Sentence examples for rather dispirited from inspiring English sources

Moreover, the turnout among Republicans was lower than in 2008, itself a year in which the party was rather dispirited.

Aung looked dazed, but still willing to be wowed, rather than dispirited by what seemed more like sleet than snowflakes.

Rather than dispirited Republicans staying home on Election Day, they see an energized base eager to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House showing up in record numbers.

Mr Blass was not dispirited; rather the opposite.

The whole effect was dispirited, rather than poor; it was a neighborhood without cheer.

That friend, rather than becoming dispirited, funneled his energy into raising funds for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.

By Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, April 23 , 1938P. 13 We were disappointed in Gargantua the Great, he seemed to us dispirited, rather smaller than we'd expected.

Let parishioners actively choose who they will be, what they believe and how they will behave in relation to their faith communities, rather than sitting in dispirited acceptance in the pews.

And lately, they've been a dispirited and dispiriting battleground.

Some university administrators are so exhausted and dispirited that they would almost rather see the building demolished so they could start from scratch.

But currently he is -- owing to circumstances that may end up being resolved in a courtroom rather than over a conciliatory plate of pasta -- a dispirited, defensive guy; it goes against his nature.