depressingly

That, the project workers say, is a depressingly common problem.

It turned out to be a depressingly easy thing to do.

Depressingly, this is not likely to change in four years time.

Most depressingly of all, there seemed no hope, even among the young people.

"We thought it would be on the light side, not depressingly serious," said one woman.

In the land of dramatic changes, some things stay depressingly the same.

How he got them in the first place was almost depressingly ordinary.

One thing about this race has turned out to be depressingly predictable.

Some of the problems facing the new Congress are depressingly familiar.

"Passed out" is actually a depressingly human term, and I should know better than to use it.

The world has depressingly little to show for its 14-month effort on behalf of that state.

So we have been reminded, depressingly, in the month running up to Christmas.

The answer to that one was depressingly obvious, though:her life had never been easy, so why should it start now?

Now they're doing better, but that's a depressingly small cohort after 20 years.

A civil war still hangs depressingly over the African nation.

Imagine my disappointment to find that the food was depressingly good.

It sounded depressingly like any crime scene she'd ever been at.

It once sounded, depressingly perhaps, like a trait only people have.

From their point of view I was depressingly free of blood.

It all sounded depressingly familiar except for two important points.

Which was depressingly identical to the one below; nothing but cells.

New forms of communication are fine - but the message has become depressingly the same.

Return to square one, in the first step of a depressingly repetitive process.

Then the pile of photos begins to look depressingly large.

"But as you know in real life murder is usually depressingly simple.