Sentence examples for a depressing view from inspiring English sources
"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war".
After all, it's not Dr Strangelove but his spiritual successor Donald Rumsfeld who complained: "Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war".
THE ROOM My standard room had a bare concrete floor, white décor and a depressing view of an unfinished building just a few feet away.
This matters because it projects a depressing view of how the far right in Britain is likely to behave in the weeks and months ahead.
And when asked about whether the increasing violence was evidence of the war going badly, Rumsfeld reasoned in 2005 that "Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war".
In today's 15×16, slightly plumped to fit the "seed" entry (the entry that the constructor thought of first, and which inspired the theme) and its partner, we have a choice of four movies, all sort of romantic in their own ways (my favorite, "THE GRADUATE," takes a depressing view of romantic love, but it's in there, so it counts).
A more straightforward yet quirky documentary is Emily Jacir's "Crossing Surda (A Record of Going to and From Work)"; it gives a low-tech, knee-level, careering account, using a hidden camera, of her repeated crossings of an Israeli checkpoint, and conveys a mordant, depressing view of an already desolate limbo.
In the Loop Armando Iannucci, 2009 This satisfying translation of The Thick of It to the big screen and a global canvas offers a credibly depressing view of high politics as an extended exercise in error management, ego massaging and that'lldoism.
If you walk into a room and there's a million pounds on the table and a naked woman in the corner, most men will take the million pounds and fuck the woman.' Now, I happen to believe that's not what life is like, and I think it's a very depressing view of the world.
For a truly depressing view of the economy, look no further than NoVI, who wrote following warnings from insolvency specialists that the UK is in the mid-point of a W-shaped recession and there will be a deluge of business failures: "Everybody is talking about recovery; will it be v-shaped, w-shaped or vw-shaped.
