It was truly depressing.

It would be just too depressing.

Now, that's my little, depressing story.

Am I a biohazard? It was pretty depressing.

We won't talk about that anymore. It's too depressing.

The Depressing Food of the Depression, in A Square Meal

That's why little girls don't do math. It's too depressing.

All of us in our 60s and 70s have comparable depressing stories.

It's seen as a squishy kumbaya thing, or it's seen as potentially depressing.

Mr. Rachmianto (Indonesia) The situation surrounding multilateral disarmament diplomacy and machinery is depressing.

And it's a very depressing place to be in the morning, it's very crowded.

Well, that's true if it's a depressing world in which this pie cannot be made any bigger.

Well, after Lesotho, I traveled across Africa before returning to England so gray and depressing, in comparison.

We've asked, well maybe older people are just trying to put a positive spin on an otherwise depressing existence.

When I first went to Dongguan, I worried that it would be depressing to spend so much time with workers.

I mean, this is all very depressing, right people have conflicts of interest, we don't see it, and so on.

And as you get older and more decrepit, you sort of inch along on this sort of depressing, long staircase, leading you into oblivion.

Indeed, there are lots of depressing statistics about how poorly companies listen. They don t respond effectively to feedback or to questions submitted through their Web sites.

But bad news is emerging from the smaller countries as well, including the Baltic states. Across Central and Eastern Europe, the scene is almost universally depressing.

Given Europe s fiscal deficits and the economic impact of reducing them, that is a huge potential prize. But, first, the issues depressing the carbon price must be addressed.

There's a few discussions right now that I think are very positive, about depressing the West Side Highway and connecting this over, so that there's one uninterrupted piece of land.

Let me also, from this Chair, express my pride in having Jan Egeland as one of my successors in that important and sometimes sadly depressing function inside the United Nations.

If so, leaders are playing a dangerous game that depends on encouraging more future spending by exciting consumers and investors now, while depressing actual spending just when it is most urgently needed.

It is depressing to see a scientist even a highly politicized one calling for a latter day Inquisition. Such a blatant attempt to curtail scientific inquiry and stifle free speech seems inexcusable.

A lot of the experience of people here who've been in the oceans for a long time has just been seeing this degradation, the places they saw that were beautiful getting worse, depressing.

And I eventually abandoned the book, and then Chris called me to talk at the conference. I really don't talk about this anymore because, you know, there's enough frustrating and depressing things going on.

With higher interest rates depressing housing prices, the game is over. As America moves to, say, a 4 savings rate (still small by normal standards), aggregate demand will weaken, and with it, the economy.

And it was worth it, because they bought this thing, and it played out on such a grand scale, and it's so internationally recognizable, but for me it was actually a very, very depressing year.

We are moving back to the Sun King s world, in which everything personal is known, rumored, or whispered. But now, with electronic surveillance, personal dependence has never been more extreme, more humiliating, and more depressing.

It's a problem across the developing world, and in middle income countries too. In Jamaica, for example look at Jamaican members of Parliament, you meet them, and they're often people who are Rhodes Scholars, who've studied at Harvard or at Princeton, and yet, you go down to downtown Kingston, and you are looking at one of the most depressing sites that you can see in any middle income country in the world a dismal, depressing landscape of burnt and half abandoned buildings.

Critics of Bachelet claim that this agenda is already depressing business investment and is responsible for relatively slow economic growth. And they worry that foreign and domestic investors will be discouraged by the new labor rules.

Of course, Africa is a continent full of catastrophes There are immense ones, such as the horrific rapes in Congo and depressing ones, such as the fact that 5,000 people apply for one job vacancy in Nigeria.

That possibility alone should be sufficient to spur the IMF, the United States, and, above all, the EU to act. In the grey and depressing days of the Soviet Union, an independent and democratic Ukraine seemed unimaginable.

Truly Pharaoh elated himself in the land and broke up its people into sections, depressing a small group among them their sons he slew, but he kept alive their females for he was indeed a maker of mischief.

Truly Pharaoh elated himself in the land and broke up its people into sections, depressing a small group among them their sons he slew, but he kept alive their females for he was indeed a maker of mischief.

We've known about global warming for 50 years and done little about it, says Google.org director Larry Brilliant. In spite of this and other depressing trends, he's optimistic and tells us why. From Skoll World Forum, Oxford, UK, www.skollfoundation.org

Unresolved boundary issues, squabbles over oil revenues, the ongoing conflict in Darfur, escalating tribal violence in the south and generally weak state capacity across all of Sudan complete a very depressing picture of the state of affairs in Africa's largest country.

That in itself may have a depressing effect on the economy, partly offsetting the monetary stimulus. Indeed, it may be one reason why highly expansionary policies by the Fed and other central banks have taken so long to generate growth.

The most thoughtful of them understood that consumption depends on real income, and that depressing real income destroys businesses. Above all, they understood that the solution to the problems created by machines would not be found in laissez faire nostrums.

This was around the time that I started filling out physically, and I was filling out a lot more than a lot of the other girls, and, frankly, the whole idea that my astrological sign was a scale just seemed ominous and depressing.

Even if a budget is adopted, there is no lack of depressing business for the Austrian presidency, which starts on January 1. The deepest problem is Europe s inability to grow at more than a snail s pace and to provide jobs to its citizens.

One explanation is that the advanced economies had taken on too much debt and needed to deleverage, contributing to a pattern of public sector underinvestment and depressing consumption and private investment as well. But deleveraging is a temporary process, not one that limits growth indefinitely.

But it is depressing to hear that many university departments are still in denial. That is not because students lack interest I teach a course at Sciences Po in Paris on the consequences of the crisis for financial markets, and the demand is overwhelming.

Given that there are little more than two months until the Copenhagen summit on climate change, which is supposed to frame the successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol, this is depressing. Perhaps the only people not suddenly depressed are those immersed in the negotiations.

As an angel investor in start up companies and a sometime philanthropist, I have the luxury of traveling the world and talking with articulate people who give me an unofficial, clear eyed view of how most countries actually work. It is a depressing picture.