Sentence examples for depressing piece from inspiring English sources

"It's a depressing piece," she said.

Every time you hear a depressing piece of news, come back with something cheerful.

For every depressing piece of news that made me feel that a community I love doesn't want or value me — simply because I'm a woman — there's a flip side.

(Photograph: Downing Street/BY-NC-ND) The Times has a depressing piece on Hamid Karzai's brother Mahmoud, who makes other dodgy Presidential brothers, from Neil Bush to the Confederate Todds, look like the Hardy Boys.

The Times has a depressing piece on Hamid Karzai's brother Mahmoud, who makes other dodgy Presidential brothers, from Neil Bush to the Confederate Todds, look like the Hardy Boys.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin March 5, 2009 The Times has a depressing piece on Hamid Karzai's brother Mahmoud, who makes other dodgy Presidential brothers, from Neil Bush to the Confederate Todds, look like the Hardy Boys.

When two friends died recently, both in freak accidents, I felt sad, but to feel just grief was almost (this sounds terrible, but it is true) a kind of joy: "Will you become depressed doing your depression piece?" everyone has asked me.

Other readers, who mostly sent in their responses via e-mail, were less than impressed, calling the theme of the piece "depressing" and suggesting that if my dilemma were a common one, then the future of humankind is grim.

Otherwise, if you make all of them 'comic' (even in a comedy piece) it can dim the comedy, or indeed if you make them all miserable it will potentially make your piece depressing.

Although she saw merit in the toddler's "attachment to one color," she thought the piece might be depressing for the recipient.

David Green, M.D. Hout Bay, South Africa Rory Stewart's list of heroes, cited at the beginning of Ian Parker's piece, is telling and depressing ("Paths of Glory," November 15th).