(1) His Star Trek reboots are dispiriting: the quirky and beloved sci-fi franchise pureed into stimulating but unremarkable blockbuster entertainment, distinguished mainly by caricatures of iconic characters that are more branding than interpretation.
(2) Nobody was too dispirited by the court process: fundamentally, this one flat isn’t the point.
(3) New restrictive laws are passed with dispiriting predictability: foreign media franchise owners are forced out of their stakes in international brands such as Forbes or Esquire based in Russia, fines and other penalties are introduced for not covering controversial subjects such as terrorism and drug abuse in terms that “do not explicitly discourage the behaviour”.
(4) With this in mind it is simple to see why Brendan Rodgers’ joy at having emerged unscathed from a testing third-round FA Cup tie against AFC Wimbledon may have been tempered by the realisation that it fell to that man again, Gerrard, to rescue a positive result from another dispiriting Liverpool display.
(5) In my locker downstairs, my (Elizabeth David-approved) lunchtime sandwich of prosciutto and brie patiently awaited my return, but even so, it was a dispiriting business.
(6) It is dispiriting, to say the least, as a female voter, to read an article criticising a party for being "crammed" with female politicians when it has reached the dizzying heights of a roughly 30:70 gender split .
(7) Discussing the post-referendum wave of racist and xenophobic abuse can provoke a rather dispiritingly defensive reaction.
(8) Yet it is dispiriting to find that, at the age of 12, your son's language skills have gone into reverse and he seems to be interested only in mixing music or playing football.
(9) D oes it just mean that I’m in a sticky situation?” Rachel Sherman, mother of four, asks, wondering if her household classifies as a just-about-managing family, or in the dispiriting new political acronym, a Jam.
(10) No, what made Binyamin Netanyahu’s emphatic win so dispiriting were the depths he plumbed to secure victory.
(11) Sturridge, nonetheless, has a wonderful knack of not becoming dispirited.
(12) But it is a trifle dispiriting even so to hear the education secretary parroting the same lines as his predecessors – even more so for teachers, I guess.
(13) That could be helpful both in rallying a dispirited party, and in responding to an economic tsunami which market liberalism still cannot explain.
(14) How dispiriting, then, that the film should come courtesy of Peter Farrelly, one half of the fraternal duo who are among the great innovators of gross out (4).
(15) Had he remained on the field against a dispirited Newcastle a Premier League record, if not double figures, might have been within reach.
(16) 'You never know, maybe they might actually count the votes' Less than a day earlier, Shiva, a 26-year-old resident of north Tehran who plans to leave Iran soon to continue her studies in the United States, described the dispirited mood in the capital.
(17) She was a querulous and bad-tempered country woman who was required to admire the hub of empire from the dispiriting vantage of a house in Lavender Gardens, at the top of Battersea Rise.
(18) The public sector is more than capable of hiding its vices, as the police and National Health Service demonstrate with dispiriting regularity.
(19) How emotionally exhausting, how dispiriting and demoralising it is to have to publicly affirm your “Britishness” and your “moderation” again and again.
(20) Game over, the dispirited fans closed out tabs and ventured out into a snowy Manhattan afternoon.
Downer
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The Midwest was energized by Elizabeth Upham Davis, who was instrumental in establishing the occupational therapy education program at Milwaukee-Downer College in 1918.
(2) Cytochrome c oxidase was dispersed in nondenaturing detergent solution (B. Ludwig, N. W. Downer, and R. A. Capaldi (1979) Biochemistry 18, 1401) and treated with trypsin.
(3) There was a tendency that the downer cows which recovered later did not show enhanced adrenocortical function on day 4 to 5 and day 7 to 9 postpartum, while the downer cows with poor prognosis had significantly enhanced adrenocortical activity on the same days postpartum.
(4) Despite incessant media speculation that this person is going federal or that person is being parachuted into lead a state party (this time it was Smith in WA, previously it’s been Alexander Downer in SA and Malcolm Turnbull in NSW ), such moves rarely happen.
(5) Both the downer cows and cows with milk fever had significantly higher basal and ACTH-stimulated plasma glucocorticoid concentrations than cows without any postpartum complications on day 1 to 2 postpartum (P less than 0.05).
(6) The generally supposed mechanism of secondary, Ca-mediated cell damage and cell death was initiated and sometimes resulted in "Downers" with persisting paralysis.
(7) And in the same way that Bill Hayden allowed Bob Hawke clear air and to be a successful prime minister in his early years, and in the same way that Alexander Downer allowed John Howard clear air and supported him through four very successful terms, Tony Abbott is also going to allow Malcolm Turnbull a clear run,” Hunt told the ABC.
(8) Once on Medicaid, spend downers exhibited similar nursing-home utilization patterns as other groups, but incurred lower Medicaid claims because they contributed more to the cost of their nursing-home care.
(9) "We thought about ending with the cops," Idle said, "but it's a downer.
(10) The findings from users we have already studied strongly suggest that phencyclidine is not an "upper" or a "downer," but perhaps an "insideouter", with longer term implications.
(11) That can be done with what are called tier 2 visas, but maybe that could be made a little bit easier.” Downer confirmed that easier visa arrangements were negotiated alongside the last Australian-US trade deal.
(12) Haematocrit values and plasma glucose, calcium and magnesium concentrations were determined in blood samples collected at slaughter from 105 sheep that were prostrate, comatose, and unable to stand (downer sheep) on arrival at a Queensland meatworks.
(13) PUTTING A DOWNER ON THE PUDDING "Has any club ever been cruel enough to give their manager the boot on Christmas Day?"
(14) In a wide-ranging interview looking back on his career, McDonald described himself as a "card-carrying coward" when he was a reporter working in warzones, and how he had taken "downers" before interviewing Saddam Hussein.
(15) Sorrel Downer BEST FOR DESIGN: HELSINKI Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Kamppi Chapel (Chapel of Silence) in Helsinki.
(16) • Doubles from €72 B&B, calachica.com Follow Sorrel Downer at @somewheresville • Various airlines operate direct flights to Almería from London airports and Manchester This article was amended on 1 September 2015; the lead photograph was not in fact Fort Bravo and has been changed.
(17) To find out if cows with the downer cow syndrome have enhanced or exhausted adrenocortical function, fifteen downer cows were examined for adrenocortical response to 25 IU of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) between 1 and 9 days postpartum.
(18) Management, led by chief executive Philip Downer and finance director Mark Little, then bought the group back with financing from Valco Capital earlier this year.
(19) Violet Downer Violet Downer's father, Samuel Baker, killed on the Somme in 1916.
(20) Many of the cattle were also affected by ruminal acidosis-inducing factors (ruminal atony 81.6 per cent, mastitis 63.2 per cent, "downer cow syndrome" 57.9 per cent and parturition 50.0 per cent), which may have predisposed to alimentary mycosis.