If that sounds discouraging, take a look at the bar on the left, which shows responses to a question about whether today's generation of young people over all will be more successful than their parents.
Many women wrote about how they tried their best, despite extremely discouraging circumstances, to look for hope each and every day in the simple things, and in focusing on the present.
The prospects for peace look pretty discouraging right now, but there are bright spots.
This could be a discouraging fact for cattle owners looking to improve costs and efficiencies.
Quarterback Philip Rivers continued to make costly mistakes while, perhaps more discouraging, his offensive line at times looked embarrassingly overmatched by Denver's defensive front.
(He ends up looking at a very discouraging M.R.I. scan. "No heavy lifting," his neurologist said, words that "sent a chill down my herniated spine").
I looked out at the discouraging universe.
"If everyone expects you to do worse and people don't look like you, it's discouraging," says Shulamit Kahn, a professor in the Questrom School of Business at Boston University who studies gender gaps in the STEM workforce.
And some readers used their tweets to extend the literature in question; the best example of this was from @lemoneyes: "Gregor Samsa had a long, discouraging day but is confident the future will look brighter in the morning".
