"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war".
Given the handling on view at the Stade Vélodrome, though, that might also have made for depressing viewing.
It also offers a simultaneously hopeful and depressing view of economic conditions in poor countries, focusing on Brazil, India and Russia.
It's depressing viewing indeed and smacks more of an exposé of human trafficking than of the fashion industry.
The Myefo revised this down to -2% and now the budget takes an even more depressing view and has it falling by 5.5%.
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.
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.
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.
This matters because it projects a depressing view of how the far right in Britain is likely to behave in the weeks and months ahead.
