I also know that it is terribly, dishearteningly, and painfully true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dear President Obama #245: Just another manic Monday…] Reference

The process was slow and painstaking and the waiting list dishearteningly long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free dental care draws thousands to outdoor clinic in rural Virginia] Reference

Every one just naturally expects them to be angelically and dishearteningly good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prudence Says So] Reference

He put these shells, hopefully still good, in a pile that was dishearteningly small.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drawing of the Three]

Meeting his friends, including one dishearteningly oblivious female, was as bad as I dreaded.    From Wordnik.com.  [kevynwight Diary Entry] Reference

From that daunting perspective, the notion of treating everyone seems dishearteningly hopeless.    From Wordnik.com.  [HIV/AIDS in China] Reference

The scenarios played out on the smudgy photocopies from the Texas Panhandle were dishearteningly familiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cruel Deception]

But wasn't Miliband dishearteningly correct when he said that Cameron is a different sort of Tory to Thatcher.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

They stand, dishearteningly, with their hands above their heads in the universal pose of defeat and surrender.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Rights Get Squeezed] Reference

But in the race just completed the second varsity had been much of a factor -- surprisingly, dishearteningly so.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference

Even Kaneria, however, struggled to flog much life out of a dishearteningly flat pitch, for all that there was plenty of grass left on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danish Kaneria flogs a dead pitch while Hampshire make hay in the sun] Reference

I don't know why so many Americans want to pretend that our enemies are gutless paper tigers when the evidence shows that some of them are dishearteningly formidable.    From Wordnik.com.  ["We welcome and accept Will Smith's statement that Hitler was a 'vicious killer.'"] Reference

His own chances to win her, dishearteningly small at the best of times in view of his checkered record, suddenly sank below the level of insignificance and ceased to exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference

It is not often that highly capable men are open to change without unusual inducement, and Mr. Wintermuth, scanning the ranks of possibilities, found them dishearteningly scanty.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Ashes] Reference

For one, there is dishearteningly little documentation.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopMatters] Reference

The distance to the ground seemed dishearteningly great.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Merriwell's Reward] Reference

I was out of it, completely and dishearteningly out of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Child] Reference

The explanation they got was either dishearteningly honest or poorly worded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack & Jill Politics] Reference

When I peeled the tire off (which was dishearteningly easy to do), I found the first.    From Wordnik.com.  [VeloNews | The Journal of Competitive Cycling] Reference

Patients kept showing up to triage, and the EMS radio kept dishearteningly crackling to life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten out of Ten] Reference

For a video game rewards programme, Club Nintendo is dishearteningly light on actual video games.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nintendo Life | Latest Updates] Reference

In the next bottom -- and he was long getting to it -- the sage brush grew dishearteningly thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Happy Family] Reference

Moreover, the advance is sometimes taking place when there seems dishearteningly little evidence of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [III. The Hopi Snake-Dance] Reference

But the times when he could be with her were so dishearteningly few that they could not hold his courage steady.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lookout Man] Reference

Snakebitten Flames blanked by Predators. games had seemed like a dishearteningly low total, along came this: a home-ice shutout.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Panthers beat Montreal 2-1] Reference

Yet within these twisting spurts, as in other Aira books, there's the ordinary banality of everyday life, dishearteningly believable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bookslut] Reference

While this has become a dishearteningly predictable element of crime based films, what really makes or breaks films like this is the casting.    From Wordnik.com.  [FirstShowing.net] Reference

I perceived that unless I paid a little more attention to tailors and barbers and haberdashers my chances for bringing a new daughter to my mother were dishearteningly remote.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of the Middle Border] Reference

(from which it dishearteningly takes a naming cue).    From Wordnik.com.  [Engadget] Reference

It’s dishearteningly rare to see men express the humility and hesitance you are exploring here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is there a place for feminist men in feminism? | Mind on Fire] Reference

Criminals must look at these instructions as manna from heaven, while our members look at it dishearteningly, "van der Merwe said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I’m eager for the unfolding but I foresee a dishearteningly long job-finding process; we are hip deep in teachers around these parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bonfires and sparks « The Life and Times of Organic Mama] Reference

It's just so dishearteningly BIG now.    From Wordnik.com.  [WalesOnline - Home] Reference

But progress was dishearteningly slow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

Sandy's voice was dishearteningly positive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uphill Climb] Reference

Down, and down, and down, like a punctured balloon -- gently, but steadily, dishearteningly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Generation] Reference