On days when they receive disheartening test results or experience unfamiliar symptoms, they are often more anxious and more in need of a supportive listener.
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It is certainly not a book for anyone who gets disheartened by the sight of a page covered in equations.
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And later, it moved those who were repelled and disheartened by the conflicts and hatreds in the society about them.
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They were determined to finish off a visibly disheartened and disorganised army by concentrating superior forces and the methodical use of encirclement and outflanking.
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Others, however, became disheartened and even disillusioned with organised religion and never darkened a chapel door again.
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Needless to say, the student at school 8 was disheartened by this reception of his piece and became increasingly less engaged in composing as the year progressed.
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The laughs dashed and disheartened him.
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Rather, its text reveals it to have been erected by an altogether different party, to be a record of proud satisfaction in their achievement of constructive recovery following disheartening misfortune.
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Had they understood every word of his scoldings, they would have been made to feel terribly disheartened.
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We must not be disheartened by this setback.
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Is it not disheartening to the staff to have to work in these conditions?
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It is disheartening that any repentance, even at this late stage, appears to be too much to ask from them.
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We must not be disheartened or yield to despair if we do not get what we want this year.
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I was somewhat disheartened by some of the earlier speeches.
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That is disheartening for the man who has skill or energy above the average.
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