Anyone who has been given a negative performance review by a mean-spirited or incompetent boss will be familiar with this effect, but its implications go beyond individual dispiritedness.
The dispiritedness is relieved, though only momentarily, by the usually sombre Richard Jenkins, who shows up dressed in black, looking like, of all people, William Burroughs, and playing some sort of ageless hipster.
The year is 1987, and the park, Adventureland, with its plastic games, perilous rides, and general dispiritedness, seems like a holdover from an earlier era, and James and his mixed group of friends, when not manning booths or tangling with drunken puking teens, sit around grousing, toking up, and making out.
He takes with ease to wooing, but it's hard to see in him the magnetism that would turn an army from dispiritedness to militaristic zeal.
Now its brick facade and brown steel doors radiate dispiritedness, and state officials have labeled Lincoln one of the most troubled high schools in the metropolitan region.
How much of this dispiritedness is a result of exhaustion from the years of war and isolation -- Iraq fought an eight-year war with Iran in the 1980's that severely depleted the country's resources before the Kuwait invasion -- is impossible to say.
He added, "This is the Sunshine State, and that's the danger of being in the shadows under the Bushes".] The mood in the Gore camp today swung between confusion, exhaustion and a creeping dispiritedness.
(Smells like teen dispiritedness).
Reports of dispiritedness from within the orchestra go a long way toward explaining any number of tepid performances this reviewer has heard over the last dozen years.
