Admitting that the final round of elections presents voters with a serious dilemma of
dispiriting choice between two candidates who both may not honour the people's demands, Yahya Dakrouri, chairman of the Egypt's State Council and former chair of the Judges Club, fears not victory of either candidate "because simply people are watching and judging and having the final say, so no worries."
The Court handed down a horrible decision, basically saying, as Bullock puts it, "church property can be taken for a Costco, a farm can be turned into a factory, and a neighborhood can be leveled for a shopping mall." But the popular and legislative response to Kelo has been as heartening as the ruling was
dispiriting: Citizens voiced their outrage, and at last count some 30 state legislatures have introduced or promised legislation to curb eminent domain abuse.
For example, they escape for the most part the
dispiriting disputes over evolution and biblical inerrancy.
Niki Rule, regional sales manager at the four-star hotel in Main Street, Ansty, said: "It can be
dispiriting sitting inside a conference room working hard while the temperatures are rising outside.
It's good to see such thoughts revived but
dispiriting to find them advanced as if they had news value.
Scared/Sacred, by B.C.-based documentary filmmaker Velcrow Ripper, is an alternately stirring and
dispiriting film, as jangled and self-cancelling as the filmmaker's name, which feels like a pun about adhesion and tenacity that gives way to and then cancels out the violent deconstructivism of his surname.
I spent a thoroughly
dispiriting few hours the other day, talking to other equally dispirited IT people.
I guarantee you will find relief in these
dispiriting times of mediocrity and malfeasance in the business world.
But its inert interior with regimented galleries, incomprehensible circulation and some dismal lighting, is
dispiriting.
In fact, Ethiopia boasts a tradition that is at once grand and chequered, glorious and heartbreaking, at once a tapestry of impressive achievements and
dispiriting failures.
Please note that it is the exclusive reliance on the objective, physical, quantitative aspects of life which has been the
dispiriting feature of our culture in the last century and the major failure of our health care system.
Noting that contemporaries including Donne and Jonson seemed genuinely to admire Mary Sidney's translation of the Psalms while modern feminists dismiss them as derivative translations and find
dispiriting their lack of opposition to patriarchy, Suzanne Trill voices what I think is an important concern: that "in seeking 'oppositional' writing, we distort the picture of women's literary history and run the risk of marginalising significant literary texts by women" (198).
As I consider this press conference, I find it both
dispiriting and disquieting to discover that public officials still feel they must pay lip service to a god while celebrating a scientific achievement.
I quote his
dispiriting reply: "He is a very straightforward horse with an excellent temperament, and it will be interesting to see how he goes.
But don't you find it
dispiriting that the Government could tell you, at the drop of a hat, anything you wanted to know about the personalities involved - while the fundamental structures and principles that really matter are clearly alien territory?
