Sentence examples for dispiriting you from inspiring English sources

Yet he indicates that playing people he despises can be at times be dispiriting: "You attract a kind of negative energy when I play people like George W. Bush and Tom Lykis, and you have to say horrible things when you play people you hate".

The boredom of living in the suburbs could be "inspirational as well as dispiriting", you write.

So, it was dispiriting, but you make the best of it, and it gave me a lot, obviously, of things to write about.

It is dispiriting that you implicitly endorse this administration's readiness to wage wars unjustified by national defense at the unconscionable expense of life and riches.

Laura Wade's "Colder Than Here" (an MCC Theatre production, directed by Abigail Morris, at the Lucille Lortel) is dispiriting if you expect it to be anything more than what it is: a made-for-TV movie passing as theatre.

How dispiriting, if you're attempting to share knowledge with inquiring young minds, to find your charges refusing to engage with quadratic equations or oxbow lakes because they're busy passing round a dictionary with a rude word circled in it.

Watching the film was both inspiring and dispiriting when you consider that we are still dealing with systemic inequities more than 50 years later.

Also, this side of the conventional wisdom fence is really dispiriting...do you know ANYONE who doesn't have a variety of positions on a variety of issues?

Our evident inability to prevent civil strife in Iraq by force may be dispiriting, but why, you might wonder, should it matter in the long run if the political solution works out and Iraq emerges with a capable if imperfect democratic government?

If you're a true soccer fan, the perspective might just be dispiriting enough to make you go wide.

Movies like "Dredd" can be dispiriting, but only if you base your arguments on the worst the movies have to offer.