And what is perhaps more dispiriting is that Trumpism doesn't need Trump to survive.
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What could be more dispiriting than being in pain while feeling trapped at work?
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And that's even more dispiriting than all the gloom and doom of Batman v Superman.
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Rights advocates say that her response to the most recent violence has been even more dispiriting.
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J.P. You're not likely to hear a more dispiriting chorus to a pop song this year.
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Also, Greta Thunberg (Kate McKinnon) shows up right at the end with an even more dispiriting holiday message.
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Even more dispiriting, this production deprives Cyrano of most opportunities to execute the singular, poeticizing performance art that has made the character immortal.
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Even more dispiriting for immigration hardliners is that exit poll results show that Republican voters do not list immigration as their top issue.
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That underscores a deeper and more dispiriting truth about American elections: Poll numbers have consistently shown men not favoring women who run for office.
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The web is thus doing something even more dispiriting than turning us into bad people: It's giving us amnesia about how fundamentally good we are.
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Boos accompanied some of the Browns' more dispiriting plays, including their final offensive snap, when Pierre-Paul sacked McCown, forcing a fumble the Giants recovered.
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Elizabeth Warren, who had an even more dispiriting night, has also dropped out, and many of her supporters seem primed to turn to Mr. Sanders.
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She lost in the semifinals at last year's United States Open, in perhaps even more dispiriting fashion, as she was rolling toward the sport's first Grand Slam since 1988.
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The partial shutdown on Tuesday was all the more dispiriting because it came only days after Heathrow and Gatwick announced they had ordered military-grade anti-drone equipment to ward off incursions.
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Elizabeth Warren, who finished a disappointing third in Iowa and an even more dispiriting fourth in New Hampshire, remains in the race but has no obvious path to the nomination -- for now.
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It was an embarrassing case for the police department, and all the more dispiriting considering that five years earlier, Police Chief William McManus had vowed to overhaul a force tainted by sexual misconduct.
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One of the more dispiriting aspects, Mr. Nuwer said, was that two of the deaths, at Penn State and at Louisiana State, involved fraternities that had promised to take strong steps against hazing.
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As is customary around Citi Field these days, just as much as Mr. Met sightings and eighth-inning Billy Joel singalongs, Collins had some more dispiriting injury news to share Sunday before the game.
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Plus we had to watch Harry Kane taking corners for several weeks, which was marginally more dispiriting than being abandoned on a tiny desert atoll, and experiencing a slow and painful death from dehydration.
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The numbers were even more dispiriting for those sharing Peres's view that settlements are an obstacle to peace: 42 percent of Israeli Jews say they help Israel's security, while just 30 percent say they harm it.
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And as someone who has read thousands of student essays over the past 10 years, few things are more dispiriting — and as the pages mount, soul-crushing — than those written by 18-year-olds who can't see themselves as peculiar.
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While Ms. Watts navigates the partisan shoals of Cat and Dog (she won't take sides, though she did say she has a "sadly genetic" cat allergy), her inbox forces her to confront other, even more dispiriting aspects of the human condition.
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This was all the more dispiriting because Benin was in the vanguard of Africa's democratic revival in the early 1990s, when its long-serving leader, Mathieu Kérékou, became the first incumbent president on the continent to let his people peacefully vote him out of office.
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It is more dispiriting still to realize that the government of our land, at least in the present administration, has shown little empathy toward victims of white bigotry, and indeed, has helped to spread the paralyzing virus of hatred, by turning a blind eye to what is done in their name.
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" The song's recent fate as a weight-loss jingle was bad enough, but to see it reduced to the soundtrack for a psychic parasite's bump-and-grind — occasionally shot in silhouette against monochromatic red, like a James Bond title sequence — is somehow even more dispiriting, doubly so given the showrunner Noah Hawley's impeccable use of found music in his other FX vehicle, "Fargo.
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Turning her investigation into a live performance was partly a result of the fact that David went on to dabble in songwriting and theater: One of his main achievements, to use the term loosely, was penning the book and lyrics for the 1971 "nudie" Off Broadway musical "Stag Movie" ("I cannot imagine a more dispiriting and dismal evening in the theater," Clive Barnes wrote in The New York Times).
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The album received mixed reviews. Rolling Stone gave it four stars, calling the band's sound "distinctive and accessible", and complimenting Pat DiNizio's songcraft, which now included more driving, electrified guitar, humor, and socially conscious lyrics than on previous efforts. Entertainment Weekly rated the album a 'B', noting that the melodic, "guitar-driven power pop" had moments of humor. The review from Allmusic was more negative, however: the reviewer felt that the songs poorly written, the sound of the album was "tired" and "worn out", and that the good songs only made the rest of the record more "dispiriting", with a "weird undercurrent of bitterness".
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Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly rated it D+ and wrote, "Is there anything more dispiriting than trash that flaunts its lack of conviction?" Walter V. Addiego of the San Francisco Examiner called it "a slime-and-gore fest that offers little but a few outrageous sick jokes and the chance to make a mental list of all the horror movies from which it borrows". Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that, though the film is dull and slow-paced, "If I were 12, I might've loved it." In a retrospective, Chris Eggertsen of Bloody Disgusting called it "one of the most underrated genre entries of the '90s".
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Variety was moderately positive, writing that the film had a "good" screenplay and "savvy" direction, "and the range of technical credits are all on the plus side, especially Arthur Grant's photography." The Monthly Film Bulletin was negative, writing, "The script is feeble, the acting, apart from Patrick Allen's forceful hero, uninspired, and the obsession with injury, degradation and death more dispiriting than ever." Among later reviews, author and film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the film three and a half out of four stars, calling it "good fun with some scary moments." Donald Guarisco from Allmovie called it "one of the best Hammer Films productions", praising the film's imaginative script, and colorful characterizations.
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