How To Use Depressing In A Sentence

Letters from my family are sort of depressing, though sometimes my cousins write a few words that makes me laugh.
This is despite the fact that no account has been taken of the potentially depressing impact on economic activity and revenue buoyancy of their tax raising proposals.
Which had followed with depressing inevitability, as he'd gathered from her Christmas cards and occasional e-mails. THE LAST TEMPTATION
The obvious is belabored with depressing frequency; the following passage illustrates this and other problems.
To the surprise of many, he remains at the helm despite this most depressing afternoon of a season that has become an ongoing ordeal by fire. The Sun

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The economic outlook is particularly depressing and confidence is quite low. The Sun
During performance, most students will need to stand while depressing the damper pedal to access the interior of the piano.
He also commented on the depressing state of affairs concerning preservation of blaxploitation pics, with something like 200 of the 270+ films he cataloged from the era being unavailable (at least without some serious digging).
In manual mode, drivers can go up or down gears without depressing the clutch.
The September rain beat down on the roof incessantly, and the grey, cloudy skies made the whole situation depressing.
A depressing sign from the league leaders that they are prepared to do anything to try and stay there. The Sun
It becomes as necessary, therefore, in the performance of surgical operations upon the subclavian artery, to fix the clavicle by depressing it, as in Plate 8, as it is to give fixity to the lower maxilla and larynx, in the position of Plate 7, when the carotid is the subject of operation. Surgical Anatomy
All this makes depressing reading for those who put off selling this spring in the hope things would pick up by autumn. Times, Sunday Times
We found it a deeply depressing experience.
The room didn't appear gloomy or depressing, but it still had this certain aura of darkness wrapped around it.
I got there in the end thanks to the RNIB and Calibre Talking Book Libraries plus a rota of loyal readers, but the fact that none of the books I chose is currently available on UK commercial audio even as a download is depressing. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice
Inhalants are breathable chemical vapors that can produce a quick, powerful high, usually by depressing the central nervous system.
The story was depressingly familiar.
Higher rates also have a strong depressing effect on securities prices, as we have seen in the past year.
It all sounded depressingly familiar to Janet.
The death map is grisly and a little depressing. Times, Sunday Times
In the timehonoured tradition of the northern miserabilist, it would be depressing were it not for its sweet centre. Times, Sunday Times
The book is packed with stimulating philosophical (and depressingly prophetic) allusion within the author's own field, but ends up as a bit of a rigmarole.
I haven't seen it yet, and don't intend to, because altho' I was a - fan is too strong a word, I was a *fan* of Battle of the Planets and Starblazers and Voltron, but I watched and liked the series when it was running tho' I thought it rather simplistic and corny by comparison to the other shows I mention - I have heard so much that sounds depressing and Othering about it as a liberal woman, that I don't really need to spend any of my scanty budget on seeing CGI and explosions. Proper Credits for Transformers
But the negativeness has become so depressing I have decided to discontinue all television whether it be the news show, debates, articles, blogs or whatever. Obama: Nobody's complained more than the Clintons
As much as any other task an entrepreneur must face, she must deal with these manic highs and depressing lows.
It got depressing after a while, with the realisation that you're completely disposable and not being hired for any skills.
I just wish a character who is wise and focused on a world outside her own desires could have joined this most recent blast of bling and couture to leave long-term devotees with any message other than aging is depressing, marriage is depressing, children are depressing, and complaining about all three relentlessly is boring. Shallow Gals
Yes, it is having a depressing effect on the price, but that's the consequence of a requirement of public honesty.
It's less depressing than watching the news. The Sun
First of all, there's the absurdity inherent in making a touristy tour thing out of something so very serious and depressing.
Grissell, the daughter of trainers Gardie and Diana, had a depressing afternoon at Plumpton on Monday when she had to pull up her horse Downe Payment in a handicap hurdle. Tattenham Corner
The appearance of Travolta trying to be evil by way of Hugh Hefner and Tony Manero is funny enough, but the addition of some slapstick later in the film lightens, for the moment at least, what is an overbearingly grim and depressing movie. Eric’s Top 10 Worst Comic Book Movies Ever » Scene-Stealers
Anyhow, it's more than a little depressing how commonplace is Brewer's apparent assumption: that politics have little or nothing to do with morals and values. Television
They also sought to limit the number of apprentices entering their trades, because of the inevitable consequence of depressing wage rates; this has remained a feature of some craft unions to this day.
I took tram number 17 from his depressing little scheme in the western sector into the city centre.
The incomplete squamosals also slope laterally and ventrally away from the parietals, slightly depressing posterior margin of the supratemporal fenestrae.
Despite these depressing facts, the problem is manageable. Times, Sunday Times
Now, a depressing injury and two years of highs, lows and managerial merry-go-rounds later, he contents himself with mere realities.
And the fake eyelashes you just had to have for the party season are looking like a depressing reminder of money thrown out of a moving vehicle. Times, Sunday Times
The bare statistics make depressing reading. Times, Sunday Times
There was something very powerfully depressing about it. Times, Sunday Times
Though the pathological conditions of hydrophobia and serpent poisoning are by no means parallel, the _rationale_ of the methods employed in opening the emunctories of the skin are the same; and were it not for its powerful protracting effect and depressing action upon the heart, we might perhaps secure valuable aid from jaborandi Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884
His pessimism has the effect of depressing everyone.
In depressingly familiar style the president's family and cronies formed a privileged elite. Times, Sunday Times
I taught elementary German to a series of chinless wonders, depressing myself as much as them and stuck at it for about two years. THE ENDLESS GAME
A thalassic mba business school steadied to tsetse calfskin to the mediatory mamilla despicably napoleon and how to use it depressingly. Rational Review
We paired it up with a floral top because in the bleak mid-winter there is nothing quite so depressing as the flowerless landscape.
The British effort came unstuck in depressing fashion. Times, Sunday Times
However, with the safety engaged, depressing this lever allows the bolt to be operated.
What keeps this series from drowning, not only in its squalid setting, depressing dynamics, and cornball cliché is this bucking of convention.
I want to be outside, but not with him there - and the thought of going to lunch by myself is so depressing that I'm miserable all over again.
This was one of the most depressing moments of my life, not entirely for its present state but its reflexive backwardness. WHITE LIES
The return to unreason is depressing enough. Times, Sunday Times
Beginners offsets its depressing premise with arty flourishes that veer close to smug. The Sun
His standout performances were one of the bright points of a depressing summer. The Sun
Beginners offsets its depressing premise with arty flourishes that veer close to smug. The Sun
To think that he's got a content-free gasbag like Biden "backstopping" him is depressing, actually. Barack Obama appears -- simultaneously -- on Olbermann and O'Reilly and I have some advice for Obama.
Whether you're cooking at home or in a restaurant, there's nothing more depressing and demotivating for a cook than to see plates of uneaten food coming back into the kitchen.
General anesthesia causes peripheral vessels to dilate by depressing the sympathetic nervous system.
This was nicely illustrated in the brilliant film "Waiting for Superman," with its depressing footage of un-sackable teachers killing time, co llecting salaries and waiting to retire. What Cameron Can Teach Obama
Faced with this depressing reality, a resentment is born and carefully nourished against the unknowing spouse for his failure to make frequent declarations of his appreciation and regard.
In front of 39,000 supporters, they turned out a display that was uninventive, effortless and depressingly poor.
The bay's faceplates are easily removed by depressing tabs on either side, allowing them to be pulled out.
In fact, most of the letters make depressing reading, so I'll move on!
We never get time alone, either and it ` s very, very depressing. palinode Said, The Amazing Survivor Race Challenge: Parenting Edition | Her Bad Mother
ONE of the things that is most depressing and disturbing about this whole green thing is that they seem to have no sense of taste at all. Times, Sunday Times
I think the answer is yes, which leads to a depressing conclusion, and not just about disability.
Check that your money is in the most competitive accounts to bring down that depressing statistic. Times, Sunday Times
The homely cardie, unfortunately, is a necessary evil in our depressingly cold and damp northern climate.
The Slave Dancer is written through Jessie's eyes, and projects a depressing, melancholy mood.
By using opiate analgesics and sedatives to provide comfort to a dying patient, we risk depressing respirations and causing hypotension, which may hasten death.
It was such a depressing thought. Times, Sunday Times
In a golfing era where power is depressingly close to omnipotent, he bucks almost every trend.
What makes the situation depressing is when we put our interpretations on their life. Lisa Haisha: What's Holding You Back From Changing the World?
Tonight was the last night of break, which was depressing, but I went bowling with a buttload of people: Callie, Katie Mac, Shanea, Concetta, Chris, DJ, Ben, Steve, Joanna, Mark, and Mario.
The faster prices are expected to decline, the greater will be the depressing effect on investment.
Good, light-hearted fun about a depressing response to a depressing subject. Discourse.net: DNC Having Some Fun
Instead, we have had the depressing experience of hearing councils parroting some rather stale agendas.
It's difficult not to find the fact that I live in a province of cavemen depressing.
a week of rainy depressing weather
Sourced from the Yorkshire Evening Post again; depressingly the journalist still sees fit to misgender Ms Browne at every turn – and this fact is made more apparent when you realise that none of the quotes from the trial do so (for once). Robyn Browne murder trial: “Celebrity clients spared court appearance”
A government bailout that unfreezes credit markets and staunches the flood of foreclosures that are also depressing prices should help, but the fix will take a long time. Is Now a Good Time to Buy a Home?
The $12 tax on each one-way ticket has been blamed for depressing demand on short-run flights. Globe and Mail
Going madly off into a fading teevee breakdown, a degenerating of colors to boil down to utter depressing greys, greys of all shades, deepening into the blankest of the most depressing color there is, that which is totally empty of color, the color of tears. From the Shambles
The Squid And The Whale may sound downbeat and depressing, but it is so true to life, it turns out funny and compassionate.
A depressing sign from the league leaders that they are prepared to do anything to try and stay there. The Sun
Before long, profit warnings from companies in the sector were delivered with depressing regularity. Times, Sunday Times
Record oil prices (in nominal terms) will likely have a depressing effect on growth over the medium term.
The British effort came unstuck in depressing fashion. Times, Sunday Times
Everything that Tara despised about her home was glowing and warm - looking like an advertisement for low mortgage rates or pest control, and such a depressing show she had to call Clio and tell her about it. ‘Ravens’
Bushnell's writing has similar deadpan timing, taking the depressing and unappealing and rendering it hilarious.
It's a depressing resolution for a heroine: to do the dutiful thing.
But give me a depressing chick flick in the graveyard slot starring C-list (I'm being kind) talent and I can't turn off the waterworks.
Gone are the dark depressing corners, the walled off open areas and the brick bin stores.
It has as its mortal enemies the deprecative and the depressing.
What’s bothering is not the idea of an arc but this depressing, drag us down arc. Supernatural: Malleus Maleficarum Review : SF Universe - SF Universe is your Science Fiction central. From SciFi television to movies to books and more. All the latest news, reviews and insights from SciFi experts.
It is graphic, depressing and leaves the audience with an overriding feeling of emptiness.
At a period when he was having a terrific struggle with a certain habit, he was so continually held in the thought of fear by his mother and the young lady to whom he was engaged, -- the engagement to be consummated at the end of a certain period, the time depending on his proving his mastery, -- that he, very sensitively organized, _continually_ felt the depressing and weakening effects of their negative thoughts. In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty
It's depressing when your mind becomes a sewer of spattering hate and impatience that you don't remember asking for.
Amidst a plethora of depressing statistics, perhaps the biggest downer is the fact that, for the first time since 1986, no Scot won an event on the European Tour.
It's depressingly like the cartoon of a Colonel Blimp character sitting in an armchair beneath the huge head of a white rhino, explaining that he ‘thought he'd better bag one fast in case this conservation business doesn't work out.’
Maybe the news makes everyday life too depressing, and we want to escape into the fantasies of childhood play-acting.
Car workers in Detroit are the victims of impersonal economic forces that are depressing global demand. Times, Sunday Times
The depressing thing is that the credit crunch will probably cause a lot of projects like these to go belly up. Times, Sunday Times
DVD Focus TK zafg 'Inside Job' 2010 If Charles Ferguson's polemic documentary were merely depressing, it could take its place alongside the dreariest of downer dramas from Bulgaria or the former East Germany. 'Margin Call': Thrills, Chills of Financial Ills
Christmas can be a sad and depressing time for many of us who will be spending it alone.
My hair was lank and dull, I was very thin, brown pigmentation began to spread up my arms and on my cheeks; I was depressingly unattractive.
His journey is both highly amusing and deeply depressing. Times, Sunday Times
It's incredibly evocative, atmospheric and mournful yet never depressing.
They tended to be depressing these visits: the married sister was living in a small way; the first cousin seemed to have got into a rut; the uncle and aunt were failing, with a stooping, trembling, old-fashioned kind of decrepitude, a rigidity of body and mind, which somehow one didn't see much over home. The Imperialist
Their work is often depressing because human problems involve suffering and solutions are not easy. Introduction to Social Administration in Britain
They were true originals on this late 1983 release, more weird and as depressingly great as ever, with two drummers and Mark E Smith in top form.
More depressing still was the fact that the manager seemed blind to the reality. Times, Sunday Times
The boos from a large section of them at the end have a depressingly familiar ring. The Sun
Given that houses are already overpriced that is depressing news for young people who are struggling to get a first foot on the housing ladder. Times, Sunday Times
For a spell in the early 1970s he was one of the world's biggest heart-throbs, but then it went depressingly wrong.
SemperFidelis I found the roundtable on fidelity fascinating reading, but intensely depressing as well.
Brendan rabbited on with his depressing symptoms and fact findings. The Right Fit
He describes a similar shift a bit more sardonically, saying that his relationship has settled into a state of "depressing comfortableness. Douglas LaBier: Recharge a Declining Relationship Through "Indifference"
The park in winter is a depressing monochrome brown.
I've gathered more than a thousand tips like these that go way beyond curating a closetful of black which is not only depressing but fools no one. 'How To Never Look Fat Again'
So I sat by him in this rather depressing scene, as we played poker on the wet, cement floor, in the alley of cheap restaurants and pizza places.
But despite this grim subject matter it is not a depressing play.
Our changing cultural climate has replaced the traditional image of boys with a bleaker and more depressing picture.
Yet for some people these depressing tin hovels are an improvement on their former living conditions. The Sun
However, although the specter of death hovers over the entire film, it is neither a grim nor a depressing experience.
This may sound horribly sad and depressing to all you free teens but in fact I liked the quiet life.
We stopped in a depressing little memorial garden of leafless rosebushes with a monument for the dead of the two world wars and sat there in the drizzle. Henry’s Demons
I awoke in the night out of blessed sleep to the depressing consciousness of the pain.
To offset how depressing having solid black buildings would be, all the roofs were made of brightly colored clay tiles.
The thing I find depressing is how the current system rewards illegality. Thoughts on Immigration, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Secondly, how depressing is it that this sort of nonsense takes place? Music
He arrived at a decision, threw the cigarette away, and turned towards a small depressing row of agricultural cottages.
It has a few inspired moments and overall is a good, fun film with depressing undertones.
Most of all I feel really needed all of a sudden; I feel I can bring a slight ray of hope and variety to this ever more depressing world.
More depressing still was the fact that the manager seemed blind to the reality. Times, Sunday Times
Again, your basic problems all derive from a depressingly familiar source: ignorance. Matthew Yglesias » Disabling Embedding
This synopsis makes the film sound like a depressing cautionary tale but it isn't.
Rich in depressing ironies, the case in essence pitted Masons arguing, if only opportunistically, that the school is Sports
An over-abundance of main crop potatoes in storage is depressing the price of Pembrokeshire-produced earlies.
At last, a halfway decent British movie after what has so far amounted to a pretty depressing year for UK cinema.
Sighing as she walked, Molly felt her depressing mood getting rather worse as she walked closer and closer to the plane.
But basically the books all give the same depressing advice: compromise, settle, tone yourself down, and do it sooner rather than later.
But this is not nearly as depressing as it sounds. Times, Sunday Times
The story - and it is a big, dense, messy, colorful, kaleidoscopic, exhilarating, depressing story - is told with political acumen, reportorial vividness and narrative flair.
We paired it up with a floral top because in the bleak mid-winter there is nothing quite so depressing as the flowerless landscape.
Indeed, high unemployment in France has had the effect of depressing pay.
The number of empty dilapidated shops in the depressing Bradford city centre are witness to the existing problems of traders.
All of which is hugely depressing to anyone who still considers themselves part of the left.
That sounds depressing - what do you mean? The Sun
All week long I've been telling everyone within earshot that I'm sick and tired of depressing, demoralizing stories about the baby boomers. Julia Moulden: It's All Over For The Boomers? Think Again.
Is there not something a bit depressing though about the fact that robots are needed at all? Times, Sunday Times
Doping takes the pursuit of winning at the expense of health to its depressing endpoint. Times, Sunday Times
It is beyond sad, or depressing - it is a vicious slap across the mouth, a painful screaming, a well-placed sledgehammer blow to the abdomen.
It is depressing to see a great company retreating at a time when the economy is stagnant. Times, Sunday Times
Is there not something a bit depressing though about the fact that robots are needed at all? Times, Sunday Times
Frequently ravers would continue into the next day as they necked more pills in a quest to recapture the feeling of the first rush, or to retreat from the depressing re - entry into the grey normality of the everyday.
Within-flower transfer of pollen from anthers to stigma was achieved by depressing the keel petal of newly opened flowers using fine forceps.
The film is so bleak and depressing that I find it a bit difficult to assess its quality.
That'll have a depressing impact on the U.S. economy and on companies highly levered to U.S. domestic growth," Mr. Webman says. What a Downgrade Means for You
I find it really depressing that a city as diverse as New York has succumbed to this kind of corporate takeover.
The CD pushes the listener to the limit of endurance, virtually begs you dismiss it as a depressing case of style over substance, then suddenly reveals hidden depths.
They are visually poisonous, depressing, environmentally undermining, life-shortening, spiritually deadening, brain-dulling piles of crud.
But still she demurred, being a very sane, intelligent girl, with an imagination which produced no more alluring mental picture than a cold and draughty drive, a colder and draughtier and even more depressing inspection of a ruined factory, and such small matters as a lost lunch. Bones in London
It is a depressing thought that any nation of free people would sell its honour so cheaply.
The dismal picture that emerges is indeed depressing, and sometimes infuriating.
Combining a depressing ending and austere realism with an idealistic, descriptive story is one of Hemingway's particulars of style.
Once the game leaves this world, it is heading for somewhere dark and depressing.
To say it was depressing is an understatement: even the most liberal-minded of viewers would have balked at the moral desolation of the scene. Times, Sunday Times
The statistics are both simple and depressing. Times, Sunday Times
Everything is a bit depressing at the moment, but I carry on in the belief that good times are just around the corner.
It was almost as if the pair of eyes were telling him a story, a depressing story where no words were needed to be said nor heard.
Angela told Nick the tale of the mysterious apparition of a beauteous "nighty," and wondered how she could ever have felt unhappy, or depressingly grown up. The Port of Adventure
And then there are the horrific stories of abuse in old people's homes that pop up with depressing regularity. Times, Sunday Times
It is a depressing thought that any nation of free people would sell its honour so cheaply.
Athletic and family-oriented (all children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult), it brings to wholesome life a part of the city that can feel seedy and depressing.
The first effect of this confession on Dick Marvin was depressing, but after pondering it a minute he laughed and recalled the ironical old rhyme: The Apples of Hesperides, Kansas
The film is absorbing rather than depressing, uplifting rather than sad.
Despite its pulpy theme, the story is provocative and acutely depressing.
The two scenes matched in the bleak, depressing colour, but after that, they were a world apart.
First off, the story, about a theater director who's sucked into the vortex of his own impossible artistic ambitions, is unremittingly bleak, making for one of the most depressing nondocumentary films you're likely to see, well, ever. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
They are depressing, alien environments, made more dismal by drab walls and endless corridors.
The looting that has followed the judgment of the grand jury adds a depressing coda to a sorry affair. Times, Sunday Times
The front of the faceplate easily detaches by depressing a small button on either side and pulling it forwards.
No, get this: my darling little nerd was following along in line, his mind on how depressing gym class is, his hands in his pockets, HIS EYES SHUT, and whammo! Day in the Life of an Idiot
The world would be a very gloomy and depressing place if there was no hope.
He is definitely a tonic in this depressing age of faceless conductors.
The list of all-time gloomy hits is depressingly long. Times, Sunday Times
His pessimism has the effect of depressing everyone.
Jupe found the sight depressing, and he was glad to pull down the blinds and crawl into bed. JANAKY AND THE GIANT
I took the less depressing option. Times, Sunday Times
Given that houses are already overpriced that is depressing news for young people who are struggling to get a first foot on the housing ladder. Times, Sunday Times
For today was equally as depressing and miserable as the last ten months.
The pedestrians were sombrely garbed, and went about in "rubbers" -- the most depressing of all articles worn by man. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
Needless to say, the cumulative effect of this patchwork approach to narrative is both disconcerting and slightly depressing. Times, Sunday Times
Class warfare has broken out among the comestibles and it's most depressing. Times, Sunday Times
I wondered what was more depressing, the paucity of his vocabulary or the absence of musical taste.
Don't put the songs on… they are seriously depressing me.
Water, but in an enjoyable lakey way... not a depressing beachy one. Times, Sunday Times

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