"depressing view" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a view that makes you feel sad or despondent. For example, "The broken windows and graffiti on the street gave me a depressing view of the city."
"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war".
The Myefo revised this down to -2% and now the budget takes an even more depressing view and has it falling by 5.5%.
And the data leans in favour of Thomas Piketty's thesis that wealth inequality is increasing: certainly the period of the financial crisis upholds that depressing view.
Soon, the agent called about a "miscommunication". The vacancy on offer was on the ground floor, with a depressing view of a loud courtyard where people partied.
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".
THE ROOM My standard room had a bare concrete floor, white décor and a depressing view of an unfinished building just a few feet away.
Why do they have such depressing views of women?
Given the handling on view at the Stade Vélodrome, though, that might also have made for depressing viewing.
It's depressing viewing indeed and smacks more of an exposé of human trafficking than of the fashion industry.
At the same time, there is no prospect of a happy, cathartic outcome here – one reason why the film makes such downbeat and, occasionally, such depressing viewing.
The site is publicly available and makes for depressing viewing, featuring more than 3,000 photographs of people with captions such as "I'm looking for my father", "I'm looking for my wife", "I'm looking for my family".
