Sentence examples for How dispiriting from inspiring English sources
How dispiriting, then, that the film should come courtesy of Peter Farrelly, one half of the fraternal duo who are among the great innovators of gross out (4).
How dispiriting to lose someone's attention because the text message is potentially more important than who you are or what you are saying.
How dispiriting, if you're attempting to share knowledge with inquiring young minds, to find your charges refusing to engage with quadratic equations or oxbow lakes because they're busy passing round a dictionary with a rude word circled in it.
How dispiriting, then, to discover that what we've stolen is the chance to read an online women's magazine, far below whatever standard still prevails in the most dumbed-down print magazines, and with far less attractive graphics than Martha Stewart Living.
If this was my style, how dispiriting.
Indeed it's dispiriting how ho-hum the reaction has been within this very country that for so many generations has held aloft a shining light - and attracted citizenship-seekers (myself included) - proclaiming a truth held to be self-evident: that human beings are endowed with certain unalienable rights.
Yes, it's dispiriting to see how how little is required of the adult actors (most of whom are graduates from teen series of the 90s: let Pretty Little Liars be your Ghost Of Christmas Future, Cory Monteith!) But this adaptation of a successful and, apparently endless, Young Adult series has a dark, self-amused sense of menace.
Constantly relying on others for clothes, food and shelter is dispiriting enough – how can you expect someone to also mind your children?
How striking then – and dispiriting – to read recent reports that the compensation to over 400 sex abuse victims has been reduced because they had themselves committed criminal offences, including offences involving drink and drugs.
Still, on one level, this latest flirtation with the midcentury (it's reflected, as well, in pop culture fare like "Pan Am" on television and in the forthcoming Marilyn Monroe biographical film "My Week With Marilyn") can be read as dispiriting evidence of how self-referential fashion has become.
