They came, but somewhat dispiritingly were perhaps the least interesting aspect of the meeting.

Dispiritingly, the answer to both questions is probably no.

Dispiritingly, the answer was often affirmative, though our mums did not understand.

The queues are dispiritingly long, both to enter the park and to join the rides.

Long before the end, the book begins to feel dispiritingly under-imagined.

Dispiritingly, there has been little progress in treating it for more than a quarter of a century.

But for each of them, surely, there are a dozen whose thumbs remain dispiritingly brown.

And perhaps most dispiritingly, the Olympic deadline is hopelessly out of reach.

That's about it for kicks of color in this dispiritingly pallid show.

And, slightly dispiritingly, a Nando's just opened round the corner.

A rough survey of the crowd revealed dispiritingly few younger listeners.

After a while, there is a dispiritingly drab sameness about their stories.

The contemporary art at the fair this year is dispiritingly slick and craft oriented.

This dispiritingly dull collection of doughnuts clearly belonged in a museum.

It followed, somewhat dispiritingly, the same basic flight path as the cosmonaut.

Yet the repertory is filled with dispiritingly similar dances.

This week’s election compares dispiritingly badly with the election five years ago.

But these insights, like the dancer’s criticisms (which seem accurate enough), are dispiritingly banal.

But in the wake of many insiders' views of such characters, they remain dispiritingly familiar.

Electricity remains a dispiritingly scarce commodity, even though more than $6 billion, mostly in American money, has been devoted to improving supply.

The camerawork is dispiritingly uncinematic, but the terrific performances just about compensate.

But the truth is pension schemes are often couched in dispiritingly opaque jargon.

The recent stream of revelations about Westminster's grubby practices suggests it will be a dispiritingly short list.

But, hold on to your remote control units, Home Time is that dispiritingly rare thing in a new comedy: it's funny.

As new school test results this week show, way too many teenagers, conspicuously blacks and Latinos, are dispiritingly weak in the sciences.