In fact, if you know him at the top of his game, it's closer to demoralizing.
The fallout from these misfires can be demoralizing, straining internal relationships and too often destroying careers.
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It was the guests who unnerved me they were the most demoralizing collection of individuals I've ever encountered.
It is critical to communicate the gaps to the team members doing the work without demoralizing them.
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This was played out to demoralizing effect in one scene from the movie Mean Girls, which starred Lohan.
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She did not, it turned out, want to know I found her habitual tardiness and long lunches demoralizing.
What has been fascinating and demoralizing to watch is the clear and unmistakable religious bigotry that has taken over this conversation.
And if you are operating in an environment where you are constantly threatened, it gets demoralizing very quickly.
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Depending on the size of your organization, the amount of email you receive can be daunting, demoralizing, downright depressing.
Rep. Henry Waxman said the long, drawn-out process within the office and Vice President Dick Cheney's office is demoralizing career government scientists.
The demoralizing effect of the unnecessary loss of two wars - in Iraq and, in the near future, in Afghanistan.
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Students from the United States, meanwhile, came in seventeenth in reading, twenty-third in science, and an especially demoralizing thirty-first in math.
It's completely irresponsible, because it's actually a force for bad, because the - it does have a demoralizing effect on the staff.
And it was the strength of my confidence in myself that brought me through what could have been a self-esteem-bashing, demoralizing situation.
All the frisking, beeping, and patting down is demoralizing to our society.
War threats have also made Iran deceptively good at demoralizing the enemy.
But terribly demoralizing? no, not for me or for thousands of employees who come to work to work in a generally good environment.
For the children who follow their parents on a trek from one rural town to another, this can be a wrenching and demoralizing dislocation.
Also, their influence is credited with electing a Republican to Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, dropping the Democrats below the filibuster-proof 60-vote majority and demoralizing them.
Most recently, Mr. Obama appeared at the CIA after demoralizing the agency with the declassification and release of memos containing sensitive information on CIA interrogations.
Whether suffered in public or private, career demotions are incredibly demoralizing, says Tasha Eurich, founder and principal of leadership and organizational development consultancy the Eurich Group.
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We had a sympathetic story to tell, and it would be embarrassing and demoralizing for journalism professors to be exposed as enemies of freedom of the press.
Yes, executive education may help attract and retain key employees, as well as serve to focus them on the future rather than the difficult and demoralizing present.
In the 25 years I've known him, the man is always upbeat and the glass is always half full, even apparently now, following the GOP's demoralizing election defeat.
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The besmirching of the Bank of Japan is particularly demoralizing.
He knew that to recapture Switzerland's dominant position he'd have to retain its manufacturing know-how, and that meant not losing skilled workers through layoffs, which would risk demoralizing the whole operation.
This is demoralizing and has really gotten us nowhere.
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But as it unfolds, and as that rest stop takes shape as a demoralizing symbol of the sacrifices inherent in a long-distance relationship, "I-95" takes on a sincere sweetness that the band wears well.
The wall-to-wall condemnations of Netanyahu by the Israeli media lend the impression that Israel's leading reporters and commentators are committed to demoralizing the public into believing that Israel has no option other than surrender.
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