Sentence examples for depressing reminder from inspiring English sources

Respectful and thorough, this unembellished true-crime story might have only regional appeal, but its depressing reminder of our failure to prevent similar calamities will resonate nationwide.

Downing Street cannot give a breakdown of the figures and, for many, this may seem like a depressing reminder of "facts" manufactured to justify Tony Blair joining George W Bush's invasion of Iraq.

It was yet another depressing reminder that more than 11 years after 9/11 Americans still allow themselves to be easily and willingly cowed by the "threat" of terrorism.

For those who hoped the lurid collapse of Fifa would herald a new age, the manoeuvrings of recent months have been a depressing reminder that the more things change, the more they appear to stay the same.

It is a depressing reminder that the law in Thailand can seem at the service of its political masters, rather than the other way around.On the streets of Khlong Toey, the largest slum in Bangkok, there is nostalgia for Mr Thaksin's iron-fisted drugs policy.

The shrill, overstuffed, spiritless cinematic contraption being marketed under the label "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas" is a depressing reminder that when Hollywood decides to lavish more than $100 million on a beloved children's story, that money has to go somewhere.

She didn't want any extra "depressing" reminders -- like a birthday card or a call to wish her a good day -- that she was getting older.

Some of the signs of Britain's economic plight are invisible, but the gaps in Woodstock's high street are depressing, and an all-too-real reminder of a shift in our lives.

The acrid, dystopian humour of The Future and First We Take Manhattan is as resonant now as it was 20 years ago, a reminder that the only people who dub Cohen depressing are those that don't get the jokes.

For someone like me, who has always believed in politics and liked politicians, the regular reminder that the whole business can be venal and tawdry is infuriating and depressing.

Nobody likes getting a letter from the Student Loans Company; an annual reminder that you owe around £44,000 is – like most things you get through the post – depressing.