Sentence examples for a depressing state from inspiring English sources

It's a depressing state of affairs.

But why such a depressing state of affairs, I wondered.

This is a depressing state of affairs, but hardly surprising.

A depressing state of affairs, but at least the Europeans seem to agree on what the situation calls for.

For the dwindling numbers of us still retaining faith in Westminster, this is a depressing state of affairs – as most politicians know in their hearts.

This would be a good time for the Obama crowd to put aside its concern about the absence of giddiness among liberals and re-examine what it might do to improve what is fast becoming a depressing state of affairs.

I think that's a really depressing state of affairs.

Education secretary David Blunkett announced plans to privatise more education services in the London borough of Hackney today - despite Ofsted criticism of the performance of existing private firm Nord Anglia - after the inspectorate described it as in a "deeply depressing" state.

"The reality of it when you come down into the yard and you see the horses all with their heads down, looking quite sick to be fair, it's just a quite depressing state of affairs". The centre posted on social media that from Friday, selected horses were "ready to go", with others set to follow them back to work.

These reports provide us a very depressing state of affairs, one which became even worse in 2009.

This is a doubly depressing state of affairs because there was never any reason for CHIP's continuation to reach this level of uncertainty.