Brenda Maddox finds Caroline Moorehead's biography of the pathbreaking journalist Martha Gellhorn "depressing" (Oct . 26.
Now the smoke has cleared, we must have an honest discussion about what happened during those depressing summer days.
It was instructive and depressing this week to watch President Obama and Congressional Republicans marching in completely different directions on energy policy.
Interestingly, given the depressing summer and cringing beginning the league had image-wise, Laraque points again to the game's enforcers as users.
If nothing else it is a comforting antidote to "Rich Girls," a lowbrow version of the clinically depressing 1985 novel "Less Than Zero".
They did not make a point of seeing Injustice, the brilliant and desperately depressing 2001 documentary about deaths in police custody, of which at the time there had been 1,000 in the previous 30 years, without a single conviction.
Standing outside at a pay phone in the sub-freezing temperatures this morning, Orlando Castro, 25, had a depressing Christmas conversation with his girlfriend, Julia Martinez, back home in the Bronx.
A lap swimmer, putting off thoughts of a mildly depressing Christmas, calms a stranger's wailing toddler with the promise that the holiday will be wonderful, and the child's impoverished, miserable relatives will be nice to one another.
Cutting back and forth from Jackson's earlier days to the period following the 2005 child-molesting trial, Mr. Sullivan spends way too much time chronicling the pop star's depressing later years: his restless travels to Bahrain and Ireland, his growing dependence on drugs, his downward-spiraling finances and his reluctant decision to embark on a 50-show comeback tour.
"So I was picturing a credit sequence that starts on a crèche, and a raindrop hits the baby, and then more rain, then you cut to a Santa ringing his bell and holding an umbrella, cut to a frozen wreath, and you're getting the idea of a really soggy and depressing Christmas".
