Sentence examples for rather discouraged from inspiring English sources

In 1922, he complained to his agent, Harold Ober, "I am rather discouraged that a cheap story like 'The Popular Girl' written in one week while the baby was being born brings $1500 + a genuinely imaginative thing into which I put three weeks real entheusiasm [sic] like 'The Diamond in the Sky' ['The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'] brings not a thing".

An undercover reporter with the U.K.'s Channel 4 visited Cpl, a content moderation outsourcing firm in Dublin, and came away rather discouraged at what they saw: queues of flagged content waiting, videos of kids fighting staying online, orders from above not to take action on underage users.

It allowed our children, who had been rather discouraged by the hassle of Marrakech, to discover a gentler Morocco.

I was rather discouraged by how much people had made an effort to dress up.

"Disagreeing with me was socially approved rather than discouraged," Rubin insists.

"I'm encouraged, rather than discouraged," says Jim Daederick, senior vice president and worldwide manager of loss control.

Opponents of the new law include the UN and the International Labor Organization, and the dangers presented by it are obvious: Freed from legal prohibition, critics fear that kids may be compelled to choose work over school, and child labor may become codified and encouraged rather than discouraged and combated.

Rather than feel discouraged, Nadal has trained himself to view this seemingly inconsequential point in the match as a tremendous opportunity to wrest control away from his opponent.

"I am anxious and rather down, very discouraged," he wrote to friends who tried to expose his work to a broader audience.

We don't have the luxury to become discouraged and give up on the situation; rather we must remain optimistic and keep building our network of contacts".

They discouraged debate and disagreement instead of cultivating it.