Sentence examples for depressing tendency from inspiring English sources
GATHERINGS of world leaders have a depressing tendency to promise much and deliver little.
True, grassroots conservatives have a depressing tendency to rally around gimcrack proposals ("9-9-9," the gold standard etc).
Roisin Campbell-Palmer, conservation projects manager at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), which has funded and helped run the Knapdale project, said there was a depressing tendency to kill beavers in the area.
Certainly, we've seen a depressing tendency in which so-called progressives respond to Hansonism and other manifestations of conservative populism by denouncing ordinary people as incorrigible bigots and suggesting measures to short circuit the democratic process so as to keep the oiks under control.
For Cho Guk of Seoul National University this is a depressing return to tendencies associated with the dictatorship of Ms Park's late father, Park Chung-hee, a military strongman.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick wrote in Tendencies, "The depressing thing about the Christmas season -- isn't it?
"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war".
After all, it's not Dr Strangelove but his spiritual successor Donald Rumsfeld who complained: "Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war".
And when asked about whether the increasing violence was evidence of the war going badly, Rumsfeld reasoned in 2005 that "Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war".
"Depressing, depressing, depressing, despicable, depressing, annoying, depressing; repeat 8x," Tkacik summarized her take on the book.
