Sentence examples similar to I discouraged from from inspiring English sources

"That's a point of view I'm discouraged from taking because I've ruined my life with false light-heartedness".

I lost my job as a research scientist in my 50s and I was discouraged from continuing because people said I was too old.

For years I was discouraged from getting help and actually felt guilty when I did.

I was discouraged from making a career out of music and in the first year out of school I studied nursing and smoked bongs.

I was discouraged from buying a $5,000 steam-injected oven by its price.

I was discouraged from using the word in the first series of Grand Designs.

I was discouraged from attempting a 'Rembrandt' by my art teacher, Leslie Richardson.

I was discouraged from using the secular term "good luck," and encouraged to substitute the more providential "blessing".

I was discouraged from using La Cloche, a covered stoneware dish, by my long-standing disinclination to crowd my kitchen with inessential items that accomplish only one chore.

"I was discouraged from ever becoming a serious playwright by the critics of my first plays," Mr. Patrick noted in his 1971 letter.

In 2007, working at a wonky D.C. think tank, I was discouraged from creating a simple, non-moving scatterplot because "people wouldn't know how to read it". Today, most people wouldn't give such a chart a second thought.