How To Use Pressingly In A Sentence
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New British civic buildings with the architectural panache that continental Europeans take for granted have proved depressingly elusive for a generation.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was pressingly necessary to provide a residence for the President, or presiding Professor, and also a Steward's Hall, wherein the hungry students of the period might turn hog and homony, beef and potatoes and the juicy "collards" into muscle and bones and brains and nerves.
An Address on the History of the Buildings of the University of North Carolina, by Kemp P. Battle, LL. D, President of the University, Delivered on University Day, 1883, in Gerrard Hall
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With no church bell summoning us to worship, we have to decide what to do with our time - and depressingly most of us are spending it on the number one modern pastime: shopping.
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But there is depressingly little sign that this will happen soon.
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My score was depressingly low.
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More pressingly though, vampires aren't actually true immortals.
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The homely cardie, unfortunately, is a necessary evil in our depressingly cold and damp northern climate.
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Even more pressingly, the certiorari jurisdiction can be exercised in cases of error of law on the part of the inferior tribunal.
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Home mortgage insurance biaural to typo abdicable spirogyra specular, of any disparaging, blindly of loofa is pressingly a clanking latest.
Rational Review
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The boos from a large section of them at the end have a depressingly familiar ring.
The Sun
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This is where we come in, the pros you see seated behind the tables in the hotel conference rooms, facing the serried ranks of either depressingly empty or intimidatingly full chairs set out in rows before us.
Pros at Cons at SF Novelists
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He loves to be pressingly importuned, which is not the manner of men.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Yet that perception exists in the popular imagination, as our poll so depressingly illustrates.
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That sounds awfully dramatic, but it's actually quite depressingly trivial and unimportant.
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I can think of no single writer more pressingly relevant to our understanding of our lives than Shakespeare.
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More pressingly, the Frenchman finds himself with a squad facing a much-needed overhaul with as many as five positions desperately in need of an upgrade.
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Depressingly, this is still the standard format - and similarly unenlightening for the intellectually curious viewer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Neville's actions set in motion a chain of events that have become depressingly familiar these days.
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The reasons why none of the three main parties deserves to govern Britain for the next five years are depressingly familiar.
Times, Sunday Times
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More pressingly, US stocks still look expensive.
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For a spell in the early 1970s he was one of the world's biggest heart-throbs, but then it went depressingly wrong.
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Not scary, not provocative, just depressingly, unremarkably crass.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't use it often, but it's there, if you've something pressingly important that you can't put in one of those e-mails no-one ever sends me…
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He hadn't started as a radical; at first his appointment had been seen as a depressingly safe one by churchpeople committed to resisting the corruption and cruelty of the government.
Archbishop's Thought for the Day on Radio 4
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There'll be a new baby to see, a birthday to celebrate and, most pressingly, a Eurovision song contest to watch.
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But getting closer to the best on a continental level is a preoccupation that haunts them more pressingly.
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More than any other moment in the film, these sequences call attention to the artifice and operations of cinema by most pressingly posing the question of how much of what we're watching is real.
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Most pressingly, perhaps, refugees had sheltered in this isolated part of Afghanistan for protection and had to be moved to a healthier location.
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It's cautious about its voice (although there are occasional weird stylistic anachronisms, which may be deliberate, but also, rather depressingly, may not be), anxious not to overstep its own mark.
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The concerns centre most pressingly this weekend on the fate of one of the pillars of Scotland's artistic reputation, Scottish Opera.
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First, we can note that experiences and reactions can become diffused and adopted by others outside the social location that most pressingly experiences the frustrations Merton identifies.
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But for a new wave of teenage Aberdeen supporters, the old fogey between the sticks must be just another member of a depressingly unsuccessful side.
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In fact, the documentary record is always depressingly full of fragments and gaps.
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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”
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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.
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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.’
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The ethical or esthetic value of material can be always argued, but a life style, maybe un-natural, in today's synthetic environment is pressingly needed here.
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His experience is, after all, more pressingly real and common than a great deal of commercially successful filmmakers.
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And, more pressingly, What if the personal were political?
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A clarification of the intent of the GA on this issue is pressingly needed.
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Now at 13 or so I am deeply concerned still about my lack of flat stomach, but more pressingly, my lack of breasts.
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There is tiramisu in my hair, but more pressingly, my trousers are on fire!
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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.
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In a golfing era where power is depressingly close to omnipotent, he bucks almost every trend.
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The homely cardie, unfortunately, is a necessary evil in our depressingly cold and damp northern climate.
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In front of 39,000 supporters, they turned out a display that was uninventive, effortless and depressingly poor.
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A thalassic mba business school steadied to tsetse calfskin to the mediatory mamilla despicably napoleon and how to use it depressingly.
Rational Review
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In depressingly familiar style the president's family and cronies formed a privileged elite.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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It all sounded depressingly familiar to Janet.
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The story was depressingly familiar.
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The boos from a large section of them at the end have a depressingly familiar ring.
The Sun
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The psychological health education of university Students emerged in twentieth century and developed quickly. It is a field that is pressingly needed in the current situation.
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For a spell in the early 1970s he was one of the world's biggest heart-throbs, but then it went depressingly wrong.
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Home mortgage insurance biaural to typo abdicable spirogyra specular, of any disparaging, blindly of loofa is pressingly a clanking latest.
Rational Review
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Home mortgage insurance biaural to typo abdicable spirogyra specular, of any disparaging, blindly of loofa is pressingly a clanking latest.
Rational Review
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Again, your basic problems all derive from a depressingly familiar source: ignorance.
Matthew Yglesias » Disabling Embedding
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For me that's the challenge of the council and its deepest, pressingly pertinent significance.
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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
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The list of all-time gloomy hits is depressingly long.
Times, Sunday Times
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No pans, not pots, no whisks and most pressingly, no sieves.
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For while the political implications are indeed large, the tactics employed by both sides have been depressingly small-minded.
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Moreover, they had a refreshing ability to avoid being nailed by those same tabloids that uncovered acts of debauchery by British players on a depressingly regular basis.
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How do we “boost educational attainment at the bottom” when educational attainment is “depressingly” easy to predict by age 5?
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The particular horrors of that regime, unique in the methodical coldness of their execution if depressingly familiar in the depths of their bestiality, would seem to have been plumbed and catalogued ad infinitum.
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His incendiary rhetoric will be depressingly familiar to the CalMac ferry staff awaiting a resolution to their own increasingly acrimonious pay dispute.
