"poor spirit" is a valid expression that can be used in written English.
It is generally used to describe a feeling of discouragement or hopelessness, as in the example sentence: "The team had a poor spirit after their loss last week."
Oh, the poor Spirit of Ecstacy.
If the bar has a poor spirit selection, they will be depressed and listless for the rest of your evening.
Benevolent ectoplasms materialize in "The Ghostly Governess" and "Tea at Ravensburgh," but whereas the first finds Harriet and Mark figuring out who the poor spirit is and how to put her to rest (a sort of reverse-detective story), the second is a light-footed ramble with a specter who has lived in the house for 300 years.
Throw money at a book or a seminar or a program designed to fix anything- poor health, poor spirit, poor heart- and you feel like you're doing something, even though the work only begins when you finish the book, leave the seminar, and close the instructions.
And I venture to say they would lift our poor spirits.
His lawyer told the media that he has been in poor spirits since being moved to Nusa Kambangan to face execution.
Friends concede that the normally indefatigable oligarch had been in poor spirits since last summer when his £3bn private litigation battle against Abramovich, the Chelsea FC owner, ended in disaster.
The freed son, Alim Abdiryim, said relatives had been allowed to visit their mother only once since her arrest, on Jan . 5 "She was in poor spirits and said, 'I'm innocent, get me out of here,' " he said.
Yet suddenly the makeshift encampments were gone and volunteers were being handed gloves, cleaning supplies and brooms.In this section Pressing the pause button Holding pattern Poor spirits Going nuclear Filling stations in the sky Going, going… ReprintsThe hasty clean-up was an effort to restore some lustre to the capital in time for the birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej on December 5th.
The ADIZ also covers territory claimed by South Korea, and overlaps with both countries' own air identification zones.In this section Pressing the pause button Holding pattern Poor spirits Going nuclear Filling stations in the sky Going, going… ReprintsIn fact Mr Biden stopped short of demanding that China rescind the ADIZ.
As a consequence, Kyrgyzstan's leaders are evicting them from Manas in July.In this section Pressing the pause button Holding pattern Poor spirits Going nuclear Filling stations in the sky Going, going… ReprintsThis marks pretty much the end of more than a decade of direct American involvement in Central Asia.
