Sentence examples for discouraging spectacle from inspiring English sources

It is a discouraging spectacle for those who proclaimed victory for democracy when Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe more than a decade ago -- and who speak of that event today as a model for what they envisage as a democratic transformation in Iraq and the Middle East.

One was George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, wits its horrific vision of a brutal, mind-controlling totalitarian state - a book that gave us Big Brother and thoughtcrime and newspeak and the memory hole and the torture palace called the Ministry of Love and the discouraging spectacle of a boot grinding into the human face forever.

In place of today's discouraging spectacle of frustrated postdocs unable to move ahead and frantic assistant professors struggling to win a first grant, students will see young scientists at the very beginning of their careers already pursuing their own ideas in their own labs.

To a pollster, a man in basic conflict is as discouraging a spectacle as there is, and one wonders whether there isn't a way to deport these gloomy Hamlets under the McCarran Act.

Given this spectacle, it is discouraging to think that this year's presidential candidates are vying to take control over the national purse strings.

How discouraging.

Discouraging news for an already discouraged workforce.

It was very discouraging.

It's very discouraging".

It's pretty discouraging.

It was really discouraging.