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Example sentences for: depressing

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I hope I never have to sit through Death of a Salesman again, not because it's depressing and bleak but because it's unrelieved and unchallenging.
But I have to confess: Something about that SEIU retreat sounds depressing.
She pointed to a patch of equally depressing but bushier shrubbery.
A depressing NYT Magazine cover story follows the struggle of two parents trying to save their toddler, a victim of Canavan disease.
Critics call this depressing coke-fueled vision of '80s Hollywood lowlifes more an actors' showcase than a drama: It's "a tedious circus of apoplectic speeches and explosive thespian snit fits" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Sean Penn and Kevin Spacey both give keen performances as strung-out movie-biz sharks, but most of the film is just talk (it was adapted from David Rabe's play), with a few bits of sex and violence the only action.