Alex seldom had a discouraging word for the Soviet Union or any of its authoritarian Third World clients.
Nary is heard a discouraging word about anyone, anywhere.
During a legislative session, lawmakers hardly hear a discouraging word from supplicants.
When I met Jeffrey Sachs, an economist at Columbia University and the author of "The End of Poverty," for coffee recently, he was stubbornly holding on to a sense of optimism in spite of a discouraging turn in world events.
Past and present racial tensions on campus and across this country are a discouraging social reality.
Those that do none of the above, but rather exist as a "live storage" facility for endangered species, or species extinct in the wild, are not pursuing conservation but, rather, are a discouraging acquiescence to a world without animals roaming in the wild.
While city and state investigators did not fault the agency directly in each death, in every case they linked agency personnel to a chain of failures and oversights in protecting the children — a discouraging record even for the perilous world of foster care.
It was a discouraging time.
It was a discouraging moment.
It was a discouraging setback.
But it was a discouraging start.
