Sentence examples for a depressing exercise from inspiring English sources

Otherwise, the show was a depressing exercise.

And while Q&A shines when its panel consists of intellectuals, it's much more often a depressing exercise in federal party politicking.

This really has been a completely depressing exercise.

But Barack Obama's promised health care conference with Republican leaders, if it actually comes off, promises to be a particularly depressing exercise in grandstanding and gamesmanship.

In anticipation of yet another GOP presidential candidate debate, thinking about political thinking has become an increasingly depressing exercise.

Conclusion number one is that weighing yourself every hour is a really bloody depressing exercise.

That is an accomplishment but not sufficient reason to spend four hours on this depressing exercise.

On that particular day, he made a depressing visit to a school in Syracuse, N.Y., that was like so many he'd seen before: "a dispiriting exercise in good people failing," as he described it to me recently.

A depressing victory".

A depressing thought.

SLEUTH A depressing botch.