| 单词 | dispirit |
| 例句 | The days on the galleries had been uniformly dispiriting. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The hardest part was coming to terms with the constant dispiriting discovery that there is always more hill. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The dogged regiment withdrew before them, sullen, dispirited, the fight knocked out of it. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I pass a breadline—a long row of shabby dispirited people leading to the door of a mission. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He was breathing hard, pulling with dispirited jerks at the fingertips of a glove. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The tinker sat on a small stool at the side of the road, looking dispirited. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But at once came the dispiriting realization that even if somebody looked into the compartment, he would be neither seen nor heard. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z It proved to be a bony, underfed, and dispirited animal; but it did not look like dying just yet. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The sheriff, hardly an hour into his day, was already tired and dispirited. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was not a single item of conventional trail food—raisins or peanuts or small, portable quantities of packets or canned goods—which was a little dispiriting in a national park. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Unable to pursue his work, he sank into an understandably dispirited obscurity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It had almost the same dispiritingly drab quality and the same bottom fine: an inhospitable place for a bright young lad with no friends to be living. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If it had not been so late at night—if we had been less tired and dispirited—we might have argued with Ira, partly for her sake and partly for Selvam’s. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z We were camped at a lofty spot called Indian Grave Gap, between two brooding summits—the one tiring to recollect, the other dispiriting to behold. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Celia watches, dispirited, as her neighbors file out of the auditorium, already merrily expectant for next month’s “love motel” case. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There is something deeply dispiriting about the stiff rustle of nylon and the endless, curiously amplified patter of rain on synthetic material. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “I am indeed,” I said, flat and dispirited. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Kenny made frequent trips away from the town from which he came back tired and often dispirited; but always work was resumed on his return. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He braced himself for one of Lillian’s cold, puissant lectures to enfilade the dispirited citadel of his self-respect. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer, writing for the group, dispatched to Washington a dispirited one-page memo on June 16 memorializing their conclusion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Exhausted, soaking wet and dispirited, he curled up into a wretched damp ball and slept. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But I’m feeling dispirited about ever recalling what happened on Saturday. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t help feeling a kind of helpless and dispiriting pointlessness in what I was doing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z One of the sad dispirited slaves said that freedom lay only in death. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She has never believed in fate; it would’ve been dispiriting to accept that her life so far unfolded as it did according to some preordained pattern. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Gonzalez became the office manager and took control of the few dispirited clerks under him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as he got to Carthage, a dispirited Westerberg phoned the Alaska State Troopers to volunteer what he knew about McCandless. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a dispiriting outcome on two scores. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z He was too dispirited to tell Billy how the barn door had blown open and let the pony out. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z When she returned at evening she would be tired and dispirited and would cry a lot. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I flew home to Chicago that night, feeling guilty and dispirited. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Long-term brainsweeping and retraining results mixed: Helpers manageable but still dispirited. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She sat in Crocodile Guts’s leaky craft all afternoon, too dispirited to try anything. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The three men spoke at veterans’ groups, mobilizing the dispirited veterans’ community. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z For four dispiriting years, he had hectored government officials to place the program on the fast track. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She felt dispirited and, while Curt watched a game that evening, she drove to the beauty supply store and ran her fingers through small bundles of silky straight weaves. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Her fate was depicted as a dire one – humiliating and dispiriting, to be "always a bridesmaid but never the bride". How chick-flicks are breaking the conventions of wedded bliss 2012-06-01T15:30:00Z Given its importance as a $150 million comeback vehicle for Hollywood's one-time top gun, Knight & Day had a dispiriting weekend gross: just half of Sandler's take and a third of 's. Box Office Weekend: Pixar's Toys Beat Sandler's Boys 2010-06-27T14:25:00Z To praise Northern Broadsides's production for being drab, dreary and dispiriting might seem perverse; but the fact that 1984 is all of those things is not just good, it is "double good". 1984 2010-10-12T23:05:00Z Doing that isn't particularly fashionable in rock and pop music these days, which tends to deal in the excitement of grand, flashy entrances, the ensuing dispiriting decline ignored because everyone's moved on. Hot Chip: In Our Heads 2012-06-07T14:31:02Z Ms. Bacha doesn’t duck the dispiriting aspects of the story: she shows us how young Palestinians eventually began throwing stones, and Israeli troops began shooting. | 'Budrus': A Study in Middle East Nonviolence 2010-10-08T00:23:00Z But the show turns out not to be what she expected after some dispiriting chitchat with his friends. When ‘Gentefied’ Straddles More Than One Culture, It Feels Real 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Owen Panettieri’s play “The Lights Are On” offers a dispiriting preview of what many of our homes may look like in the future. ‘The Lights Are On’ Review: Catastrophizing About the Future 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z It read, “The public is becoming more dispirited each season by the pretentious and woefully misguided, misdirected productions foisted on them.” Opera News Will Stop Reviewing Metropolitan Opera 2012-05-22T03:06:11Z Of all the dispiriting moments in Daniel Sawka’s downbeat new movie Icebox, the scenes inside the immigration detention facility are perhaps the saddest. Icebox: the harrowing drama about child separation in America 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The narratives are dark and dispiriting; they offer no relief and no way out. Memories on High and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z I don't think there's any other film series, that I've felt compelled to watch every instalment of, but come away so dispirited. My favourite Bond film: The Spy Who Loved Me 2012-09-28T10:21:34Z In 2009, Rosa Brooks, a newly appointed civilian adviser at the Pentagon, had a dispiriting conversation with Samantha Power, then on the National Security staff. Review: ‘How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything’ 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z He had dispiriting meetings with a new breed of execs who didn't know who he was, old friends at studios couldn't be bothered to read the screenplay, and many who did didn't care for it. Iron Man 3 marks a Marvel-lous return for Shane Black 2013-04-19T13:00:00Z This dispiriting election season has led me to sound several peals of alarm in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New Atlantic Yorkie, an excellent regional dog magazine. BREAKING: “Burn, baby, Burn! Whither the withered American Experiment?” The Greatest Living American Writer 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Jonas Kaufmann, probably the consensus for the most exciting tenor around right now, will sing the title role of the clueless youth who becomes the leader of a dispirited community of grail knights. Looking Ahead: Culture Picks for 2013 2012-12-27T23:05:33Z However, in the light of these dispiriting case histories, the 2013 London West End contains consoling evidence that a dramatic curve can also turn upwards. Who'd have a career as a playwright? 2013-01-11T08:05:01Z As a writer, Neyfakh said, he was dispirited to find that long feature stories, which had taken months of work, would yield just a few minutes of “average engaged time” from readers. Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future? 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z By contrast, product development is so expensive that designers tend to depend on winning commissions from empathetic manufacturers, who are dispiritingly scarce everywhere, but especially so in China, where much of industry is still state-controlled. Design: Looking at China as a Creator, Not Manufacturer 2011-07-10T13:20:00Z It all gets very tiresome, with dispiriting hints of Pacific Rim and the lumbering Transformers movies. Godzilla review – big, scary monsters but no bite in satire-stripped remake 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z These are amusingly hyperbolic performances until, like the rest of this movie, they grow tedious and dispiriting. Movie Review: Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Back in ‘Sabotage’ 2014-03-27T22:49:41Z The exuberance of his magnificent Roman films was gone; Salò is the work of a dispirited man. Pier Paolo Pasolini: No saint 2013-02-22T11:01:01Z According to the Wall Street Journal, he was dispirited after the underperformance of the Apple Watch, and failed to show up to meetings. For Better and Worse, We Live in Jony Ive’s World 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, traffic still roars over the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, and visitors must still cross the dispiriting vacuity of Virginia Avenue to get to the center. Perspective | At 50, Kennedy Center can no longer be a cultural island 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Seeing Tim look so dispirited, his brother, Billy, wears the expression of someone both guilty and in denial. ArtsBeat: 'Friday Night Lights' Watch: The Final Season on NBC 2011-04-18T14:24:31Z But a person simply cannot pretend that watching Amazon’s series right now, in this darkest of timelines, is not a different and more dispiriting experience than it was last November. “The Man in the High Castle” season 2: an alternate “then” only slightly removed from our “now” 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z An unsympathetic character in Memento Mori called Eric has evidently written two dispiriting works of this kind. itself was an utterly different and virtually unprecedented kind of novel. Rereading: Memento Mori by Muriel Spark 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z They make powerfully affecting the final break between a dispirited Moriarty, who meets up with a newly confident, smartly dressed Sal Paradise just off to a Duke Ellington concert at the Metropolitan Opera. On the Road – review 2012-10-13T23:06:07Z It would be laughable if it weren't so dispiriting for all those who work in the arts, and the millions – of which I am one – who regularly enjoy them. I argued for the arts – and won. We will keep the philistines from the gates 2013-06-20T19:03:00Z “It’s dispiriting to be faced with daily reminders that one of your former heroes is still tinkering with a world they thought you left behind perfectly preserved in childhood,” Heather Schwedel wrote recently in Slate. J.K. Rowling Just Can’t Let Harry Potter Go 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z The lives of actors often contain heady highs and dispiriting lows, so fragile is their hold on the public’s imagination and their access to the levers of power in the industry. Review: Daniel Beaty as Paul Robeson in ‘The Tallest Tree in the Forest’ 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z The blank impression made by new galleries in “Frame” is particularly dispiriting. Frieze New York, a Visual Circus Under the Big Top 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Under pressure from his corporate bosses to save money during a dispiriting time in the news business, he also oversaw a cut of 25 percent in ABC News' staff in the past few years. ABC News president David Westin steps down 2010-09-07T10:41:00Z In her book, Ms. Haskell brilliantly articulated the contradictions that haunt the movies, with their dispiriting truths and transporting fictions. 2017 Was a Year of Reckoning in Hollywood. Will 2018 Be the Year of Change? 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z "The body languid, dispirited, submissive. Traces of Indian ancestry and an aristocratic criollo demeanor: none of the parts added up to the whole." Valeria Luiselli's 'Faces in the Crowd' seeks poets in a city 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Jeff Shesol’s “Mercury Rising” highlights this fragility in a refreshing narrative that captures the sometimes dispiriting realities of America’s debut in space. Was the Space Program Worth the Cost? 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z The list is endless enough to be dispiriting. February gallery shows ponder architectural possibilities 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Goodman said not having spectators on set, while dispiriting, can actually be a benefit. The Conners Return to Confront the Coronavirus 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Jacobs is also a humorist by profession, and the best he could hope for was to turn the dispiriting finding into a punch line. Testosterone Study Has Fathers Questioning Their Manhood 2011-09-16T20:54:40Z In this dispiriting system the only privilege many of them can claim is the power to look down on even newer Marines — the “boots,” a clueless population subject to harassment and ridicule. A Comic Strip About the Marines: The Few, the Proud, the Bored Out of Their Minds 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z His career as a college counselor to the area’s elite, coddled teenagers can be dispiriting. Two Novels on the Complexities of Revisiting Past Loves 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z That financial support could not be found to extend this invaluable project is very dispiriting. Critic’s Notebook: The Pittburgh Symphony Orchestra Plays at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-11T21:00:39Z A burly man with a neat mustache, Mr. Touil was clearly dispirited. Tunisia After the Revolution 2012-04-06T18:10:20Z As the author of five books for adults, I was familiar with the sometimes dispiriting realities of such events. Perspective | Book readings can be a drag — unless you’re a children’s author 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Ask pitifully enough and your colleagues will commiserate with a dispirited cook. How to roast a chicken? The answers are horrifying 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z This must have been deeply dispiriting, especially as she was aware, we now know, of how mediocre the films MGM put her into were. Elizabeth Taylor remembered by Philip French 2011-03-27T00:08:05Z Since the competition, he said he had been able to watch just the first three minutes of the YouTube video before growing dispirited. A 19-Year-Old Pianist Electrifies Audiences. But He’s Unimpressed. 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z With “Negrogothic, a Manifesto, the Aesthetics of M. Lamar,” the composer M. Lamar offers a bracing alternative to the dispiriting traffic in blandly competent art clogging the New York gallery system these days. M. Lamar: ‘Negrogothic, a Manifesto, the Aesthetics of M. Lamar’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z At times, he seems to be playing with genre, particularly when Lara hits the island and begins pinballing from peril to peril, but the action is leaden, dispirited and finally dispiriting. Review: ‘Tomb Raider’ and the Perils of Blockbustering 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Tablemates and I couldn’t decide which was more dispiriting: the hen that surrendered all its moisture to the grill, or the sauce with none of the complexity one expects of a proper mole. Review | Urbano 116 looks like the real deal, but its food is a faint echo of Mexico 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z And where Brontë’s prose and characters are served up with an almost macabre glee, Phillips’ smoothly written account of Monica’s troubles is unfailingly downbeat and dispirited. ‘The Lost Child’: an homage (of sorts) to ‘Wuthering Heights’ 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z To help us break this dispiriting pattern, I consulted the sex therapist Esther Perel. Our ‘sexperiment’ and other methods of improving our sex life 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z The romances are more true to life, less mythic, more dispiriting. Watch “Howards End”—Then Read It 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z It’s a dispiriting mess and waste of talent, sunk by a lack of focus, misguided choices and insistently unproductive, at times incoherent clashing tones. ‘Lucy in the Sky’ Review: Bad Romance, Astronaut Edition 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The liberal activist said “Fahrenheit 11/9,” which will get its world premiere at the Toronto film festival later on Thursday, was “a siren call” to what he called a “despairing, dispirited public.” Michael Moore hopes his film is 'beginning of the end' for Trump 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z They range from amusing to excruciating–you will never see the Keebler hollow tree again after the pilot–but it leaves the dispiriting feeling that this subversion is just another form of marketing. Review: Happyish Suffers from First-World Problems 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The overall effect feels too dispirited to be a pure exhortation, but its message clearly comes down on the side of action. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Flips Mannequins Into Barbies 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z The one he debuted with, “The Ridiculous 6,” is even more dispiriting than “The Do-Over.” Actors Flock to Netflix to Satisfy Their Most Loyal Fans 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Singer/guitarist Max Stephens seamlessly shifts from sprightly garage tunes like “The Doubt” to more morose stuck-on-the-sofa anthems like “A Quiet End” and the dispirited “Lost Things,” delivered with a stoner-punk malaise inviting Wavves comparisons. Beyond the albums: Best live act? Best new band? Here are our Seattle music year-end awards 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Michael Mayer directs the story of three young, dispirited pals searching for meaning in post 9/11 America. Spring and Summer Theater Listings 2010-02-21T00:33:00Z After Nov. 8, Lieu, like many congressional Democrats, was dispirited at the thought of controlling nothing and constantly having to play defense. Ted Lieu is out-tweeting Trump, and it’s making him a political star 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z The movie is “a grim, dispiritingly stupid waste of time, energy, money and talent,” Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in October. New DVDs: ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much,’ Carole Lombard Films 2013-02-01T21:45:15Z I won’t lie; it’s a little dispiriting to head into a second consecutive holiday season uncertain whether it’s wise, epidemiologically speaking, to make merry. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z What’s more, it’s dispiriting to see the differences in how Ridley and Driver are directed. The Robotic Familiarity of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Sorting through a massive database of remorse might sound dispiriting, but Pink didn’t see it that way. You’ve been told to let go of the past. But can regret be good for you? 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z It talks of "fluid, energetic but ultimately dispiriting routines about the iPhone's battery life, being drunk on Facebook and the awfulness of hangovers". Edinburgh Comedy awards - Who's who? 2013-08-21T17:04:20Z We’re so deep in the Reboot Era that we forget what a weird and dispiriting feeling that must be. The George Awakens 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Given that it’s midsummer, you might consider putting aside those emotionally wrenching novels you don’t really want to read or those dispiriting analyses of our national politics. Review | Johnston McCulley dreamed up Zorro 100 years ago. The masked avenger is still a thrill. 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z The exhibition is also indirectly dispiriting, since probably no American museum can give Flavin’s work the space and care, as here, to make it so convincing to the neophyte. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Born and raised in Chicago, Juice made rap music in the Midwest emo mold: dispirited, melodic, cathartic. The Beautiful Vulnerability of Juice WRLD 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z For former Miss Americas, the chaos is dispiriting. It’s not just about bikinis: Inside the battle for the future of Miss America 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z He had come to this iconic spot where the movie “Hoosiers” was filmed to rally his supporters after a dispiriting loss in a series of northeastern primaries. The year that geeky campaign-strategy talk went mainstream 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Coll’s is a dispiriting tale of a 16-year war that has cost a trillion dollars and more than 2,400 American lives to little end. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z After years of landfill indie's dispiriting predictability, the Drums' pallid mithering is certainly different, but it feels like a pose, and a limited one at that. The Drums: The Drums 2010-05-27T14:29:00Z The most shocking and dispiriting visual of the second debate on Sunday appeared before the candidates even faced off. Was That a Debate? Or Were the Candidates Just Trying to Go Viral? 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Patrick Modiano accepts the Nobel, speaks of memory and oblivion 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z If this was just another season of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, it would be dispiriting. Review: Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance Gala Looks to Past 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Outside the streets are rain-slicked and autumnal; leaves cling to paving stones, and the sky is a dispiriting shade of lead. Jarvis Cocker on radio: this isn't hardcore 2012-09-26T19:00:05Z Life’s doing a fine job of that already, and we need another version of that prompt about as much as we need this dispiriting adaptation. There’s no comfort and joy in FX’s excruciating “Christmas Carol” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z But in a more dispiriting sense, “Hollywood Game Night” also serves as another reminder that we live in a sad, unimaginative era of acquiescence to celebrity status. ‘Hollywood Game Night’ and the problem with the celebrity fun bus 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z "You can spend weeks and weeks and weeks making a film that very few people will see, and that's sort of dispiriting." At Cannes' movie palace, talk of TV's rise 2013-05-24T12:32:08Z Her mother is “one of the Top Five pious women of the district,” a hectoring, dispiriting force of gloom. Review | ‘Milkman’ — one of the most challenging books of the year — is also one of the most rewarding 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Gentle skeptics may balk from a vocal condemnation of “Proof of Heaven” and similar works on grounds that the desperate and dispirited should not be denied their opiates. Dr. Eben Alexander’s so-called after-life 2012-11-26T16:00:00Z In his book, Haynes cites religious opposition to the rowdy public barbecues and the dispirited post-Civil War populace as contributing to the decline of “grand barbecues.” Where did barbecue begin? Virginia, he says — and he stands by it 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z It is dispiriting, tiring and ineffective to boot. The Best Country Is in the Details. Natalie Hemby Knows That. 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z And as hard and dispiriting as these ugly displays are, they’re a reminder why we have to keep talking. Australia’s female prime minister gets bullied online 2012-10-08T15:39:00Z With photography, the solipsism is even more dispiriting, because, as Graham says, “The world matters — this is the core of photography, engaging with life.” Photographing Life as It’s Seen, Not Staged 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z It’s at once empowering and dispiriting, and less a call to revolution than another of the industry’s well-meaning liberal calls for playing nice with power. Punching the Clock (and the Boss) With Dolly, Lily and Jane 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z This mafia-crackdown angle is new, but the harassment of China’s artists—evictions, arrests, studio demolitions—is a dispiritingly familiar story. Inside a Vanished Hub of Beijing’s Experimental-Art Scene 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z As “I, Tonya” skips here and there and thickens the plot, it becomes increasingly baffling why the filmmakers decided to put a comic spin on this pathetic, dispiriting story. Review: ‘I, Tonya.’ I, Punching Bag. I, Punch Line. 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The five-mile stretch of railroad track that slices through some of Philadelphia’s most impoverished areas along the Northeast Corridor is dispiriting. Bright Passages Along the Northeast Corridor 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Astonishing imaginative feats — Sparky himself, and other reanimated critters it would be spoilerish to describe — are undermined by dispiriting imaginative lapses. Movie Review: ‘Frankenweenie,’ Tim Burton’s Homage to Horror Classics 2012-10-05T00:09:14Z BOGOTA, Colombia — It’s been so long since Colombia last played in the World Cup that today’s national soccer team players barely remember those dispiriting matches. Why you should root for Colombia to win the World Cup 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z But a dark undercurrent runs through the book, as Phillips grapples with the dispiriting historical moment of January 2017: The Trump inauguration nears and the world feels disordered and frightening. A Poet Who Loves Tennis Follows the Grand Tour, in Prose 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Amir's speech about the dinner Rob served that gave his parents what may have been their only moment of happiness is more dispiriting than inspiring. Nicolas Cage's revenge thriller "Pig" is more about loss than bringing home the bacon 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z His mother could blame herself all she wanted — for her pregnancy at 17, her marriage to a brawling lout on permanent disability, her low-paying job and life of dispiriting sameness. ‘The End of Eddy’ Captures a Savage Childhood and a Global Movement 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z It makes sense that an artist would find those systems dispiriting, and the duct-taped banana, like the suspended horse, might testify to his and all of our confinement within commerce and history. A (Grudging) Defense of the $120,000 Banana 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Being there felt thrillingly strange and dispiritingly familiar, and also thrillingly familiar and dispiritingly strange. Three Views of ‘The Motherboard Suite,’ Indoors, Outdoors and Online 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z The coalition’s failure to get help for restaurants into the coronavirus relief package that President Donald Trump signed in December was particularly dispiriting. How Small Restaurants Leveraged Their Pain to Win Stimulus Money 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Libeskind's original designs included a memorial, but it was stark and dispiriting, an 8-acre area dropped 70 feet below street level. What Took So Long? Why the World Trade Center Still Isn't Finished 2011-09-09T09:00:00Z Ruffin had moments to figure out what she needed to say to offer uplift at a dispiriting moment when America's racism pandemic spiked and reminded us it had no intention of abating. "The Morning Show" delivers an empty on-air moment that could take pointers from Amber Ruffin 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z The main reason people fail is that they focus on the thing they want to achieve and become dispirited when it takes longer than they expected. The six-pack can wait: how to set fitness goals you will actually keep 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z However their ideas for profit, like the intensity of their grooming regimes, are profoundly dispiriting. Why these female Apprentice finalists give me nothing to cheer about 2013-07-16T11:26:31Z I am grateful for the seasonal abundance of such movies, but I also find it dispiriting that the horse race among them often overshadows everything else. A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis on Film Festivals 2011-10-01T01:13:02Z Dealers find such quick turnover dispiriting, as it can flood the market with artworks, creating oversupply and underselling or overshooting what’s directly on offer by the artist, reducing their ability to determine prices. 5 Takeaways From Auction Week 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z It’s perhaps dispiriting that such a point even needs to be made, though “McFarland, USA” deserves credit for making it sensitively and well. Review: In ‘McFarland, USA,’ Kevin Costner Coaches Cross-Country Runners 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Two main thoughts stay with me after tonight’s entertaining, if dispiriting, episode: 'Masters of Sex' Recap: The Romantic Moment That's Not 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z The performance was televised live to 17 nations – but not, dispiritingly and unsurprisingly and despite pleading and reasoning, in the UK. War Requiem; King Priam; Caligula – review 2012-06-02T23:05:59Z It was a somewhat dispiriting fall to be a TV critic. Some of TV year's best didn't make it to winter 2010-12-22T22:15:04Z If my past experience of the place, and its shops, was anything to go by, it was likely to be a dispiriting experience. A ?6,000 Auden bargain 2010-07-16T14:34:00Z She will sell records, but they will be dispiriting ones. Pop in 2011: a preview 2011-01-02T00:05:13Z Class was at the heart of The Secret History of Our Streets, a dispiriting tale of how town planners transformed a happy, booming south London community into a wretched one. Rewind TV: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry; The Secret History of Our Streets; The Apprentice 2012-06-09T23:05:47Z Now, you might think I'm being flippant about the dire, gruesome, dispiriting and enraging state of the world right now; I assure you I am not. The Lifetime movie turns 30: Escape reality with a marathon of nannies, cheerleaders & kids in peril 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Unaware of the forces at work on their behalf, they said they became dispirited as item after item sold. Secret Bids Guide Hopi Indians’ Spirits Home 2013-12-17T03:02:14Z Until 2015, Blair was officially engaged as a peace envoy for the “Quartet”—Russia, the U.N., the U.S., and the E.U.—in the dispiriting search for a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians. The Return of Tony Blair 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z There are few attractions there and the impoverished towns are dispiriting. South Dakota: wild beasts and Badlands make the silver screen come to life 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The media’s dispiriting willingness to roll over and let old white men dictate the boundaries of legitimate conversation and expertise has to end. Duty to warn: Shrinks can’t say that Donald Trump suffers from a mental disorder — but we can 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Sited near the dispiriting, boxy and functional architecture of Crystal City, home to trade associations with bland names and innumerable defense contractors, the Helix looks flashy. Review | The Helix is a distraction. Amazon’s new headquarters will change more than just its Arlington neighborhood. 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Whether progress means yet another winning slack-key album is an inherently dispiriting question. Music: Dear Grammy, Is It Hawaiian Enough? 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z His appetite for treacly pop songs is equally unfortunate, whether recorded or, most dispiritingly, performed live. Dance Review | Avi Scher & Dancers: Marcelo Gomes Among Guests of Avi Scher Troupe 2010-04-04T21:42:00Z The most dispiriting thing about “Something Borrowed” is that with a little more art, craft and wit it could have been a lot better, maybe even good. | 'Something Borrowed': New Lovers and the Old Triangle 2011-05-06T05:23:01Z It’s a dispiriting waste of such a fiery, complicated performer. ‘Guava Island’ Review: Donald Glover’s Island Getaway Is a Casual Charmer 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z In this case, the result is a dry, dispiriting volume, one that frequently reads like a doctoral dissertation. A Study of Edward Said, One of the Most Interesting Men of His Time 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z That's the dispiriting premise of "Killing Bigfoot," premiering Friday on Destination America. 'Killing Bigfoot': Sad days for poor Sasquatch 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z But in the end I think a gift this size can be dispiriting, too. The Philip Guston Hoard: A Boon or Overkill? 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z For those who took part in those marches, it is dispiriting to see how many of these problems still plague us, and how deeply they have been buried under assumptions that they do not. Fresh spate of sexism, violence ominously familiar 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z What saves these characters from dispiriting stereotype is Burke’s ability to endow each with real and palpable humanity. ‘Team Seven’ is an authentic, affecting story of a young black man’s struggle to survive In high season, pushing through the crowds clogging the temple’s graceful walkways had become an enervating and dispiriting ordeal that few locals would willingly undergo. Kyoto Wants You Back, but It Has Some Polite Suggestions 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z The current state of sustainable design is dispiritingly similar to the most influential car of the decade, the hybrid Toyota Prius — a compromise. 2009-12-28T08:42:00Z So, it was dispiriting, but you make the best of it, and it gave me a lot, obviously, of things to write about. The National Book Foundation singles out the five best young writers in America 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z What is scrutinized, most dispiritingly, is the shallowness of our aspirations. Review: ‘Creative Control,’ a Satire of Gadget-Driven Reality 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The silver lining on a presidential election that left much of the country shocked and dispirited? Architecture's top 10 for 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z That’s completely understandable as losing the ability to communicate with loved ones is an awful and dispiriting experience. I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z The spell that the stick is called upon to cast proves even more dispiriting. Nanny McPhee speaks softly but carries a big stick | David Cox 2010-03-29T09:44:00Z Still, it was dispiriting to see Mr. Logue, an appealing actor capable of great nuance, swilling antacid from the bottle and growling about turf at rival cops like a hundred other unshaven detectives of yore. 'Gotham' Recap: 'Batman' Before Batman 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Langrée revitalized what had been a dispirited ensemble, and the performances he led were usually lively. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z That the industry ignored BBS's example is a dispiriting end to a glorious story.
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2010-12-24T14:10:00Z There is nothing more dispiriting than standing outside a club at 4am being ignored, abused or handing people flyers that are thrown on the ground three feet later. The new rules of the dancefloor 2012-11-09T14:00:00Z But at most of the dozen or so shows I caught, I saw dispiritingly few signs of showmanship or invention in the presentation of the clothes. Critic?s Notebook: Does Fashion Make Good Theater? 2010-09-16T03:48:00Z The LA Times dismissed the novel as "dispiriting and, ultimately, irritating", saying it failed to offer real insights into politics and that its anonymous authorship was a cynical marketing exercise. Obama novel O's anonymous author named 2011-01-28T12:08:09Z And how lovely and yet really quite dispiriting it is that people will read it – this thing it took you years to build – in a few days and then that's that. The book launch letdown 2011-08-23T10:26:59Z The advent of any new game show is, to my mind, a little dispiriting. TV review: Take Me Out 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z Whatever the case, it’s dispiriting that the draggiest, soppiest scenes in “Hall Pass,” as well as the most disgusting gag, involve women. | 'Hall Pass': Man-Child in the Promised Land, for a Whole (Pant! Pant!) Week 2011-02-24T22:54:48Z And I would hope that their exposure to George and Martha would act as lemon juice on scurvy, derailing some of the more predictable and dispiriting dinner party conversations of 2018. For the Love of ‘George and Martha’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Yet Ryan, Hall’s friend of 40 years, says, “I have never seen Philip dispirited.” Philip Baker Hall is your favorite actor whose name you can’t quite place 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Each of these movies feels demographically and thematically restricted in a way that’s just slightly dispiriting, although their modes are quite different. “Wild Canaries” and “Bluebird” reflect the new indie filmmaker dream — to make it big on TV 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z This kind of fatalism, dispiriting but perhaps fair, runs through the book. Jia Tolentino on the ‘Unlivable Hell’ of the Web and Other Millennial Conundrums 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Yet as was evident in Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, they were so big they could get away with the most dispiriting of crimes. Rewind TV: Hunted; Monroe; Arena: The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour; Best Possible Taste: the Kenny Everett Story; Exposure: the Other Side of Jimmy Savile; Welcome to India – review 2012-10-06T23:05:46Z Even with a curry and six-pack, this is dispiritingly disposable fare, and anyone watching at home will be sorely tempted to fast-forward or just change channels. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-12-30T00:05:28Z I find it a little bit dispiriting as a storyteller that there is so much good stuff now, only because it gets harder to capture everyone’s collective attention. Insiders’ TV: writers and producers share their tips 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Signs of the fire’s impact were intermittently evident — one grove of blackened native oaks was a dispiriting sight — yet the prevailing, even unavoidable, impression was wave after bucolic wave of greenery. Winter rains bring perfect spring hiking to post-wildfire Southern California 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The dispiriting thing is that Jack Abramoff, in the wake of the financial lobbying of the last few years, looks like a piker. Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer: A tale of two swindlers 2010-05-06T16:01:00Z You’re not likely to hear a more dispiriting chorus to a pop song this year. The Playlist: John Mayer Laments the Friend Zone, and 11 More New Songs 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z We are and always have been a nation of immigrants, after all, which makes the new stirrings of xenophobia in the country so dispiriting. ‘Hamilton’ and Company: Tony Award Nominees in a Season That Reflected the World 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z We were talking about the fact that for a dispiriting number of people, including in the White House, assault is merely an abstract concept to be strategically wielded. Perspective | A non-assault taught us a lot about the White House’s cynical view of real ones 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Wright, the trombonist, said that Mr. Skrowaczewski’s backing of the orchestra during the dispiriting dispute was on his mind when he saw him after one of his final concerts, two years later. Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Conductor Who Fled Poland, Dies at 93 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z But regardless of what you think about these artists individually, their shows share a visual austerity and coolness of temperature that are dispiritingly one-note. 2010-02-14T03:58:00Z "He's a guy we can do business with," Kendall mutters through a hollow, dispirited expression. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z In 2006 he had an HBO sitcom, “Lucky Louie,” in which he played a dispirited working-class father of two who is bossed around by a spitfire wife, a nurse who is the family’s prime breadwinner. | 'Louie': Louis C.K.?s New Comedy on FX 2010-06-28T22:37:00Z This new collection of essays, many of them previously published, covers some of the same dispiriting ground. Finding Alarm and Consolation About the Apocalypse in Two New Books 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Instead of the whale teeth and walrus tusks that 19th-century sailors once etched, he uses a contemporary, dispiritingly abundant, analog: discarded plastics. Duke Riley: Grand Master Trash 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Many Broadway consumers shell out $100 or more for escapism, especially in the summer, not dispiriting messages about urban blight. In Tupac Shakur's 'Holler If Ya Hear Me,' an unlikely Broadway trip 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z A few recall dispiriting interactions with her parents or recent romantic humiliations. Review | Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel ‘Whereabouts’ is a delicate exploration of despair 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z This is because Ms. Ulinich uses Lena’s myriad, typically dispiriting sexual adventures as a narrative and psychological motor in this portrait of a Russian-born writer and divorced mother of two living in Brooklyn. ‘Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel,’ Anya Ulinich’s Graphic Novel 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z And yet there was also a dispiriting sense of the familiar. What’s Chinese About Chinese Ballet? 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z At home, Britons faced bleak and dispiriting postwar deprivation, and globally their once-mighty Empire was crumbling in the face of colonial independence movements — including Jamaica’s. ‘Goldeneye’: Jamaica, Ian Fleming and James Bond 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z This made my actual encounters with observance all the more dispiriting. A Guide to Religious Anarchy: Gershom Scholem’s Kabbalah 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z And the fact that publishers are turning to song lyrics raises a dispiriting question: Are they catering to nostalgic parents’ interests, or are they running out of fresh concepts for picture books? Bob Dylan and Will Smith: Children’s Authors? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z He’s interviewed more than 200 people, and his closely observed accounts of dictators’ increasingly sly methods to control their populations are haunting and dispiriting. Books Of the Times: ‘The Dictator’s Learning Curve,’ by William J. Dobson 2012-06-10T20:56:47Z Thus follow two of the most dispiriting hours of my career, as I walk around central London in the rain, watching as Raj and Mike pester women. 50 years of pickup artists: why is the toxic skill still so in demand? 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z But those dancers need works to perform, and the ones on the program that the company brought to the Joyce Theater on Tuesday are dispiriting. Review: A Los Angeles Troupe in Search of Choreographic Vision 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z This is especially dispiriting because “Snow White and the Huntsman” — in relation to which this “Huntsman” is both sequel and prequel — was far from a terrible piece of entertainment. Review: ‘The Huntsman,’ a Study in Hollywood’s Overstuffed Playbook 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Movies like “Dredd” can be dispiriting, but only if you base your arguments on the worst the movies have to offer. Manohla Dargis’s Top Films of 2012 2012-12-15T00:37:44Z I am still not good at running, which is slightly dispiriting to admit. I’d heard about a running ‘high’. Now, I too, have felt the buzz of finishing a 5k | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z The beginning of “Tuplet,” by the Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman, was dispiriting in a different way. Dance Review: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet at the Joyce Theater 2012-05-23T21:55:51Z Yes, their star power rises in both ephemeral and concrete ways, but for those hellbent on creating their own destiny, the months away from their work can be dispiriting. After the Oscar Glare, These Filmmakers Went Their Own Way 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z “Hereditary” is a terrifically absorbing puzzle until the moment you solve it, when its disparate elements coalesce into a dispiritingly familiar picture. Review: In ‘Hereditary,’ the Horror is Slow-Cooked and Homemade 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The limp traditionalism of this “Frankenstein,” a co-production with the San Francisco Ballet, is dispiriting. Review: ‘Frankenstein,’ at Royal Ballet, Complete With Dissection 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z It’s an admirable goal, but what Sassen achieves in this grand portrait of Leila is a dispiritingly familiar spectacle of anonymity and concealment. A Photographer’s Ode to the Women of Versailles 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z After a rough divorce and far too many dispiriting online dating experiences, Arya was thrilled to meet Mordechai, a sensitive, charming, creative guy who also happened to be a millionaire. 6 True-Crime Podcasts: When Love Is a Dangerous Con Game 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z One was tonal: The extremity of the punch and its aftermath was at odds with the surrounding comic scenes in a confusing, dispiriting way. Watching the Season 4 Finale of ‘Louie’ 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z More dispiriting still is that this drab complacency is wrapped around messages of daring, honesty and spontaneity. Fractious Family Mourns in ‘This Is Where I Leave You’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z One of the most dispiriting moments of his “TMZ” appearance came as Ms. Owens was being given room to espouse her controversial views on police violence and the Black Lives Matter movement. The Battle for Kanye West Is Happening in Real Time 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z All together, the vision of femininity soft girls evoke can be seen as dispiritingly retrograde – a kittenish broadcast of reductive tropes from a generation older feminists probably hoped would grow up more enlightened. TikTok's soft girls: could a hyper-cute aesthetic be a symbol of empowerment? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Horne expertly captures Mr. M’s exuberance, stubbornness and passion — the qualities that keep the teacher toiling in the most dispiriting reaches of apartheid education. Review | ‘My Children! My Africa!’ still resonates in expected and unexpected ways 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z He has unapologetically run a xenophobic, chauvinistic and fear-mongering campaign that rarely even bothers to rely on euphemistic code words to convey his dispiriting message. How the Republicans wound up with Trump: E.J. Dionne explains in 'Why the Right Went Wrong' 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z At one particularly dispiriting moment, the film’s Dovlatov, played by the twenty-eight-year-old Serbian actor Milan Marić, is cheered up by one of the many women who float in and out of his life. A Russian Writer’s Lessons for Being a Nobody While Being Yourself 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Rachel Harrison's thoroughly dispiriting show at Regen Projects includes a series of photographs of footprints in snow and slush. At Regen Projects, Rachel Harrison showcases the art of self-importance 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z But if too hot, and the grapes get overripe, the wines can be sweet, hot and dispiriting. Your Next Lesson: California Grenache 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Recalling those great movies, and even some from Miramax’s glory days in the ’90s, feels dispiriting, as the pictures, to paraphrase “Sunset Boulevard,” continue to get smaller. ‘Hollywood Ending,’ a Cradle-to-Prison Biography of Harvey Weinstein 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z But before we get to the largely dispiriting news, I’d like to talk about a blow to the spirit—the death of the legendary actress and director Billie Allen, on December 29th, in New York. The Year in Theatre and Farewell to a Friend 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z But the dispirited ensemble needs more than gestures, and you have to wonder how long the center can hold. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z In the first of two programs that Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is performing at the Joyce Theater, four works by different choreographers explore this tension in ways both distinct and dispiritingly similar. Dance Review: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at the Joyce Theater 2013-05-20T20:51:40Z We still need to pay them homage to compensate for our own dispiriting rectitude. Arbitrage's villain takes advantage – why do we love it? 2013-03-04T13:07:12Z The ongoing, morbid fascination with all things Kennedy is an aspect of American culture I find perplexing and somewhat dispiriting. Review: ‘Chappaquiddick’ Revisits a Grim ’60s Kennedy Scandal 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z It is a dispiriting experience from which Craig emerges with quiet distinction while, as an overbearing rancher and former civil war colonel, Harrison Ford flounders. Cowboys & Aliens ? review 2011-08-20T23:05:27Z We are left with the dispiriting sense that Mr. Hunter has brought down the curtain just when he should be bringing it up. Theater Review: ‘A Great Wilderness,’ by Samuel D. Hunter, Opens in Seattle 2014-02-11T22:02:45Z How many other wives put off the ceremony because they empathize with the dispiriting plight of the handmaids? ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Episode 5: A Seduction 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z The conversations were, as they often are, dispiriting. Ashley McBryde Takes Nashville, No Gimmicks Required 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z That’s about it for kicks of color in this dispiritingly pallid show. Theater Review: ‘Orphans,’ With Alec Baldwin, at the Schoenfeld Theater 2013-04-19T02:00:01Z Life with Mahler was dispiriting for a woman used to a glittering social life. The Alma problem 2010-12-02T22:31:00Z Its latest record, “Emmaar,” finds the band dispirited by the political turmoil in its homeland. Pop & Rock Listings for March 21-27 2014-03-20T22:40:13Z It’s not scary or surprising to watch a movie’s heart and imagination being devoured by the same old thing, but it is dispiriting. ‘It Chapter Two’ Review: Send in the Clown, Again 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Hours before that Baier had read a shocked and dispirited statement from the French ambassador about "a world is collapsing before our eyes" and laughed. Fox News was in a "purple haze" on election night until Trump's wild claims gave them clarity 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Yet, as admirably as they acquit themselves in Cat Parker’s Articulate Theater Company production at 59E59 Theaters, there is the dispiriting sense of watching talented actors trapped in a show that they cannot save. Review: In ‘Mr. Toole,’ Trying to Remember Teacher 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z There are few online experiences more dispiriting, more arduously futile, than the downward scroll into the netherworld of half-assed provocations and inanities that exists beneath the typical opinion piece or YouTube video. It’s Comments All the Way Down 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Wasn’t the senator dispirited to have to suit back up and press the moneyed flesh? Washington Society Steps Back Out 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z But the fact is Broadway remains to a dispiriting degree hidebound in terms of the kind of work being presented and the audience being served. The New Season: Plays by Katori Hall, Lydia R. Diamond and Suzan-Lori Parks 2011-09-17T23:00:46Z When, in this production’s dispiriting coda, modern-day equivalents of Alice and the Knave repeat their duet, it’s a final, fatal example of thorough craft running ahead of insight. ‘Alice’s Adventures’ in Ballet, Love Story Added 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z That being said, rumours are floating around that Scott had recently been diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer, which suggests a reason for this dispiriting act of self-annihilation. Tony Scott: days of thunder 2012-08-20T18:11:01Z The company’s longtime artistic director is Carole Rothman, and as in many other industries, women in positions of power remain dispiritingly rare in the theater. Second Stage Hopes $58 Million Plan Aids American Playwrights 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Your team is a dispiriting clutch of nonentities, carefully drained of character until they're mere cyphers, filling the gaps between gunfights with banal reiteration of plot points. Fuse - review 2013-06-08T05:00:00Z But the tapestry also allowed Gehry to create a parklike space in front of it, a little green oasis in a part of the city that is famous mainly for its dispiriting bureaucratic architecture. Review | The new Eisenhower Memorial is stunning, especially at night. But is this the last of the ‘great man’ memorials? 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z I always find it pretty dispiriting if ever I see journalists trying to tell a joke. John Oliver Returns: ‘I’m Not a Complete Nihilist’ 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Although the events that inspired it took place more than a decade ago, “Eclipsed” remains dispiritingly topical. Review: In ‘Eclipsed,’ Female Captives in Liberia’s Civil War Seek Sustenance 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z This was part of a generally dull concert by the festival orchestra under the direction of Matthew Halls that included a dispirited Mendelssohn Overture and a mild-mannered rendition of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8. At Mostly Mozart, a Self-Effacing Magnetism 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z For anyone who believes that the medium has the potential to be something more ambitious, though, it was a dispiriting refrain. The Best Video Games of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z In marked contrast, his handling of the slow sections was dispiriting. BBCNOW/Fischer 2010-04-19T22:30:00Z Human interaction with the landscape reads visually as at once inevitable and futile, inspiring and dispiriting in roughly equal measure. Frank Gohlke photographs vernacular truths in 'Texas Memories' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z When he returned to Tahiti in 1895, after a dispiriting interval in Paris, an unexpected 10-day delay in Auckland led to a visit to the Auckland Museum with its extensive collection of Maori artifacts. SAM's Gauguin show gives equal due to different traditions 2012-02-05T05:07:25Z You learn the sign language, from the barely credible: “Look my car’s full otherwise I’d totes stop” to the sympathetic: “Poor you, but also screw you” and – most dispiriting – the not being acknowledged at all. How to hitchhike effectively: contain your anger and know where to stand 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z The short Scherzo between that thunderous first movement and the long and dispiriting slow movement normally serves as a contrasting brief attempt at levity. Yuja Wang slays Beethoven's monster piano piece — and makes it look easy 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Mountain tracks the dispiriting consequences: the all-consuming ski resorts and road networks that nibble away at the wildernesses, “replacing mystery with mastery”. Mountain: a movie that reaches new peaks of cinematography 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Home & Garden » Testing a $50,000 Mattress Timothy Egan: Curse of the Scorned Class A dispiriting season of intolerance, at home and abroad. | 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps': The Pride That Went Before the Fall 2010-09-23T16:10:00Z While many artists said they were dispirited by the slow pace of progress, others said they were encouraged by recent efforts to bring attention to the disparities. U.S. Orchestras Gradually Diversify but Are Slow to Hire Black Musicians 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z “I was so dispirited,” he said, remembering a desperate call he placed to “Everything Everywhere” producer Jonathan Wang: “I said, ‘You’ve seen the movie. ‘From this day forward, I will always be “Oscar-nominated actor Ke Huy Quan”!’ 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z “What makes ‘Leap Year’ so singularly dispiriting is precisely that it is bad without distinction,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times in January. DVDs: Now on DVD, Glenda Farrell as Torchy Blane 2010-05-08T02:52:00Z “I’m always angry,” he says at one point, and while “The Avengers” is hardly worth raging about, its failures are significant and dispiriting. Movie Review: Robert Downey Jr. in ?The Avengers,? Directed by Joss Whedon 2012-05-04T13:44:22Z Also, “Extant” delivers some truly dispiriting news about transportation: The self-driving Google car really does become a thing. CBS’s ‘Extant’: An astronaut returns with a mysterious baby on board Mr. Pittas offered two sets of dispiritingly second-rate songs by Duparc and Brahms in which the music never quite managed to elevate the texts’ kitschy earnestness. Review: Jennifer Johnson Cano and Dimitri Pittas at the Morgan 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Author Jennifer Homans, a dancer trained at the School of American Ballet, now critic for America's New Republic, said she now finds attending the ballet dispiriting. Ballet set to break out as 2011's most exciting art form 2010-12-05T00:03:00Z Futh, a socially inept chemist traumatised by his recent divorce, embarks on a somewhat dispiriting walking holiday in Germany. The Pre-War House and Other Stories by Alison Moore – review 2013-05-17T13:01:01Z After a few self-deprecating jokes, she shared a dispiriting statistic about how rarely films depict women holding jobs. At the Oscars, Geena Davis will get a humanitarian award for making Hollywood see women as fully human 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Those who support repatriation say they find it dispiriting to be re-engaged in a debate that many felt was largely won. Islamic State Destruction Renews Debate Over Repatriation of Antiquities 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Standing on an elevated platform in the middle of the network’s New York news hub, Zirinsky announced the changes to sustained applause from an otherwise dispirited newsroom. Norah O’Donnell named anchor as new CBS News president Susan Zirinsky announces shake-up 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z But “Call Me Madam” can’t support much political reflection, or any reflection, really, because its focus on know-nothing ambassadors and reflexive largess quickly becomes subservient to its dispiritingly dated romantic plot. Review: Without Ethel Merman, a Limp ‘Call Me Madam’ at Encores! 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z As the homeless population grows in a city whose public realm is the haggard product of several decades of neglect, the freeway has taken on a crucial, if often dispiriting, neighborhood role despite itself. What those homeless camps along L.A.'s freeways mean for a public space once above it all 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z But the original interaction left her deeply dispirited, she said, and was one of the things that discouraged her from pursuing comedy. Louis C.K. Is Accused by 5 Women of Sexual Misconduct 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z When they failed to live up to these impossible standards, they grew guilty and dispirited. I don’t have to be a perfect dad: The gift I’m giving myself this Father’s Day 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The second cocktail is a dispiriting muddle of peach and bourbon. Buck’s, Restaurant Eve, Vermilion: Three dining guide near-misses Phelim O'Neill For a show sold as a stylish, cerebral antidote to the morass of CSI-style procedurals, The Killing seems dispiritingly formulaic, with the same dubious coincidences and red herrings popping up each week. TV highlights 11/08/2011: The Culture Show At The Edinburgh Festival 2011-08-10T22:00:01Z But the oculus doesn’t make much sense from inside the lecture hall, which is tiny and dispiriting. The problem with The Broad is the collection itself 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Mortality looms large among Mr. Frammartino’s concerns, but there is nothing grim or dispiriting about this film, his second feature. | 'Le Quattro Volte': Eternal Complexities of the Very Simple Life 2011-03-29T22:23:21Z Five thousand miles from home, most groups might find this a tad dispiriting. Frightened Rabbit: 'We've gone back to brutal honesty' 2013-01-24T17:24:27Z The concert offered a welcome chance to hear the orchestra away from the dispiriting confines of Avery Fisher Hall, whose acoustical demons often rob it of tonal bloom. 2010-02-15T01:23:00Z “The public is becoming more dispirited each season by the pretentious and woefully misguided, misdirected productions foisted on them,” it read. Metropolitan Opera Reverses Itself on Review Ban 2012-05-22T21:31:23Z Some of this was dispiriting, but I never got up from the table in a bad mood. At Danny Meyer’s Manhatta, Only the View Tries to Dazzle 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The let’s-try-anything approach is characteristic of a dispiriting evening that doubtless sounded better on paper. Theater Review: ‘‘Elegy,’’ ‘‘My Mother Said I Never Should’’ and ‘‘The Suicide’’ 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z One of Bombay Bicycle Club’s impulses is clearly Brexit, with its widespread, dispiriting impact on their homeland. After a dramatic exit, British rockers Bombay Bicycle Club make a hopeful return 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Maybe it is the East Coaster in me, but I find this slightly dispiriting. Finding Yourself in Los Angeles 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Still, over the 2¼ hours it burns up in the Eisenhower Theater, the musical reveals only that it is dispiritingly flat-footed. Review | You’ll groove to the pop hits in this stage revival of ‘Footloose.’ And nothing else. 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Later, I overhear a dispiriting conversation between Nick and another runner, where they conclude that you will always end up with an injury if you run enough. Fit in my 40s: will trail running make me faster? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z These dispiriting local figures are linked, throughout the opening chapters, to grim data from around the world. Venice is just the beginning — the West is sinking into a sea of commerce 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z At this remark, Bunny flips Uma the bird, spicing it up a dispirited "f**k you," that Uma returns in kind. In defense of The Arconia's grand dame on "Only Murders in the Building" 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z The blandness of "Fuse" is dispiriting, given that it was created by Insomniac Games, developer of the endlessly inventive "Ratchet & Clank" series. Review: EA's sci-fi shooter 'Fuse' lacks spark 2013-05-30T12:35:12Z She added that "not all the writing works," action sequences are "numbingly violent," and it's dispiriting that "every female character in the film is victimized and most are brutalized." 'A Walk Among the Tombstones' is grim business, reviews say 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z But there was also a dispiriting acknowledgment of a missed opportunity, given that so few elite classical institutions had seriously engaged with Walker’s work while he was alive. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z It was dispiriting, even oppressive, to spend so much time around someone who never learned, and never changed. What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire? 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z “The last time a cohort of young people expressed comparable frustration at the emptiness of their lives and the dispiriting purposelessness of their world was in the 1920s,” he writes. Books of The Times: A Call for the Commonweal: Tony Judt?s ?Ill Fares the Land? 2010-03-16T21:53:00Z At hotels and restaurants, that treatment felt dispiriting. A Love Worth the Phone Bill 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z But Thursday’s important concert full of content and meaning, pitting Pärt's merciless “Miserere” with Mozart’s troubling and dispiriting Requiem, left no place for escape. Dudamel makes Mozart and Arvo Pärt a matter of life and death 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z It's also good for playing along with at home, provided you're ready to recognise your own intellectual limitations on a dispiritingly frequent basis. Catch-up TV guide: from Homeland to The Town 2012-12-15T00:05:19Z It would be laughable if it weren't so dispiriting for all those who work in the arts, and the millions who enjoy them. Claims of arts crisis 'almost laughable', says Maria Miller 2013-06-20T22:20:27Z History knows better, of course: A decade and a half later, Johnson’s dispirited men in uniform seem to be wondering, “What course do you suggest now?” Three Books Trace a History of Race Relations in America, Through Art 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z It would like to remind you of “Fargo” — what with all the snow, the grubbiness and greed, the exaggerated accents and off-kilter rhythms — and it kind of does, but in a dispiriting way. Movie Review: ?Thin Ice,? With Greg Kinnear and Billy Crudup 2012-02-17T00:20:13Z A world where being dispirited by annoying things – like the electricity cutting out, or Timperley Big Shorts FC losing a game of football – wasn't even an option. I can't believe Frank's gone 2010-06-22T08:45:00Z Dredging up horror movie favorites like random nosebleeds, a traumatized priest and a mama-to-be with a yen for raw meat, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett direct with competence but a dispiriting lack of originality. Movie Review: In ‘Devil’s Due,’ the Horned One Is Up to His Old Mischief 2014-01-17T22:33:19Z This avoids the dispiriting sight of shoddily pinned-together scraps and tears at the final critique – well, almost. The great Grayson Perry frock competition 2013-07-08T04:59:02Z But on four larger canvases that deal with art-world sexism, racism in entertainment and the dispiriting gabble of the presidential campaign, the artist hits with just the right force from just the right distance. What to See in New York ArtGalleries This Week 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z A season spent shadowing Ms. Gordon revealed a city teeming with freelancers who scrap for every opportunity, endure dispiriting cattle-call auditions and struggle through injuries, often without health insurance. Taylor Gordon, Freelance Ballerina, Chases Her Dream 2010-07-16T16:49:00Z Such bleakness is dispiriting, but Harris, who also directs, writes with a crisp, elliptical style and sense of political engagement that temporarily keeps the fatalism at bay. The Garden | Theatre review 2010-03-26T23:30:00Z But her wish — made amid a dispiriting quest to break down the plastic she uses in her sculptures — is more than an expression of exasperation. Yoko Ono’s ‘Wish Tree’ at the Hirshhorn is branching out. This year, your wishes can be virtual. 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The reception the women got on the streets was by turns encouraging and dispiriting, according to Sime. Veterans of Dagenham dispute strike another blow for equality 42 years on 2010-09-22T20:50:00Z The only thing more dispiriting than a chain that knows how many compromises people will make for convenience is a chef trying to figure it out, and missing the mark. Is Lodi Too Good for Rockefeller Center? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Likewise, she doesn't want her recipes to be so complex as to leave the comfort eater too dispirited to ever want to put down that party-sized bag of chips. How Joanna Gaines and Ina Garten deliver a one-two punch of comfort (food) TV 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z You may take this adage as exciting or dispiriting, but it’s true: What America makes, the world buys. 2012 Turnaround: The Avengers Brings People Back to the Movies 2013-01-03T17:21:00Z But your little quirk might not seem so charming when you see it manifested in Dan, the dispirited journalist in Helen Schulman’s new novel, “Come With Me.” The Multiverse Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be in ‘Come With Me’ 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z I found the sheer rhetorical emptiness of the events deeply dispiriting. Should graduation ceremonies be multi-faith? 2013-05-17T15:46:00Z His Star Trek reboots are dispiriting: the quirky and beloved sci-fi franchise pureed into stimulating but unremarkable blockbuster entertainment, distinguished mainly by caricatures of iconic characters that are more branding than interpretation. I'm a Star Wars fan, but won't be watching The Force Awakens 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z In an era when Broadway revivals of beloved musicals can seem dispiritingly skimpy, this handsome production offers a generous feast for the eyes, trimmed in holiday cheer for an added spritz of currency. Theater Review: ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood,’ Revived by Roundabout Theater 2012-11-14T03:30:07Z You can’t be a crusading do-gooder and run a refuge – it’s too dispiriting. 'He's beaten her black and blue for years': a month in the life of a women's refuge manager 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z They seem to just leave him to get on with providing what the Radio 1 website insists on referring to, a little dispiritingly, as "late night music and LOLs". Can Nick Grimshaw make Radio 1 feel young again? 2012-08-17T22:00:51Z For an ambitious director, operating in that environment must be dispiriting. Why are so many directors un-retiring? 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z What makes “Leap Year” so singularly dispiriting is precisely that it is bad without distinction — so witless, charmless and unimaginative that it can be described as a movie only in a strictly technical sense. 2010-01-08T03:34:00Z I find it a lot more aesthetically appealing than the approach they seem to be taking with this list, which is dispiritingly wholesome, energetic and young. Discover white-knuckle England with this handy holiday guide… 2013-04-27T23:05:40Z Should you need a primer in that chaos, you may consult James Gavin’s astute, unblinking and ultimately dispiriting biography, “Is That All There Is?” James Gavin’s ‘Is That All There Is?’ reveals a talented but tormented Peggy Lee Could anything be more dispiriting than the rows of wooden shacks where families are crammed in? Museum Review: Heart Mountain Interpretive Learning Center - Review 2011-12-10T00:45:29Z Egoyan was one of many Cannes alums whose reflexive inclusion in elite competition can give Cannes a dispiriting air of cronyism. After a wobbly start, the Cannes Film Festival offered plenty of good and even great films this year. Oliver referenced Trump's election as a dispiriting capper while also adding, "We cannot lose sight of all the other multiple ways this has been a s****y year." "Last Week Tonight" is a 2020 mood – bizarre, fatalistic, and inexplicably thirsty 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z While reports of Mr. James’s imminent demise were dispiriting to him, they also gave him a rare opportunity that many dream of but few get to enjoy: the chance to read his own eulogies. Clive James Translates Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ 2012-10-07T20:07:16Z Evidence of that in the list’s upper reaches is scarce and dispiriting. Perspective | What’s the best American novel? A PBS vote is a revealing look at our (limited) taste. 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z In 1980, near the end of another dispiriting meeting between Pexton representatives and the local people, the village madman interrupts the proceedings. Review | In ‘How Beautiful We Were,’ an African village goes up against an American oil company 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z True, he's dispirited, but not until the final scenes does his performance gain any life. 'Snakes and Ladders': divorce, foreclosure-style 2011-06-30T19:42:08Z The often dispiriting details behind the band’s notoriety and demise are laid out masterfully by Bob Mehr in “Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements,” published earlier this year. Why Rock Criticism Was Essential to the Replacements 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Somewhat dispiritingly, the movie that has had the greatest impact on real-life 21st-century history is The Innocence Of Muslims, and nobody even saw that. Fighting dirty: could Michael Bay’s Benghazi movie take down Hillary Clinton? 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z It’s dispiriting enough that we’re importing mediocre revivals of American musicals, for God’s sake. To Be Topical in a Time Out of Joint 2010-02-17T22:13:00Z The show’s creators may be as dispirited as their main characters: 2012 was the first year since the show’s premiere that it was shut out of all the major Emmy Awards. The TV Watch: Don Draper and Associates Wrap Up Season 6 2013-06-24T16:26:28Z But given his glorious talent – he is, without question, the most naturally gifted male ballet dancer of his generation – his jaded attitude and cynical attitudinising are dispiriting. Coppélia – review 2013-07-13T23:05:57Z Now we had a spectacle of nihilism without aspiration, rage without righteousness, and the official response was almost as dispiriting as the riots themselves. Riff: Riff: The Iron Lady as Anti-Muse 2011-09-25T04:33:02Z But he was dispirited by illness and death in his family, and his own health was failing. Music Review: A Fresh Face Confronts a Seasoned Mahler 2011-03-18T22:24:01Z It’s dispiriting to see a movie about interesting real-life characters reduce them to clichés, making them less vivid, less fascinating, less charismatic than they must have been. Review: ‘Genius’ Puts Max Perkins and Thomas Wolfe in a Literary Bromance 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z They also bear the knowledge of the dispiriting aftermath: that the Oslo accords were not to be the prologue to lasting peace. Review | ‘Oslo’ is an incisive, and dispiriting, look at a stunning pact between Israel and the PLO 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The agony of being a longtime Tom Cruise fan has always been a burden, but now it’s just, well, dispiriting. Movie Review: ‘Oblivion,’ With Tom Cruise 2013-04-18T22:11:58Z That doesn’t make it any less disappointing, dispiriting and rude. Motherlode Blog: To the Rude Parent at the Recital 2012-06-05T14:34:16Z But if you listen closely, it's mostly dispiriting. Review: 'Vanities' at ACT Theatre watches 'mean girls' as they move through life 2011-02-11T23:25:07Z It had been a very bad week, a dispiriting week, during which the Democratic mood had shifted from outraged glee to enraged depression. A Night of Wise, Tortured Election Anxiety with Jon Stewart and Friends 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z No one else will do; you find yourself repeatedly judged by that dispiriting benchmark. The Secret Actor on the inescapable competitor 2013-05-13T06:00:16Z At first glance this year's Nielsen top 100 is unrelievedly dispiriting. The year's bestsellers 2011-01-01T00:05:26Z It’s probably not to be the fastest among your friends, and if you’re not careful, such features can be more dispiriting than motivating. Start slow, wear what you like, watch out for zombies: a beginner’s guide to running 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z It’s very dispiriting when people call each other vile names because they disagree about meat’s impact on LDL cholesterol. Perspective | Why making your diet part of your identity is bad for your health — and society 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z For the journalists like Micallef, covering the Ford circus was exhilarating, exhausting, and dispiriting. What Toronto Knows about Trump after Living through Rob Ford 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z "Watching that is as predictable, I think, as it is dispiriting," Stewart said. A tragedy in Tucson, and more arguing on talk TV 2011-01-11T11:16:06Z Convolution, disputation, and assertiveness may be dispiriting, but they're not solely products of the masculine character. Women rule the world ... but only if it's Made in Dagenham 2010-10-04T10:53:00Z But his life provides illuminating if often dispiriting perspective on the gay experience in the mid-20th century, when homosexual culture was developed exclusively in private spheres, or at least managed to hide in plain sight. Books of The Times: David Margolick’s ‘Dreadful’ Explores a Gay Novelist’s Anguish 2013-07-31T21:30:19Z That doesn’t need to make you bitter or dispirited. “Community” botches damage control 2012-05-24T16:00:00Z For artists insurance payments may be welcome, but the loss of work is dispiriting. Chelsea Galleries Face Complexities of Art Triage 2012-11-07T23:15:46Z The past is a foreign country, and many people are content to live there – but what a dispiritingly redundant evening this is. Steve Hackett – review 2013-05-13T17:31:14Z In The Times in January, A. O. Scott called this a “frantic and dispiriting movie,” adding, “ ‘Frantic and dispiriting’ is pretty high praise for a romantic comedy in these lovelorn times.” DVDs: Monogram Pictures? Charlie Chan on DVD 2010-06-12T03:48:00Z It’s dispiriting to say that in New York City Ballet’s New Works Festival we get plenty of eau de ballet. Dancing on Grass and Concrete at New York City Ballet 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z And so it is that much more dispiriting to see the holiday warped into a kind of mad consumer grab. I won’t shop on Thanksgiving 2012-11-23T01:00:00Z Given our own dispiriting drama starring Washington and Ukraine, that may sound like old news, but it’s still harrowing to see the way power radiates through nations and lives, raising some, crushing others. Review | A.D. Miller’s ‘Independence Square’ imagines how one diplomat tried to secretly manage Ukraine’s revolution 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z The second thing you notice is how sour-witted and slackly focused its satire is — qualities that ultimately make it a wearying, dispiriting read. 'King of the Badgers': A media circus in England 2011-09-21T23:08:04Z I understand better, now, why meteorologist Eric Holthaus, after reading yet another dispiriting report on human-caused CO2 emissions, tweeted that he would no longer fly because “it’s not worth the climate.” Skipping the airport, saving the planet: My 19-hour carbon-saving jaunt across America 2014-02-18T23:59:00Z Veep, the comedic antithesis to The West Wing, dreamed up many appalling scenarios and characters, but nothing so dispiritingly dreadful as a Trump. How Donald Trump has blown the White House drama out of the water 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z It chases the fads and the trends and always the audiences, and an afternoon spent there on a busy day can be as exhausting and dispiriting as shopping on Black Friday. Review | Five art exhibitions you really didn’t want to miss in 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z This is an essential film, but it is also a terribly dispiriting one. Review: ‘Last Men in Aleppo,’ Models of Courage Under Fire 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z They briefly met again at 15 but it proved a dispiriting experience. Henning Mankell, literary master of ‘Nordic noir,’ dies at 67 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z And with an aptness that verges, almost, on the self-knowing, this mecca of , so bright and colourful on the outside, turns out to be little more than a dispiriting, soulless car park from within. Glastonbury 2010: Meet the celebrities 2010-06-28T07:00:00Z But it is dispiriting to hear Andy Butler attempt to faithfully recreate his own music, without any of its previous magic, on Painted Eyes and Falling. Hercules and Love Affair: Blue Songs - review 2011-01-27T23:20:00Z Who would want to stick around to watch this dispiriting spectacle? He Spoke Out During the AIDS Crisis. See Why His Art Still Matters. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z It also adds another dispiriting data point — as if one more were needed — that the American Republic is seriously ailing. Dissecting Brett Kavanaugh’s ‘Supreme Ambition’ 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z As charming and touching as some of that work is, it adds up to a long, dispiriting epilogue to a period of greatness. Review: ‘The Great Buster’ Brings a Deadpan Genius Back to Life 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Much better – if no less dispiriting – was the documentary that followed. The Repo Man; 12 Year Old Lifer: True Stories – TV review 2013-05-03T06:00:00Z At Columbia, he wasn’t often recognized — the haircut and shave helped — and found it simultaneously liberating and dispiriting to be an anonymous college freshman. How the Fleet Foxes Frontman Got Out to Get Back In 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z But there's something dispiriting going on here too. Huntington's new visitor center strikes studiously neutral pose 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z And Mr Drezner thinks that there is little appetite among either reporters or readers for the dispiriting structural analyses that are professors’ stock in trade. Pushback 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Though this sequence is dull and dispiriting, it’s honest. Movie Review: ‘Race 2,’ a Bollywood Sequel From Abbas-Mastan 2013-01-26T00:31:29Z No one building can undo the dispiriting effect of bad architecture, overwrought security and the soulless corporate-academic campus of George Washington University that have disfigured the Foggy Bottom neighborhood. A new front door opens up an insular enclave at State Department 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Rehearsals with her were fun, but it was kind of dispiriting to spend a year and a half working on that and then watch these kids come in and learn it in three hours. Hugh Jackman Is Having Fun Playing as ‘Arrogant as You Possibly Can’ 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Overproduced and undernourishing, the show is a mishmash of dispiriting conceits, revolving around an unhappy young man and an abused pachyderm. Perspective | In London, the shows go on — but apathy is unmasked 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z But some said the repetition of artists in this week’s sales was dispiriting. Sale Offers a Reason for Relief at Sotheby’s 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z And like a dispiriting number of other young Disney stars, she's been on a grueling treadmill half her life, a teenager who represents the livelihoods of a slew of individuals with an entertainment machine. How "Hannah Montana" destroyed Billy Ray Cyrus 2011-02-16T16:17:00Z But thinking and writing about it and everything that has gone down has been dispiriting — real life has a way of insinuating itself into even better-wrought fantasies. ‘The Flash’ Review: Electric Company 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Even more dispiriting to the self-described workaholic who freelances in theater was that work was drying up as venues shut down. A birthday during a pandemic is a bummer. But two birthdays? Ugh. 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z If life at all the companies Hampton DeVille represents seemed cruel and dispiriting before, now its craziness only underscores the banal insanity of operations and the power we assign them. Sick of working from home? "Corporate" will remind you of how lucky you are to escape your cubicle 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Driven in part by the effects of a devastating hurricane, the enormity of its poverty and its isolation from much of the world, Cuba was forced to prioritize a dispiriting, generic and functional architecture. MoMA and the architects of a Latin American design revolution 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Even more dispiriting than presenting this crusty comic ballet, mainly beloved for its bravura power, was the way Ballet Theater dusted the cobwebs off something else: gimmick casting. Ballet Theater Returns to the Met With a Gimmicky ‘Don Quixote’ 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z The sheer length and psychic weight of the list is deeply dispiriting. How to Stay Sane as a Cartoonist in Trumpland 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z For Fischer, the studio meals are a way of avoiding some of the more dispiriting aspects of takeout. T Magazine: The Art of Eating 2014-05-09T15:23:37Z Children’s anger is exhausting and dispiriting, and of course parents want the anger to end — and now. Perspective | Our little boy’s anger has gotten worse with the pandemic. What can we do? 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z “Sometimes you can get dispirited and feel there’s nothing we can do,” he said. A historic Black church's new gospel in Oakland: Fight the high housing costs 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z In the wake of a second consecutive dispiriting loss to a Pac-12 underdog Saturday — the Bruins were 16 ½ point favorites against Arizona State and lost by 10 — the evidence is undeniable and overwhelming. Plaschke: To give UCLA football any shot at relevancy in Big Ten, Chip Kelly must go 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z “I don’t want to hear that you’re defeated,” he told one dispirited voter at the Backyard Brewery and Kitchen in Manchester last week. Christie banks on New Hampshire as he makes the case that only he can stop Trump: ‘I am the cavalry’ 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Seeing it up close has been a revelation — and mostly a dispiriting one. Column: A year after the City Hall tape leak, where will Latino political power in L.A. go? 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z The numbers are dispiriting: 68% of art museum workers have considered leaving the field, 74% cannot always cover basic living expenses, and it takes an average of 12 years before a worker receives a promotion. A new study shows museum workers struggling. We need to evolve to meet the moment 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Both teams are coming off dispiriting divisional losses. NFL Week 5 picks: Can Rams upset Eagles? Will 49ers remain undefeated? 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z His performance was one of the few silver linings for Seattle in a dispiriting loss to the Rams. Where Seahawks stand in NFL power rankings after Week 1 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z It's dispiriting to realize they aren't going to give up, no matter how destructive their obsession turns out to be. The Proud Boys aren't sorry — luckily, prison works great at stymying their terrorist impulses 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z In these dispiriting circumstances, why aren't Russian diplomats simply voting with their feet and resigning from the foreign service altogether? Threats, insults, and Kremlin 'robots': How Russian diplomacy died under Putin 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z All of this is dispiriting to S. Jay Olshansky, a public health professor and aging expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Biden is widely seen as too old for office, an AP-NORC poll finds. Trump’s got other problems 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z All of this is dispiriting to S. Jay Olshansky, a public-health professor and aging expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Biden is widely seen as too old for office, an AP-NORC poll finds. Trump’s got other problems 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z But that did not make it any less of a dispiriting weekend for the Mexican. 'Cheeky' Verstappen toys with rivals as title looms 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z The attacks against voting machines have been especially dispiriting for election officials because of the testing and audits they perform before and after elections to ensure votes are recorded accurately. GOP confidence in 2024 vote count low after years of false election claims, AP-NORC poll shows 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Flower, initially dispirited by the debates at the Indiana Statehouse, brightened after her parents took her to her first Pride march on June 10 in Indianapolis. Families with transgender kids are increasingly forced to travel out of state for the care they need 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z He was glued to his devices all day, but his attempt ended in failure and a dispiriting queue number: 493,901. Taylor Swift: What Asian fans did for her concert tickets 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The Australians have asked for an extra eye to be put on their families after the dispiriting and unnecessary abuse in the Long Room at Lord's. Headingley stirs as England seek another Ashes miracle 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Long-standing tensions feed a dispiriting cycle: each death triggers an explosion of violence and a police response which, though necessary, sows the seeds of further mistrust. France riots: Why do the banlieues erupt time and time again? 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Indiana Jones, and executives at the Walt Disney Co. and Lucasfilm, made a somewhat dispiriting discovery this weekend. Indiana Jones’ box office destiny? A lukewarm $60 million debut in North America 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z Sainz was one of nine drivers - almost half the field - to be penalised in this way, and this number included Lewis Hamilton, who had a dispiriting race for Mercedes and could manage only seventh place. Verstappen takes fifth win in row in Austria 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z These revelations were as unsurprising as they were dispiriting, given the tranche of recent exposes about the overlapping social circles of conservative Supreme Court Justices and Bond villain-rich conservative donors. Closing out a Supreme Court term tainted by corruption 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z The next day, the Mariners belched out one of their too-frequent stinkers, as Logan Gilbert got shelled in a dispiriting 9-4 loss. Is it too late for the Mariners to turn around their season? 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z They are getting a lukewarm reception from dispirited voters who were told for years to boycott elections. Opponents compete to square off against Venezuela’s powerful leader 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Tommy, another entrepreneur, has moved abroad from China, dispirited after government censorship requests concerning his product became too frequent and intrusive, leading him to shut down the business. Chinese tech entrepreneurs keen to 'de-China' as tensions with US soar 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z The result means that Alcaraz will go into the French Open - which starts in less two weeks and where he will be the top seed - coming off a dispiriting defeat. Alcaraz’s 12-match winning streak ends with loss to qualifier at Italian Open 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Shelter operators in Mexico agreed, saying that the challenges faced by migrants, while dispiriting to those experiencing them, did not appear new. Migrants Struggle to Get Appointments on Border Patrol App 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z But the current political climate is “dispiriting at times,” Simmons said. Illinois moves toward gender inclusivity as others move away 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z “Voting can seem like a feeble and insufficient exercise. It’s dispiriting,” he said. Black voting rights under threat in GOP supermajority states, lawmakers say 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Midway through this dispiriting Kraken letdown game, it was clear their opponents had found a gear higher than anything the home side was prepared to match. Kraken overpowered by Avalanche in second period, forcing decisive Game 7 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Instead, the Kentucky quarterback languished in the green room through 31 picks, looking increasingly dispirited as Thursday night wore on. NFL draft: Will the Rams get a shot at Will Levis, who is stranded in the green room? 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Abrams’s grand slam, the first of his career, became a footnote of a dispiriting finish. Nats can’t pull off a sweep, but show plenty of fight in loss to Mets 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Unlike Obama, who came out of the 2010 midterms having suffered a dispiriting wipeout, Biden heads a party relatively optimistic about its chances at this point in the cycle. Inside the final days before Biden announces his reelection bid 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z Yet there’s an aspect of the outrage that I find more dispiriting, which is that the experience of confusion seems to have been an entirely unwelcome one. Leave Frank Ocean alone 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Supporters of the Iraq-repeal bills therefore say — correctly, if dispiritingly — that the termination will not actually force the president to modify any deployments. Opinion | Congress gingerly begins to reclaim its powers. Let this become a trend. 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z It took years of layoffs and dispirited resignations for the Salinas Californian staff to finally tick down to zero. As the Salinas Californian withers, a city yearns to know its stories 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z “What has been so dispiriting for many American Jews is that they really thought we had put a lot of those antisemitic tropes behind us,” Sarna said. Republicans invoke Soros to steer narrative on Trump probe 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z “On its face it’s very dispiriting,” said Geoff Beckwith, executive director of the Massachusetts Municipal Association, which until last week had been nudging towns to develop civility guidelines for meetings. Residents’ Right to Be Rude Upheld by Massachusetts Supreme Court 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z But that dispiriting shopping trip had an upshot: It inspired a business venture now backed by a Seattle-area outdoor industry heavyweight. REI backs entrepreneurs of color with $30 million business accelerator 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z The answer most likely lies in the dispirited outlook of the Chinese populace itself. Opinion | China’s collapsing birth and marriage rates reflect a people’s deep pessimism 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z In the centuries after Shakespeare’s death, “Lear” was considered so dispiriting that writers altered the ending to allow Cordelia to survive and marry Edgar. Review | This ‘King Lear’ might be the best our theater critic has ever seen 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z It’s dispiriting if unsurprising that, apart from the many critics’ prizes it’s racked up, the best of this year’s nominees has never really been considered a plausible front-runner. Our critic says ‘Tár’ deserves several Oscars, including best picture 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z That conversation, in which Burns warned of the consequences if Russia were to deploy a nuclear weapon in Ukraine, was “pretty dispiriting,” Burns said. CIA director: Putin too confident he can grind down Ukraine 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z The picture is dispiriting, but not entirely hopeless. Opinion: How long will Russians tolerate Putin's costly war? 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Of all the troubling aspects of gun violence, among the most dispiriting may be scenes like the one in the Syracuse glass factory: Preparing school administrators for a mass shooting is becoming routine. In a Violent America, Safety Becomes a Sales Pitch 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z But for those of us who still crave films about recognizable human beings, there’s something dispiriting about watching such gifted actors legitimize yet another generically familiar sequel. Review | ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ goes big — and boring 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z A 200-page book of grievances about the treatment of immigrants might make for a pretty dispiriting read. Review | ‘The Faraway World’ brings the immigrant experience a little closer 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z But the complaints about high ticket prices left people there “dispirited, downhearted and yes, disillusioned,” publisher Christopher Phillips wrote late last week in a post announcing the shutdown. After ticket flap, Springsteen’s fan magazine shutting down 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Across Virginia, it was a dispiriting hodgepodge of outright prohibition, disparate “separate but equal” facilities, heel-dragging integration followed by a general demeanor that signaled Black people weren’t welcome at the library. Perspective | Northern Virginia’s public libraries and the fight to integrate them 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Brenda Hilton, the founder of Officially Human, an organization that promotes the respectful treatment of referees across the country, said the details of what occurred in Portsmouth were dispiriting. Coach Who Posed as a High School Player in Virginia Causes Season’s Forfeit 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Despite the damage, the flooding has not left Aucklanders entirely dispirited. New Zealand’s Largest City Grapples With Aftermath of Devastating Floods 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z And when I was dispirited, they were worried for me. Ke Huy Quan realizes an Oscar dream he thought was dead 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z “They beat down the E.P.A. work force, a lot of people left dispirited,” said Senator Tom Carper, Democrat of Delaware and chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works ,which oversees the E.P.A. Depleted Under Trump, a ‘Traumatized’ E.P.A. Struggles With Its Mission 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z It may be dispiriting to contemplate months of antagonistic electioneering ahead, and it’s not the kind of thing they celebrate in high school civics. Column: The fight to replace Feinstein is going to be nasty, personal and very expensive 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z In our woke culture, where value is derived by how disadvantaged, discriminated against, or dispirited one is, celebrating — or excusing — fatness has become the inequality cause du jour. Our woke culture’s glamorization of obesity 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Stressed college kids, irked congressmen, dispirited crypto bros and disillusioned Christian bloggers have all seen themselves or their situations in the dog. 10 years later, ‘This is fine’ meme creator wants to put out the fire 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z The cast is fine, but there’s a dispiriting dourness to the film. Review: 'The Drop' doesn't always work as a comedy, but it has the ring of hard-won truth 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z As soon as it’s safe, the plant’s repair teams scramble — a dispiriting cycle of destruction and rebirth. In Ukraine, power plant workers fight to save their ‘child’ 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z The Transport Workers Union that represents Southwest flight attendants warned at least as long ago as 2018 that its systems were leaving its workers exhausted and dispirited. Column: The guilty parties escaping blame for the Southwest meltdown are its board members 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Those three years packed in a lot of hard news for them — whether the news was the dispiriting “not pregnant” or the devastating “no longer pregnant.” Advice | Carolyn Hax: Grandma-to-be posts baby news without the parents’ okay 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z For emergency room doctors, they are a dispiriting and familiar sight: Children who return again and again in the grip of mental health crises, brought in by caregivers who are frightened or overwhelmed. Parents Often Bring Children to Psychiatric E.R.s to Subdue Them, Study Finds 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z The Panthers rebounded after a dispiriting loss to the Steelers with their best win in years. Analysis | What to know from NFL Week 16: The NFC seas are parting for Aaron Rodgers 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z “Very dispiriting, very discouraging,” Fraser said of his reaction to Hockey Canada’s disastrous 2022 in a recent interview with The Canadian Press. Canada hosts hockey world juniors in shadow of scandal 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z It took a particularly dispiriting collaboration with Robert De Niro to push Mann into the world of software. A.I. is here, and it's making movies. Is Hollywood ready? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z His case underscores a dispiriting truth: Despots, still fearsome in exile, maintain an outsize advantage over their justice-seeking victims. Review | Why is it so hard to bring brutal despots to justice? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Those of us fortunate enough to afford housing are dispirited by the despair filling our sidewalks, river banks, underpasses and psyches. Column: Newsom talked tough with mayors and supervisors on homelessness. Did it work? 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z Dawidoff follows Johnson for five years after his release, a disjointed and dispiriting period. Review | A classic, tragic account of American incarceration 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The U.S. — and likely Iran as well — needs a win to have any hope of avoiding a dispiriting early exit from the monthlong tournament and advancing to the round of knockout matches. Politics on the pitch as U.S., Iran gird for World Cup showdown 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Duke: The Blue Devils picked up their first loss of the season in dispiriting fashion, unable to keep up with the Huskies’ shooting. No. 3 UConn women rout Duke 78-50 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z The breakthrough moment came after he had filmed himself singing “Love Me Tender” to send to Luhrmann and came away feeling dispirited. Why Austin Butler cries every time he sees one Elvis Presley performance 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z He said key Republicans are less likely to want to cut a deal, fearing they might anger an already dispirited party base. Activists beg for Democrats to deliver on immigration bill 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z This is the dispiriting assessment of nightclub accessibility from Cardiff student Alex Kingdom, a wheelchair user who loves to go out to listen to music with his mates. Disabled people 'don't feel welcome in nightclubs' 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z There’s one little hiccup along the way, but an invigorated Black manages to put away a no-doubt dispirited and disoriented White: 44. Basman, Curdo: Honoring two of the game’s true originals 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z But his 18 months in Houston authored a particularly dispiriting chapter and ended with an exile from the league he once dominated with his speed and vision. John Wall helps Clippers to back-to-back wins over Rockets in return to Houston 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z A couple of weeks ago, she said, she looked at the meat department at The Fresh Market, a grocery store chain, and was dispirited at the high prices she found. Food Prices Soar, and So Do Companies’ Profits 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Even before covid risks encouraged remote working, London’s long commute times made for dispiritingly empty work spaces. Opinion | Rishi Sunak’s route to economic growth 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Even when you remove the distortion effect caused by Republicans who define "working well" as their party winning every time, the data is dispiriting. Trumpists want you to be cynical — it's how they'll destroy democracy 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The Wizards are one of those teams with outside expectations that are dispiritingly low. The Wizards are stuck in the no man’s land of the NBA 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z “We need law enforcement. And the problem with the whole defund movement, which he has been a big supporter of, is it dispirits law enforcement,” Mr. Johnson said. Johnson, Barnes face off in final Wisconsin Senate debate 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z And what comes next can be frustrating and dispiriting. As suicides rise, US military seeks to address mental health 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Russian troops seized a string of new cities and towns in June and July in a dispiriting moment for Ukrainian forces, which found themselves outgunned by Russia’s longer-range artillery. ‘Armageddon’ warning reflects Biden’s instincts about Putin 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z At the conference, some supporters and lawmakers seemed baffled by the speed of events, others dispirited. Britain's weakened Truss faces fight for credibility 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z On the campaign trail, Schultz depicts Ellison as being “at the forefront of the defund-the-police movement” and blames that movement for the departures of hundreds of dispirited police officers in Minneapolis and elsewhere. In Minnesota, abortion keys Keith Ellison’s 2nd term hopes 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z “No police officers in this country were more dispirited than the ones who were present at the United States Capitol on Jan, 6,” Mr. Barnes said. Johnson, Barnes face off in final Wisconsin Senate debate 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Dominik doesn’t do much by halves, diva crackups included, and it’s dispiriting to realize that this is why he bothered with this particular Hollywood re-creation. Review: 'Blonde' isn't really about Marilyn Monroe. It's about making her suffer 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Don't many of us view life in America as a dispiriting continuation of the ruthless, often shallow competitions of high school? Hang on, Republicans: Who are the real "elites," anyway? 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z The dispute comes near the end of a dispiriting season for the Nationals, and amid growing uncertainty about the real estate market. D.C. threatens to shut down Nationals Park, putting events at risk 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Election officials and their advocates said they are dispirited that Lindell continues to encourage his followers to distrust the voting process. Trump backers flood election offices with requests as 2022 vote nears 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z But it was not a dispiriting night at a bouncing Celtic Park as the Scottish champions made a good impression on the biggest stage. Bold Celtic outclassed by clinical Real Madrid 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z The men shooed the kids out the door and came up with an activity for the dispirited bunch. Pickleball is exploding in WA. What makes it so popular? 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Lady Haldane said a background report made for "dispiriting reading" as Findleton, from Burntisland, Fife, continued to deny any responsibility for his crimes. Rapist dangled victim over Burntisland railway bridge 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z So, it is utterly dispiriting and shameful that the movement to ban certain books from schools and libraries is gaining traction in some states. Opinion | A test before banning books 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z As I retire after nearly four decades covering Capitol Hill, that contrast and the forces behind it illustrate why I’ve loved covering Congress — and why I’ve recently felt dispirited. Decades on Capitol Hill: From civility to open hostility 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Voters elected Ann Davison as Seattle City Attorney last year because they wanted responsible, effective change in a seemingly disorganized and dispirited office. Seattle City Attorney is delivering improvements 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z And they expected Democrats to remain dispirited, divided and demobilized. Opinion | New York’s special election and the GOP’s cul-de-sac of complacency 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z More dispiriting still was the fact that many women’s rights activists, such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, had played a large part in the abolitionist movement leading up to the Civil War. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Perhaps that subversion, bringing the heightened back down to the realm of the mundane, is the lesson that we’re to take away from “Spin Me Round,” an interesting if dispiriting direction to take. Review: Dispiriting comedy 'Spin Me Round' is more likely to let you down 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Cheney’s defeat in Wyoming’s GOP congressional primary was predictable — and yet no less dispiriting. Opinion | The country needs more Liz Cheneys 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z "For the people who are there now - this must be very dispiriting." Mar-a-Lago: FBI warns of increased threats after Trump search 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z For those who have been fighting against corruption, it's a dispiriting blow. Lee Jae-yong: Why did South Korea pardon the Samsung 'prince'? 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Stories of the dispiriting defeats at Bataan and the Japanese capture of the Philippines at Corregidor in 1942 revealed the Japanese cruelty and mistreatment of Americans. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z On Wednesday, Ms. Omar’s progressive supporters were feeling relieved, yet also dispirited. Policing Divide Hurt Rep. Ilhan Omar, Who Edged Out a Narrow Primary Win 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Through its willingness to smash the rules, both written and unwritten, the Republican Party has managed to dispirit better than half the electorate. If the majority is irrelevant, how do you explain Kansas? 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z The enchanting setting becomes a backdrop to action that’s dispiritingly mundane. Review: Catch this 'Prey' on Hulu. 'Lightyear,' 'Luck' and more in our new streaming movies roundup 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z United fans, meanwhile, are still waiting to see what kind of impact Ten Hag will have after a dispiriting performance against Brighton that showed that many of the team’s old weaknesses still remain. Haaland shines for Man City, United loses under Ten Hag 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z El Guindi said he finds the fixation on world premieres to be both a good thing and “extraordinarily dispiriting.” What would it take for Seattle to become a hotbed for playwrights? 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z That’s not quite as dispiriting as it sounds, for people haven’t necessarily given up on chatting with groups of friends on the internet. Opinion | Facebook wants to be more like TikTok. That’s a bad idea. 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Voters who backed Mr. Biden in 2020 said they were dispirited by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority, which includes three justices appointed by Mr. Trump. As Faith Flags in U.S. Government, Many Voters Want to Upend the System 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z And crowdfunding provides a revealing, often dispiriting catalogue of which qualities and causes tend to activate public sympathy — and of how much sympathy there is to activate at all. Opinion | A murdered parent should be worth more than $1.4 million 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z When Groom interviewed for his first IT job, he heard the dispiriting sentence that trips up so many careers: “I’m looking for someone with a bachelor’s degree.” More workers without degrees are landing jobs. Will it last? 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Biden is raising expectations among his base that he will almost certainly dash — further dispiriting them before the November midterm elections. Opinion | Weaken the filibuster before a wave election? That would be a bad move, Democrats. 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Some instructors and staff members have also posted about the dispiriting confusion and other issues in this year’s program. Johns Hopkins ousts leader of summer programs canceled at last minute 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z In a dispiriting week for motorsport with regard to racism, Red Bull have also sacked their reserve driver Juri Vips after he made an offensive remark on an online gaming stream. 'Older voices' should be refused platform - Hamilton 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z The administration's reluctance to challenge legislators dispirited her. The other cancel culture: How a public university is bowing to a conservative crusade 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z I’m also dispirited, if hardly surprised, by how quickly so many of them evaporated from theaters, assuming they played in theaters in the first place. The best movies of 2022 (so far). And where to find them 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Wade and hoping the radioactive abortion issue energizes their dispirited voters. Democrats pray Supreme Court’s abortion ruling reshuffles midterm politics 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z “One of the deadliest shootings in our nation’s history was an act of hate against this community in Florida,” the “Encanto” composer told The Associated Press, calling the “Don’t Say Gay” law a “dispiriting” development. Lin-Manuel Miranda helps launch Latinx LGBTQ support program 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Despite reports of dispirited Russian troops, obsolete equipment and a sclerotic command structure, Moscow appears to have seized the advantage in the eastern region — at least for now. Momentum shifts in Ukraine war as Russia advances in the Donbas 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z What is most dispiriting about this toll is the presumption that campaigning to legislate gun safety is fruitless, because gun control is unconstitutional, politically unpopular, and useless in preventing mass death. Column: Uvalde demonstrates our cowardice about guns 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Investors now face a more dispirited economic environment without robust government support. Dow snaps 8-week losing streak with nearly 600-point pop 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z It was dispiriting to hear Naomi Osaka phrase it as she did even though I don't think she was trying to punish Wimbledon by using the word 'exhibition'. Wimbledon will never be an exhibition - Murray 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z |
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