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Example sentences for: depressing

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The most depressing aspect of the profession for me is that the youngest new hires at the big dailies--Generation Y guys under 25--are indistinguishable from their parents and grandparents; they draw like Jeff MacNelly, but without MacNelly's wit or intelligence.
The movie might have been unbearably depressing if Old Man Dunphy had been the thug of Farrelly's novel.
Schor's right--it is depressing when people get into the grip of an all-engulfing need to establish their identity by buying stuff, especially if it's stuff they can't afford.
But I have to confess: Something about that SEIU retreat sounds depressing.
All this might be depressing, until we remember how proverbs also have an inbuilt skepticism about themselves.