Crossword-Solution: DISHEARTENS 11 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The charm lay partly in their very imperfection; for this is suggestive, and sets the imagination at work; whereas, the finished picture, if a good one, leaves the spectator nothing to do, and, if bad, confuses, stupefies, disenchants, and disheartens him.

Many sound bees had nursed on that frame, well knowing their work was useless; but the actual sight of even useless work destroyed disheartens a good worker.

First, here is the amusing parson of Meudon; but his characters are too fond of talking slang:--Voltaire; but he disheartens men by always bantering them:--Moliere; but he hinders one's laughter by making one think:--Lesage; let us stop at him.

First, here is the amusing parson of Meudon; but his characters are too fond of talking slang:--Voltaire; but he disheartens men by always bantering them:--Moliere; but he hinders one’s laughter by making one think:--Lesage; let us stop at him.

Nor need we believe that these disillusions must necessarily give rise to moral discouragement; for the truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.