Kagan expressed sadness and the others appeared frustrated and dispirited.
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"No wonder then people end up being discouraged and dispirited."
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All that said, Tuesday night left me disappointed and dispirited.
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The disintegration of the refineries has left many workers dispirited.
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The dispirited remnants of Egypt's civil society miss the relative openness.
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Lacey adapts lyrics and offers dispirited shrugs to his former self.
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How does one avoid becoming dispirited at best, jaded at worst?
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The left was dispirited because it thought Democrats hadn't accomplished more.
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Black Americans are dispirited, and white voters are satisfied with Trump.
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In the short term, it could galvanize a fractured and dispirited base.
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But The Grinder isn't as dispirited with the sitcom form as that show.
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Yes. Would Democrats like to see Republicans dispirited going into the midterm elections?
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So we avoided a truly horrific outcome in which people felt really dispirited.
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She was almost too dispirited to defend her 5,000 metres world championship title.
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She had recently returned from a European tour and was exhausted and dispirited.
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Our sights have been blurred and misdirected, our youth dispirited and politically apathetic.
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The president's haphazard concession emboldened Democrats and dispirited fellow Republicans at the same time.
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Dispirited brides took to Twitter to express their stress and frustration over the closures.
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Having solved poverty, Xi needs to figure out why his people seems so dispirited.
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Bryan: Out of everything in this episode, this final tease left me most dispirited. Why?
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If Ram, sitting in the room with the long tables, is dispirited, he hides it.
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By her reaction, errors would appear to be anomalies, and this anomaly has her dispirited.
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It was as though the notes had come to life and then immediately grown dispirited.
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Woods may have said he was angry with himself, but he did not appear dispirited.
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With each round of layoffs, those who remained became increasingly dispirited, according to former employees.
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Puncture the fantasy, expose the mortal, and the dispirited faithful will destroy the false deity.
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YC: The title of my project at MoCA is What to Do When You're Feeling Dispirited.
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His legislative agenda was ailing, the Russians were testing him overseas and the nation was dispirited.
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The overwhelming effort dispirited a Nebraska fan base that expressed itself initially with anger, then absence.
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If Harvey was stunned by Koehler's hit, he may have been dispirited after the fourth inning.
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In the meantime, where can the outraged and the dispirited turn for a glimmer of hope?
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One can imagine the perfect storm: Democratic-leaning voters, newly dispirited by the news about Mrs.
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Many voters were already dispirited, dragging themselves to the polls with whatever hope they could muster.
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For this we feel pained and dispirited and would like to express our most sincere apologies.
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The songs make you cry, dance, smile, and even soothe you when you're down and dispirited.
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Hamilton had said that Southern troops were dispirited and in disarray before the arrival of Gen.
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Dispirited, I tried on a tropical print short-sleeved button-up shirt — in 100 percent rayon!
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Stories have emerged of Jony Ive being 'dispirited' by Tim Cook's lack of interest in product development.
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The second set proved a no-contest as Zverev took complete control against a dispirited looking opponent.
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Residents of cities that do not feature near the top of the list should not be dispirited.
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"This has dispirited some people's thinking, and depressed their will, drying up their spirits," the paper added.
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"Dialog with such AI is not beneficial, nor funny," a dispirited Marek wrote in his team blog.
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But it also left many feeling dispirited, as though their elected representatives have not heard their voices.
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Of all the top seeds, in fact, only Argentina had cause to leave Moscow a little dispirited.
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I was a dispirited, appalled American entering North Africa, where I should have received an evil eye.
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For all of Somalia's trouble, I met fewer dispirited men in Mogadishu than I did in Manhattan.
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Mr. Langrée revitalized what had been a dispirited ensemble, and the performances he led were usually lively.
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The reaction seems to have invigorated the people behind the games, too, who grew dispirited at fan criticisms.
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" He noted, "after years of all this and none of them getting fired, the good employees become dispirited.
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Lou Mazzuchelli (Josh Radnor), a dispirited English teacher, talks his way into taking over the school drama department.
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She makes three attempts to leave Paris (with two dispirited returns), amounting to a little tour of France.
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He viewed the White House as a moral post from which to inspire and guide a dispirited nation.
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If our voters don't see us fulfilling what we said we were going to do, they'll get dispirited.
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Hitting below the belt may be cathartic for a dispirited base, but I'm more interested in victory than catharsis.
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At 4-2, it was the mother of all comebacks against a tiring and dispirited Old Lady of Turin.
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Getting fired is awful, and can leave you angry or dispirited, or even feeling as if you'll never recover.
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Most contenders are bound to depart the Des Moines airport next February damaged or dispirited, if not politically dead.
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Jackson knew he would face questions about that as he met reporters near the dispirited, unsettled Ravens locker room.
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But while her career was on an upswing, she was feeling dispirited over how terrible the food culture was.
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Batman's story is a little more dispirited, as he was previously unavailable for adoption because of an upper respiratory infection.
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A significant swath of our base had turned dispirited, arguing that the President and congressional Democrats didn't go far enough.
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Everyone knows that grunge was the dispirited '90s comedown from the consuming counterculture rage of the '262s and '217s, duh!
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But the human Ashley O is exposed as an artificial construction and the "real" Ashley as a profane, dispirited stranger.
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Republicans, in a bid to rally their more dispirited voters, are exaggerating the extent to which this is Democratic policy.
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I don't remember the last time I saw actors more dispirited and bored than in Alice Through the Looking Glass.
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Berlant was interested in the "atmosphere" of scenes like these, acted out by dispirited characters in search of a plot.
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That has so dispirited some Brexiteers that they say they have given up on leaving the European Union at all.
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It had done a poor job of attracting families from the neighboring brownstones, and many of the teachers were dispirited.
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Skeptics think it is equally plausible that the GOP base will grow frustrated and dispirited by the lack of action.
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A moderate Republican, Barrack has little interest in partisan combat and said he was occasionally dispirited by Trump's most corrosive rhetoric.
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This worries the country's smaller parties—including those in Jokowi's coalition dispirited by his lack of reforming zeal and authoritarian drift.
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ABOUT THE PACERS (18-14): While George was dispirited after the loss, forward C.J. Miles was taking a long-term approach.
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China's soccer players recently were banned from having tattoos, as it depicts a "dispirited culture," which is banned on all media.
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Jane Fonda, an award-winning actress and longtime activist, connected with "dispirited and confused" swing voters ahead of the 2020 Election.
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But with Trump broadly unpopular, and Republicans dispirited, some Democrats insist they enter the fight with renewed energy and political momentum.
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The Giants' late-game heroics came at a moment when the team would have been forgiven for being demoralized and dispirited.
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The minority party became so dispirited that a liberal wing formed an alternate organization in an effort to rejuvenate the party.
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The dispirited foreigners trickled back from the front lines to Erbil, the capital city of Iraqi Kurdistan in taxis playing Dabke music.
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Divided, dispirited, defeated: This is the state the GOP finds itself in, on the eve of Trump's increasingly likely coronation in July.
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Today, "there is momentum as people become fatigued by the wage gap and dispirited by the inability of federal legislation," states Thomas.
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Some poll-unskewers surely believed the polls were skewed; others were simply desperate to give dispirited Republicans something to hold on to.
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But the original interaction left her deeply dispirited, she said, and was one of the things that discouraged her from pursuing comedy.
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Many dispirited opposition supporters now see foreign pressure as their only real hope of hurting Maduro ahead of next year's presidential vote.
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Analysts say many Venezuelans feel as dispirited by the opposition as by leftist leaders, given the opposition's continued defeat by the government.
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Pulling a face, Ms. Meredith described once spending months writing an orchestral piece on commission, and being utterly dispirited by its debut performance.
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Without accountability, the only other tool for managing personnel is dense rulebooks, so suffocating bureaucracy is layered on top an already-dispirited workplace.
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It could be that people are too distracted or dispirited by this endless, ulcerous presidential election to tune into Saints/Falcons or whatever.
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" Senator-elect Harris conceded that most Californians are feeling dispirited and said, "You are not alone, you matter and we've got your back.
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Indeed, much of the country is now deeply angry and is increasingly dispirited by the way this nomination process has played itself out.
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The E.P.A. I returned to in the spring of 1983, some 28 months into President Reagan's first term, was dispirited and in turmoil.
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Dispirited by Mimi's death a few years ago, his own failing health, and, one suspects, Mr. Trump himself, Russ declined to weigh in.
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If torrential rain falls on the last day of August in one region after a few dispirited drizzles all month, the average inches up.
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Her effort may have given a ray of hope to dispirited Clinton supporters, but the chance of overturning the overall result of the Nov.
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"The brisk upswing in mortgage rates and not enough inventory dispirited some would-be buyers," the NAR said in a statement accompanying the figures.
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That means most of the contenders are bound to depart the Des Moines airport next February damaged, dispirited or disappointed, if not politically dead.
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In 225,2000 years, it will seem less dispirited than the first one, what with a bikini, birth control pills and some Beatles records inside.
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Her status as a newcomer and an outsider makes her an effective, and increasingly dispirited, proxy for the audience's initiation into the Berry's universe.
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Then came a 4-0 thrashing at Costa Rica last Tuesday in which Klinsmann's team looked alternately disorganized, dispirited and — perhaps most damningly — uninterested.
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One shows a family setting up for business while nervously eyeing the competition and another, a completely dispirited family, moving house with meager belongings.
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Mr. Trump did not clear his Friday tweet with top White House aides before putting it out, leaving some of his advisers deeply dispirited.
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Really, in the space of about 10 or 12 minutes, Mike Pence turned a demoralized, dispirited, depressed, negative convention into an upbeat, optimistic, united convention.
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"I've run out of words to appropriately convey how horrified, dispirited, and disgusted we all are," a State Department official told Vox earlier this month.
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A source who ran into Gates last week — before the CNN story broke about the imminent indictments — said his usually jovial associate looked "pretty dispirited."
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The Republican candidate who spent the most money running against Mr. de Blasio grew so dispirited with his chances that he dropped out months ago.
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Even as those stars succeeded,others left the Oregon Project dispirited, their bodies broken and their minds damaged by Salazar's intense workouts and coaching style.
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Confronted with a dispirited population, powerful militias, lurking jihadists and scheming politicians, Iraq's governing class has yet to show it knows how to win the peace.
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It was a week that eventually could put Trump's entire presidency in jeopardy and has left his White House dispirited, confused and at odds with itself.
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" She even encouraged dispirited federal government workers to "stick it out" as the Trump administration seems contemptuous of their departments, "because the tide has to turn.
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Scorsese's own body of work is a strong argument for inculturation, in that he instinctively finds religious patterns and images in modern, urban, vulgar, dispirited society.
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" History knows better, of course: A decade and a half later, Johnson's dispirited men in uniform seem to be wondering, "What course do you suggest now?
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Opposition to the left's agenda would come from a diminished, dispirited, Republican minority and a right-wing elite forming circular firing squads while debating what went wrong.
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The so-called "ant tribe" was born from this disparity: a vast swarm of dispirited college graduates hived in windowless warehouses, slaving to save for a deposit.
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Advisers say communication among the campaign team is better than it ever was before, and insist that the ground troops have not been dispirited by the tumult.
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They may have been dispirited by the early underperformance of Biden and flirted with other candidates, but when he showed signs of strength they returned to him.
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Players grow angry and dispirited to learn that a team beat them for reasons unrelated to talent, hard work, or even a lucky bounce of the ball.
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Dispirited by his inability to mount a Sunday charge at the Masters, McIlroy returns to Europe looking to regain the positive momentum he had going into Augusta.
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Veteran South African producer, Portable, has shared the contemplative, dispirited video for "Say It's Going To Change," the first official single off his forthcoming Alan Abrahams album.
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Game 23 will be Sunday night, when the Red Sox will try to put on a better performance in front of their dispirited fans at Fenway Park.
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While soft shades of fuchsia, light pink, and orange render a sense of visual jubilance, Picasso's subjects, often depicted off-duty, appear pensive, meditative, and at times dispirited.
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They said many employees in key jobs were dispirited, and described a lack of focus and clear priorities that is unusual even in the chaotic culture of startups.
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That drop comes at a crucial time for the church, as Pope Francis seeks to rally dispirited Catholics and push much-needed reforms through a recalcitrant Vatican curia.
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"I just think that common sense has to prevail," a dispirited Mr. Manchin said, explaining why he thinks that now is "the wrong time" to revive his bill.
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Bush repaired to their home in Houston and to their oceanfront compound in Kennebunkport, Me. By his own account the loss had left him dispirited and feeling humiliated.
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Edmonton was coming off a dispirited effort in Los Angeles on Saturday, dropping a 4-0 decision to the Kings as the Oilers produced a season-low 0 shots.
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Of the first four voting states, Nevada is the one Warren has visited the least: She has spent just 12 days there, another factor that dispirited the state's staff.
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"I got obsessed with knitting and I was very dispirited about the nature of the business — with its Zara moments and crazy six-week trend driven cycle." she says.
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Interviews with dozens of Kurdish voters show a people left dispirited by the failure of their independence push, with some saying they will not take part in the ballot.
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Third, he could lead his own force south and fight against the increasingly disorganized and dispirited Tyrell and Lannister armies while they're fighting the Faith Militant in King's Landing.
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When the government of President Petro O. Poroshenko called snap parliamentary elections for October 2014, just eight months later, Mr. Manafort rallied the dispirited remnants of Mr. Yanukovych's party.
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It has also left the country's dispirited Western backers and many Ukrainians wondering what, after two revolutions since independence in 2100, it will take to curb the chronic corruption.
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Yang Cong: What to Do When You're Feeling Dispirited continues at the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Pavilion (People's Park, 231 Nanjing Road (West), Shanghai, China) through May 2.
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His show, What to Do When You're Feeling Dispirited, on view at Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Pavilion, features drawings, paintings, and a custom-made machine that dispenses candy.
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After his disappointing mid-term, purely to fire up his dispirited troops, President Obama made a YouTube video calling for the reclassification of the Internet under 80-year-old laws.
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That weekend, a dispirited Mr. Bush retreated with General Powell to Camp David in Maryland, where they watched the movie "Enchanted April" and tried to understand what had just happened.
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"Macy's has simply not bothered with a large rump of stores for many years: they have lacked investment, been devoid of management attention, and now look distressed and dispirited," he said.
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Mr Trump perhaps calculates that Arab regimes are too concerned with other crises to bother with Palestine, and that the Palestinians are too divided and dispirited to do much about it.
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The space community was dispirited; no one expected an imminent, explosive emergence of a new entrepreneurial ecosystem that now promises unprecedented opportunities in space and vanishing barriers to extra-terrestrial commerce.
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This refusal to anoint a front-runner in either party appears in poll after poll, as dispirited voters declare that they simply don't like Mr. Trump, Mr. Cruz or Mrs. Clinton.
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Though their ranks have shrunk as both men struggle with self-inflicted wounds, in a state as conservative as Alabama even a diminished and dispirited base could be enough to win.
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At times, he seems to be playing with genre, particularly when Lara hits the island and begins pinballing from peril to peril, but the action is leaden, dispirited and finally dispiriting.
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Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, said that she had been monitoring mass shootings since the 1966 massacre at the University of Texas — and that she had never felt more dispirited.
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Some were dispirited by the break, believing the controversy was totally unnecessary, even if they sided with Bannon's view that Trump Jr. had created an unnecessary political mess for his father.
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When I first reviewed Who Is America, the show made me angry, but after watching almost all of the series (with only the finale unseen), I'm much more dispirited by it.
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This dispirited version of Rampage has been building since he lost his UFC belt to Forrest Griffin, when the affable character with thick hardware-store chains around his neck became something darker.
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The media became even more dispirited when they read through the indictment, discovering that nearly all of Manafort's alleged wrongdoing substantially pre-dates his brief stint as chairman of the Trump campaign.
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In fact, the more cynical people are about government, the angrier and more dispirited they are about the prospects for change, the more likely the powerful are able to maintain their power.
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Born in 1895 to a German father and a Russian mother, Sorge, like many young men of his generation, was dispirited by his experience in the trenches of the first world war.
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In 1996, he signed on to start a cable news channel for the conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch, as dispirited conservatives were looking down the barrel of a second Bill Clinton term.
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With the Democratic Party largely leaderless and the 2020 presidential primary race still a long way off, one person has served as a rallying point for dispirited Democrats: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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"I've run out of words to appropriately convey how horrified, dispirited, and disgusted we all are," a State Department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity in order to speak freely, told me.
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In fact, the more cynical people are about government and the angrier and more dispirited they are about the prospects for change, the more likely the powerful are able to maintain their power.
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With their business donors and voting base already dispirited over failures on other issues such as health care, botching tax cuts trigger a collapse that hands Congress back to Democrats in 2018 elections.
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Wordplay FRIDAY PUZZLE — It's a good thing that I only cover the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament for The Times and am not a competitor, because otherwise I would feel very dispirited right now.
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I was really dispirited by last year's backlash against Elizabeth Warren — who, full disclosure, my husband has consulted for — because it reminded me of how people turned Clinton into a caricature of herself.
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But running on such a platform is the one thing that could revive a dispirited conservative base and cause it to turn out in the kind of numbers that won Congress for the Republicans.
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Stoking fear along the border distracts the growing economic damage wrought by his trade war, from his dwindling and dispirited White House staff, and from the ever-looming shadow of special counsel Robert Mueller.
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This was part of a generally dull concert by the festival orchestra under the direction of Matthew Halls that included a dispirited Mendelssohn Overture and a mild-mannered rendition of Beethoven's Symphony No. 8.
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This is a distraction to work Trump supporters into a frenzy about something that is not on the ballot so that our side will be dispirited and their side will get out and vote.
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Not only did the Nationals lose all three games at home this weekend, they only scored one run in each game and were outscored 19-3 over all, leaving their loyal fans dispirited and disappointed.
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During Vietnam, an influx of "drug-ridden and dispirited" draftees portended the rise of "fragging," as detailed by Marine Colonel Robert D. Heinl in 1971: deliberate attacks on officers for whom they refused to fight.
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Auto-Tune; hip-hop; and the nasal, narcotized, dispirited voices of SoundCloud rap compete with, and often out-stream, the kind of soulful vocal storytelling that would have had Ms. Aguilera flourishing in previous eras.
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Three women of color were so dispirited by their experience working for Bloomberg that they sent a letter to their alma mater, a historically black college, warning it not to help Bloomberg recruit from campus.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Key members of Venezuela's opposition, divided and dispirited after losing gubernatorial elections over the weekend, will travel abroad to denounce what it says is a "fraudulent" voting system under leftist President Nicolas Maduro.
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While the president was talking up armaments and bonuses for teachers who volunteer for weapons training, dispirited educators in West Virginia walked out of their schools, seeking what they say would be simply a living wage.
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But his jeremiad message – that Brazil is a dysfunctional basket case that needs an iron-fisted ruler to restore order – is resonating with Brazilians dispirited by the nation's soaring crime, moribund economy and entrenched political corruption.
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The German boys — dispirited, exhausted, angry and defiant, if we can read their faces correctly — were huddled on the ground in Saint-Quentin, France, where they had been among many thousands taken prisoner by the Allies.
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More worrisome is that the supporters of the president's party frequently can't be bothered to turn out for more than one election in a row — voters seemingly grow dispirited and disaffected by the slightest failure or affront.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - After dominating Turkish politics for a decade and a half, President Tayyip Erdogan now faces his biggest electoral challenge, from a combative former teacher who has revitalized a dispirited opposition in less than two months.
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Representatives of the last Republican White House are effectively in exile from presidential politics these days, dispirited by their party's embrace of Donald J. Trump, the nominee, and feeling betrayed by former friends who are backing him.
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Mr. Harari, who receives $1,444 monthly through Supplemental Security Income, with $1,246 used to cover his monthly rent, said that even after he moved to his new home, he felt dispirited as he adjusted to his blindness.
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There are many reasons for it — from outdated curricula, to the decline in deep reading, to the culture of distraction courtesy of social media, to dispirited, under-supported, teachers coping with ever-more mandates and dwindling resources.
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"Whenever news of our valuable victory is broadcast recently, the Yankees would be very much worried about it and the gangsters of the south Korean puppet army would be dispirited more and more," KCNA quoted Kim as saying.
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In a final that rarely resembled anything other than one-way traffic, Nadal was at his clay-covering, forehand-whipping finest as he won his fourth straight French Open by beating up on the erratic, increasingly dispirited Federer.
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"We'll get a lot of candidates who are going to want to run, and I think for donors who have been on the sidelines, dispirited for the last year, I'm telling you, people are jazzed up," said Gov.
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"People are very dispirited and they aren't prepared to go out and vote," said Miriam Bravo, a 40-year-old mother of seven with a 3-month-old baby in the sprawling Petare slum of Caracas, the capital.
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I think back to a time a few years ago when I was working at the BBC in London and our managers booked a motivational trainer to come and attempt to galvanize the dispirited employees in my department.
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"Whenever news of our valuable victory is broadcast recently, the Yankees would be very much worried about it and the gangsters of the south Korean puppet army would be dispirited more and more," KCNA cited leader Kim as saying.
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By Andrew Cawthorne and Andreina Aponte CARACAS (Reuters) - In another setback for Venezuela's dispirited opposition, four of its five state governors broke with their coalition's official stance on Monday to swear themselves in before a pro-government legislative superbody.
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The territory's dispirited chief executive, Carrie Lam, is insisting that she is not ceding to protesters' demands that she step down, even though an audio recording emerged of her telling local businesspeople last week that she yearned to resign.
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A former inmate, who spent a year in former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jail, strongly condemned President Trump decision to pardon the sheriff, saying he was "disgusted, dispirited and disappointed in the American political system," after the announcement.
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Dispirited Georgians said over and over that they cast votes for Abrams because her emergence represented a clear marker of progress in their lifetimes in a state still haunted by the vestiges of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow.
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In 1993, even before Amazon went online or Google was incorporated, Mr. Aiken, as a dispirited lawyer producing a baseball trivia calendar on the side, joined the Guild and started generating news releases that presaged the portents of electronic publishing.
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"People do not think their voice matters, and they talk to the like-minded, and they are dispirited and inattentive," said Jim Fishkin, director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford and one of the creators of this research method.
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Hillary Clinton had the most capable Senate staff I have ever seen and then moved to the State Department, where she restored confidence in a much bigger organization that had become dispirited and dysfunctional after several years of organizational indifference.
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Rolfe said that continued changes in leadership of both the Liberal and Labor Parties, where the Prime Ministership has bounced from Kevin Rudd to Julia Gillard, to Rudd again, then to Tony Abbott and finally Malcolm Turnbull, have left voters dispirited.
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This threat is wildly implausible — Clinton is much, much more popular among the Democratic Party officials who dominate the ranks of superdelegates — and probably serves more to keep Sanders's voters from being dispirited by Clinton's delegate lead than anything else.
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Of course, if these platforms grow substantially or trolls ramp up their efforts, they could run into the same problems as YouTube or Facebook — whose human moderators are vastly outnumbered, and often overworked, dispirited, or even traumatized by dealing with constant vitriol.
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In limbo for years because of a number of legal disputes, this laboriously bizarre picture is narrated by Samson Young (Billy Bob Thornton, drained and dispirited), a dying, creatively stalled American writer who has swapped apartments with a celebrated British author (Jason Isaacs).
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In a country that often defines itself in the ways it is different from its larger and more bellicose American neighbor, Canadian women have been both inspired and dispirited by what is happening across the border and moved to speak out themselves.
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Again, the withdrawal of US and NATO forces beginning in 2011 — and especially the reduction of close air support sorties — has also allowed the Taliban to coordinate in larger groups and to undertake combat operations against isolated (and often dispirited) Afghan forces.
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Directed by the comedian, actor and filmmaker Takeshi Kitano, this crime film that was released in Japan in 1990 follows a dispirited baseball player (Masahiko Ono) who teams up with a friend to get revenge on a local yakuza that attacked his coach.
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The roughly $1.3 trillion package currently being considered comes on the heels of a deal cut last month that increased overall spending by $85033 billion, shredded the Budget Control Act, and thoroughly dispirited voters hopeful that a Republican majority would restore fiscal sanity.
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It extends, symbolically, to the broader human community of the poor, the dispirited, the silenced, the plundered — those whose spirits have been savaged, those who have been stripped of all dignity, those who risk everything or make impossible journeys to better their lives.
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The gatekeepers of a political parable don't want to get "political" even as they promote and celebrate the story of a small, dispirited and diverse band — people who find the courage to resist a white supremacist organization that is about to achieve overwhelming power?
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While Trump supporters remain with him, (he enjoys a 90% approval rating among Republicans, Gallup found earlier this month) sources with knowledge say that even Trump's own attorneys were dispirited by the President's performance, noting that he seemed to wilt in the face of Putin.
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It is of no concern to Guardiola that it may not be especially entertaining to watch: not just for the dispirited fans of his latest victim, or the putative, elusive neutral, but after a while perhaps even for the fans of his own team.
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Mr. McCain's death is giving Americans — even those who might have disagreed strenuously with him — an opportunity to recognize someone for a selfless life of service to his country at a time when many are disillusioned and dispirited about politics in both substance and tone.
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Another central character, a former refugee now returned home, is so dispirited by the state of his life, his city and his country after the war that he is already nostalgic for life under ISIS, when everyone was "too afraid" to commit theft or corruption.
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It could be argued that Trump's sour grapes gambit is a smart move to recapture the media spotlight, and to rally his dispirited supporters by showing that he has a fighting heart—that he remains a pugilist who is willing to do whatever it takes to win.
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Whether you think the coincidence makes Mr. Cagli look "new" (as in prescient) or Ms. Auerbach look "old" (as in been-there) probably comes down to whether you're cheered or dispirited by the now-popular notion that art history is entirely a history of eternal return.
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Best Big Movie: As a huge fan of Andrew Stanton's two previous Pixar films (Finding Nemo and Wall-E) and a someone who was dispirited by how lame his live-action debut John Carter was, I was more nervous than excited for his return to animation.
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With dispirited Republican voters like King on one side and a fired-up liberal base on the other, Democrats are hoping to use the April 3003 special election in Georgia's 2300th Congressional District as a model for how to convert Trump's unpopularity into votes in future contests.
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He did attend Berklee, but after feeling stifled by the clinical nature of his classes, dropped out after just a year, returning instead to his hometown, Des Moines, and taking a job as a maintenance worker for the local parks department — an experience that left him dispirited.
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Gypsy's teeth, long neglected, and rotting, are eventually removed at Dee Dee's instruction—this is convenient, since age can be discerned through dental markings—and Gypsy, who only realizes what is happening just before she is put under anesthesia, is left bruised, gummy, and utterly dispirited.
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Guggenheim was one of the great collectors of the 25th century, living in palatial exile in Venice, where you can still visit her collection — at her home, now a museum — but on a return to New York the previous year, she was dispirited by what she saw.
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" The problem, at the end of the day, with trying to out-Trump Trump is that "the more cynical people are about government, the angrier and more dispirited they are about the prospects for change, the more likely the powerful are able to maintain their power.
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Since early 2015, I'd been hearing bits and pieces about Myanmar and the Rohingya Muslims, and how activists on the ground — exhausted, dispirited activists who were begging any reporter they could find to help spread the word — were saying the crisis had been fueled and spread by social media.
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The government's supplemental brief has a tenor of dispirited reasonableness that has been wasted on plaintiffs who repeatedly shift their ground in an attempt to pivot further and further from a solution that would give tens of thousands of women the health coverage to which they have a legal right.
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Sadly, nominees have come to expect this from the U.S. Senate, so Pompeo was prepared and took the aggressive questioning in stride, rightly explaining that he maintains "respect for every individual regardless of sexual orientation," and would, under his leadership, do all he could to improve a dispirited State Department.
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Segregation of gang members from the general population is inherently difficult because gang members are not using identifying tattoos as frequently anymore, and without detailed law-enforcement intelligence, which does not exist in Honduras, it is nearly impossible to tell a gang member from a dispirited teenager in a poor community.
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With his own show on Ekho Moskvy, an independent radio station, and a channel on YouTube, Mr. Nevzorov has become a hate figure for his former comrades on the nationalist barricades and an irreverent hero for Russians dispirited by the country's nationalist drift and the suffocating moralism of the church.
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Anyone who has become dispirited by the stark, in-your-face corruption and degradation visited upon us by President Trump and his stable of sycophants would do themselves some good to find and watch videos of the testimony of Marie Yovanovitch, my hero, as well as George Kent and Bill Taylor.
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"Whenever news of our recent valuable victory is broadcast, the Yankees would be very much worried and the gangsters of the South Korean puppet army would get dispirited more and more," the North's news agency quoted the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, as saying after watching the launch on Monday.
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The arrest of Gennadi Kapkanov, 33, a Russian-born Ukrainian hacker, and the takedown of Avalanche, a vast network of computers he and his confederates were accused of hijacking through malware and turning into a global criminal enterprise, won a rare round of applause for Ukraine from its frequently dispirited Western backers.
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Contrary to fears among some liberals that the anti-Trump resistance movement would start and stop with marches and memes, the surge of energy and potential candidates is letting dispirited Democrats dare to believe they could win the 24 seats they need to reclaim the House majority for the first time since 2010.
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Contrary to fears among some liberals that the anti-Trump resistance movement would start and stop with marches and memes, the surge of energy and potential candidates is letting dispirited Democrats dare to believe they could win the 24 seats they need to reclaim the House majority for the first time since 22018.
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When we were sated, when we could stomach no more books, Tall Lionel suggested the Hawksmoor, to raise a glass to the old place, but I was dispirited by my colleagues, by their small-minded acquisitiveness, by the weather, by the thin drizzle now turning old book covers to pulp in the slowly filling Dumpster.
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But dispirited House Republicans are picking up the pieces from losing 28503 seats last month and are in the midst of a leadership vacuum as Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanPaul Ryan moving family to Washington Embattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway MORE (R-Wis.) winds down his congressional career.
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While the drink names at the Sung chain of tea stalls are tongue-in-cheek, the sentiment they reflect is serious: a significant number of young Chinese with high expectations have become discouraged and embrace an attitude known on social media as "sang", after a Chinese character associated with the word "funeral" that describes being dispirited.
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And there, leading a seedy onstage band of nightclub musicians, is a ringer for Joel Grey as the cabaret's M.C. The man behind the makeup (and slipping coif) is Brandon Uranowitz, whom we have previously seen in this production as a dispirited baseball player (from "Damn Yankees") and an anxious Budapest shop clerk (from "She Loves Me").
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Go back over who said what in the course of last year's referendum — we are still doing little else in this country — and the most startling, if not the most decisive, moment came when Mr. Corbyn declared his support for remaining in such a dispirited and halfhearted fashion that it could easily have been mistaken for an argument for leaving.
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Common Sense The Sunday before last, as I emerged tired and dispirited from Penn Station after a two-plus hour trip from the Newark airport, I found myself pondering President Trump's campaign pledge "to spur $211 trillion in infrastructure investment," a theme he raised in this year's State of the Union address and is expected to address again next week.
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Off she, Debi, had scurried, through the woods, ruining her new black pumps, because (who knew?) there was a swamp back there, eventually stumbling out, like some sort of dispirited ghost, at Wendy's, where she'd had a milkshake, clay-red mud pooling up around her wrecked shoes, that mopping kid looking over at her, like, Lady, it's weird that you're crying in Wendy's.
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But your little quirk might not seem so charming when you see it manifested in Dan, the dispirited journalist in Helen Schulman's new novel, "Come With Me." Having slid down the greasy newspaper pole into joblessness, Dan has become a self-loathing middle-aged slacker who whiles away his days e-chatting with other underemployed writers and using Google to settle the picayune disputes anxiously raging in his brain.
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An empty milk glass sitting on a stoop alongside a takeout soup container, in one gorgeous black-and-white shot, seems like a high-concept meditation on the nature of marriage; an image of a dispirited young couple leaning against the wall at a party, looking in opposite directions as she fiddles with the strings of three balloons, has at least one novel in it, if not a whole series.
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Compared to Trump, who faces a severe financial disadvantage running against Clinton and who probably does not in fact possess the wealth to self-finance a campaign — as he claimed during the primaries — Romney would offer an alternative who would appeal to the huge and now dispirited GOP donor class and a long list of GOP candidates who will be on the ballot on November, whose fates will be tied to the fate of the nominee.
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Pelosi is facing a groundswell of frustration among rank-and-file members who are dispirited by the party's disastrous election cycle and concerned that their message has lost its punch, especially among the white voters in the Rust Belt who launched Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE into the White House.
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Dispirited, I had to stop about half-way through Volume I. I'd give up altogether, except for Michel Trebisch's Prefaces to each of the three volumes, which are in themselves such lucid and thoughtful works of intellectual history that I am half-tempted to take faith in his word that, despite (still!) "the inevitable scoria of the vocabulary of the period," Volume II could be "the key book of a key moment" and something very different from the project's beginnings.
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