Anyway, I was quite dispirited at only receiving four calls in total from this ad.
Know then, I have made divers desperate leaps at those upper regions; but always fell backward into this vapour-pit, exhausted and dispirited by those ineffectual efforts; and here we poor valetudinarians pant and struggle, like so many Chinese gudgeons, gasping in the bottom of a punch-bowl. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Both pieces deserve much better, though their strength shines through even this dispirited sight-reading.
They are more dispirited today than they have been in years.
A paltry 12,000 paid to watch the dispiriting sight.

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