It was filthy and depressingly short.

Despite whatever claims to the contrary they might make, the people had grown horribly dependent upon her in a depressingly short amount of time.

He'd taken all the food he could conveniently carry from their depressingly short supply.

Her intention to banish him had already shattered his fragile sexual ego, turning him from cool stud back into trembling inadequate in a depressingly short time.

It was, he said, a depressingly short list.

For another, if the invaders from the west won, the future for which they were trying to save Lamra would prove depressingly short.

Already the America he's encountered falls depressingly short of his dreams.

THE season for apricots is depressingly short.

The list is depressingly short.

In a depressingly short period of time I had been cleaned out of my starting allotment of chips.