This year's television commercials, agreed his companion, had been the most dispiriting ever.
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Most dispiriting of all, her hand was having more painful rejections, requiring more trips to the hospital.
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"This is the most dispiriting call about the economy I've heard in a very long time," CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday.
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"What is most dispiriting is appointing Calhoun as C.E.O. after he said that Dennis was doing everything right," said Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut.
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Yet here we are in the N.B.A. finals, at the sport's supposed pinnacle, confronted by one of the most dispiriting injury sagas #thisleague has ever witnessed.
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Right now, I'm also experimenting with Trint, an app that shows promise at taking over the transcribing of interviews, the most dispiriting part of an otherwise great job.
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Perhaps the most dispiriting aspect of Amazon's search process and its result is that it chose not to join that narrative, to further stimulate the engines of growth.
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One of the most dispiriting moments of his "TMZ" appearance came as Ms. Owens was being given room to espouse her controversial views on police violence and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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It's the most dispiriting story I've covered in 30 years of writing about the N.B.A. — no matter where you stand on how much we should be talking about the felony sexual assault charge Bryant faced in Colorado in 2003.
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This season was already a strong contender to rank as the most dispiriting ever, following a preseason dispute with the Chinese government and the sudden deaths of David Stern, the former N.B.A. commissioner, and of Kobe Bryant, the former Los Angeles Lakers superstar.
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In this falling-down season, that is the most dispiriting thing of all: not that we were so lazy or so unkind or so unserious as to have invited this stupid, stupid viciousness into our homes but that it was already there in the frame, indistinct, unmistakable, alien, us.
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While it's funded programming from partners like CNN and Fox News, it's also played a role in some of the industry's most dispiriting trends, like the so-called "pivot to video" — and several of the digital publishers that bet big on the platform have been struggling (to say the least).
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I think that's one of the most dispiriting thing about all of this — that Trump has succeeded in a remarkable degree in keeping many of his most loyal supporters tunnel-vision focused only on the source of allegations, only on one allegation at a time, and then hanging over their heads the specter of Hillary Clinton.
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Therein lies what for Abrams' voters felt like the most dispiriting aspect of how this unfolded: Georgia had a chance to elect — in the cradle of the civil rights movement — an advocate who inherited all of the resolve and daring of a generation of doers in the face of oppression, only for Georgia to elect someone who many of Abrams' supporters view as a modern avatar of the state's cruelty toward black people, with Abrams' loss as the evidence that she's an heir to the prior generation's burdens, too.
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Robin Murray of Clash questioned why Capaldi's music is "so boring" given his "hilarious" public persona. Murray judged that the album "isn't something anyone should hate. It's well produced, well played, and for the more part well written, if highly repetitive in its he said/she said subject matter", saying its "refusal to be disliked" is "perhaps its most dispiriting, irritating aspect". Writing for NME, Jordan Bassett characterised the album as "emotional piano ballads" that "sit at stark contrast with his public persona", concluding that it is "somewhat baffling that such a charismatic star could make a record so lacking in personality, though his fans won't mind one bit".
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" The critic also asked "Why does it matter what Locke and Richard Alpert and Daniel Faraday or anyone else does, when they all seem as clueless and unfettered from reality as we are as viewers? How can these characters have any concrete agenda or strategic approach or philosophical perspective on anything when the rug is pulled out from under them by another Act of God every few seconds?" The New York Times also commented that "what has been most dispiriting about the current season is the show's willingness to abandon many of the larger and more compelling themes that grounded the elaborate plot: the struggles between faith and reason; the indictments of extreme capitalism, the futility of recovery. All that remains is the reductively limned battle between fate and free will largely playing out, now, in Jack Shephard's belief that returning to the island is his Destiny.
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" Holby City has also been unfavourably compared with the American medical drama ER. Television producer Paul Abbott has commented that although he watches ER, he does not watch Holby City as: "it looks like you've crammed one hour's drama into 26 episodes." In October 2009, former Holby City writer Peter Jukes wrote a critical piece for Prospect magazine, contrasting the show negatively with the standard of American television dramas. Jukes wrote that Holby City has become a soap opera, rather than a drama, and deemed the episodes he worked on "the most dispiriting experiences in [his] 25 years as a dramatist." On several occasions, people within the television and entertainment industry have suggested that Holby City is a waste of the television licence fee, with some suggesting that it ought to be cancelled. In August 2002, Paul Bolt, director of the Broadcasting Standards Commission criticised BBC programming as being "humdrum" and "formulaic", saying of Holby City and the police procedural Mersey Beat: "One begins to wonder what really is the point of the BBC bringing this to us.
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