"We need one-man responsibility," he said, citing the public's growing dispiritedness as a justification for the proposal.

The contrast between his recollections and the things he was seeing at last brought on the dispiritedness that he had been fighting.

She wondered how much of his dispiritedness had to do with being paired with Crowe.

The mood in the Gore camp today swung between confusion, exhaustion and a creeping dispiritedness.

"There is a real dispiritedness out there."

(Smells like teen dispiritedness.)

Reports of dispiritedness from within the orchestra go a long way toward explaining any number of tepid performances this reviewer has heard over the last dozen years.

Now its brick facade and brown steel doors radiate dispiritedness, and state officials have labeled Lincoln one of the most troubled high schools in the metropolitan region.

Even before the death of the outspoken human-rights champion, the current Congress was showing irresolution and dispiritedness, in contrast to the first session last spring, when open legislative debate seemed so new.

If you ask Julie Kavner to describe the roles she's played during her 18-year career, she sighs and in her honeyed gravel voice says with perfect dispiritedness: "A nice person."

Observing poverty, dispiritedness and disaffection as he traveled south to his winter home in St. George during the winter of 1873-74, the aging Mormon leader considered how best to control the situation.

The dissipation of Protoculture made itself felt not only in the declining performance of the Masters' Robotechnology, but in the failure of judgment, dispiritedness, and lack of coordination of the clones themselves.

How much of this dispiritedness is a result of exhaustion from the years of war and isolation - Iraq fought an eight-year war with Iran in the 1980's that severely depleted the country's resources before the Kuwait invasion - is impossible to say.