At least as dispiriting as the attitudes that emerged were the reasons many gave for the deterioration.
Today we need cricket to provide respite from cricket, or at least the increasingly dispiriting events of the last fortnight.
After two minutes, this can often become dispiriting at least, dismissed at worst, so Virgin Media has decided to make the wait an interactive experience.
And lately, they've been a dispirited and dispiriting battleground.
Rightmove iOS / Android / Windows Phone House-hunting can be dispiriting, but at least the apps for browsing homes are good.
The answer is a dispiriting one, at least according to Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, two brave Moscow-based journalists who have followed the development of the Russian internet since its earliest days.
To say the least, it was disrupting and dispiriting to have something happen to me that I wasn't expecting and to have it interfere with the many other high-priority things going on in my personal and professional life.
Others just had a knee-jerk reaction, "who can prove if they used biological weapons some news sources say pictures are a hoax?" The results were dispiriting to say the least.
It has been dispiriting, to say the least, to see her zeal in using law enforcement to crack down on voluntary sex workers in an effort to combat trafficking," Lola Davina, a former sex worker and author, told HuffPost.
The very existence of the Premiere Ceremony ("You are good, maybe very good, but still not good enough for television!") would be kind of funny it at least lays certain priorities bare if it weren't so dispiriting.
