Depressingly in a sentence

Depressingly, within the hour, I had received a reply from one SNP councillor bringing the ever-constructive “Scotland needs independence etc…” That really helps schools right now!

Even though this bloated franchise is still an inexplicably and depressingly popular box-office behemoth, it also feeds on Bay’s worse impulses as a blockbuster helmer.

In the year 2023, it's (depressingly) clear that the internet contains its fair share of rancor, divisiveness, and stupidity (bad).

It is depressingly gratifying that Theo Hobson seems to have proved my point with almost indecent haste.

The fact Acosta acknowledged the cruel inhumanity of this act is both cold comfort—and depressingly monumental, considering how few consequences the US has suffered for the horrendous acts it has committed at black sites like Guantanamo.

Wicked Little Letters may read on paper, its only true offense is just how depressingly cookie-cutter every beat feels.

Denise Bowden, chief executive of the Yothu Yindi Foundation, based in northeast Arnhem Land, said the findings were depressingly predictable and suggested a major overhaul of GST funding could help address the appalling disadvantage.

That picture—rather depressingly and tellingly—shows 25 people wearing black surgical masks and standing at appropriate social distance from one another, but the key message was that Biden had appointed a racially and sexually diverse group.

Aurora is right next to Denver, not ten miles away, its northwest portion blends seamlessly and depressingly with East Colfax neighborhoods of Denver.

On Tuesday, Djalali was transferred from Tehran’s Evin Prison to the solitary-confinement death row block at Raja’i Shahr prison, in the Tehran suburb of Karaj, in a depressingly routine playing-out of the Khomeinist regime’s judicial-murder ritual.

The band was comfortable with what it offered in depressingly melodic songs, and let the audience members decide for themselves how to react to each piece.

In a narrative that is depressingly familiar to anyone who follows today’s news, citizens are tortured and executed amid the horror of what emerges as a small-town civil war.

Depressingly, despite various campaigns around education, she feels the battle to keep young people away from toxic substances that will ultimately claim some of their lives, is being lost.

How did a city that promised so much, a city that got the first tarred road (Haskins Street) and through which civilisation first came to Botswana, become so depressingly redundant?

So we will have to, depressingly, follow him around and garnish his wages.

While that may be depressingly accurate, it ignores the fact that the film is just, well, not that good.

Further, the orchestration of Edipo re, consisting all too often of massed strings and a depressingly constant use of the cymbal, does not seem the work of Leoncavallo whose own orchestration, whilst sometimes uninspired, is at very least competent.

My view has become depressingly mainline!