Sentence examples for depressing task from inspiring English sources

It was a melancholy and depressing task for a decent man.

The New Yorker, November 10 , 1945P. 19 Tells about the depressing task given two writers doing a scenario of "The Life of Cole Porter".

By Ludwig Bemelmans The New Yorker, November 10 , 1945P. 19 Tells about the depressing task given two writers doing a scenario of "The Life of Cole Porter".

There are hundreds of thousands of women like Rachel out there with such a myriad of complex problems that even listing those I know about can be a depressing task.

At the end of the day, Lai was just trying to help a few kids make it through the unbearably depressing task of starting school again with some good, old-fashioned entertainment.

Lamb has made no attempt to hide his anger at the slow progress, acknowledging the programme has proved an abject failure and describing it in an interview with the Health Service Journal as "utterly hopeless" and his "most depressing and frustrating task".

Against the backdrop of swirling nationalism, it is for Labour's supporters a depressing and daunting task.

Gradually he has managed to dilute the depressing nature of the task with enjoyment of its utter inevitability.

It emerged Larkin had complained to photographer Fay Godwin that taking his picture would be a thankless task: "my sagging face, an egg sculpted in lard, with goggles on – depressing, depressing, depressing".

Ali Catterall 9pm, Channel 4 Looking back on what has been a notably depressing year, it might seem a near-impossible task to pick out moments worthy of levity.

But others took to the task and what they shared was strange, depressing, joyous or just plain revealing.