Sentence examples for depressing affairs from inspiring English sources

Songs about touring with a rock'n'roll band are normally alienating, depressing affairs (from the Arctic Monkeys' Despair In The Departure Lounge to most of the Streets' third album) yet Owens makes it sound just like you imagine it should be: a beautiful, bohemian experience.

Most promposals are weird, awkward, depressing affairs.

A deeply depressing end to a deeply depressing affair.

Reading the Brit awards nominations is a depressing affair.

Whatever the gender, its study was a depressing affair.

Even had a gold been awarded, however, this would still have been a deeply depressing affair.

Her funeral, which produced a massive outpouring of sentiment in Europe, was a muted and depressing affair in Moscow.

It's a gory, depressing affair that bears an ultra-Darwinian message in its blood-stained hands.

But even allowing for the dismal track record in this field, Maria Miller's first speech as Culture Secretary was a singularly depressing affair.

She survives Bergen-Belsen, and survives her depressing affair with Meyer Lansky, and survives her failure to find a lasting affinity for Israel.

Needless to say, none of the courts through which this depressing affair has filtered thought the implied constitutional freedom of communication on political affairs was applicable.