In addition, too many old friends had died, and seeing their names was a depressing reminder of loss.

The query about their passports was a depressing reminder that they were going to have to pass through customs.

As for Akashima Island, it remains a gorgeous but depressing reminder of what can happen to a place when its population ages.

The vacant and deteriorating structures, which could be seen from Interstate 95, were a depressing reminder of the industry's woes.

Reading through the transcript afterwards was often a depressing reminder of missed opportunities.

Here was a depressing reminder that Washington's ability to do things on the heroic scale nowadays seems confined to warfare.

This year, it's another depressing reminder of a sick man who's lost his job, his team and his reputation, all at once.

But the Yahoo news is just another depressing reminder of all the wasted time and energy put into these schemes designed to create roadblocks for legal users.

All in all, it's a rather depressing reminder of the fact that there's still a lot of bad, misleading science writing out there.

But today the graduation season is a depressing reminder for many mainstream Protestant churches of their growing irrelevance in the inner city.