Sentence examples for depressingly short from inspiring English sources
Lacking showbiz pizzazz or a big star, it nonetheless had a depressingly short run.
By the standards he set himself, those of the old European high culture of his mixed ancestry, he fell depressingly short.
Young sluggers Ike Davis and Lucas Duda fell depressingly short of the high perhaps overly so expectations that management had for them coming into the season.
The list of 80's artists, especially painters, who have deepened their work in the ensuing years often seems depressingly short, but Mr. Bosman should be on it.
LONG before any trade minister sets foot in Hong Kong, it has become clear that next week's meeting of the World Trade Organisation will fall depressingly short of its goals.
Matches and moments define careers and when England left the field at half-time, trailing by seven points in a match depressingly short on inspiration and ambition, all kicks but no kickstart, a question to ponder was whether Owen Farrell would return for the second half.
Clegg calls all this depressingly short-sighted by the other parties.
Eight months later, there has been depressingly little progress.
The evidence may be verifiable (and even depressingly familiar), but its complex underpinnings are given short shrift.
More serious still was Mr Geithner's financial-rescue blueprint which, though touted as a bold departure from the incrementalism and uncertainty that had plagued the Bush administration's Wall Street fixes, in fact looked depressingly like his predecessors' efforts: timid, incomplete and short on detail.
A clear majority of 58% would like to see two or more being pursuedIn short, the debate around public spending has looked depressingly tribal in recent weeks.
