His dishearteningly pedestrian world hardly bears comparison to the enchanted realms whose Prosperos are Rembrandt and Vermeer.

NEWYORKER: Haarlem Shuffle

The results are tediously busy and dishearteningly bland.

NEWYORKER: Dinner for Schmucks

How far, for example, does it trouble her that some of the erstwhile dissidents she befriended such as Mr Sharansky and his wife Avital have moved to the edge of the spectrum and now profess dishearteningly illiberal views?

ECONOMIST: Human rights