Example Sentences

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Almost 70 years after its initial performances, the drama’s warning about prioritizing productivity above humanity remains dishearteningly relevant in our current vicious reality.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2024

Mr. Cohen’s also offered a dishearteningly believable account of Mr. Trump’s character.

From Washington Times • Feb. 27, 2019

War is a part of history, but the concept of a war film is as dishearteningly and uselessly vague as that of a historical drama.

From The New Yorker • May 26, 2017

For Youngstown, the effect was dishearteningly familiar: more layoffs.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2016

But the drafting boards of America’s engineers remained dishearteningly barren.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson