Sentence examples for depressing picture from inspiring English sources

France has been shaken this week by harrowing testimony from a trial in Lille that not only put in the dock Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund chief and one-time French presidential hopeful, but also examined a much wider, depressing picture of poverty, women submitted to sex acts against their will and alleged pimps who referred to them as "livestock".

Reading the pilot script, she saw only a "miserable" single woman, a group of people she "didn't care" about and a "depressing" picture of male-female relations.

Quite a depressing picture.

"It's a very depressing picture.

It's a chilling and depressing picture.

It all adds up to a depressing picture.

Amid this depressing picture, two rays of light still shine.

The wards in the referral hospital paint a depressing picture.

This little gesture of acknowledgment put the finishing touches on a depressing picture.

But the past two decades have produced a more depressing picture.

A glimpse around the other units in the vicinity paints a very depressing picture.