Troi slowly sat down, as if she were a doll deflating of air.

"To get to this point and not get the grand prize at the end is a little deflating."

The Olivers are following Brown's advice, though at first they found it a little deflating.

Unfortunately, you miss the mark on the fundamental impact that the deflating of the bubble economy has on global prosperity.

She should be saying something, dealing back to him one of his own deflating, sardonic jibes, but her mouth had gone dry and she could not speak.

This may have also contributed to the deflating of the housing bubble, as asset prices generally move inversely to interest rates, and it became riskier to speculate in housing.

But the even sharper drop in Lycos shares reflected the deflating of hopes by investors that all or part the company would be bought at a premium to its already inflated share price.

The deflating of myth and pretense is one of the great enterprises of humor, and the Python film goes about it with an eerie mixture of absurdity and historical hyper-realism.

FOR A BASKETBALL FAN, A VISIT TO the preseason training camp of any National Basketball Association team is instructive and perhaps a little deflating.

- Ravi Desai Deflating Lindy According to David Plotz ("The [Not Yet] Around-the-World Balloonists"), "Charles Lindbergh's crossing wasn't just a stunt: It made real the idea of transatlantic air travel."

Written 100 years ago, "You Never Can Tell" is primarily a spoof of the prevalent notions of love and marriage as the world approached the 20th century, with some side sallies against Victorian social mores and a gentle deflating of the New Woman of the incipient feminist movement.

He looked like someone had let the air out and deflated him.

Even that does not seem to have deflated his sense of hope.

"I had a great time deflating him once in a while."

With that, I felt something in my body let go and deflate.

However, he turns back into his true form and deflates.

He is right to deflate the current state of search.

Instead, they were deflated and shot as if the ball was that way also.

If he saw his mother again, it might deflate her importance.

But now it almost seemed as if he were deflating slightly.

Those young people should be encouraged to go on, not deflated.

I turned around at the far end and started back, oddly deflated.

That's essentially the job, to make sure your parents are deflated.

When told of the strike's end, they are both deflated.

Snow has had to do a lot of deflating since coming on board.

And their response had to be deflating: this is not enough, they said.

"If you've lost for a lot of years together, after a while it deflates you."

The point deflated Williams, who won just one game in the first set after that.

The thought of cycling home the way I felt left me deflated.

In person, he goes a long way toward deflating some of the myths.

And the Kings, playing their second game in 24 hours, deflated.

I turned to Claire and felt the life deflate out of me.

Each side was working hard to deflate the other party's most potent political issue.

Elizabeth had expected any answer but that one and she felt, deflated.

His chest deflated, and he pulled himself all the way through.

Using the word we just completely deflated any argument you may have had.