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Example sentences for: depressingly

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Of course, this is also the problem with the National Magazine Awards lunch, which has the additional problem of being, along with the White House Correspondents Dinner, the most depressingly Soviet-like assembly I have ever attended.
Some of the stuff is depressingly ugly, but there is also an admirable renewal in both classic and modern design.
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.
Travel is all about distinctiveness, but I bet that the table of contents for the Chicago book is depressingly identical to that of the Philadelphia and Toronto guides.
And isn't it nobler to deliver a depressingly true "message" than to shade the truth so you can get elected?