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We thought that because they had made it, getting repeated novels into the public eye, our favorite B-listers were selling zillions of copies – but realistically, these guys were pulling in depressingly reasonable numbers.

When "I've Heard Of Them!" Becomes "They've Heard Of Me!" 2006

So when I saw this vintage commercial for some 1-900 number that, when dialed, makes the dialee burst into horribly-acted sobs … well, let’s just say my dialing finger is shaking in depressingly sad anticipation.

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Now, we watch "60 Minutes" and read what Hornbein calls the "depressingly awesome" exposé by climber/author Jon Krakauer "Into Thin Air".

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News 2011

And I say "depressingly" as despite liking the SNP, I think I would vote no to independence at the current time but I would like to see MSPs putting forward a better argument than just sticking their fingers in their ears at the mere mention of the idea.

Empty chairs at empty tables Jeff 2007

"From the very first press releases carrying the news of [the] death [of Jacques Derrida] it was clear that the papers were going to have a field day with the kind of depressingly familiar distortions of his thought that he had to face so often - and faced so graciously - when he was alive."

Gray morning M-mv 2004

"From the very first press releases carrying the news of [the] death [of Jacques Derrida] it was clear that the papers were going to have a field day with the kind of depressingly familiar distortions of his thought that he had to face so often - and faced so graciously - when he was alive."

Archive 2004-11-01 M-mv 2004

You know, it's kind of depressingly easy to win nerds over.

Joystiq Justin McElroy 2010

You know, it's kind of depressingly easy to win nerds over.

Joystiq Justin McElroy 2010

I never really thought post-modernism was characterized as crazy, just kind of depressingly useless and cynical.

Planet Atheism 2008

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