The 2000 Olympics in Sydney proved to be a disheartening experience for Qi.

It was a most disheartening experience for the Temple Owls.

To the Editor: David Esterly (letter, Nov. 20) states that "even the best managed woodland is a disheartening experience."

The league and White should learn a lesson from this disheartening experience.

But nobody has had a more disheartening experience at Roland Garros than Pierce.

Being turned away at the door, as you watch your line-mates disappear into the studio, is a disheartening experience.

It was a disheartening experience to have to fight for ground once held.

"One of my most disheartening experiences is when a child is all excited to get there and there's no one to meet," he said.

It is a disheartening experience to have a bold, intrepid defender produce resistance that you had not expected.

Mr. Sutton forged into the race anyway, and faced "the most disheartening, deprecating, disabling experience I have ever had," according to his later description.