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Example sentences for: depressingly

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The film that Nicholas Hytner has directed (from a screenplay by the playwright Wendy Wasserstein) is slick, sweet, and disastrously unmoving--even people who live to cry at the movies will find themselves depressingly dry-eyed.
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.
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.
Some of the stuff is depressingly ugly, but there is also an admirable renewal in both classic and modern design.
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.