IT HAS been a dispiriting year for many British businesspeople.
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"It was really bizarre and dispiriting to see," he says.
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For Shaffer, Warner's reaction to Twitter's testimony was particularly dispiriting.
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Determining the cause of these dispiriting trends has proved hard.
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Worsening income inequality seems to be driving this dispiriting trend.
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Reading hundreds of customer complaints can be a dispiriting exercise.
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Could Sansa (sigh) be in for yet another dispiriting marriage?
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There is something dispiriting about the realization of a future.
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Billions Zugzwang is a delightful word for a dispiriting concept.
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It's a dispiriting waste of such a fiery, complicated performer.
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It is dispiriting to see partisan wrangling on this issue.
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Juxtaposed with the U.S., the contrast is alarming, even dispiriting.
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Her conclusion is dispiriting, but she backs it with evidence.
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But watching Republicans in Congress play along is deeply dispiriting.
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In early January, for instance, came three hugely dispiriting reports.
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The Brexit referendum provided a particularly dispiriting case study of this.
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Shocking, disturbing, heartbreaking, dispiriting — yes, yes, yes, and ughhhh, yes. Surprising?
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A dispiriting case has been their attempt to defuse financial dangers.
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To have these kinds of statistics in 2017 is incredibly dispiriting.
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And Penn Station has definite shortcomings beyond the dispiriting, shabby look.
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Name Withheld It's dispiriting that seeking "sugar daddies" is in vogue.
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" While that may be dispiriting, Green exhorts you to "be ruthless!
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Even on those narrow, dispiriting terms, it's likely to fall short.
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Who would want to stick around to watch this dispiriting spectacle?
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Recently, he'd had a dispiriting conversation with one researcher at Merck.
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And isn't that part of what so often makes politics dispiriting?
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After years of dispiriting news, you can't begrudge them some optimism.
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It's been ugly, it's been divisive, it's been coarse, it's been dispiriting.
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And reason 3 is just dispiriting—why reward Republicans for their intransigence?
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Granted, it was a shocking and dispiriting loss to a division rival.
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Reporting from polling stations in Elkhorn and Janesville was dispiriting and revealing.
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Off to one side of this dispiriting blur of statistics, two new
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All this is tied up with a deeply dispiriting debate-nerd pedantry.
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He retired from international soccer after a dispiriting European Championships in 2016.
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But a funny thing happened on her way to another dispiriting result.
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For Division III athletes, the hypocrisy is a dispiriting act of silencing.
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Still, it did not seem as dispiriting as the news about Harvey.
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Many of the club's fans have found the empty weekends dispiriting, too.
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But they acknowledge that this most recent break with Trump is dispiriting.
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Herein lies one of the most important—if dispiriting—takeaways from Separated.
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The need to fit a stereotypical binary model of femininity was utterly dispiriting.
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This year's television commercials, agreed his companion, had been the most dispiriting ever.
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It was also dispiriting because I could have seen this coming years ago.
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It has been a tense and dispiriting week for the South Bend, Ind.
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Just as dispiriting was its "blackberry wine sauce," sequestered in a tiny crock.
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New Orleans offers a positive story during a dispiriting time in American life.
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Such moral myopia is particularly dispiriting when it involves leaders of the bar.
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And yet this seemingly dispiriting history is actually a reason for optimism. Why?
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This is an essential film, but it is also a terribly dispiriting one.
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I can say without equivocation that it was not pleasurable, and instead dispiriting.
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And what is perhaps more dispiriting is that Trumpism doesn't need Trump to survive.
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I've just come across the results of a somewhat dispiriting Ranker dot com survey.
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There remains the dispiriting fact that, on a national level, marijuana is still illegal.
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It is not meant to be a place of playground scorelines and dispiriting blowouts.
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The contrast with Donald Trump's vulgar tweets and Theresa May's robotic phrases is dispiriting.
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What could be more dispiriting than being in pain while feeling trapped at work?
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Surprisingly, voting trends in this country are almost as dispiriting as those facing schools.
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Even a Japanese soldier marooned on a South Pacific island might find this dispiriting.
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Imagine being the Detroit parent of a first-grader and hearing that dispiriting news.
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For many movie fans, Thursday's Oscar nominations brought a dispiriting feeling of deja vu.
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The findings are dispiriting to anyone hoping for simple legislative fixes to gun violence.
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The results of the European Parliament elections had come in, and they were dispiriting.
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This, it turns out, is a dispiriting exercise: Mostly what Ellis hears is noise.
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Maybe it is the East Coaster in me, but I find this slightly dispiriting.
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The damage was done by Palmer, who lost the 1961 title in dispiriting fashion.
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On the other hand, it's uniquely dispiriting to be a member of Zone 3.
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How dispiriting to cut short a major dance-floor performance because of cruel footwear.
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And, again, what might have been a dispiriting prospect is, in Chiang's hands, elevating.
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The story of American history, though, is that we repeatedly overcome such dispiriting moments.
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And the dispiriting day of desultory baseball led the Yankees right into — what else?
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That's a dispiriting conclusion for some who may wish she was a pure progressive.
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They seeded the Audiences assembly line with content about Clinton that was engaging but dispiriting.
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And that's even more dispiriting than all the gloom and doom of Batman v Superman.
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Dispiriting, because there is little to suggest that Westfield World Trade Center occupies consecrated ground.
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Conditions at the detention center on Nauru have also been described as harsh and dispiriting.
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The current polarizing and dispiriting presidential campaign may also cast a pall over the future.
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" Wallace Matthews of ESPN says, "Choose your adjective: Repetitive. Monotonous. Dispiriting. Same-old/same-old.
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The University of Chicago is a fantastic college, which is why this situation is dispiriting.
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My mother always told me that when I was going through something tough and dispiriting.
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Otherwise, it was the same overwhelming experience: exhausting, exciting, daunting, dispiriting, stimulating, inspiring, exhausting, exciting.
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But even in countries not directly affected by the ban, it sent a dispiriting signal.
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The Wisconsin race was just the latest dispiriting result for Republicans ahead of the midterms.
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DeGrom's injury just heaped more gloom on a dispiriting night for the Mets (17-11).
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All of which portends an even more turbulent and dispiriting election than the last one.
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Students say getting B's can be deeply dispiriting, dashing college dreams and profoundly disappointing parents.
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The response, she said, reflected a need for positivity during a cynical, often dispiriting, campaign.
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The anti-business rhetoric of the left during the debate is dispiriting in the extreme.
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And while that sounds dispiriting, it was the best thing that could have happened to them.
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And obviously the record on climate action over the last few decades is really, really dispiriting.
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One possible take on this dispiriting saga is that China's hair-trigger patriots are themselves victims.
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BNP boss Jean-Laurent Bonnafé recently ruled out M&A after a dispiriting set of results.
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It also adds up to a dispiriting forecast for American prosperity in the decades to come.
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Rights advocates say that her response to the most recent violence has been even more dispiriting.
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In the World Economic Forum's ranking of countries' performance in innovation, Canada comes a dispiriting 2275nd.
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The limp traditionalism of this "Frankenstein," a co-production with the San Francisco Ballet, is dispiriting.
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Crushed rosettes in the skirts of the metal dresses drooped somewhat, an inevitable but dispiriting occurrence.
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That raised the dispiriting possibility of a visitor's winning the World Series on the Cubs' grounds.
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Tonight, after the most savage, dispiriting presidential campaign anyone can remember, Washington gets ready to laugh.
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What was really dispiriting to me was the extent to which that story became about me.
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That story is a dispiriting one, abounding in promises from on high, short on concrete results.
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Though climate change has yet to produce clearly attributed examples, Zika hints at this dispiriting future.
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It is dispiriting to walk through campus, recognize a friend, and have to bid your farewell.
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J.P. You're not likely to hear a more dispiriting chorus to a pop song this year.
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This is despite the obvious and sometimes dispiriting trend toward living in a fully digital world.
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"As a progressive to see those two have that level of vitriol was dispiriting," Jones said.
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It has been dispiriting, and also farcical — the butterfingers dismantling of a great New York institution.
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I always find it pretty dispiriting if ever I see journalists trying to tell a joke.
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These misguided actions converged in the dispiriting elections, which saw right wing candidate Alejandro Giammattei prevail.
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But while his achievement is uplifting, the campaign by his opponents was a dispiriting, sometimes ugly affair.
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Most dispiriting of all, her hand was having more painful rejections, requiring more trips to the hospital.
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The Saik'uz reserve, like many aboriginal settlements off Highway 16, was a dispiriting portrait of official neglect.
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The let's-try-anything approach is characteristic of a dispiriting evening that doubtless sounded better on paper.
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For women who favor comparatively bold policies advancing material equality, the whole thing was dispiriting and exhausting.
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Brexit is not just an event, it is a feeling — suffocating and dispiriting and freighted with gloom.
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That has made Mr. Trump's threats to tear up Nafta, a key piece of the relationship, dispiriting.
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The day after a dispiriting New Hampshire primary result, a conference call of Biden supporters was convened.
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Dasgupta's debut follows the dispiriting real life and vivid daydreams of a 100-year-old Bulgarian man.
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But it's a dispiriting confirmation of the bragging rights and brand obsession that pervert higher education today.
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But it is the whole team that is trying to find its way after a dispiriting loss.
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Some of this was dispiriting, but I never got up from the table in a bad mood.
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But if too hot, and the grapes get overripe, the wines can be sweet, hot and dispiriting.
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It's difficult and dispiriting but occasionally it's the only easy way out of an untenable, intolerable situation.
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But a change in Trump's position could prove to be dispiriting to some of his strongest supporters.
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He cautioned against overreacting to the current turmoil while admitting the antagonism in Washington is at dispiriting levels.
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Well, the annual report was released today and the figures are at best dispiriting, at worst rage-inducing.
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This is dispiriting to critics of the Western media who do not ascribe its failings to malign conspiracies.
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But the example of Rajasthan, which passed one of the most comprehensive such laws in 2015, is dispiriting.
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Educating the public about the loss of species, in his view, is as important as it is dispiriting.
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That's been very dispiriting for those on staff who want to hold things together and accomplish policy goals.
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It is incredibly dispiriting, because it makes one question what must lurk in the hearts of one's neighbors.
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I find dispiriting the back-stabbing attacks saying the president sold us out, that we have no hope.
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OUTLOOK The primary concern is the host of injuries to defensive players, and Monday night's loss was dispiriting.
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Cold War-era sci-fi offered a dispiriting menu of extraterrestrial avatars: supersonic birds, scaly monsters, gelatinous blobs.
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I came here to New Castle looking for a jolt of hope after the terribly dispiriting presidential campaign.
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But the show turns out not to be what she expected after some dispiriting chitchat with his friends.
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Rosamond King, a performance artist and poet made the incisive but dispiriting observation that no place is safe.
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How many other wives put off the ceremony because they empathize with the dispiriting plight of the handmaids?
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Van Jones: A dispiriting night for Democrats There were beautiful moments in Tuesday's first Democratic debate of 2688.
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What makes the rigging especially dispiriting is that so many former members of Congress are part of it.
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Taken alone, this would make for a bleak, though compelling, political statement and a dispiriting view of art.
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Also, Greta Thunberg (Kate McKinnon) shows up right at the end with an even more dispiriting holiday message.
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Having "someone like Jay-Z file legal proceedings is daunting beyond belief and hugely dispiriting," Ms. Chiha said.
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"To be a tonal composer in the '60s and '70s was a deeply dispiriting experience," he once wrote.
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The new managerial order for every bank is less free-spirited, with tight controls and, too often, dispiriting bureaucracy.
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He worked as hard as he could for the common good and for the Republican Party, in dispiriting circumstances.
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If a Democratic president chooses not only Justice Scalia's successor but also several others, he may face dispiriting choices.
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While a dating app can't solve racism, it can facilitate a less dispiriting dating experience for people of color.
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How do you continue to deal with this hell, the latest dispiriting chapter in the country's long racist history?
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The most shocking and dispiriting visual of the second debate on Sunday appeared before the candidates even faced off.
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But it is more than a little dispiriting for the millions of Americans already exhausted by seemingly endless outrage.
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It is dispiriting to watch the wretched excesses of Mr. Trump's slapstick presidency and the rabid audience he commands.
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MANOHLA DARGIS First, my usual disclaimer: The Oscars are irrelevant, empty, dispiriting, maddening and invariably wrong, unless "Moonlight" wins.
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Teams that start down, 20-13, in N.B.A. playoff series are 21-2, a dispiriting 26 percent success rate.
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I know that it can be dispiriting that Trump has done so much but suffered so little for it.
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What makes the current controversy so dispiriting is the sense that the issue should have been settled by now.
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Maureen Dowd WASHINGTON — When historians write about this bizarre, ugly and dispiriting campaign — and oh, my, will they ever!
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Fixes In a year of many dispiriting headlines, Fixes still found the better angels of human nature at work.
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In a dispiriting year for European markets, the shares of banks and financial firms have been among the worst-performing.
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We're in the middle of a uniquely ugly and dispiriting election, one that some nights seems like our country's nadir.
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This time around, he's focused on the country's very expensive, "dispiriting" postal survey on whether it should legalise marriage equality.
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If 2017 and its relentless onslaught of dispiriting news showed us anything, it's that there is a lot to resist.
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At a time of such disappointment in our institutions, this is a dispiriting episode that we really do not need.
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But the number who are likely to stay out — fewer than a quarter by the five-year marker — is dispiriting.
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"Behind the Racquet" forms a coherent and dispiriting picture of the human toll tennis takes, particularly in its current structure.
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Well it wasn't surprising so much as really, deeply dispiriting, how divided people are, and how heated the rhetoric is.
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The crackup of the Women's March, and the resulting tensions between some black and Jewish activists, has been deeply dispiriting.
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One day, after an especially dispiriting round of cross-examination by Kathleen Bliss, I went to lunch with Gloria Allred.
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The looming question facing Mr. Buttigieg after the dispiriting South Carolina finish: Can he do better with black voters elsewhere?
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But it was also dispiriting, suggesting that he disagreed with President Trump, but was unable to do much about it.
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Tied for the tournament lead midway through his second round, García stumbled to a dispiriting bogey on the 153th hole.
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It also adds another dispiriting data point — as if one more were needed — that the American Republic is seriously ailing.
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For a reader who just wants to be well-informed about the facts, this kind of story can be dispiriting.
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In her book, Ms. Haskell brilliantly articulated the contradictions that haunt the movies, with their dispiriting truths and transporting fictions.
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For students of color who have found their qualifications questioned when they arrive at elite campuses, the case was dispiriting.
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It is a way of romanticizing war, which is especially dispiriting when the war in question is the Spanish Civil War.
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The overarching goal: To pull CBS News out of a dispiriting period in its history and reinvigorate the network's flagship newscasts.
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Maybe next time the stumble home via the kebab shop, as dispiriting as it is, might just be a better bet.
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He said that the difficulty was at times dispiriting, but defended his record and the record of those who followed him.
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She nonetheless was abruptly recalled to Washington in May, a decision Mr. Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state, called dispiriting.
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Tomljanovic rebounded from a dispiriting performance in her Australian Fed Cup debut on Saturday, losing to Mladenovic, 6-1, 6-1.
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One by one, each arrival eased the sting of what could have been a dispiriting summer for Dortmund, Germany's second superpower.
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One, a brown-haired boy who embarrassed easily, suffered from a dispiriting combination of social anxiety, OCD, binge-eating and depression.
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At first it was too dispiriting to watch the Olympics on television, but she decided to force herself to tune in.
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Way too many of them, of course, but the really dispiriting thing is realizing that it is nearly impossible to disengage.
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Here in New York, it opened on Wednesday at New World Stages, where I found it to be slick and dispiriting.
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"This is the most dispiriting call about the economy I've heard in a very long time," CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday.
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As Holt says, few people knew that Mary Blair's joyful art was created in domestic circumstances that were often dark and dispiriting.
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"China's market disasters share a common and dispiriting cause," Arthur Kroeber, head of research at Gavekal Dragonomics, wrote in a research note.
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When the shake-out comes, history offers two dispiriting examples of how a consumer-friendly boom can turn into a stitch-up.
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His legacy is one of huge, dispiriting tower blocks—the main focus of the book Maspero and Ms Frantz produced in 1989.
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Not only that, but the Republican donor class is beginning to feel rejuvenated after a dispiriting period following Trump's Super Tuesday victories.
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But the results — as with much of what the United States set out to accomplish in the country — have sometimes been dispiriting.
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There were a few good acts around—Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie, Memphis Slim, Eddie Boyd—but it was a dispiriting scene.
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Much as I didn't want to be a stupidist—it's dispiriting, for starters—I recognized that it improved my grasp on things.
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As this dispiriting election year has shown, there are many politically prominent Christians today who should think and act more like Lewis.
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As accusations of sexual misconduct against famous men accumulate, the sheer quantity of dispiriting news is starting to create a confusing blur.
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A dispiriting trip from the Newark airport to Penn Station in Manhattan shows how much needs to be done, our columnist writes.
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Opinion Columnist This is a dispiriting epoch of strongmen and bullies, yet side by side with the worst you find the best.
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Comey's 210th-hour letter to Congress is perfectly in line with the chaotic, aggressive and truth-free tone of this dispiriting election.
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It is, in a word, dispiriting—and a far cry from the enthusiasm of movies like Apollo 13 or The Right Stuff.
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Whether the games have been sparkling, imperative victories or shocking, dispiriting defeats, it always seems to come back to Dallas for Manning.
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Indeed, after another dispiriting loss, Chargers fans had little to cheer for and must have felt like visitors in their own stadium.
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His losses were especially dispiriting to Democratic lawmakers because he ran lackluster campaigns in both states and fell well short of expectations.
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When they actually profit from their "discovery" and repackaging of other people's lifestyles, it's a dispiriting re-enactment of long-running inequalities.
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For artists who need the exposure of opportunities like pop-up shows, "Things" serves as a reminder of New York realty's dispiriting realities.
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IT WAS, even by the dispiriting standards of Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy, a futile concept: a peace conference without either of the warring parties.
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This close to the election, presidential polls have historically missed the final tally by only 1.8 points, dispiriting news for still-hopeful Trumpistas.
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Another is that the show of unity perpetuates the notion of a duumvirate that irritates other members of the EU. This is dispiriting.
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As he speaks, a sign above him reads "Domestic flights" – a dispiriting reminder that, for the time being, his future lies in Greece.
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It was a dispiriting declaration, announcing to the world that Washington won't much care about them, nor democracy and the rule of law.
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Even his time in England, a dispiriting two years mired by injury and internal politicking, bore the hallmarks of a good-egg personality.
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Not in a fun way, mind you, but in that dull, dispiriting way where the lack of effort starts to feel like disrespect.
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Some dispiriting news: Frank Liberto, creator of beloved Ricos Cheese Sauce, died peacefully surrounded by his family this past Sunday of natural causes.
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Even more dispiriting, this production deprives Cyrano of most opportunities to execute the singular, poeticizing performance art that has made the character immortal.
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In Grand Junction, it was often dispiriting to see such enthusiasm for a figure who could become the ultimate political boom-and-bust.
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A proverbial-cum-literal "explosive finale" would have gone a long way to ameliorating the dispiriting impact of these deliberately dour storytelling decisions.
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The dispiriting truth may well be that major postal reform will not arrive until the USPS teeters on the edge of shutting down.
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For many of her volunteers, however, the loss felt like a dispiriting prelude to what was supposed to be a stirring campaign kickoff.
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As charming and touching as some of that work is, it adds up to a long, dispiriting epilogue to a period of greatness.
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Working in this White House is a frustrating, dispiriting, and often surreal experience, and it exposes staffers to both legal and reputational risks.
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"It's dispiriting — while there are technical solutions there are big political problems attached to all of them," Mr. Zettelmeyer said in an interview.
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We chose a site beside the Mosquito River, which, despite its dispiriting name, flowed like nature's gentle white-noise machine throughout our stay.
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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.
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That the Trump administration has evidently colluded with Israel to influence Americans' understanding of a major strategic issue fits an established, dispiriting pattern.
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Even more dispiriting for immigration hardliners is that exit poll results show that Republican voters do not list immigration as their top issue.
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In our own crisis-filled 21st century, it's both salient and dispiriting to note that most of Europe's current female leaders are childless.
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The dispiriting conclusion to draw from "The Vanquished" is how easily what we think of as the restraints of civilization can break down.
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We have a dispiriting shortage of high-quality health research for many reasons, including the fact that it's expensive, difficult and time-intensive.
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What we get instead are endless reprises of a handful of songs interspersed with much dispiriting moralizing about the need to feel pain.
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Mac set himself a challenge: Could he take everything that was ugly, grotesque, dispiriting in the world, put it onstage and transform it?
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It's instructive—if dispiriting—to watch Peduto slowly realize over the course of the last few months that Kalnick and Uber aren't his friends.
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Yet the extent to which Ms McSally was drawn into mud-wrestling with her weaker Republican opponents on the issue was unexpected and dispiriting.
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While it's hard to pass on a chance to stoke startup schadenfreude, perhaps we could focus less on these rare, unrepresentative and dispiriting examples?
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Snow in April was already a dispiriting development, but some New Yorkers had more bad news on Monday: They had to move their cars.
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The Thursday night slot has always featured truly dispiriting levels of play, but the season so far has been full of blowouts and penalties.
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The other thing that's so dispiriting is watching the legions of Republicans bury their heads in the sand and pretend like this isn't happening.
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It was a dispiriting effort for the Mavs, who were riding the momentum of Tuesday's home win against Indiana and three days of rest.
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We are and always have been a nation of immigrants, after all, which makes the new stirrings of xenophobia in the country so dispiriting.
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That so many Americans seem willing to overlook her serial ethical failings is among the most depressing truths of an already dispiriting election season.
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A credible and dispiriting chronicle of late-adolescent male toxicity, "Goat," adapted from a 2004 memoir by Brad Land, begins with a senseless assault.
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Luckily for Arsenal, several of them learned from this dispiriting experience, recovering from disappointment and rejection before going on to do great things elsewhere.
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The Black Course punished Woods from his first tee shot, which landed in deep rough and led to a dispiriting opening-hole double bogey.
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But many analysts reacted with something closer to grizzled stoicism, greeting the launch as dispiriting but unsurprising confirmation of North Korea's capabilities and intentions.
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Besides, on top of 9/11, endless wars and political acrimony occurring in the 21st century, the coronavirus pandemic has been a dispiriting experience.
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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.
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It's also dispiriting because it has traded a fairy tale about female solidarity for a war movie about what happens when women assume power.
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Recently, Human Right Watch published a dispiriting report, detailing how the reforms that were promised (and made in some instances) remain meaningless for many.
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That underscores a deeper and more dispiriting truth about American elections: Poll numbers have consistently shown men not favoring women who run for office.
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It's a perfectly unbelievable and dispiriting artifact of our fractured and chaotic political media ecosystem, where politicking is conducted through viral memes and retweets.
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Coming off a dispiriting 5-2 loss at Washington on Sunday after a shootout win at Philadelphia the day before, the Rangers started with resolve.
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Her realism about the prospects for the Sanders agenda is implicitly dispiriting about the prospects for liberal domestic policy change in her presidency as well.
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The seemingly sexist CEO who they probably didn't like isn't running the company any more, but this bump in the road must be very dispiriting.
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This involved dispiriting meetings with the leaders of the Russian Orthodox church, in which he noted their unpleasant views, worldly lifestyle and terror of competition.
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In the meantime, it's another dispiriting example of a media conglomerate shutting down a small but well-loved service — and a blow to cinephiles everywhere.
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It unfolded in successively dispiriting stages, each a testament to Bolton's evil genius (I caught myself muttering, more than once, "You know nothing Jon Snow").
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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.
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Faced with underwhelming results and dispiriting delegate counts, Trump and the Rubio team employed some timeworn political tactics in an effort to massage public perceptions.
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Animal Collective had the power to occupy that space for an entire micro-generation of listeners, and that's why Painting With feels a little dispiriting.
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Images of the bird are being compared to the state of America right now in the middle of a bizarre and often dispiriting election weekend.
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Clinton matchup in this fall's general election, Leibovich said he expected it to be as "dispiriting" as he has found the primary season thus far.
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The web is thus doing something even more dispiriting than turning us into bad people: It's giving us amnesia about how fundamentally good we are.
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This was a somewhat dispiriting affair, with a middling cast and a genial but indistinct performance by the Knights, under the direction of Eric Jacobsen.
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Boos accompanied some of the Browns' more dispiriting plays, including their final offensive snap, when Pierre-Paul sacked McCown, forcing a fumble the Giants recovered.
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It has been profoundly dispiriting to see, for so many years, the issues of housing affordability/living wage, and homelessness ignored on the federal level.
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Because of the internet and some dispiriting naïveté, data developed through the time-consuming hard work of others was suddenly accessible for copying and pilfering.
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The hunt for fees hiding in plain sight — particularly when investors think a provider is acting in their best interest — is continuing, exhaustive and dispiriting.
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Also dispiriting is the fact that nearly a quarter of households that fall below the self-sufficiency standard include an adult with a bachelor's degree.
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Elizabeth Warren, who had an even more dispiriting night, has also dropped out, and many of her supporters seem primed to turn to Mr. Sanders.
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"What is most dispiriting is appointing Calhoun as C.E.O. after he said that Dennis was doing everything right," said Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut.
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That may be dispiriting news for a state senator who is eagerly looking at the best yard signs to get out ahead of Election Day.
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I've either wised up to or aged out of this dispiriting cycle, but now, I imagined, with a touch of grandiosity, I might stop it dead.
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"It was a discouraging, dispiriting, exhausting experience to watch what happened in Mitch McConnell's Senate when it came to this trial, this show trial," he said.
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With a stirring display of resilience this season, the Irish overcame a dispiriting series of knee injuries and persevered until the team hoisted the championship trophy.
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The comments, days before the fifteenth anniversary of the al Qaeda attacks this Sunday, are a dispiriting reflection of the state of U.S. and global security.
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IT HAS been a dispiriting decade for those who dream of Pakistan taking full control of Kashmir, the Himalayan former kingdom that India claims for itself.
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It was also dispiriting to teach students a subject—theology—that the college required them to study, but which they didn't really want to learn about.
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During his appearance on Saturday at Florida's emergency operations center, Mr. Scott made a dispiriting roll call of counties and the extent of their power failures.
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Yet here we are in the N.B.A. finals, at the sport's supposed pinnacle, confronted by one of the most dispiriting injury sagas #thisleague has ever witnessed.
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Nor did the dispiriting defeat on Tuesday night, or the distance between Arsenal and its supposed rivals for a place in the Premier League's top four.
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They looked happy enough with this insertion of playtime into their day, but watching them rattle around on this unnatural parcel of green was, somehow, dispiriting.
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And yet over the last decade, as the presses have stopped rolling in more than 2,000 communities across America, it has become a familiar, dispiriting tale.
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Orioles 6, Yankees 5 BALTIMORE — Luis Severino's fall from grace between his excellent rookie season of 2015 and his dispiriting sophomore year of 2016 was shocking.
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Yet, according to the latest figures, the euro zone actually grew by 0.2 percent in the second quarter of 2014, a feeble but less dispiriting performance.
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If I'm obsessing over the team's dispiriting record on Sundays, it's because I share, with three friends, a 20-game Sunday ticket plan at Citi Field.
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We're faced every day with the problems we haven't solved yet and new ones that we're creating, and the barrage of bad news can be dispiriting.
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And it's dispiriting and predictable to see yet another writer allude to their character having a "secret homosexual life" without being willing to portray it on screen.
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The Whitney curators' choices send a dispiriting message to a grad student attending Kansas City Art Institute, to pick just one art school in a flyover state.
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Besser laid it out thusly: As Bernie gained momentum, his candidacy opened space for intolerable misogyny, including especially dispiriting vitriol from self-identified progressive men and women.
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So, too, the grueling and lengthy primary season has taken its toll, with supporters of Clinton and Bernie Sanders engaged in dispiriting arguments, especially on social media.
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At first glance, the prescriptions prompted by the study's authors seem dispiriting: The solutions are abstract and political, and they lie outside the realm of medical practice.
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There have been more dangerous and polarized moments in American history -- but it's tough to recall a time when political discourse was so mean, and so dispiriting.
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In particular, GOP leaders in Congress hope that success in passing tax-cut legislation will re-energize their own voter base after dispiriting failures to repeal Obamacare.
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Nobody hindered the cause more than Michael Pineda, who after an encouraging performance last Sunday at Oakland reverted to dispiriting form with his briefest outing this season.
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Liberals are grappling with Tuesday night's dispiriting loss, in which Democrat John Ossoff fell to Republican Karen Handel in Georgia's 6th District contest to replace former Rep.
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"When you see these kinds of rhetorical games, they are dispiriting at best and at worst make people think you can't trust anything anybody says," she said.
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Wilson tries drinking a Soylent-like powdered meal-replacement at lunch for a week; it effectively tamps down her hunger, but the lack of variety is dispiriting.
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Jesse Rosen, the president of the League of American Orchestras, said that the trouble in Baltimore was especially dispiriting given how forward-looking the ensemble has been.
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Mr. Valadao's loss was a particularly dispiriting turn of events for Republicans because he had initially been declared the winner of the race by The Associated Press.
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The president's tweet, confusing and politicizing a serious matter of military justice, is yet another dispiriting reminder of the civilian-military divide that exists in this country.
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It also marked a dispiriting end to a 4-5 trip in which they continue to look less and less like team with serious World Series aspirations.
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The platform opens the door for a lot of chilling, dispiriting, consequence-free vitriol, but it also removes some of the preliminary gatekeepers to reaching an audience.
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In such a dispiriting environment, it is no wonder many Democrats, following a path most conservatives have already taken, are now giving up on a moderation altogether.
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With the silencing of Mr. Sadat in Parliament, Hussein Gohar, an official with another opposition party, said politics had become a dispiriting and perilous pursuit in Egypt.
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When I was a junior in high school, after a dispiriting summer working at a fast-food restaurant, I realized that I wanted to go to college.
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What I found is a dispiriting picture of government infighting that may have stymied two promising chances of winning their release, including one reported for the first time.
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The report gives a dispiriting account of both legislative chambers, the branch of government now tasked with serving as a check on President Donald Trump's chaotic White House.
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Because the danger is of miscalculation and unchecked escalation, America must continue to engage in direct talks with Mr Putin even, as today, when the experience is dispiriting.
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But if there's one thing that progressives should have learned during this dispiriting period in our history, it's that politics should really feel like this much more often.
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Given the dispiriting baseball the White Sox have played over the past month, it's a testament to how well they started that they're only a game below .500.
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Bookstores these days can be dispiriting places, with their novelty merchandise and beside-the-point coffee bars, their groaning piles of discounted thrillers and dwindling numbers of customers.
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"We want no part in the listing on our website" The response has been a predictable but dispiriting intersection of terrible people, vague internet protest, and online fundraising.
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It also served as a sort of coda to a bizarre and dispiriting stretch for the Gambinos, once considered among the most powerful crime families on the planet.
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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.
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Despite chatting about extinction, habitat destruction, and environmental indifference—pretty dispiriting stuff—by the end of our conversation, I was feeling uncharacteristically optimistic for the future of Earth.
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Right now, I'm also experimenting with Trint, an app that shows promise at taking over the transcribing of interviews, the most dispiriting part of an otherwise great job.
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Perhaps the most dispiriting aspect of Amazon's search process and its result is that it chose not to join that narrative, to further stimulate the engines of growth.
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Some take-home points: Depression can be an opportunity to assess imbalances in our biology and our lives and a call to change rather than a dispiriting endpoint.
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PARIS — Nearly three decades ago, Peugeot abandoned the United States market, stung by years of dwindling sales that were punctuated by a dispiriting 217,291 cars sold in 1990.
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And the suddenness of the turnabout left the Falcons with gnawing questions about what went wrong and what role their decision-making had played in the dispiriting outcome.
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The situation is so dispiriting because the political right, while it is more successful at the ballot box, often lacks solutions to the problems plaguing the working class.
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Warming oceans have killed huge sections of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, turning their glorious colors to a bleached white that's as dispiriting as a wilted brown cherry blossom.
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The mere knowledge that exercise partners could become adversaries numerous times during one cycle must be dispiriting, at best, and certainly could lead to reduced military operational proficiency.
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"I get it, but monetize your BRAND," Reddit user Trixiespads told Mic last year when discussing the dispiriting message being sent by these tiered fan interactions at DragCon.
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She lost in the semifinals at last year's United States Open, in perhaps even more dispiriting fashion, as she was rolling toward the sport's first Grand Slam since 1988.
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It's heartening that 18 governments today committed to working with them on the project — and beyond dispiriting that the United States, for the most craven of reasons, opted out.
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The canvassing can be dispiriting—of the 72 flats she approached in her first building that evening, only 16 opened their doors; many more told her to get lost.
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It was a debate that was more instructive as a microcosm of a generally dispiriting election race than as a moment to change the minds of undecided American voters.
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Blaming blacks for Clinton's defeat is not only wrong, but it also feeds the same appetite for racial animus and division that have led us to this dispiriting moment.
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After Nunes's dispiriting performance, they have every reason to fear their sources and methods will be compromised and their integrity impugned if it serves a future chairman's partisan agenda.
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That was a triumph for some working-class people who see immigration as a threat to their jobs, but dispiriting for young Britons hoping to study or work abroad.
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So many families feel frustrated and unheard under this radical administration, and I know intimately the dispiriting power of watching your country turn away from equality and towards injustice.
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Books of The Times 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.
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But the labor strife has been especially dispiriting in Baltimore, a city with severe pockets of poverty that had always seen its orchestra as an embodiment of its pluck.
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That our moment in history necessitates that we even contemplate the comparative merits of impeachment versus temporary removal in light of a sliding scale of criminal misconduct is dispiriting.
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Does it feel dispiriting to be dealing with some of the exact same issues now as you were then, or do you see just real progress at this point?
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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.
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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.
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In "Five Who Spread Hope in 2019," Tina Rosenberg profiles five people who are changing the world for the better, despite it being a year of many dispiriting headlines.
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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.
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That is a bit dispiriting, but then if you get around that on a good day, or you say something that comes out OK, you win that little battle.
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A dispiriting report from the Associated Press estimates that between 183,000 and 11,000 civilians died in the battle to free Mosul — a number nearly 10 times higher than previously thought.
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"Emotionally, it's incredibly dispiriting to see matters of life and death tossed around so lightly," says Paul Musgrave, a scholar of US foreign policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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The Yankees also braced for some dispiriting news after reliever Conor Mullee, who has undergone three elbow operations, left in the sixth inning after feeling numbness in his right hand.
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Despite some high points, there was too much of both, with an especially dispiriting effort by Yann Boudaud, who went to battle with Racine's consonants in his role as Agamemnon.
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Opinion Columnist According to pollsters and political reporters, a dispiriting dynamic has taken hold of the early stages of the Democratic presidential primary: Voters are discounting female candidates as unelectable.
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But the labor strife has been especially dispiriting in Baltimore, a city whose woes need no recitation but which had always seen its orchestra as an embodiment of its pluck.
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To that point, the game had the look of another dispiriting loss and a damaging sweep to finish off a weekend in which little had gone right for the Yankees.
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For a team that lost four of its first six games and that had already endured its share of dispiriting injury news, a performance like Pineda's had a buoyant effect.
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As Brennan experiences a dispiriting slump in sales, his coworkers (James "The Rabbit" Baker, Raymond "The Bull" Martos, and Charles "The Gipper" McDevitt) travel with him along the East Coast.
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The outcome of the dispiriting contest has big implications for relations with the EU, but also for companies, financial markets, fiscal policy and the future shape of the United Kingdom.
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And let's remember, Putin went after Ukraine for one specific reason: to keep it from drawing closer to the EU. If the EU unravels, it will be a slow, dispiriting process.
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The critics were proved right when, after an initial run of victories in friendly games, Brazil slumped to a dispiriting quarterfinal defeat against Paraguay in this summer's Copa America in Chile.
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What America should be prepared for, it appears, is an intense, vicious and dispiriting campaign, the result of which will be a 45th president faced with an even more divided country.
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It's dispiriting in a way to see old-fashioned chain stores feel as if they must contort themselves to stay vital in what is becoming an ever more polarized retail culture.
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Considering the bona fides of Floyd Cardoz, the chef and driving force behind the year-old modern-Indian restaurant Paowalla, it's a bit dispiriting to get the upsell on your cocktail.
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This proves dispiriting to his secretary, Marie (a nicely feisty turn by Katie Birenboim), who has a steady crush on her boss and must watch, wallflower-like, as he marries Thea.
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He sold the idea that he had a way in and up that was outside normal channels; it is dispiriting to realize how many influential people seemed to find that appealing.
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Inevitably, you will come across a self-service, food-by-the-kilogram joint with a buffet of dispiriting variety (salads, pasta and sushi?), along with racks of steak, chicken and sausage.
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Players for the US men's team will lick their wounds from a dispiriting loss and return to fat salaries at club teams in the MLS, England's Premier League and Germany's Bundesliga.
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The dispiriting message some took away from Foucault was that things were, ultimately, a bit hopeless: Power was far too chaotic to help anyone figure out the right thing to do.
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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.
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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.
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It was a dispiriting blow, but it would not deter them, said the man, who gave only his first name, Alexander, out of fear that the gang would track him down.
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Rampant violence and corruption, along with stagnant wages and other dispiriting economic indicators, have weighed heavily on Mexicans and driven down Mr. Peña Nieto's approval ratings into the low double digits.
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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.
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Paul Mariani's excellent new book, "The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens" (Simon & Schuster), is a thrilling story of a mind, which emerges from a dispiriting story of a man.
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"'The Great British Baking Show' May Ruin Your Taste for Reality Television" by Madeline Fox A word of warning: The BBC's "Great British Baking Show" is not mean and dispiriting television.
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Although it invokes the realm of the imaginary, the exhibition eschews escapism; instead, the site-specific works on display show artists thinking creatively about the dispiriting circumstances of our own world.
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And it's dispiriting when it comes from people who think they're on your side, because it's another reminder that for so many American men, the most embarrassing thing to be is gay.
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The Jets are their usual dispiriting mess on the field, but in the executive suites their leaders sound testosterone-infused, insisting that their players manifest the manly virtues of playing through pain.
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While the campaign remains confident of its advantage in South Carolina, where Biden enjoys outsized African-American support, his position there might not be able to withstand a series of dispiriting defeats.
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The experience was dispiriting for Keynes, who wrote a number of scathing essays in the 1920s, pointing out the risks of the agreement and of the post-war economic system more generally.
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The counterargument from Republican leaders will cast unity and success in passing tax cuts, after their dispiriting failure on Obamacare, as the only way the party can stave off a 2018 catastrophe.
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The set-point theory is dispiriting, since it implies limits to how happy progress can make us, but it also suggests that progress is more widespread than we feel it to be.
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Without her, the Ravens' half of the campaign turned into a dispiriting slog that left me increasingly unable to tackle each challenge, because my fighters were coming into every fight already wounded.
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Henrik Lundqvist ended a dispiriting stretch last time out and the veteran goalie looks to build off that effort when his New York Rangers visit the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday afternoon.
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Late last week, in Vancouver, following a dispiriting news cycle, the manager of an upscale Teahouse restaurant was fired after refusing to serve a customer wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat.
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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.
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The partial shutdown on Tuesday was all the more dispiriting because it came only days after Heathrow and Gatwick announced they had ordered military-grade anti-drone equipment to ward off incursions.
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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.
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Elizabeth Warren, who finished a disappointing third in Iowa and an even more dispiriting fourth in New Hampshire, remains in the race but has no obvious path to the nomination -- for now.
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To many of the conservative Christians who unexpectedly propelled Mr. Bentley, a Republican, into power, his demise was a dispiriting setback in an age when they feel their values are under siege.
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The Mets' worst loss of the season will be difficult to top — a 23-103 loss to the Washington Nationals in April — but the defeat on Tuesday was dispiriting given the context.
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If that income cutoff isn't dispiriting enough, to be part of the top 239 percent, which represented 20.1,219.5 returns in 20.01, your adjusted gross income needed to be at least $28.7 million.
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At the same time, research into conventional weight-loss methods has repeatedly pointed to an overwhelmingly dispiriting conclusion—that diet and exercise alone, no matter how disciplined the individual, fail overwhelmingly often.
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If that income cutoff isn't dispiriting enough, to be part of the top 239 percent, which represented 20.1,219.5 returns in 8.73, your adjusted gross income needed to be at least $28.7 million.
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This supremacy can be dispiriting, especially given that the big studios often seem uninterested in making other types of movies, which has led to grim considerations about the very future of film.
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The score matters, and you deserve to know it, however dispiriting, as it will motivate you to memorize your two- and three-letter words, improve your strategy and destroy that patronizing creep.
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It was startling decision because Collins, 238, was one of the few stars on a porous defense that even the Giants' brain trust blamed for a dispiriting 38.2-22019 record last season.
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It was an embarrassing case for the police department, and all the more dispiriting considering that five years earlier, Police Chief William McManus had vowed to overhaul a force tainted by sexual misconduct.
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Add to that the fact that the 2015 figures are on par with the female director stats from 1998, and you've got yourself a pretty dispiriting picture of how far we haven't come.
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Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is 217 and bored in Staten Island, a nighttime poetry class in Manhattan the only diversion from her lackluster marriage, dispiriting teenage children and monotonous job of teaching kindergarten.
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The results of the New Hampshire primary were chaotic and dispiriting for the two parties' establishments, suggesting that both primary contests will last much longer and be much uglier than elites had hoped.
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To the Editor: "It's 'Like a Zoo' at Everest's Tip as Deaths Soar" (front page, May 27), about the overcrowding of mountaineers trying to scale the highest mountain in the world, was dispiriting.
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Trying to evoke nonbinary experience for binary people, in a world where nearly everyone is raised with an either-or concept of gender, can feel liberating, but also futile: wearying, dispiriting, sometimes devastating.
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To finish off a dispiriting day, Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo, one of the few bright spots this season, was hit by a pitch on his right pinkie and had to leave the game.
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The supposedly bloodthirsty mob that robbed Johansson of her role appears, on close examination, more like a critical consensus — one in which genuine stakeholders, including trans Hollywood players, responded spontaneously to dispiriting news.
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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.
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Even if you've been following teen social-media horror stories—the recent case of an Ohio girl live-streaming her friend's rape comes to mind—Sales's book makes for an urgent, dispiriting portrait.
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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.
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Yet, even as the movie continues to invent new twists on its own formula — Gillan and Black share a flashy scene around the midpoint — there's also something oddly dispiriting about watching this Jumanji.
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One of the more dispiriting aspects, Mr. Nuwer said, was that two of the deaths, at Penn State and at Louisiana State, involved fraternities that had promised to take strong steps against hazing.
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To break through this secrecy, Mr Barr—author of a previous book on Anglo-French rivalry in the region—has mined memoirs and archives to add fresh detail to his remarkable and dispiriting story.
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They have only tried, through non-violent demonstrations, social media actions and a bold policy agenda, to ensure that America's future breaks with its profoundly dispiriting legacies of slavery, Jim Crow and racial discrimination.
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The Obama administration's decision to pull the plug on talks with Russia was seen as an especially dispiriting low in its efforts to stem the chaos in Syria, which have so far been ineffective.
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As is customary around Citi Field these days, just as much as Mr. Met sightings and eighth-inning Billy Joel singalongs, Collins had some more dispiriting injury news to share Sunday before the game.
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There is a broader and deeply dispiriting metaphor to be drawn, here—several, really—but I'm bummed out enough by the patios and the People And Places And Passion to just let it go.
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Plus we had to watch Harry Kane taking corners for several weeks, which was marginally more dispiriting than being abandoned on a tiny desert atoll, and experiencing a slow and painful death from dehydration.
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That the change still isn't there, that we're still arguing and putting forth the same complaints, the same suggestions, the same call to action, that's been bubbling since the 1970s, is a bit dispiriting.
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In July of 2016, the Rockets were looking to completely remake their team in the wake of a disappointing 41-win season that ended with a dispiriting first-round playoff loss to the Warriors.
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The dispiriting maze — North America's busiest train station, shared by Amtrak, New Jersey Transit and the Long Island Rail Road — was never meant to handle a daily flow of 2100,20183 passengers and 22018,2018 trains.
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Ninth-ranked Ohio State hopes to gain back some confidence on both sides of the ball after a dispiriting loss as it hosts unbeaten Army on Saturday in the first meeting between the schools.
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Yet, as admirably as they acquit themselves in Cat Parker's Articulate Theater Company production at 13E59 Theaters, there is the dispiriting sense of watching talented actors trapped in a show that they cannot save.
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With the countdown underway to the end of another dispiriting season, the Knicks had pause to at least imagine brighter days ahead when Kristaps Porzingis made an appearance Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden.
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And her example serves as the trigger for a sparky and rangy exhibition there that takes a very wide-angle view on one of the most enduring and dispiriting controversies in contemporary French society.
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The World Cup, with its thousand ethical shortcomings forever balanced against its capacity to deliver joy, is already dispiriting in too many ways to justify investing more hope in this brand of pseudo-technocracy.
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The pair had flamed out in London, she as an actress, he as a sales clerk at Topshop, and were in the middle of five dispiriting years writing scripts and shuffling through unglamorous jobs.
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Despite the dispiriting defeat, Sharapova said she still had the motivation to get back into the sort of shape that would enable her to play more than the eight tournaments she managed in 2019.
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Vive tries to keep the long-termers in living quarters separate from those of transient residents, because it can be dispiriting for them to be reminded that they have failed to realize their dream.
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It is what has led to three dispiriting managerial appointments, wilderness years under men unable or unwilling to grasp the club's identity, money wasted on a squad high on quality but low on balance.
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A further dispiriting conviction lurks at the heart of modern campus radicalism: the notion that each racial group, gender and sexuality is fundamentally different, destined (at best) to coexist in siloed spaces, safe or otherwise.
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Now, nine years later, Uber the ride-hailing company looks set to get regular people inside autonomous vehicles first — a move that's critical for Uber, and dispiriting for the audacious project hatched inside of Google.
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Aside from the fact that pricing to allow for a pop limits the risk of pricing too high and enduring dispiriting declines, IPO pops drive media coverage in a way that matters, according to Kline.
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"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.
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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.
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Both are bustling Pacific Northwest coastal cities with eco-conscious populations that have accepted the bargain of dispiriting weather for much of the year in exchange for nearby ski slopes and kayaking and glorious summers.
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"That's how it's done down here," McMillian says in one scene; it's an eloquent if dispiriting summation of the emotional labor it takes to manage the anxiety, aggression and impunity otherwise known as white supremacy.
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For all the disappointments the Champions League has brought, for all the dispiriting defeats, for all those last-minute failures, it has never once wavered in its belief that its approach would, eventually, pay off.
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In those meetings there are alternately affirmative demonstrations of how far society has come, dispiriting examples of how much some things haven't changed, and striking contrasts in how the terms of certain issues have shifted.
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The numbers were even more dispiriting for those sharing Peres's view that settlements are an obstacle to peace: 42 percent of Israeli Jews say they help Israel's security, while just 30 percent say they harm it.
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The notion that audiences, queer, teenage, or otherwise, might benefit from what amounts to a media reenactment of the year 2005 is bizarre, and dispiriting to the progress that seems to have been made since then.
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The data, pulled from the CDC by the Washington Post, is dispiriting reminder of our nation's worsening opiate epidemic, which was started by money-hungry drug companies and continues to claim more lives year over year.
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder called the Trump administration's tough-on-crime stances ideologically-driven and "disappointing, dispiriting and dangerous" at an event this morning put on by Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Legislation.
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But if the dispiriting opening sequences of Sunday's contest were all too familiar to Giants fans, who have endured four successive seasons without a playoff appearance, the rest of the game revealed a new Giants resilience.
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The reforms to the Gender Recognition Act were shelved, topping off a dispiriting few years: The Leveson inquiry changed nothing, and none of the recommendations in a 2016 parliamentary report on transgender equality were brought in.
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Still, it was dispiriting to watch more than two hours go by with almost no mention of abortion rights, maternal health, pay equity, paid leave, or child care, issues that affect families all over the country.
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It's dispiriting, perhaps, to think our various blinkers might not be easy to identify, but knowing this offers a sort of peace — the peace of spending less time wondering why everyone else is so hopelessly blinkered.
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MEMPHIS — The view from the chief executive's office window at Memphis International Airport is as sweeping as it is dispiriting: On a recent afternoon, he could see 10 empty jet bridges and not a single airliner.
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It was a dispiriting reminder that as Congress flails around for health plans that could cost millions of people their insurance, many more don't have much or any insurance or access to medical care to lose.
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But credit Butler and Co. for rebounding nicely from two dispiriting losses in Houston and, at least for the moment, foisting some angst back onto the heavy favorites, whose offense, by typical Rockets standards, has underwhelmed.
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The chronicles are all dispiriting in their different ways, either because of the horrors they reveal or because of the insights they give into politicians and police forces that are too corrupt, impoverished or incompetent to respond.
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The fact that we're even asking that question about an official with as long and sterling a record of public service as Gates is another dispiriting reminder of how much life in Trump's America has already changed.
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I'm also a cleaning expert, which makes the reality of my 325-square-foot apartment — which is short on amenities, leaving dishes to be done by hand and dirty clothes to be lugged to laundromats — somewhat dispiriting.
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Volume I is dispiriting, both because of the specter that the Russians are coming for us again, with our digital defenses down, and because of the sad arc it unspools about the existential perils of social media.
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The first half of this season mixed the soporific with the dispiriting until in late July the Mets ripped off a winning streak, and soon fans piled into this handsome stadium by Flushing Bay, bellowing and chanting.
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Instead of the final out of a dispiriting loss, Sanchez's grounder proved to be a lifeline as it scooted through the infield, allowing Brett Gardner to come home from third to tie the score at 5-5.
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The results, reported in 2009 (and updated in 2014) in the journal Nature , were a dispiriting validation of Bleuler's hunch about multiple hereditary factors: more than a hundred independent segments of the genome were associated with schizophrenia.
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The tensions between country-idyll expectations and dispiriting realities course throughout this shimmering debut novel, whose time-hopping narrative depicts the interconnected journeys of the estate's sundry inhabitants from its 19th-century origins to the recent past.
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Their performance before Congress was dispiriting and vague and the possibility of effective regulation seems remote, so it is incumbent on these leaders to think hard in 2018 about just what kind of legacy they want to leave.
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NEW DELHI — The governing Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies won power in the state of Assam on Thursday, the group's first triumph in the country's remote northeast and a morale-raising victory after two dispiriting electoral defeats.
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They missed Minnesota's final three games of the regular season and the Golden Gophers' lone game in the Big Ten tournament, putting a dispiriting cap on a season in which the team went 27-235 in the conference.
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Nick Mosby has had an equally dispiriting year, having started and abandoned a campaign for mayor of Baltimore and, in the process, giving up his seat on the Council, where his term comes to an end this year.
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An African-American guest at a Portland hotel says staffers called police on him after he took a phone call in the lobby -- an incident many observers see as another in a dispiriting and all-too-familiar series.
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It was Curry and especially the under-fire Harden, more than anyone, who helped nudge the league's marquee series away from a suffocating, dispiriting debate about how the game is officiated when the Warriors and the Rockets meet.
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In Southeast Asia, after enduring a "dispiriting" meat-and-potatoes meal, Drzal realizes that her husband travels like a turtle, carrying his home with him, while she is a hermit crab, taking on new identities in each place.
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It's always been dispiriting to see the latent resentments that Clinton's political ambitions brought forth—she's like one of those chemical solutions which make invisible writing manifest, only to reveal a message that we'd rather had remained hidden.
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The season finale of "The Bachelorette" proved to be a dispiriting and genuinely unsettling affair as Rachel cried off her substantial false eyelashes over Peter's stubbornness and then dived headlong — but ultimately unconvincingly — into the chiropractor from Miami.
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But as dispiriting as the result was, there is at least one way for Sabathia to make one more appearance on the Progressive Field mound this season: to play in the All-Star Game here on July 9.
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Its director, Simon Curtis, and its two screenwriters, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Simon Vaughan, tell their dispiriting tale with clarity and force: anyone tempted to put their children in a reality TV show should be required to watch it.
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And in an era in which Hollywood-China co-productions are going to become a more common occurrence, what's so dispiriting about The Great Wall is that this dull oddity may just be a sign of things to come.
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It has been dispiriting, too, to hear the president remind his most loyal constituents that he is "not the president of black America" — as if they were naïve enough to believe that he represented only, or primarily, black interests.
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Tarkon, who is white, remembers feeling a little down that morning, after a dispiriting encounter the previous evening—another moment added to the litany of racial and sectarian aggressions the team has experienced over the past couple of years.
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Ms. Nooyi's departure marks the continuation of a dispiriting trend across corporate America: For all the talk of leaning in, breaking glass ceilings and diversity in the boardroom, the number of women running major companies is on the decline.
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De'Andre Hunter — who missed that dispiriting tournament loss to Maryland-Baltimore County last year with a hand injury — scored 23 points to lead the Cavaliers, who recognize their place in infamy but, at Bennett's urging, have regrouped from it.
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This season may yet be the franchise's worst of this century, but for one day at least, the Giants purposefully and thoughtfully tried to breathe life into what has been a numbing, dispiriting experience for players, coaches and fans.
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It's the most dispiriting story I've covered in 30 years of writing about the N.B.A. — no matter where you stand on how much we should be talking about the felony sexual assault charge Bryant faced in Colorado in 2003.
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It has reached the point in the Mets' dispiriting season that every time Asdrubal Cabrera does not field a ball cleanly fans wonder if their shortstop of the future — the top prospect Amed Rosario — could have made the play.
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And as someone who has read thousands of student essays over the past 10 years, few things are more dispiriting — and as the pages mount, soul-crushing — than those written by 18-year-olds who can't see themselves as peculiar.
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As researchers have sought an answer for the Western world's abrupt pivot to populism, the main explanations they have settled on are: The long period of flat wages and joblessness, pushing people into a dispiriting plunge out of the middle class.
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For that, at least, we ought to praise the New Museum, which staged the German-born artist's last major American exhibition in 1986, and which has now opened "Hans Haacke: All Connected," an important but dispiriting reintroduction to this resolute antagonist.
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That's a valid story to tell, but the problem with the fake-outs of her repeated near escapes is that they contribute to an overwhelmingly dispiriting narrative in which resistance to an oppressive regime is quashed over and over again.
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He quickly realized he hated politics, which he found ugly and dispiriting, and began working for a public relations firm and freelancing as a journalist, writing for The Washington Post, the Washington City Paper and The New York Times Magazine.
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"It's one of the incongruities of life in New York," he wrote in his latest column, to hear something as beautiful as a Mozart sonata or a Beethoven trio in a place as dispiriting and acoustically inhospitable as Penn Station.
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If the shiny and dispiriting new Rockettes extravaganza, "New York Spectacular," is any indication, failure to do so may result in your children crisscrossing the island in search of you, tracing a convoluted path that makes no sense logically or dramatically.
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Ten years later, Jill's idea of women furtively infiltrating the house of male cultural authority like ninjas, or wood lice, is as funny as ever—she would be gratified by Frances McDormand's " inclusion rider " Oscar speech—but nearly as dispiriting, too.
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The Yankees lost for only the sixth time in 24.95 games and still managed to win their third consecutive series against a contender, but it was a somewhat dispiriting defeat because they could not gain on the teams ahead of them.
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"It's dispiriting how little progress we can see as a result of all these school-based fitness and nutrition programs," said Paul von Hippel, the lead author and an associate professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Turkey's dispiriting recent history once again raises the question of whether Islamist values can coexist with democracy — not just democracy as manifested in elections but liberal democracy, with its core values of equality and freedom of the press, speech and religion.
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Diego Simeone's Atlético Madrid might have been ripped to shreds by a reinvigorated Borussia Dortmund, and it might have closed its group stage campaign with a dispiriting draw at Club Brugge, but it still presents a uniquely physical, exacting challenge.
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WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson once admitted that he had never known a single American diplomat before joining the Trump administration, a surprising admission for a well-traveled executive that many in Foggy Bottom found insulting and dispiriting.
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It was hard not to see the 2016 Vice-Presidential debate as a dispiriting spectacle: if Kaine and Pence—two middle-aged Midwestern Christians—couldn't find their way to some civility, what hope was there for the rest of us?
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While Ms. Watts navigates the partisan shoals of Cat and Dog (she won't take sides, though she did say she has a "sadly genetic" cat allergy), her inbox forces her to confront other, even more dispiriting aspects of the human condition.
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The dispiriting wave of religion-based violence abroad, and sometimes violent flare-ups here over issues like abortion and L.B.G.T.Q. rights, make Jefferson's idealistic vision of American civil religion, the shared faith of a free people, all the more attractive.
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It was all so dispiriting that, over the past few years, you found yourself feeling wistful when you heard that, say, Barnes & Noble was closing some stores — even though you couldn't stand Barnes & Noble when it started replacing independent book shops.
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About a week later came "Real Friends," as potent and dispiriting a catalog of loneliness he has ever recorded, a song about how fame warps and traps, and no matter how high it brings you, will always yank you down.
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The movie also provides, especially in a firefight scene between the brothers and the police, a simultaneously bracing and dispiriting account of just how much havoc a pair of heavily armed moral weaklings can wreak when they are so determined.
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It was so common, and there were so many stories that it was really dispiriting, I remember, at that time, and one of the most common conversations prior to 2010 was, consistently, how can freelancers get health care, how can we protect ourselves?
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Emily Guendelsberger gives a sense of just how far we are from that dream in " On the Clock " (Little, Brown), a jaunty but dispiriting memoir of her work at three low-rung jobs: at a call center, a McDonald's, and an Amazon warehouse.
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There have been so many dispiriting stories of promising careers cut short because women fled the entertainment industry after being harassed, raped, or just informed that their biggest contributions to the zeitgeist should come from surrendering their bodies to their entitled, grabby employers.
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Exciting because degradation is fascinating to follow from the relative safety and smugness of an "appropriate" life, and dispiriting because if all that sad mayhem can happen to this or that character what's to keep it from happening to me or you?
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Other experts believe the race was always destined to be close especially considering the polls that track the wayward and enduring wrong track numbers and Clinton's astronomical negatives, which must be particularly dispiriting for a former First Lady, senator and cabinet secretary.
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The play, in the fifth inning, had little impact on the contest's outcome; Ellsbury was stranded at third base, and the game devolved into an 6453-2 loss to the White Sox — another dispiriting day for the Yankees, who fell to 40-42.
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Billed as a tribute to humanity's fascination with flying, the work draws on images and texts spanning some 3,000 years, and that's about how long it felt, thanks to the flat-footed and dispiriting way in which it was all cobbled together.
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While they have plenty of company in being turned off by this election, conversations last week with retirees in and around two retirement villages, in West Palm Beach and Fort Myers, were a reminder that presidential politics has not always been this dispiriting.
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In his book Blood of the Liberals, the journalist George Packer provided a dispiriting account of what it was like to be a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, the major organ for socialist politics after Debs's party dissolved, during the 21996s.
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Gere also told a news conference at the Berlin Film Festival just before the world premiere of his new film "The Dinner" that he found it discouraging to see term "refugee" go through such a dispiriting change of meaning in the United States.
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In the meantime, the movie offers up pertinent and dispiriting observations on gender relations, particularly in one scene in which the loathsomely hypocritical So tries to dress down Man-hee for wearing what he considers too-revealing attire at a cocktail party.
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But even with that bias in place, a terrorist group's chance of pulling off an attack under current security conditions has got to be pretty dispiriting for them: one in 50 for an onboard bombing attempt or one in 150 for a hijacking.
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In news conferences up and down the state, mayors and utility executives delivered the dispiriting statistics: In densely populated Pinellas County west of Tampa, about 70 percent of Duke Energy's customers, or 395,000 people, were without electricity, with no immediate restoration in sight.
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What is dispiriting is that many of the targets, however deserving, are so old and obvious, including Ronald Reagan (for his 1985 Bitburg blunder) and Glenn Beck (for his 2005 radio monologue exploring the free speech implications of threatening to assassinate Mr. Moore).
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This season was already a strong contender to rank as the most dispiriting ever, following a preseason dispute with the Chinese government and the sudden deaths of David Stern, the former N.B.A. commissioner, and of Kobe Bryant, the former Los Angeles Lakers superstar.
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Supporters of any president would feel some sadness on the occasion of his final speech, but Obama's last days are especially dispiriting to those who dared to hope that his presidency would mark the decline of racism as a force in American life.
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This was all the more dispiriting because Benin was in the vanguard of Africa's democratic revival in the early 1990s, when its long-serving leader, Mathieu Kérékou, became the first incumbent president on the continent to let his people peacefully vote him out of office.
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The simple fact that the president and his staff have created scenarios where it's possible is in and of itself dispiriting for anyone concerned about making sure government officials have the public's best interests — and not their personal financial gain — in mind when making policy.
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If you believe, as I do, that the ultimate argument against President Trump is that his gleeful, nasty and unremitting penchant to divide the country is a dispiriting and exhausting barrier to progress, the charismatic Harris could emerge as a force to heal the breach.
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I often think about how, when I was nine, I would absolutely have gone to the original Harry Potter auditions had they been easily accessible, just to try—and now, a part specifically existing for a disfigured young actor is stolen, and it's incredibly dispiriting.
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One afternoon a few weeks ago, when both the dispiriting news of the world and a loss in my own life had sunk me low, I resolved to drag myself out of bed, out of my apartment and over to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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On a tour of the space, its owners enthusiastically pointed out the planned amenities that will separate Elsewhere from its D.I.Y. predecessors: industrial air conditioning, a sizable coat-check area, multiple bars — and plentiful bathrooms, a necessary corrective to the dispiriting toilet scene at Glasslands.
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He and several others openly formed the Communist Party Historians' Group after the war, and paid a weird visit to Russia over the Christmas of 21948, "a dispiriting trip for foreign communist intellectuals, for we met hardly anyone there like ourselves," Hobsbawm obtusely said.
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Her campaign said on Wednesday that she was assessing her path forward in view of another night of dispiriting election returns, including a third-place finish in her home state, that left Ms. Warren without a single victory after a month of primaries and caucuses.
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The students had been assigned to read Adichie's essay based on the talk, and thus it was dispiriting when the first question came from a young man, originally from Ghana, who very politely asked how Adichie was balancing her work with the responsibilities of motherhood.
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But then, the struggling Bird swung at the first pitch he saw and fouled out to third, Brett Gardner and Austin Romine struck out swinging and, within minutes, what had appeared to be shaping up as a dramatic victory turned into a dispiriting defeat.
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To really sit and think about all of the ways that you are a product of human history, floating through the immense sweep of time and space, rather than someone who can take control of their life and make a difference, is so dispiriting.
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She explained that, a few months ago, acting quickly on an impulse in response to an inundation of ugly, dispiriting news, she combed through her large body of recorded music and selected a batch of songs whose themes and messages still sound urgent right now.
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The Yankees were poised to open their critical series at Fenway Park with a rousing victory Friday night, but the bullpen coughed up a late three-run lead and started the Yankees' weekend instead with a dispiriting 9-6 defeat to the Boston Red Sox.
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That leaves troubled conscience to register as nervous depression, as seen in fine but dispiriting photographs of the American heartland by Curran Hatleberg, and in Eddie Arroyo's wistful paintings of dilapidated buildings that are imperilled by gentrification in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami.
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Neither the misery of those bereaved by the Florida school massacre nor the agony of the Dreamers could shake Washington's warring politicians from the entrenched positions of a dispiriting era devoid of the compromise meant to grease American governance and actually make things work.
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The anxiety of parents like me — educated professionals without many assets to show for it — animates Alissa Quart's new book, "Squeezed," a dispiriting survey of the economic stress felt by families who belong to the "Middle Precariat," as Quart calls the new middle class.
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Over the past two decades, despite difficulties (political, financial and social), dedicated Arab filmmakers have continued to turn out fine films that have been an antidote to the perennially dispiriting news coming out of the former hotbeds of the Arab Spring and their neighbors.
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Mr. Trump's long-anticipated Senate acquittal was dispiriting enough for his critics — punctuated by a series of angry public appearances from the president, news that his approval ratings have climbed and, on Friday, the firing of key witnesses who had testified in the House impeachment proceedings.
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This probably won't surprise you, but the extent of the difference is both shocking and dispiriting: Every single one of the 32 female-bodied mannequins assessed throughout the data collection was underweight, compared to only 8% of the 26 male-bodied ones that researchers looked at.
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Orioles 4, Yankees 73 BALTIMORE — Manager Joe Girardi was midway through another dispiriting postmortem, speaking to reporters outside the visitors' clubhouse, when the dark blue backdrop with the logos of the Yankees and their sponsor began to fall away from the curtain rod from which it hung.
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LONDON — The hoped-for grand finale turns out to be an anti-climax: That's the dispiriting truth about the new West End revival of "The Entertainer," in which an actor frequently touted as the heir to Laurence Olivier inherits a part immortalized by him 59 years ago.
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Before long, Ronald — it would still be several years before he would legally change his name to the more pleasant-sounding "Renaldo" — applied his considerable talent and powerful imagination to devising a great escape from the unhappy family life and dispiriting circumstances in which he found himself.
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The Yankees savored the much-needed victory after coming out of the All-Star break with a dispiriting loss, which had dropped them five and a half games behind Boston, and while looking toward a daunting task on Sunday night against the Mets' ace, Jacob deGrom.
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With Texas in mind, it is dispiriting to walk through parts of the Rockaways or low-lying coastal Brooklyn five years after the fact and see houses still boarded up, still getting repaired or only now getting elevated as a means of protection against future storms.
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Seeing what Richard and Mildred Loving meant to one another, and how hard and long they fought for their freedom and equality is precisely what we need this holiday season as an antidote to the dispiriting and debasing poison that we have been through these past brutal months.
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But even though 2016's crop of video game movies were dismal, there's still hope that someone may buck this dispiriting trend in the coming years: Currently there are more than two dozen video game adaptations in various stages of development—including, naturally, a sequel to Assassin's Creed.
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"This year, more than 200,000 Minnesotans came out and voted in our Presidential Preference Poll but the long lines, short voting window and shortages of ballots and registration sheets made for a very confusing and dispiriting experience," said Ken Martin, chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
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In this falling-down season, that is the most dispiriting thing of all: not that we were so lazy or so unkind or so unserious as to have invited this stupid, stupid viciousness into our homes but that it was already there in the frame, indistinct, unmistakable, alien, us.
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That this is the candidate who stands between Donald Trump and the presidency should be dispiriting to Democratic partisans, disquieting to the fiercest #NeverTrumpers on the right, and depressing to anyone who would prefer not to have to choose between a reckless demagogue and a scandal-ridden dynast.
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For over a year, the Boyle Heights project loomed as a dispiriting reminder of the challenges of building housing for the homeless — no matter that California is in the midst of a housing crisis and Los Angeles voters last year agreed to spend $1.2 billion on homeless housing construction.
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If the last few days hadn't been dispiriting enough for those who believed the Supreme Court could still stand for reproductive freedom, equal rights for all Americans, a check on presidential power, a more humane criminal justice system and so much more, Wednesday afternoon brought the coup de grâce.
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In the last 10 years, a small charity called the Bronx Freedom Fund has donated bail money to thousands of poor New Yorkers charged with crimes, freeing them from jail and helping them avoid the dispiriting delays of backlogged local courts as they wait to go on trial.
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But his draconian approach toward fighting violence — he would make it easier to for the police to kill suspected criminals and imprison more people for longer — appealed to many in a nation traumatized by rising crime, a dispiriting economy and a political class widely regarded as venal and unresponsive.
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The Mets were spared being no-hit, but there was still the ugliness of being swept at home by a divisional rival, of yet another dispiriting outing by starting pitcher Jason Vargas, and of Matt Harvey's continuing struggles since he moved from the starting rotation to the bullpen.
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The result is an affectionate, idiosyncratic narrative of the rock scene's erratic evolution: the migration from the Bohemian pre-gentrified Lower East Side (where she lived) to Williamsburg in Brooklyn; the dispiriting impact of 20173/11; and the demise of the record industry as a result of illegal downloading.
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While it's funded programming from partners like CNN and Fox News, it's also played a role in some of the industry's most dispiriting trends, like the so-called "pivot to video" — and several of the digital publishers that bet big on the platform have been struggling (to say the least).
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I felt this morning like Lady Macbeth when she cried, "Out, out damn spot," knowing that "all the perfumes of Arabia" will probably not freshen us again in the wake of this dispiriting election, where every form of ignorance and bigotry has poured over us, making us stink as a nation.
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Why did so many people find it so dispiriting and infuriating to watch last week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, in which Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and professor of psychology and research psychologist Christine Blasey Ford both testified regarding Ford's allegation that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers?
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In his installation, "Made in China" (1997-98), languid stuffed animals view mindless images of a dispiriting age in slide shows and on TV while surrounded by a sea of consumerist crap — bottles of cooking sauces, plastic toys and dolls, jigsaw puzzles, balloons, computer parts, a bathtub lined with silver fabric.
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In the dispiriting aftermath of the recent Supreme Court confirmation circus, this means taking a couple of deep breaths, not flipping out over the Republicans' purported "Kavanaugh bounce" (which might be more of a hiccup) and focusing on a few key issues that resonate with a broad swath of voters.
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It is more dispiriting still to realize that the government of our land, at least in the present administration, has shown little empathy toward victims of white bigotry, and indeed, has helped to spread the paralyzing virus of hatred, by turning a blind eye to what is done in their name.
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"I think what's dispiriting as an American is that the president feels this approach is necessary, and I think many of us would feel a lot better with the system if the president would simply let the process run its course and let the chips fall where they may," he said.
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That dispiriting possibility is beginning to sink in for California Republicans, against the backdrop of a divisive debate among its candidates and leaders on how the embattled party can become competitive again in a state where Ronald Reagan was elected twice as governor and that Richard M. Nixon called home.
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And yet there's something dispiriting about the idea that at one of the grandest public occasions orchestrated by the White House, and managed largely by the East Wing — one full of pomp and circumstance and staging — the costume of the leading lady should be hailed as successful because … it's pretty.
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Maybe what I find so dispiriting is that the people who "relate" so hard to stories like this (including, seemingly, Taddeo herself) also tend to be the women who have the best chance out of all of us of demanding and receiving better treatment, in regards to sex and far beyond it.
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From the complicated new reality of doing business in China after an inflammatory tweet about Hong Kong from Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey, to New Orleans' ongoing challenges in maintaining Williamson's health given his gargantuan 6-foot-6, 284-pound frame, this has been a dispiriting launch that no one anticipated.
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It can be irritating, frustrating, and even dispiriting to deal with all of the laws and regulations that are coming our way, but if we don't do that, then people like the liquor lobby—who know nothing about cannabis, and care nothing about cannabis—are going to be the ones in control.
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Over the course of two weeks, while hiking some 220 miles and visiting 20 of them (12 of which I slept overnight in), I battled sopping boots, squally winds, dispiriting cold, blinding rain and seemingly impenetrable bogs only to reach dwellings that, by most modern standards, are ill-suited for human occupancy.
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The statistics are as dispiriting as they are familiar: One in three Americans can't name a single branch of government, nearly three in four don't know that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land and 10 percent of college graduates think Judge Judy is a member of the Supreme Court.
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A frigid dip in the English Channel was out of the question, likewise a run on the rocky beach, but the otherwise dispiriting weather made for ideal conditions for a fossil hunt on the shoreline surrounding Lyme Regis, one of the most fertile fossil-hunting grounds in England, if not the world.
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While I would like to say that I walked away from this weekend rejuvenated by what transpired in stadiums throughout the country on Sunday, I must concede that the events as a whole were dispiriting because they revealed how issues my generation advocated against are still unresolved almost half-a-century later.
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News Analysis WASHINGTON — As lawmakers recover from a dispiriting government shutdown and prepare for President Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday, Capitol Hill is absorbed with concern that Mr. Trump's presidency has pushed an already dysfunctional Congress into a near-permanent state of gridlock that threatens to diminish American democracy itself.
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No artist's career illustrates the traps of modern fame for an artist more clearly, or the risk of having a style become a brand; stretches of the second volume, obliged to take account of the immobile mobiles and stasis-filled stabiles that Calder churned out in later life, are likely to make dispiriting reading.
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The comparisons between the past and the present and the inevitable declarations that we still have "so far to go," which tend to reinforce how creative and distinctive those monumental events of the past were, sometimes raised the dispiriting question of whether anything being done in the present would warrant such celebration in the future.
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"But the major point I need to make as we wrap up a largely dispiriting quarter is that if you can't handle the news flow, both fake and real, you need to use this rally to lighten up, maybe even on Monday, [on] the names that have caused you the most fright," Cramer told investors.
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But Mr. Villaraigosa saw those ambitions dashed last week in a dispiriting third-place finish in the primary for governor of California, a showing that not only eliminated him from contention for that office — but probably, as he acknowledged in a ruminative interview at his home in the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday, from elected life.
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Lost in the fallout over Jackson's latest commentary on Anthony was his needless use of Michael Graham as a prop and punch line in the attack, swiping at Graham, a former troubled player who had a dispiriting home life and whom Jackson coached for about 15 minutes in the basketball bush leagues 30 years ago.
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" Peter Velz, a press aide in the Obama administration tweeted the note he left his successor, saying it was "dispiriting to hear" from Grisham, "a person with whom I spent a couple amicable hours with during the the 2016 transition where I wished her nothing but institutional knowledge, good luck and all our support.
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The new (and dispiriting) Martin McDonagh play, "A Very Very Very Dark Matter," spins a yarn of appropriation and even enslavement, in which the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen has an unexpected ghost writer: a one-legged Congolese "pygmy" (the American newcomer Johnetta Eula'Mae Ackles) whom he keeps in a cage in his attic.
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It got its laughs from situations that seemed designed not to push any buttons: Pete's conscience-free squatting on other comedians' couches; his blossoming friendship with Leif, the wily hippie who cuckolded him (an inspired character played with sublime disingenuousness by George Basil); the dispiriting scramble for a few minutes onstage at the Cellar.
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This attention — from the grassroots to the highest office, civil society to government — comes as a dispiriting new report by UNICEF increased the estimate of women and girls affected worldwide by 70 million, to 200 million in 30 countries (Indonesia, where nearly half of girls are reportedly cut, was responsible for 60 million of the increase).
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I think that's one of the most dispiriting thing about all of this — that Trump has succeeded in a remarkable degree in keeping many of his most loyal supporters tunnel-vision focused only on the source of allegations, only on one allegation at a time, and then hanging over their heads the specter of Hillary Clinton.
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Their first book, How to Kill a City, published in 2017, had the unique qualities of being both utterly charming and deeply dispiriting, as it traced in block-by-block—sometimes building-by-building—detail the transformation of three American cities from genuine sites of human habitation into increasingly empty and homogenous vehicles for global capital.
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Severino said she thinks liberal groups are looking for a scalp to make up in some small way for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's dispiriting defeat last month.
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It's particularly dispiriting because much of the extremist funding seems to come from charity: One of the most admirable aspects of Islam is its emphasis on charity, yet in countries like Saudi Arabia this money is directed not to fight malnutrition or child mortality, but to brainwash children and sow conflict in poor and unstable countries.
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Also in transpo people and companies trying to prove themselves: Tesla goes off-menu for the $35,000 Model 3, ostensibly to shore up cash and streamline production; another industry insider says, yes, self-driving car hype got ahead of reality; and Audi argues its slightly dispiriting E-tron range numbers matter little compared to its luxury features.
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But on a night when the captain John Tavares played his 500th career game, and with a chance to put some real distance between themselves and the only team with a bona fide chance of knocking them out of a playoff spot, the Islanders fell flat in a dispiriting 4-1 loss to the surging Philadelphia Flyers.
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This dispiriting contentment is the sentiment you see from some of Trump's blue-collar supporters, who love his uncouth rhetorical war on his fellow coastal elites so much that they're willing to forgive him his threadbare policy agenda or else trust that gridlock and inertia will protect them from Republican bills whose actual contents they might probably oppose.
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Even in Britain, whose elite universities were once home to elbow-patched, tweed-jacketed writers never burdened with the expectation of production — E. M. Forster famously spent more than two decades as an honorary fellow at King's College, Cambridge, without ever publishing another novel — technocratic administrators have managed to extend their control over writers to a dispiriting degree.
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The specter of Robin Williams, who voiced the genie in the 1992 animated original, hovers over this live-action remake, and even a performer as winning as the Artist Formerly Known as the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air may not be able to make us forget the comic's performance, at least based on this dispiriting sneak peek.
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In his post that inspired this response, Rodney wrote, [Th]ere is evidence that people are becoming less inclined to visit museums and galleries, and for those of us (like me) who are invested in these institutions as one of the key bulwarks against the encroaching colonization of civic space and engagement by the relentless commodification of experience, this is dispiriting news.
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But if my encounters with plastic in the ocean I've loved are dispiriting, far worse is the world that sea creatures are now trapped in, where they can no longer escape an ocean mined with the material record of our blind ambitions, household items of every description in every stage of breakage, lost cargo by the ton, lost fishing gear by the mile.
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CNN commentator Van Jones described the final debate before the Iowa caucuses as "dispiriting" and said Democrats will have to do better if they're going to defeat President TrumpDonald John TrumpDem lawmaker says Nunes threatened to sue him over criticism Parnas: U.S. ambassador to Ukraine removed to clear path for investigations into Bidens Five takeaways from Parnas's Maddow interview MORE.
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Although Tanaka has had some good outings this season — he pitched a three-hit shutout against the Red Sox in Boston on April 27 and struck out 13 against the Oakland Athletics on May 26 — he had a dispiriting start six days ago, when he allowed four runs and two home runs in a 6-5 loss to the Mariners in Seattle.
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" The song's recent fate as a weight-loss jingle was bad enough, but to see it reduced to the soundtrack for a psychic parasite's bump-and-grind — occasionally shot in silhouette against monochromatic red, like a James Bond title sequence — is somehow even more dispiriting, doubly so given the showrunner Noah Hawley's impeccable use of found music in his other FX vehicle, "Fargo.
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If one adds to this the long periods that he left the chairmanships of both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities empty, his desultory picks for other important cultural positions, his choice of a librarian of Congress who doesn't come from the tradition of the belles-lettres or serious scholarship, his record on culture is dispiriting at best.
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If anything, the show is a little dispiriting in the completeness with which it has absorbed the narrative lingua franca of international prestige TV. Where last year's Netflix-phenom Babylon Berlin invited international viewers into a complex web of loyalties and alliances, Das Boot uses its focus on toxic masculinity as a way to render its world more transparent than it probably should be.
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What is so dispiriting, what is so heart-breaking, what's so enraging, what makes this so painful, is he is defended by people who know better on the Hill who have refused to hold him accountable, and he has people around him, people like Sean Spicer, people like Kellyanne Conway, Reince Priebus, who have given up any semblance of their integrity to create a way to make Trump not look bad.
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What Edim has brought to the literary community is a spirit of celebration — the joy with which she celebrates books and their authors is palpable — but it is accompanied by an openness about the difficulties that exist within publishing, how hard it is to make a living in the industry, how dispiriting it is not to see yourself reflected in a book's pages, or in an author's byline.
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Turning her investigation into a live performance was partly a result of the fact that David went on to dabble in songwriting and theater: One of his main achievements, to use the term loosely, was penning the book and lyrics for the 1971 "nudie" Off Broadway musical "Stag Movie" ("I cannot imagine a more dispiriting and dismal evening in the theater," Clive Barnes wrote in The New York Times).
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Tirana, Albania (CNN)In this time of dispiriting headlines -- when Islamist terrorists target Christian children and their mothers on an Easter Sunday outing in Lahore, Pakistan; when an American presidential candidate advocates stopping Muslims from coming to the United States; when ISIS terrorists have just killed dozens in Brussels; when the very possibility of peaceful coexistence sometimes seems remote, there is a place that may just restore our faith in the future: Welcome to Albania.
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Working from a script by frequent collaborator Paul Laverty, Loach ratchets up the tension with nerve-racking intensity Although the film is set in the dispiriting environs of Newcastle's most featureless neighborhoods, the filmmaker takes care to inject his own brand of warmth and humor: Fans of Loach's delightful 2009 comedy "Looking For Eric" will particularly appreciate a hilariously profane argument between Ricky, a die-hard Manchester United fan, with one of his customers.
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Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus Democrats start hinting Sanders should drop out Coronavirus disrupts presidential campaigns MORE's (I-Vt.) campaign is at a crossroads after an onslaught of dispiriting losses to former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus Democrats start hinting Sanders should drop out Coronavirus disrupts presidential campaigns MORE in the battle to be the Democratic presidential nominee.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus Democrats start hinting Sanders should drop out Coronavirus disrupts presidential campaigns MORE (I-Vt.) on Wednesday vowed to continue on in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination following a string of dispiriting losses to former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus Democrats start hinting Sanders should drop out Coronavirus disrupts presidential campaigns MORE.
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" In 1936, that dismal year, shortly before giving up and going to Hollywood, Fitzgerald found something else he wanted to write about — his own deterioration — and hence the great "Crack-Up" essays in Esquire ($250 per), followed by the only slightly less dispiriting "Afternoon of an Author," which recounted the travails of a typical day: "The problem was a magazine story that had become so thin in the middle that it was about to blow away.
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Open Book One of the happier literary occurrences of recent years is the vibrant revival of James Baldwin's work — which certainly never went away but has been front and center thanks, in part, to dispiriting headlines about race relations in the United States; Ta-Nehisi Coates's best-selling "Between the World and Me" (inspired in structure and spirit by Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time"); and the documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," narrated entirely by Samuel L. Jackson reading Baldwin's own words.
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It is dispiriting that Conservatives and pundits have only focused on Mr. Khan's religious affiliation, rather than on the important issues that Mr. Khan promised to tackle, which matter to Londoners and the millions who visit London each year, from freezing London transport fares for four years, addressing the ultra-severe housing shortages, tackling gangs, knife crimes, the spread of extremism to protecting the green belt, making walking and cycling safer, pedestrianizing Oxford Street and restoring London's air quality to legal and safe levels.
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Is there any form of escapism more apt, in this current stage of American politics, than being able to dance on the hood of a cop car as the writer Aaron Stewart-Ahn does in this tweet about Watch Dogs 2 (a game with its own promise of escapism and empowerment that nevertheless commits some irredeemable trope-laden missteps along the way): It is telling, and dispiriting, to see how the efforts of the Black Panthers to transform their own fantasy into reality ultimately turned out.
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Therein lies what for Abrams' voters felt like the most dispiriting aspect of how this unfolded: Georgia had a chance to elect — in the cradle of the civil rights movement — an advocate who inherited all of the resolve and daring of a generation of doers in the face of oppression, only for Georgia to elect someone who many of Abrams' supporters view as a modern avatar of the state's cruelty toward black people, with Abrams' loss as the evidence that she's an heir to the prior generation's burdens, too.
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Still, even though Mr. Trump's attacks on government agencies are now a familiar theme, former F.B.I. officials and veteran observers of the agency said they were surprised at the ease with which the president sought to defend himself by attacking the reputations of Mr. Comey, Mr. Mueller, Mr. Strzok and the 35,000 people who work at the F.B.I. Robert E. Anderson Jr., a former top spy hunter at the bureau, said the president's comments would have a dispiriting effect on F.B.I. morale, especially among those who are not involved in political investigations.
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