"It was really dispiriting".
"I was just standing there, and, you know, for that to happen… it was really dispiriting," he said.
And to lose your job in such an undignified way on top of it all was really dispiriting to a lot of people.
It is, in fact, really dispiriting when an unknown is given a chance to carry a show and still registers as a cipher.
It's really pretty dispiriting to see ideology so brutally dominate critical thinking among people who pride themselves on their critical faculties.
"It's never really been dispiriting, though," says Jacob. "We've got quite a strong internal momentum, and you can't keep railing against decisions that go against you.
No, the really dispiriting thing is that we haven't got a government.
But coming so soon after Mia Hansen-Løve's genuinely passionate movie Eden, on the same subject, it really is dispiriting.
Being a musician is dispiriting, she says.
Watching real people undertake these artificial relationships can be entertaining; watching really, really fake people do it is just dispiriting.
