Sentence examples for rather disheartening from inspiring English sources

As a member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, I find your Sept. 15 front-page article "For Citizen Soldiers, an Unexpected Burden" rather disheartening.

In Puglia, after a rather disheartening Trenitalia journey from north to south, where the magnificence of the landscape is blighted by pollution and decay, Parks is thrilled when he chances upon an unknown treasure: Le Ferrovie del Sud Est.

Still, were it not leavened with cartoons and occasionally, if inadvertently, amusing anecdotes (e.g., the woman who begins an adulterous affair with the childhood love she bumps into at a square-dance retreat), the book, despite its useful and practical advice, would be rather disheartening.

They commented on stigma in a rather disheartening manner, expressing views of stigma as a barrier to help seeking and service utilization.

When opposition strategists went hunting in focus groups for the chink in Key's armour, the results were remarkable (and rather disheartening).

The underlying and rather disheartening message of that finding, of course, is that physical activity by itself is not going to make and keep you thin.

Marsha found such comments disheartening rather than reassuring.

Even Romney's first place among fellow GOP contenders is disheartening rather than inspirational; he's number one, and this is what he can come up with?

But to me, the most troubling jobs data is not the unemployment number but rather the disheartening decline in the percentage of Americans working or seeking a job.

If people of color, young people, unmarried women, Bernie voters, union members, environmentalists, people with disabilities, LGBT people, and other progressives get excited about this election and vote their hopes, rather than get disheartened and distracted by all the pessimism, we will not only defeat Trump, but win a sweeping election for Democrats in 2016.

It was disheartening to see the cardinals try to play down the scandals by noting that most victims were adolescents rather than young children.