What is scrutinized, most dispiritingly, is the shallowness of our aspirations.
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Experts agree that data flows are growing at an amazing pace, but also that measuring them is dispiritingly difficult.
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So we are forced to conclude, that while dispiritingly bad, the Knicks come up short in another way too.
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Although Banks has described Sabina as "definitely gay," the movie stays dispiritingly circumspect on the matter, save for one longing glance.
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But newer motels had opened near the highway, and the O'Haire pool often sat empty, dispiritingly for Sip 'n Dip patrons.
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Although charter students are admitted to college at higher rates than students from comparable public schools, their graduation rates are dispiritingly low.
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This dispiritingly predictable portrait of incompatible brothers, reunited after many years of estrangement, is truly surprising only in its failure to surprise.
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"Hereditary" is a terrifically absorbing puzzle until the moment you solve it, when its disparate elements coalesce into a dispiritingly familiar picture.
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Even more dispiritingly, it's also an America that has mostly lost our previous generations' faith that things both large and small can be fixed.
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The 1930 novel has been updated for the age of smartphones and skateboards, but the trailer still makes the movie look dispiritingly old-fashioned.
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To be clear, I'm not talking about the dispiritingly long list of star athletes who have been credibly accused of being various forms of dirtbag and abuser.
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It was a dispiritingly similar story: In liberal Seattle, the measure won, but it was overwhelmed by "no" votes from suburban and rural parts of the state.
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Mr. Pittas offered two sets of dispiritingly second-rate songs by Duparc and Brahms in which the music never quite managed to elevate the texts' kitschy earnestness.
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Made as Lurie's response to the Clinton era, the film also raises provocative questions about gender, female sexuality and double standards that still ring dispiritingly true today.
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This leads to a split-the-difference approach, reflected in Aachen's dispiritingly Eurocentric proposal for France to back a permanent seat for Germany on the UN Security Council.
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And should Trump pardon himself and his inner circle, it is dispiritingly easy to imagine Republicans reprising their familiar refrain: The president's power to pardon is beyond question.
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There was the inane unoriginality of Life's Too Short, the muddled mawkishness of Derek and, most dispiritingly of all, the self-defacing mediocrity that was David Brent: Life on the Road.
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To the extent that this exercise was preparing them for the workplace of the future, it was also dispiritingly familiar from the workplace of the present, where the rabbit holes of the Internet offer perpetual temptation.
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But, being a DC film, "Wonder Woman" can't help but devolve into a blurry, concrete-busting third act that feels dispiritingly like all the rest, not to mention a baffling reveal that negates most of Diana's growth.
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Amid concerns of history repeating itself, an illuminating and dispiritingly relevant exhibition is revisiting that era, seen through the eyes of Isamu Noguchi, one of this country's best-known Japanese-American artists, who spent time in an Arizona relocation center.
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There's also the inevitable chaotic car chase that turns Busan into a video game and, dispiritingly, a car commercial, an egregious tie-in that is somewhat alleviated by the amusing image of a woman warrior's bare foot putting pedal to the metal.
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Despite the presence of Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss ("The Handmaid's Tale") as the ex-girlfriend he gaslights — and the imprimatur of Blumhouse Productions ("Get Out") — this looks like a dispiritingly standard-issue woman-in-jeopardy flick, albeit with souped-up special effects.
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This illuminating and dispiritingly relevant exhibition features documents and small works made from driftwood that date from the seven months Noguchi spent in a camp near the Arizona-California border, where he tried, and failed, to improve the living conditions for his fellow Japanese-Americans.
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The blank cowardice and system-spanning cynicism involved at Baylor is staggering and dispiritingly familiar, and if assessing or addressing this is beyond the reach of scolding local columnists and regional Loafman And The Cramp sports-radio types, it's also true that they have never cared about this sort of thing.
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Popcast Listen to this week's podcast | Subscribe: iTunes | RSS | Stitcher| Audioboom The shooting at a T.I. concert at Irving Plaza on May 25 — which resulted in the arrest of the rapper Troy Ave on attempted murder charges and the death of his associate Ronald McPhatter — has had a dispiritingly familiar fallout.
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Beneath an Instagram post with a picture from the event posted on Kensington Palace's official account, a dispiritingly large number of people expressed their disapproval at her outfit choice, with many making jibes about her "commoner" status, dubbing her an "attention seeker," and saying she would have looked more at home at Coachella.
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Lists of the most curious, absurd, abject, and grotesque eBay auctions have taken their place in the folklore of consumer culture: the grilled cheese sandwich miraculously emblazoned with an apparition of the Virgin Mary, which sold for $28,000; four golf balls (not just any golf balls; they'd been surgically removed from the belly of a python, who'd mistaken them for hen's eggs); your advertising slogan tattooed, for $10,000, on some cash-strapped woman's forehead; a corn flake shaped like the state of Illinois; a Dorito shaped like the pope's miter; the meaning of life, on offer from a seller who claimed to have "discovered the reason for our existence" and was "happy to share this information with the highest bidder" (which he did, for the dispiritingly small sum of $3.26).
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Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine wrote a negative review of the song, calling it "yet another dispiritingly hollow attempted revver-upper in the Pitbull/LMFAO mode". He also criticized the song's interpolation from "Uptown Girl." Killian Fox of The Guardian called the song "horribly overblown", while Trent of the Lava Lizard labelled the song as "forgettable". Brad Wete of Complex disagreed, calling the song, along with "Lemme See", a "gem".
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K. Rowling is more of an adult writer." The critic Anthony Holden wrote in The Observer on his experience of judging Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for the 1999 Whitbread Awards. His overall view of the series was negative – "the Potter saga was essentially patronising, conservative, highly derivative, dispiritingly nostalgic for a bygone Britain," and he speaks of "a pedestrian, ungrammatical prose style." Ursula K. Le Guin said, "I have no great opinion of it.
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The critic Anthony Holden wrote in The Observer on his experience of judging Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for the 1999 Whitbread Awards. His overall view of the series was very negative—"the Potter saga was essentially patronising, very conservative, highly derivative, dispiritingly nostalgic for a bygone Britain." A review in The Guardian echoed this interpretation and stated that "despite all of the books' gestures to multiculturalism and gender equality, Harry Potter is a conservative; a paternalistic, One-Nation Tory, perhaps, but a Tory nonetheless." Salon.
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Based on 33 reviews collected by the film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 52% of critics gave Broken Arrow a positive review (17 "Fresh"; 16 "Rotten"), with an average rating of 5.65 out of 10. The site's consensus states: "John Woo adds pyrotechnic glaze to John Travolta's hammy performance, but fans may find Broken Arrow to be a dispiritingly disposable English-language entry for the action auteur." Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 61, "generally favorable reviews" based on 21 reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.
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The Village Voice noted that "forcing our attention onto the thing most of us love to forget makes its own point. And indeed it is hard to look at the dumps, heaps, toxic seepages, and ocean-polluting plastics shown here to be neither as distant nor as containable as one might hope". The Variety review concluded that "the pic delivers a judicious mix of human interest and useful statistics that will make it accessible to middle-class auds, especially at green-tinged fests and on upscale broadcasters". The Hollywood Reporter's review considered that the Irons mission placed "him closer to, say, Nick Broomfield", "Brady's script has a playschool-simple four-part structure, examining the three main methods of trash-disposal -- landfill, incineration and sea-dumping", while "digital cinematography by Sean Bobbitt present a range of disturbing images with unblinking clarity -- and eventually any grounds for optimism become dispiritingly elusive".
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