It certainly is a depressing time to be a beginning author.

"It's just a depressing time to be on the prairie."

And because school occupies a major part of the child's life, childhood itself will become an increasingly depressing time.

For career soldiers lie Jack it was a depressing time.

"For a lot of people, Sunday evening is a depressing, lonely time," he said.

There is no point in dwelling on the depressing time that followed.

"And that's why this is a very depressing time to make movies."

"For your average Czech in the streets, this was a profoundly depressing time."

This year was a sad and depressing time for Mohammad.

That was the most depressing time of my life.