When I wrote to the paper, saying how depressing that attitude was, the columnist replied, airily, there were more important things to get depressed about.
Even more depressing are attitudes about violence towards women highlighted in Just the Women: "Violence against women and girls cannot be prevented unless the attitudes that excuse and normalise violence are changed".
The story is ultimately depressing, though, its attitude about misbehavior defeated and fatalistic.
But it's more depressing that patronising attitudes towards Asian women keep persisting decades later.
A bad attitude is depressing to the team.
Students wrote: "[His] upbeat attitude despite his often depressing illness was refreshing and motivating" and "[My buddy] is one of the strongest people I have ever met and she continues to keep a positive attitude in the face of her terrible disease".
I think the inertia and the 'it's nothing to do with me, guv' attitude has been the most depressing.
Nick Williams Auchenblae, Aberdeenshire Perhaps the most depressing thing about the rapidly advancing crisis is not the attitude of the government, which has long had a drearily utilitarian view about higher education, but the inevitable Balkanisation of the sector.
This struck me as either very European, a French-like attitude to comfort trumping commercial competence, or really depressing, a self-imposed curfew borne of boredom and indifference.
The preparatory attitudes for the latter concerns don't feel depressing, merely pragmatic.
It's more than a little depressing that Hysteria – a film set in the mid-1880s – has a healthier, more open attitude towards female sexuality than the vast majority of films set in the present day.
