"Depressing reading" refers to something that is written or read and that makes you feel sad, hopeless, or downhearted.
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All nonsense media rumours of course, but that's got to make for
depressing reading if you're a Liverpool fan haha.
The report warns that cold weather in the ongoing week is likely to
depress readings in this report for next week.
Consider a reasonable, simple, even elegant alternative to replace the vicious circle of narrowed curriculum and comprehension skills of limited efficacy, which over
time depress reading achievement.
GameSetWatch «s bean counter Matt Matthews has studied sales of some of the PS3's big guns (excluding pack - in bundle copies) and the figures make for
depressing reading if you're rooting for Sony.
Now he has written a further volume Fall Out A Year of Political Mayhem (William Collins) which makes
for depressing reading for the political establishment.
Without the humor, it's
depressing reading.
At Postmodern Conservative, we have unwinnable wars, Tocqueville, climate change (of a sort), the Robert Gates memoir, depressing charts, and
depressing reading.
It's
depressing reading the same old repetitive negative comments from the same old repetitive people.
whining all day on this site isn't going to change anything anyway, its just making
me depressed reading these comments!
A Political Suicide makes fascinating if
depressing reading and not only for Conservatives.
Nevertheless, the details continue to make
depressing reading for Miliband, whose personal polling is consistently disastrous.
The poll will make
depressing reading for Alex Salmond, who will feel frustrated that he is getting such little traction on a central issue to voters.
Describing the report as «
depressing reading,» the Liberal Democrats said it showed the government's strategies to increase reading have so far been ineffectual.
The YouGov survey for the Sun will make
depressing reading for the prime minister as he prepares for the Conservative party conference in Birmingham.
It sometimes makes for
depressing reading.
What they found makes
depressing reading for true romantics.
The older Ofsted reports for the school, which used to be called Kirkley Community High School, are
a depressing read.
Depressing read; I cringed at some parts.
Meanwhile on ArtNet, Naomi Rae investigates the gender pay - gap in the UK art world, and finds that recently published studies make for
depressing reading.
Re Z makes
depressing reading: the elegance and depth of Bodey J's analysis is beset by resonances of a firm's concern to keep a wealthy client (costs at the pre-issue stage were around # 150,000, to which Mr Z found himself contributing # 32,500 towards a particular five - week period (para 48)-RRB-.