Sentence examples for dispiriting performance from inspiring English sources

When the Rangers' latest dispiriting performance was over, littered with mistakes by some of their most accomplished players, the players sat quietly at their lockers absorbing the reality of a 6-2 loss to the Flyers on Thursday night at Madison Square Garden.

Fabio Capello seems to come from the tough-love camp of coaching, but looking at the team walking off the pitch after England's dispiriting performance against Algeria, I couldn't help feeling sorry for those overpaid, overprivileged Premiership players, and I wished that Capello could make them feel a little better about themselves.

He finishes a particularly dispiriting performance of As You Like It by diving headfirst off the stage.

Even before they jetted to South Africa, many of the players had shaken France's usually firm pride in Les Bleus with a combination of dispiriting performances on the pitch and unseemly and extravagant lifestyles off it.

After watching that Ballet Theater "Beauty" matinee just three months after having seen a particularly dispiriting Royal Ballet performance of the same ballet, I realize how very many ingredients of Ballet Theater's production are good or excellent.

Soulja Boy's performance was dispiriting, a chaotic mess undone by diffuse sound and the limits of charisma.

One disk, consisting entirely of piano music, is especially dispiriting, precisely because the performances, by David Holtzman, are so superfluously good.

The Lady Tigers play the most miserly defense in the country and do not appear burdened by the recent past: the protracted battle with emphysema and death in 2005 of their longtime coach Sue Gunter; the resignation in 2007 of her successor, Pokey Chatman, who was accused of having improper sexual relationships with former players; the dispiriting string of uptight performances in the Final Four.

And lately, they've been a dispirited and dispiriting battleground.

The most dispiriting aspect of Miliband's performance is what it says about the government's commitment to tackle climate change.

England's batting performance was as dispiriting as it had been uplifting in Friday's first one-day international, when they racked up 325-4 batting first and held on for a nine-run win.