The other notable trend is the depressing performance of countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Former Cabinet minister Jack Straw said Mr Miliband should consider his position after presiding over a "depressing" performance.
And yet, it's never a depressing performance, because Furman – though not as fizzing with energy as at his own headline shows – is never less than a committed performer, and, after the solid touring behind his last two albums, his band, the Boy Friends, are now devastatingly tight and controlled.
That depressing performance would have been even worse without "vendor allowances" and "slotting fees," cash paid to grocery stores by big food companies seeking prominent placement of their products.
The Boston Symphony has traveled light-years since the final seasons of Seiji Ozawa's tenure, when discordant relations between the players and Mr. Ozawa were too often manifest in depressing performances.
Last season's depressing four-day performances were hardly isolated incidents for the Welsh county.
The EPWS exhibited superlative performance in depressing hydration and improving wellbore stability at 77, 100, and 120 °C, corroborating its flexible adaptability to temperature.
Following their deserved defeat by France at the Linkoping Arena on Thursday, there was a depressing familiarity to the performance, when England looked slow, struggled to maintain possession, and lacked the kind of attacking incisiveness that their opponents showed.
The performance was as depressing as the results, which matched a dry, ordinary chocolate cake that one of us had, and an overwrought, underwhelming banana split.
Similarly, Max Hastings, writing in the Mail under the headline "Miliband's evasions and untruths would shame even a dodgy estate agent" dipped his pen in the bluest of inks to write a withering character assassination of Labour's leader: "Miliband's performance was deeply depressing, because it is bad for us all that the official opposition should be in the hands of a consummate ass".
"Mitch Claydon and Graham Onions provided a bit of light relief on the final morning for the 30 or so who turned up to witness it but, from a home perspective, this performance was as depressing as the winter weather which battered the ground over the four days".
