Scroll down to Figure 7 for a quick, depressing portrait of just how far behind U.S. investments in high-speed rail lag.
The FT has a long, deeply depressing portrait of conditions in Portugal, focusing on the plight of family-owned businesses — once the core of the nation's economy and society, now going under in droves.
But there is nothing remotely soothing about this latest piece, which offers a wide-ranging and depressing portrait of male lives in crisis, repressed emotions, damaged sons, untouched fathers, fantasy power trips and lost souls.
The desire to wish away the catastrophe of the Soviet Union makes for a depressing psychological portrait.
A jaundiced eye might read here a depressing postmodern portrait of what primary care has become: secretarial work with a little gatekeeping thrown in, certainly not doctoring in any traditional sense of the word.
In two recent books, Philip Jenkins ("Decade of Nightmares") and Andreas Killen ("1973: Nervous Breakdown") created similarly depressing portraits of the 1970s as an era of weakness, confusion and malaise.
It was - despite some alleviating tales of rescue - a pretty depressing experience: a portrait of a world in which most people pass by on the other side, however ugly the incidents they are ignoring.
