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For Mr Vajpayee, who once said that his life's ambition was to see India take its place as a great nation, it must be very dispiriting.

Perhaps most dispiriting of all, virtually none of those interviewed acknowledges responsibility for what was done.

There are few things more dispiriting, they say, than hearing of a woman's cries for help and being unable to find her.

Dispiriting experiences like this will quickly damage the reputation of UK higher education abroad.

A while ago I had a dispiriting conversation with another eminent European scientist.

We seek happiness, but too much of it leads to sorrow. We fly from suffering because too much of it is dispiriting.

This policy is intended to conserve energy for more important challenges, but getting knocked out does appear to be dispiriting.

Dispiriting research, he says, indicates that MBA students actually become less ethical over the course of their education.

Even as late as the early 1990s, watching television in the Arab world was a dispiriting business.

For the United States and the people of its beleaguered Gulf Coast, a dispiriting summer of oil and anger lies dead ahead.

The 1999 movie Office Space was maybe the first to capture how alien and dispiriting the office park can be for men.

He is probably right in this: self-regulation is on the run in most walks of life, and recent experience of it in Parliament is dispiriting.

Only the fear of missing Christmas drove us on, over so many mountains we lost count, through freezing mist and dispiriting drizzle.

But striking alternatives - whether Postiga or Nuno Gomes - appear still more dispiriting to Scolari.

But even more dispiriting will be the continuing polarisation of American politics.

This matters on a personal level, too, and not solely because the destruction of civilisation would be somewhat dispiriting.

But it does suggest something dispiriting: that Pakistan's "Malala moment, " and the possibilities it briefly excited, has passed.

I find the very sight of raw broccoli and cauliflower on a buffet table dispiriting.

American officials find it dispiriting that Russia has again divided Europe.

This dispiriting situation has, of course, its logical causes.

Building up an economy from very low levels is a back-breaking, dispiriting task.

That is a crude characterisation of Lithuania's dispiriting politics ever since the country regained its independence in 1991.

It is dispiriting that we still face sovereign debt crises and soft patches.

Then a dispiriting doubt struck me. What had the man's name been?

The IT debacles may be dispiriting.

The conclusion is dispiriting.

The absence of political debate in the campaign is also dispiriting.

A dirty office loo is really dispiriting.

The government's response to these allegations is dispiriting.

All in all, the record of the past 200 years has been dispiriting.

It is a dispiriting process.

But stimulus measures such as temporary tax cuts for households or car scrappage schemes were dispiriting wastes of scarce time and money.