Sentence examples for but depressingly from inspiring English sources

But depressingly, recent changes to equality laws have seen disabled people lose out.

However, it had latterly become steadily tattier, the crumbling terraces closed, the interior still in use but depressingly dingy.

The goal lifted the home side and they started to play with more composure but depressingly little end product.

It is a dismal but depressingly common picture in west Africa's largest country.Niger is, by the reckoning of the UN's Human Development Index, the poorest place on earth.

Very little: it's just a big summer action movie, set in the past but depressingly modern in almost all its particulars.

Another is the "unworthy successor" syndrome, which usually happens when a company hires a design consulting firm to "refresh" an inspired piece of design, only to end up with something similar, but depressingly inferior.

A couple of helpful measures are relatively obvious, but seem depressingly distant.

But the bulk of the record is shopping-mall pop that was probably expensive to make, but sounds depressingly cheap.

Among the lesser-known but nonetheless depressingly impressive details in Ms. Portman's altogether too precociously storied career is that as a student at Syosset High School on Long Island back in the late 1990s, Ms. Portman made it all the way to the semifinal rounds of the Intel competition.

Her eye-opening, nail-biting reconstruction of well-rehearsed events turns war movie cliches on their head, but this depressingly formulaic back-slapping plodathon follows all the usual rules of engagement to the letter: macho military posturing – check; unfaithful servicemen's wives – check; blah blah blah.

But beyond depressingly standard sexism in, well, way too many industries, what is it that accounts for the consistency of backlash in art?