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Z. Sheppard, Time ); though "[l]egal fiction has turned depressingly formulaic and melodramatic lately ...
The results were depressingly consistent.
The Turkish earthquake of August 17 and its disastrously bungled relief effort--the official death toll now stands at 17,997 --is a depressingly familiar story.
And isn't it nobler to deliver a depressingly true "message" than to shade the truth so you can get elected?
While the vendor-to-vendor programme did seem to improve shops' knowledge and behaviour in a relatively short time, the gap between actual and desired performance was still depressingly large.