Word: dispiriting
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...chapters on how the government tracked and dealt with the threat from al-Qaeda before 9/11 fascinate and dispirit. Ten missed opportunities are identified--four during the Clinton era, six in Bush's first eight months--and each leaves the reader wondering, What if? Late in his presidency, Clinton mused out loud in a meeting that "it would scare the s___ out of al-Qaeda if suddenly a bunch of black ninjas rappelled out of helicopters into the middle of their camp." But Clinton's enthusiasm rarely translated into action. In early August 2001, Bush received his now famous...
...himself with his audience. You keep waiting for him to crack a smile, offer a consoling gesture, express some softening sentiment. He does not. And if there is much that is withering in his contempt, there is also something bracing in the loony tunelessness of this hymn to human dispirit...
Robert Coli, community education abordinator for the Middlesos Comly Dispirit. Altorney's office, said the game is "probably a state offense, a type of lraod...
...Carters have always been close, but Rosalynn's role as a political adviser is only now becoming clearer. She and she alone was consulted on every move in Carter's bid to revitalize his presidency this past month. The doleful documentation of national dispirit reported by Presidential Pollster Pat Caddell in his April memo deeply affected her, and she expressed her concern to her husband. Said one top aide: "She sensed that something had to be done before he did, and that had a huge impact on his thinking." So she launched with the President a personal study...
...Broadway tour, he found that his biggest problem was the company's low morale. For Holder, a 6-ft. 6-in. Samson of a man from Trinidad, the solution was easy. He assembled the cast and crew onstage and asked them to pray while he exorcised the evil dispirit by burning incense given him by his father...