Adjective : depressing news.    From Dictionary.com. 

Now, we watch "60 Minutes" and read what Hornbein calls the "depressingly awesome" exposé by climber/author Jon Krakauer "Into Thin Air".    From Wordnik.com.  [Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News] Reference

You know, it's kind of depressingly easy to win nerds over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joystiq] Reference

I never really thought post-modernism was characterized as crazy, just kind of depressingly useless and cynical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Atheism] Reference

Stoneledge the vapour rose and settled depressingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the Hills] Reference

Well, what's going on, sounds depressingly familiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2008] Reference

They were just depressingly familiar surroundings now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alarm Clock] Reference

No, I'm afraid the feedback I get is depressingly proper.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWSMAKERS] Reference

TUCHMAN (on camera): Their stories are depressingly similar.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2005] Reference

His shoulders drooped depressingly, and his eyes were lack-luster.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference

The subway - or Tube, as Londoners call it - is depressingly grubby.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Roving Revolution On London's Streets] Reference

That sort of bad news became almost depressingly routine late last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dangerous Days] Reference

In societies unaccustomed to freedom, they are often depressingly scarce.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Future Of Freedom] Reference

KING: Arwa Damon for us on yet another depressingly deadly day in Baghdad.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2006] Reference

Van Huren was too depressingly right about Clifford Wenkins being at the races.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smokescreen]

There was a sideboard of the kind called Swedish, a depressingly geometric thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Charming Man]

She helped him out of his shirt and jeans with a depressingly sisterly affection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hollow]

This would, depressingly, seem the most relevant lesson from the Battle of Marathon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asher Smith: 2,500 Years Later, Political Lessons From Marathon] Reference

ESMOND gave a depressingly clever rendering of a quite unbelievably appalling landlady.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919] Reference

It was depressingly lit and the furniture, although in good taste, was decidedly shabby.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Cottage Mystery]

McCain and Obama have now settled into a mean-spirited and depressingly familiar tit-for-tat.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Prize to the Noble Loser] Reference

Not one of them disputed his depressingly accurate analysis of the present military situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Running from the Deity]

The diary is available on the web, and many of the entries are depressingly similar to the logs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wikileaks: a new journal of the disasters in Afghanistan] Reference

Had anyone been listening, they would certainly have found the exchanges depressingly appropriate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]

This xB is a bit like a shrunken FJ Cruiser; it's depressingly dark inside with a compromised view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just in: Scion xB] Reference

All of this is depressingly familiar to those of us who were around for the Clinton health-care fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [For energy reform advocates, lessons from health care] Reference

This poor thing is so depressingly shy -- I say depressingly, because his shyness affects his company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow."] Reference

But something felt depressingly the same in Ashburn on Thursday as Haynesworth slowly walked off the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [On first day of Redskins training camp, Albert Haynesworth learns who is boss] Reference

They're depressingly close to gassing the country into another six to nine months of Monica, polls be damned.    From Wordnik.com.  ['They Always Get It Right'] Reference

But so is his cynicism – most depressingly, in an old routine about manipulative women and their violent men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doug Stanhope] Reference

Suddenly the studios are sending him scripts again; so far, Altman's rejected them all as depressingly formulaic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood Is Talking] Reference

But the strategy of drawing Israel into a war and then blaming it for "aggression" is a depressingly familiar one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben S. Cohen: A Deadly Game in Lebanon] Reference

The parallelswith present-day trafficking seem depressingly clear, but Arnold leavesher readers to make theconnection.    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Sin: London and its Vices by Catharine Arnold] Reference

Every action by one government is producing a countermove by another, in a classic and depressingly predictable spiral.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trouble With Subsidies] Reference

But among some younger men, frustrated and marginalized in British society, I discovered a fury that was depressingly familiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jihad Chic Comes to London] Reference

Dole's aides are churning out spin that must sound depressingly familiar to a boss with so much experience in national politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dole's Dilemma] Reference

A lot of them are about terrorism and the Middle East, and some of the headlines from before I was born are depressingly eternal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowland: The Saddam Files (I)] Reference

The bar, already depressingly low, will notch down even further, especially for public figures like Giuliani who cannot easily sue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honey, I Have A Headache] Reference

Rightwing columnists and, depressingly but predictably in these appeasing times, leftwing journalists have joined the moaning chorus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies without God are more benevolent] Reference

I fell for the curvy, translucent aqua case that lets you peer at the innards -- a standout in a world of depressingly uniform taupe boxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Last, A Really Big Mac] Reference