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This rainy weather is depressing.
He paints a depressing picture of modern life.
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Instead, Chernow devotes a hefty portion of his 1,039 pages (excluding notes) to Twain’s personal tribulations, a depressing series of bungles and calamities starting in the author’s middle age.
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Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025
Based on the memoir of a real doctor, the stories and tribulations feel achingly real, and Whishaw's sly smile and tongue-in-cheek delivery keeps the depressing stories from becoming too morose.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 8 May 2025
The lack of business on Sunday and Monday nights could be especially depressing.
—Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2025
Despite a depressing number of failures, the program achieved some remarkable firsts, including the first probe to impact another planet, the first sampling of another planet's atmosphere, and the first and, to this day, only landings on Venus.
—New Atlas, 4 May 2025
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Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025
Based on the memoir of a real doctor, the stories and tribulations feel achingly real, and Whishaw's sly smile and tongue-in-cheek delivery keeps the depressing stories from becoming too morose.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 8 May 2025
The lack of business on Sunday and Monday nights could be especially depressing.
—Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2025
Despite a depressing number of failures, the program achieved some remarkable firsts, including the first probe to impact another planet, the first sampling of another planet's atmosphere, and the first and, to this day, only landings on Venus.
—New Atlas, 4 May 2025
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“Depressing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/depressing. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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