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Example sentences for: depressive

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Antonin Artaud suffered his first depressive breakdown at 16; at 21, he was diagnosed with hereditary syphilis (his parents, in addition, were first cousins).
Puts me in mind of Boswell's description of what in the 18 th century was called a hypochodriack, what we'd call a depressive:
We also hypothesized that the more depressive mood symptoms in these mothers are correlated with decreasing levels of illumination.
There's no doubt, however, about his even more depressive love object, Hope Davis, who posseses the cinema's most expressive honking-nasal voice and who slumps through the movie like the world's most lyrical anti-ballerina.
As an insomniac and a borderline depressive, I'm the perfect target audience for his pitch.