Meanings of hardly inspiring in English

For a commander to speak so matter-of-factly of his death was hardly inspiring.

This incompetence and bluster is hardly inspiring global confidence.

Despite promises of beating the German premium brands, what's on the road is hardly inspiring.

Driving towards the city on a cold, wet winter day the view is hardly inspiring.

The finer details of what I said were hardly inspiring, but in that heightened state no one really cared.

All style and not quite enough substance, and what substance there was came from the hardly inspiring MkIV Golf.

I like the fact that we're looking to strengthen the defence, but an unknown Austrian centre-half and a recently-relegated full-back are hardly inspiring.