Sentence examples similar to deflating aspirations from inspiring English sources

When the home side did find some urgency, particularly in the opening exchanges of the second period, Petr Cech offered assurance and a flurry of reaction saves to deflate any aspirations the hosts may have had of mustering a recovery.

The cyst did not appear to communicate with the endometrial cavity, and it was deflated by aspiration of a brownish yellow dense fluid.

Goose-stepping soldiers acting like automatons, the pedant behaving like a mechanical robot, the Sergeant Major attacked by diarrhea, or Hamlet getting the hiccups all show man's lofty aspirations deflated by his all-too-solid flesh.

: Kinda deflating.

This is initially deflating.

The intermission was deflating.

Asset prices are deflating.

These are deflating moves.

Even the blowouts were deflating.

Deflating Information: From Science Studies to Documentation.

1) Was my attitude energizing or deflating?