Low pay and grueling hours aren't just dispiriting for individuals; they fuel the brain drain that has contributed to Congress's crippling lack of institutional knowledge.
Then, on the August morning after Adam Patch's unexpected call, they awoke, nauseated and tired, dispirited with life, capable only of one pervasive emotion—fear.
The rapid German conquest of France in the early summer of 1940 had left many in Britain dispirited and believing that a German conquest of Britain was imminent.
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.
Yet, we know that as many as 35% of U.S. and U.K. males under 50 will be struggling with it to a degree they themselves find somewhat dispiriting in their reflexive moments.
" Not just because of the quarantine, but because of the racial strife and just seeing this administration, watching the hypocrisy of it, day in and day out, is dispiriting" .
Isn’t that part of what makes politics so dispiriting? How can elected officials rage about deficits when we propose to spend money on preschool for kids, but not when we’re cutting taxes for corporations?