How To Use Spiritedness In A Sentence
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I love my children in ways that can never be put into words, but there is no hiding the fact that they are imperfect creatures, capable of the same pettiness, resentment, and mean-spiritedness that sets us adults to warring.
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There is no effort to hide the blandness and utter dispiritedness of that future.
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The magazine also criticized ‘the polemical, partisan mean-spiritedness that lies at the heart of his book, and to an even greater degree, his television appearances flacking it.’
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She's also frequently side-splittingly funny and while her whole persona, and the concept of Fashion Police is obviously based on criticizing celebrities, mostly women, to the point of mean-spiritedness, it is often very very funny.
Rachel Lloyd: The Power Behind Policing Fashion
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And then the sting in the tail: with its hallmark mean-spiritedness, the Conservative government is taking yet another slap at Richard Colvin.
Torture--with gags
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Name-calling, popularity contests and general mean-spiritedness have long been a part of adolescence.
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Standing in the middle of the Main Street, looking at the crowd in front of him, his light-heartedness was quickly overwhelmed by dispiritedness.
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Wingnutism is less a political position than a general attitude of selfishness and mean-spiritedness.
Think Progress » McDonnell apologizes, promises to acknowledge slavery in Confederacy proclamation.
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It is a movie that wants to show the venality, shallowness, bitterness, paranoia, mean-spiritedness and general desperation that most of us know lurks beneath the surface of Hollywood life.
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I was shocked by the mean-spiritedness of his article, especially given the fact that it was written for a presumably educated and enlightened audience.
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Out of chaos emerges dispiritedness, because it is impossible to make a reasonable choice.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
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Even though the dispiritedness of some of our colleagues disempowered the organizations, they continued to renew themselves in quality and in quantity went from 20 groups to 40 groups.
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In effect, they are a kind of ongoing social experiment in how long people can live in a state of chronic poverty, and dispiritedness, before their bodies give way and their health falls apart.
November 2003
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The archetypal sin in the Bible is, we see, the sin of dispiritedness, of self-deflation that inevitably leads to more horrible sins.
The Ten Commandments
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Watch it gcs, you'll be accused of "meanspiritedness".
Poll: Rudy Has Lost His National Lead
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One of the chief advantages of flow is that it enables people to escape the state of ‘psychic entropy,’ the distraction, depression, and dispiritedness that constantly threaten them.
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Sheer pig-headed ignorance, nastiness, mean-spiritedness and rudeness in my opinion.
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And it shows in a general -- I think it ` s a dispiritedness you ` re seeing about the choices in the field.
CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2007
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He does tend to carry an air of dispiritedness about him," admitted Mingo.
Darkness of the Light
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I'm not sure whether this is enlightenment or dispiritedness on my part.
Class Warfare and "Mary Poppins"
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I find it fascinating to listen to a world-famous foul-mouthed angry crank denouncing mean-spiritedness and coarseness and singing the praises of the intellect as he mean-spiritedly swears his way through an anecdote about football that somehow ends the oldest debate in human history.
Harlan Ellison on God
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A Broken System: The problem of combat stress and reintegration is an old one extending back veterans of the Civil War who we labeled as having "soldier's heart" -- a crushed state of mind that led to withdrawal and dispiritedness.
Dr. Anthony Hassan: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Who Will Provide Mental Health Care to Our Veterans and Their Families
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Nationalism, on the other hand, tends to express itself in authoritarianism, emotionalism, personalism, vengefulness and mean-spiritedness.
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Even worse, as soon as it was printed all the haters came out and showed their ignorance and mean-spiritedness.
Jeff Wald: Government Is Bullshit Led by Bullshit Press
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From Alexia, the queen of mean-spiritedness. mulley: "Oooh Darren's post reminded me, he was nominated for Popculture blog too.
Irish Blogs
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Away from the world of wine-and-cheese openings and quickie television interviews, Gandhy's public-spiritedness draws him to causes like a moth to a candle.
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But for the occasional doldrums or moments of dispiritedness, I like the following remedies:
Gentle Healing for Baby and Child
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Sad to say, and contrary to Dawkins and his crowd, people would find some other excuse to be bigoted, violent and hypocritical if they didn't have religion to justify their mean-spiritedness with.
MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
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Most importantly, we have tools to fight the pitiful dispiritedness that has taken over newsrooms nationally.
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It is an innocent story, free of cynicism or irony or any trace of mean-spiritedness.
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Their mean-spiritedness, which they wear self-righteously as a badge of virtue, repulses everyone they touch.
Recovering From Religious Abuse
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On one side you had a combination of mean-spiritedness and fantasy; on the other you had a reaffirmation of American compassion and community, coupled with fairly realistic numbers.
