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Discover LudwigThe phrase "hard depression" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a severe, long-lasting depression, for example: "John has been suffering from hard depression for a few months now."
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In many interviews and columns he wrote for Catholic New York, the archdiocesan weekly newspaper, Cardinal O'Connor often recalled his early upbringing: the warmth and seriousness of family prayers and religious observances; the forceful views of his father, "a union man," on the rights of labor; the need for frugality during the hard Depression years.
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For a while, I admit I was one of those students, and was hit hard by depression in the middle of my graduate career.
"While I was helping out at basketball practice, I fell back and hit my head pretty hard". His depression set in late in 2008.
In 1939 Howard made the hard-hitting Depression drama Back Door to Heaven (1939), which featured Jimmy Lydon as a teenager growing up in poverty who turns to a life of crime.
Brad DeLong has a post on Paul Ryan's hysterical reaction to QE3, which is worth reading just for this: "Honest money" is a Ron Paul dog whistle: the good productive workers, the bad exploitative usurers, the necessity of a hard-money depression to cleanse the monetary colon you know the drill.
His work schedule during the holidays would certainly make Andy more vulnerable than most to seasonal affective disorder, but the force behind his eyes is harder than depression, closer to rage.
I find it hard to describe depression when, as now, I am not depressed.
Prohibition, isolationism, the stock market bubble and the crisis in farming made that hard; the Great Depression, harder still.
Like all Americans, writers had been hit hard by the Depression.
Those are the recollections of Studs Terkel, from his classic oral history of the Great Depression, "Hard Times".
"It jumps around, bouncing off ropes it doesn't have to & slapping at elbows until the going is hard - a depression say, or a war that begins badly.
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