But a depressingly mediocre streamer who murders people... is still just a depressingly mediocre streamer.
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"If I was putting forward these ideas in Germany, I'd be called depressingly moderate, depressingly old-fashioned," Mr Corbyn has said.
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It's a hoot, as funny as it is depressingly bleak.
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Or, more depressingly, maybe they did, and it didn't matter.
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But compared to even 2014, this number is depressingly low.
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The issue is that it was so criminally, depressingly familiar.
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Thus, the road to full disclosure is depressingly in doubt.
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The story is as jarring as it is depressingly familiar.
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While scandalous, this kind of behavior is also depressingly predictable.
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It's not that Millie's delusional; her dejection is depressingly realistic.
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Depressingly for the party, they've had little success so far.
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At first glance, the answer to that question looks depressingly obvious.
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The answer is depressingly obvious: Cable companies make us do it.
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The work is Unabomber-crazy, very funny and depressingly on target.
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We may even have to give up the word—depressingly many Americans still believe what J. Edgar Hoover believed or, even more depressingly, what Ayn Rand believed: that solidarity is a delusion and altruism a pathology.
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Depressingly, this was found to be by far the most likely outcome.
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The ratio of students to teachers at German universities is depressingly high.
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More depressingly, only five percent cited professional involvement or cited medical literature.
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Depressingly, the human body costs less than one semester of college tuition.
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Attacks such as these are becoming depressingly regular in the Afghan capital.
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Most depressingly, Kitson was offering a ten tote bags for $10 deal.
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In fact, suicides by farmers because of their debt are depressingly common.
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The list of Native American governors in American history is depressingly short.
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So too Arsenal have been somehow diminished, their football depressingly weak and anaemic.
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You can read the full, darkly hilarious and depressingly spot-on interview, here.
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THE attack appears depressingly similar to several others in recent years in France.
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Though Rolling Blackouts takes place in 2010, the events documented are depressingly current.
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Twitter is normally a vehicle for adorable cat pictures or depressingly chronic trolling.
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Musk later called the Wired story a "depressingly misleading & misanthropic article" on Twitter.
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Web browsers like Netscape Navigator were depressingly gray, slow, and didn't support extensions.
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But when I turned off the lights, my little dino remained depressingly dark.
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Jardin said this kind of treatment is depressingly common for women in technology.
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In standup comedy, the contrast between those two states is so depressingly clear.
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To those of us brought up in the 6900s, it's all depressingly familiar.
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The air quality in Delhi was horrific on Sunday, but also depressingly predictable.
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Since the deregulation of the 1970s and 1980s, crises have been depressingly common.
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Try googling "small female celebrities" – you'll notice the results are depressingly uniform in tone.
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It was a painfully honest answer and a depressingly cynical one, all at once.
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It's depressingly reminiscent of the 1970s and 1980s, when black boys were the boogiemen.
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Santa's suffering is a depressingly common tale among teams from the northeast of Brazil.
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Will the next four years be a similar parade of ever depressingly lower moments?
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Now, as our affairs become dizzyingly complex and depressingly straightforward, it is getting lost.
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In and around the East Village, places were either depressingly rundown or impressively updated.
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Almost every key indicator is up and to the right, except, rather depressingly, diversity.
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Rather depressingly, all were able to name famous men from history without a second thought.
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Her account will sound depressingly familiar to anyone who has been following the Weinstein scandal.
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Was the whole thing a depressingly empty, unironic attempt at publicity for Sophia's human captors?
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The reality that distracts him from making music is banal, finite, and depressingly grown-up.
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Depressingly, it appears female celebrities have taken up the mantle of knee-jerk victim-blaming.
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UNU also depressingly predicted a great war would break out within the next 15 years.
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Depressingly, the biggest offender is the government, whose various departments and agencies owe almost $300m.
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This is depressingly consistent with almost every attempt to prosecute police for killing black civilians.
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But most depressingly: being assaulted, grabbed, groped, etc is not an unusual occurrence for women.
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As Jenny Wright pointed out on NTV Thursday night, this is a depressingly common problem.
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It was depressingly traditional and puritanical ideology hidden behind a seemingly modern, egalitarian look and logo.
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A depressingly large number of the public still supports Mr. Trump's temporary ban on Muslim immigration.
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City blocks once strewn with family-owned businesses are a depressingly predictable spread: CVS. 7-11.
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We'd been here again and again, but somehow, this felt depressingly the same yet also different.
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At this point, the sexual harassment allegations against CBS head Les Moonves sound sickeningly, depressingly familiar.
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That, depressingly but unsurprisingly, mattered not one whit to the protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court.
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But McCain pursued his conservative ends through means that are depressingly rare in today's Republican Party.
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Yet the full picture ends up being depressingly similar to what it was on health care.
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This summer's unrest is another transformative process — if a painful and, at times, depressingly violent one.
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Instead, it's the way the film thinks about changing minds and hearts that feels depressingly quaint.
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Still, the GLAAD report is a notable sign of progress in a year that's seen depressingly little.
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The drama is depressingly standard-issue for the president-elect, but this one comes with a kicker.
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In any case, even that question receives a depressingly small amount of coverage on the national stage.
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Depressingly, the army continues its bloody persecution of Rohingya Muslims in the west, for example (see article).
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Instead, they spend countless hours depressingly dialing for dollars, listening sympathetically to wealthy and generally partisan donors.
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It often felt like watching a depressingly-skeezy Choose Your Own Adventure book play out every weekend.
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It is a space, ultimately, of commerce which Harry Potter: Wizard's Unite feels depressingly in tune with.
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It's depressingly fitting, then, that people can now not only purchase Border Patrol Agent costumes for Halloween.
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It's troubling however you look at it Whatever definition you consider, the instances are too depressingly frequent.
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This is depressingly indicative of the competitive state the rising contributors of the games press are facing.
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It was depressingly, almost deliriously bad: full of bad arguments, bizarre tangents, and a lot of shouting.
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On one hand, this scam is depressingly easy to pull off that even I could've done it.
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Online harassment has become a depressingly common workplace hazard for people of color in the public eye.
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Depressingly, we're going to be hearing a lot more about this English patriotism over the coming years.
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Unraveling them is either going to be quite special, or depressingly unfulfilling if any questions go unanswered.
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It helps keep the percentage of women employed in well-paying STEM fields, especially engineering, depressingly low.
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When I ask him why these numbers were so low, he responds with a depressingly common explanation.
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Tech companies lament lack of diversity with words not backed by action; policy change has been depressingly sluggish.
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Depressingly, the argument that follows is a cynical one about the relative strengths of China, America and Canada.
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Soft, squishy humans are depressingly short-lived, brief flares of creativity in the vast entropy of our universe.
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The government's communications have been inept, and some Muslim leaders depressingly unwilling to accept responsibility for fighting terrorism.
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The unsettling message of Fox & Friends is depressingly clear by now: Everything is out to get you, forever.
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The mix of things presumed to transmit and increase female power is without limit yet still depressingly limiting.
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Given the steady drumbeat of #MeToo stories over the past year, the news from CBS is depressingly familiar.
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Luckily (depressingly?), there are a lot of guides online that explain how to have fun at the park.
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He had installed a number of ball games on his phone and noticed how they all felt depressingly similar.
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According to this ad for Clean and Dry Intimate Wash, your depressingly dark vagina is probably ruining your marriage.
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It made headlines with the first Black Bachelorette, Rachel Lindsay, in 2017, but the season received depressingly low ratings.
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Observed with gloating precision by Sean Odea's dispassionate camera, the flaying and knifing, drilling and gagging are depressingly pointless.
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Depressingly, the median neighbourhood poverty rate is identical for poor children, whether their families hold a voucher or not.
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Depressingly enough, they questioned whether consumers would actually use the product, even if it's in their own best interest.
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Not liking what you see in the mirror is depressingly common, but it doesn't have to be that way.
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His abysmal poll numbers are only the most obvious sign that his approach to politics is deeply, depressingly familiar.
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The United States scores depressingly low compared with other advanced countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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The Antifederalists never tired of pointing this out, and their arguments will strike the contemporary reader as depressingly relevant.
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The Ivory Game would just be another heart-pounding crime thriller if its subject matter wasn't so depressingly true.
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In two years since the attack at Pulse nightclub occurred, depressingly little has changed about gun violence in this country.
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The study concluded that hair maintenance could indeed affect girls' participation in physical activity — depressingly, even at a young age.
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Newly qualified ones without such points are sent to the toughest schools, and turnover in such places is depressingly high.
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The entertainer shows off for the crew, but has a depressingly low level of self-confidence in his green room.
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The stakes feel higher now, with international actors and an election at stake, but the logic itself is depressingly familiar.
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" But the truth, Kerry said -- which is "depressingly ... absent from the American dialogue" -- is that "we have not exhausted diplomacy.
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Throughout his career, Mr. Wines has proselytized for enticing public space, something he finds depressingly rare in the United States.
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The subcompact market is obviously entry-level, but the new Versa proves that it doesn't have to be depressingly barebones.
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Beyond the European overcapacity issue, any new Tesla factory is likely to replicate, depressingly, Tesla bungling approach to auto assembly.
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Which is why today, depressingly, Venezuela's fate once again may rest where it should never be: with the armed forces.
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Reports on the income inequality gap and the separate lives of the wealthy and the poor have become depressingly rote.
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It's a depressingly flat characterization of what it means to be female, one that's been pervasive for far too long.
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Female artists can be depressingly underrepresented in the art world, but Flowers Gallery is doing its part to fight back.
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It arises in an environment in which the stereotype of the lazy, venal, self-serving MP is depressingly widely accepted.
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Now the assertiveness movement is taking this same depressingly stacked ranking system and selling it back to us as feminism.
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For all the drama and notoriety of the Simpson case, it was a depressingly familiar story -- a domestic violence homicide.
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What is less alt and more depressingly plausible is what Erickson envisions for our future: There is no country anymore.
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Depressingly, 25% of member firms in the AmCham survey said that their greatest IP risk was theft by their own employees.
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But beyond depressingly standard sexism in too many industries, what is it that accounts for the consistency of backlash in art?
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Don't fret: The line out front may look depressingly long but it's dependably fast-moving, and the wait is worth it.
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It's depressingly common for Romanian male politicians to make public sexual remarks or obscene gestures when talking to their female colleagues.
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Yes. Yet the underperformance of the Sweden Democrats relative to US/UK media hysteria is part of a depressingly familiar pattern.
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Some of them will eat fake hope, and depressingly, some will even eat bullshit with the word "hope" written on it.
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But more depressingly, I realized after a couple of weeks that I was only using it to open Amazon Prime boxes.
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A fierce (and depressingly familiar) debate has raged online about whether his behavior constitutes sexual assault, or simply a bad date.
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The composites project the problems these well-known characters would face if their worlds were taken to their depressingly-logical conclusions.
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Instead of going over to the neighbor's house, are we sitting at home depressingly surfing everybody else's perfect lives on Facebook?
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Unlike their spring 2018 fashion collection, Kate and Laura Mulleavy's first foray into moviemaking, "Woodshock," is depressingly dull and terminally inarticulate.
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This program, which featured works by Mr. Cirio, Paulo Arrais and Gregory Dolbashian, was all over the place yet depressingly colorless.
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Depressingly, the sky was thick with clouds; I knew none of us would see anything other than darkness when totality came.
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Gun said that "remarkably and very depressingly" Blair has been given the opportunity to speak about Brexit on multiple platforms recently.
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The big move that Mary Louise made on Sunday's episode resulted not in a juicy twist but in a depressingly ironic one.
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The leaders of Malaysia and Cambodia, Najib Razak and Hun Sen, have proved depressingly adept at locking up critics and persecuting opponents.
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If climate change brings more frequent extreme weather, as Munich Re and others expect, last year's loss levels may become depressingly familiar.
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A shocking anecdote from the writing room shows just how depressingly large the overlap between the comedy and our reality has become.
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The gradient changes, but it is always an uphill struggle: awkward first drafts; repeated editing; the depressingly regular deletion of entire stories.
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These semi-fictional scenarios feel depressingly hackneyed because they never advance toward a greater significance than what an initial impression tells you.
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I can immediately think of lots of reasons why I shouldn't do it, which I think is a depressingly female response, probably.
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The culture of male entitlement was depressingly clear in my colleague Juliet Macur's story this month about cheerleaders for the Washington Redskins.
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Sixteen years after overthrowing Saddam Hussein, that smacks of poor intelligence and of a depressingly weak influence over the government in Baghdad.
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While it hired many women as photographers, editors and writers, the numbers of people of color in those positions remained depressingly low.
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What happened next to Mr. McCrary, advocates say, was a depressingly common reality for poor people charged with minor crimes in Atlanta.
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By episode's end, the two biggest problems threatening the Jennings' family — what to do about Pastor Tim and the virus — remain depressingly unresolved.
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Awkwafina stars in this Sundance hit with a depressingly quirky twist — that an entire family must hide from their grandmother that she's dying.
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Ene knows that might sound depressingly similar to the micropayment models that have fallen flat, despite the hype that they might save journalism.
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We have Anthony Antonellis to thank for this depressingly appropriate festive creation, which includes a ringtone music soundtrack that loops every eight minutes.
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Depressingly, other presidential candidates, from Ben Carson (a medical doctor) to Jill Stein, also pandered to the anti-vaxxer crowd this election cycle.
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I am regularly, and depressingly, criticized for not having an impressive personal library of books, or not having any interest in art galleries.
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As the movie proceeds, we see that their lives, struggles, and aspirations are still depressingly limited to the status they were born into.
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Own goals, like a new visa regime that makes it harder for tourists to take advantage of the cheap rand, are depressingly common.
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Alabama Republicans have placed an amendment on the 2018 ballot which feels like something out of The Handmaid's Tale, yet is depressingly real.
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No neighborhood, it appears, has been hit as hard as El Zacatal, in San José del Cabo, where homicides have become depressingly familiar.
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In the intervening years, there have been ups and downs in that quest, but the trend for some time has been depressingly downward.
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Rape and sexual violence is not an extraordinary crime—it's a depressingly common one, and not nearly enough is being done about it.
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But, though pandas are an endangered species, the cause of their endangerment is depressingly quotidian: a loss of habitat as Earth's human population increases.
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Establishing gender-based solidarity as the noblest goal for our society, or its absence as our most tragic failing, is a depressingly low bar.
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Perhaps the couple can use the Prime Day deals to furnish their new shared NYC home, which both have lamented is still depressingly empty.
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I have £86.44 left in my bank account with two weeks until pay day and I work a full time job (depressingly true story).
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Because, depressingly, getting to play co-op with another lady friend as two lady avatars remains a rarity in the world of video games.
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The homes she depicts are both cozy and claustrophobic, the marriages companionate and perverse, and the March girls' dreams both fulfilled and depressingly renounced.
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I continued working the phone sex line until I got my first teaching assistant job (which, depressingly, paid about half what phone sex did).
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Kavita is deeply — and somewhat depressingly — invested in her career, Ali is preoccupied planning her wedding, and Becca struggles with creative pursuits and dating.
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His ardent supporters believe it'll happen, either because they are depressingly ignorant of checks and balances or secretly committed to doing away with them.
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The happily ever after delivered by Disney's "Maleficent" has vanished like a puff of bilious smoke, as its unhappy, reactionary sequel makes depressingly clear.
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Kolhatkar's "Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street" tells it depressingly well.
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All dating shows are contrived, but the contrivances on "Dating Around" are not preposterous, designed to shock or entertain — in fact, they're depressingly familiar.
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But depressingly often, the Grammys end up the site of a sad battle: an older generation wielding its fading power to spite the younger generation.
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Earlier artists had tried and failed to capture the speed and rhythm of industrial energy: Turner's steam engine is a blur, Van Gogh's depressingly static.
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Most depressingly, a report last year from the University of Sheffield claims that manufacturing in Britain has entered a new and dangerous phase of decline.
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But in my depressingly dark, damp bed room, it did add a nice glow and luminosity to my cheeks, offering the illusion of cheek bones.
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It's not that I'm Nostradamus or any shit like that, it's just that the conservative script for these things has become just that depressingly predictable.
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The coming Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the first to be organized by David Binder, finds music depressingly next-to-nonexistent.
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And, somewhat depressingly, the study notes that 30 percent of the improvements in the wage gap can be attributed to a decline in men's wages.
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According to interviews with Waititi, Ragnarok will be more lighthearted than its dreary, faux-Shakespearian predecessors — even though Thor has a new and depressingly short haircut.
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Bedtime is also the perfect time to wear your novelty socks — you know, the patently hilarious ones that, depressingly, are not appropriate to wear to work.
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The show tells the story of Offred (played by Moss), a woman struggling to survive in a fundamentalist, misogynist future, a future that seems depressingly relevant.
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Combined with gaming's commercial desire to look forward, not back, and you have a medium that shows depressingly little interest in remembering, preserving its own history.
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In poorer and less well-run countries the consequences of prohibition have been depressingly predictable: prisons packed with low-level offenders, corruption and thriving black markets.
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Disney has struggled to define exactly what it wants to do with its seemingly endless (and depressingly profitable) run of live-action remakes of animated classics.
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Tyler Angle, as usual a heavenly partner, was just as scrupulous on his own, though Ana Sophia Scheller, in the female soloist role, was depressingly wooden.
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Although Nolan's thrives on the darts trade, Shaun depressingly agrees with my suggestion of a terminal decline, and mentions numerous teams and leagues that have folded.
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It seems depressingly true that the American press will fawn over every billionaire who needs attention every time there is a presidential run in the offing.
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Forbes has released its Billionaire List, which tracks the world's richest people, and depressingly (but not surprisingly), only 20153% of the people on it are women.
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Most of us have probably gotten drunk alone at some time or another, and experienced firsthand how quickly the experience turns from novel to depressingly lonely.
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This week we reported, depressingly, that China's financial system is Fragile and that Donald Trump is the Republican candidate for the presidency (Burning down the house).
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The franchise has lost a bit of its luster with every successive installment, but never has a "Pirates" film felt this inessential, this depressingly pro forma.
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"(The omission of the Taj Mahal) is pathetic and petty, but also depressingly characteristic of the party in power," prominent Indian historian Ramchandra Guha told CNN.
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Sure enough, flick through any of the recently published anti-diet books and you'll find a narrative depressingly similar to that of a traditional diet book.
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I appreciate that the same voice actor was required to keep series fans happy; but boy, does this hero have the most depressingly gruff vocal chords.
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Reading it now, nearly 25 years on, also illuminates how much the sport has changed and how depressingly little the racial tensions that gird it have.
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In many ways, though, the result was depressingly familiar for the Blazers, whom the Warriors eliminated from the playoffs for the third time in four seasons.
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It looks depressingly like the impeachment world we've been living in but now with 29% less faith in our institution's ability to constrain the powerful. Okay.
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"It's depressingly plausible that nobody wants to bring this up in his presence," says Julian Sanchez, an intelligence and surveillance-focused fellow at the Cato Institute.
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Whether it's deliberately placed fake news after the Las Vegas shooting or this most recent tragedy, the internet has provided a depressingly efficient method for spreading disinformation.
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Some 28% of Serbs thought non-democratic rule was sometimes better, against 25% who preferred rule by the people and a depressingly high 43% who didn't care.
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Trump supporters will no doubt continue to insist that Leeds is lying, but this pathetic armrest defense (depressingly, there's a hashtag called #ArmrestGate) just doesn't hold water.
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Its level design, at least a few hours into the game, feels hopelessly flat, expanding out into discrete "paths" through a given world that feel depressingly transparent.
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Depressingly, the academics found that the more the mayors had increased investment in environmental protection, the lower their likelihood of being promoted had turned out to be.
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This prospect brings up all sorts of depressingly familiar arguments about privacy and personal data, where those in power demand access simply because the information is there.
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While it may seem as though Hollywood has made some headway when it comes to balancing the gender ledger, there's still a depressingly long way to go.
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"No universal history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leading from the slingshot to the megaton bomb," Theodor Adorno remarked depressingly of this period.
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It also strikes an ironic note, since, given the state of the 2016 campaign, it's now depressingly easy to imagine a president worse than George W. Bush.
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Played by Andrea Riseborough, Nancy is a profoundly disturbed woman in her 30s who lives with her sickly, nagging mother (Ann Dowd) in a depressingly drab house.
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The stories from the 21 Jane Does follow a depressingly similar pattern: 215 to 2100-year-old girls replied to Craigslist ads in college towns seeking models.
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After the artistic courage shown by this company in 2016 — when a high proportion of the repertory was choreographically distinguished — this season was depressingly devoted to tedium.
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Advocates for women say that unwanted sexual advances and obscene remarks are depressingly common in Indonesian workplaces, and that women have little recourse when subjected to them.
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The now depressingly familiar media dissection of a right-wing extremist's social media after an act of violence, looking for markers on an inevitable road, plays into it.
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First, and perhaps most depressingly, there's no clear replacement: policy aside, it's nearly impossible to imagine vice president-elect Mike Pence eating ice cream, laughing or enjoying anything.
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But really, the best lesson you can take out of the past days of Wolfenstein commentary is that most people aren't Nazis, which is a depressingly low bar.
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It's yet another reminder that "fake news" — an admittedly lousy term used to describe a wide range of untrue things on the internet — has a depressingly receptive audience.
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Human-rights violations are still depressingly common across the country, peace has not yet returned to the mutinous south—and human-rights groups urged Washington to maintain sanctions.
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It tackles the depressingly common experience of women who are first sexually assaulted, then gaslit into believing that they themselves, not their predators, are the one to blame.
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As the #metoo posts became depressingly ubiquitous on my social media streams, I wondered whether I should also post #metoo, having been the victim of a sexual assault.
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The answer appears to be depressingly clear: Trump simply refuses to accept the American intelligence community's unanimous conclusions that Russia worked to ensure that he won the presidency.
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When a real-life killer finds fame on a forum or a social network — a trend that's become depressingly frequent in recent years — there are two common conclusions.
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During a short demo after a busy day in Vegas, my scores were pretty humiliating: temperature detection showed that my face was super hot, and also depressingly dry.
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A group biography of the Frankfurt intellectuals, Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School throws fresh light on a tradition of thought that feels depressingly relevant.
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According to a new study called "Elephant in the Valley," which focused on women with at least 10 years of experience in Silicon Valley, the answer is depressingly predictable.
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Depressingly, this was not a "real" unicorn (what is reality, anyway?), but instead a pony that had been doctored up to resemble the mythical beast for a children's party.
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All of these games were in the works before 2017, but the alignment between our political lives and the ones we experienced in big-budget games is depressingly clear.
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Weeks and even months of carefully cultivated swipe-rights disappeared for some users, while others couldn't even log into the app and see their depressingly empty list of matches.
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Amid the depressingly familiar horror of US politics this weekend, you might have forgotten all about another disaster that's been in the news lately — Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 crisis.
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So, 85033 years after America's intervention in Afghanistan, and nearly one year on from the rollout of President Trump's new strategy, the situation looks depressingly familiar, if not worse.
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In the new book's preface, Callow puckishly notes that friends commiserated with him over the "terrible decline" in Welles's fortunes he'd be depressingly obliged to record from then on.
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In a post #MeToo era, we may be talking about Lorena differently, but the way we handle the issues surrounding her infamous knife-work is surprisingly—depressingly—the same.
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I don't think there's a better way to understand the internet than to read Balk's Laws, a set of depressingly accurate pronouncements from the Awl's resident misanthrope Alex Balk.
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It doesn't help Brianna's story that two seemingly-contradictory things are true: Sexual assault is depressingly frequent in real life, and yet "Outlander" overuses it as a plot device.
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What is depressingly clear, however, is that as long as America makes it easy for young, angry men to buy weapons of war, it should expect more mass shootings.
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It's strange to think I look up to people a lot younger than me for my style inspiration, which obviously means, depressingly, that they would look down on my choices.
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But the idea is as simple as it is depressingly predictable: Kennedy called out the llluminati in a speech, the Illuminati got pissed, and Kennedy got killed as a result.
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Depressingly, though, they use all that weight to just eat plankton, swimming around in the deep sea with their gaping maw open and scooping up the little guys en masse.
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Corporate public-relations consultants in London, where Vedanta's main holding company is based, have depressingly ample experience in helping commodities firms whose reputations risk being sullied by such police violence.
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If we've already blown that target, not only is humanity's landmark climate agreement depressingly obsolete, coral reefs, low-lying island nations, and many of our planet's coastal cities are doomed.
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In 2010, Don Francis—the same Don Francis who recruited Dorman to the cause—laid out a depressingly plausible explanation for the lack of a vaccine in the journal Biologicals.
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With so many in the country committed to voting their conscience as opposed to voting for major parties, classic episodes of The Simpsons continue to feel deeply (and depressingly) relevant.
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As soon as they were seated, he ordered wine for them both and in a little bout of resentment told Dorothy that a pink palette struck him as depressingly clichéd.
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From the smashing of mud-brick shrines in Timbuktu to the burning of Rohingya villages in Myanmar, assaults on cultural heritage have become a depressingly common feature of contemporary conflict.
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And it punctuated a week that has been defined by cathartic, almost orgiastic schadenfreude over Michael Wolff's gossipy takedown of Donald Trump and the latter's depressingly undignified response to it.
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The candle provoked a lot of reaction on social media, most of it leaning into depressingly misogynist ideas of vaginas not being a beautiful, natural part of a woman's body.
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The data shows, for example, that raising the age to buy a semi-automatic rifle like the AR-15 used at Parkland would "do depressingly little" to prevent mass shootings.
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"Those cowards only kill who they fear/That's why they hide behind the hoods and cloaks they wear," the frontman David Hinds sings on the track, which remains depressingly relevant.
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After a slow, convoluted start, and a depressingly downbeat middle, the film redeems itself with a rousing, all-action finale which combines visual fireworks, tragic grandeur and arch "Flash Gordon" silliness.
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But besides the differences in country of origin, and perhaps also in current net wealth, other aspects of 213 Savage's immigration story are depressingly similar to those facing many black immigrants.
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Depressingly, it seems like one of the better ways to discourage corruption in the new administration may be as simple as Americans looking askance at Ivanka and denting her public image.
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Depressingly enough, that kind of reaction is pretty par for the course: Women often get blamed for the bad things that we allegedly bring upon ourselves, in one way or another.
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But in between the depressingly long list of sexual assault victims and $1B worth of damage from natural disasters, this year does have one good thing going for it: beauty launches.
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"These data are depressingly familiar", said Ariane Hegewisch, program director of employment and earnings at the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Women's Policy Research, who was not involved in the study.
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That's something the MCU movies have slowly built up to with the Avengers, but it's depressingly rare in X-Men movies, where it should be a core facet of the fights.
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This begs me to ask, were they sitting next to a depressingly bare stick of a tree or is this some kind of magical tree kept alive by rich people water?
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But it's abetted by Western journalism that, with some honorable exceptions, for too long has been depressingly incurious about any form of Palestinian suffering for which Israel cannot be held responsible.
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Though fat women have been slowly afforded more complex and interesting stories onscreen, those stories are still so often limited to their love lives — which are still so often depressingly mediocre.
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"Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined," Victor Hugo writes, as a means of introducing one of the depressingly symmetrical boulevards that the novel calls home.
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And after a terrorist shooting in Kansas, Americans have turned to what has now become a depressingly common ritual in the face of tragedy: Raising money for the survivors through crowdfunding campaigns.
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Everything seemed quieter somehow and, looking back, the first season was indeed muted (The Economist, summarising in September 2000, opined that "Britons like their reality to be depressingly, and sometimes tediously, real").
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Just as Hulu's Emmy-winning The Handmaid's Tale offered a depressingly timely dissection of gender roles and power dynamics in an all-too-plausible near-future dystopia, so Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs.
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The founder is aware that the campaign touches on wider issues such as poverty and malnutrition that are depressingly common in his hometown, but he is determined to maintain a tight focus.
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Shino Tanikawa, a school integration advocate, told me that de Blasio's proposal was part of a depressingly familiar pattern of Asian-Americans either being lumped in with white people or brushed aside.
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For Schmegelsky a dark but depressingly familiar picture began to form—a young man with a tense home life who found solace in online activities and had connections to the far-right.
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For a depressingly high percentage of the numbers, the music was canned (in one case, the taps were prerecorded), even while a capable jazz trio sat onstage, idle next to their instruments.
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After this year's calamitous flooding in Houston and the Caribbean, "The Water Will Come" is depressingly well-timed, though I'm guessing all good books about this subject will be from now on.
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The kind of think-slow work I specialize in, which seemed almost depressingly urgent just a few weeks ago, now takes a back seat to the exigencies of my personal health crisis.
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Which do you think sounds like a more urgent national priority: cutting this country's depressingly-high child poverty rate or sending $130,000 a year to every household in the top 1 percent?
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Not only did the study find depressingly high rates of harassment among all women surveyed, it concluded that "women of color experienced the highest rates of negative workplace experiences," including harassment and assault.
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Even when executed well, superhero origin stories on the big screen have become depressingly formulaic — and with the exception of "Wonder Woman," the ones in the DC Extended Universe haven't been executed well.
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Meanwhile, both in terms of their settings (mostly drive-bys on the street and night spot or party shootings) and timing (mostly on the weekend), America's mass shootings this week were depressingly routine.
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Depressingly, they don't even mention the possibility of a sweet, sweet asteroid hitting Earth to finally put America out of its misery after 16 months of the worst election "season" in modern history.
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The kind of sleaziness you'd expect from biker stereotypes (thank you, Kurt Sutter) was there—the drugs, the drinking, the depressingly bad tattoos—but there were also moms, dads, kids, and bike photographers.
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Not only are you promised a weekend escape away from your depressingly familiar workweek lifestyle, but you even get to live inside one of your favorite TV shows for a few days, too.
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We can both acknowledge that as a society we're depressingly bad at social mobility and truthfully tell individual poor kids that with enough luck and effort they can have a shot at success.
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Moriom's story is depressingly common: One of every 10 girls in the developing world is married before she turns 18, but in Bangladesh, the figure is over six in 10, according to Unicef.
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His administration may not have moved to kill the Kigali amendment, but it seems depressingly content to let it languish, at the expense of both American competitiveness and the health of the planet.
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So while you may seem to have the more sensible outlook on what's worth spending your money on, a world with zero frivolity, splurging or performing for the Joneses just sounds depressingly blah.
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Whereas these trends have been depressingly common in countries lacking rule of law and democratic safeguards, they are set to worsen as the United States, a traditional press-freedom ally, cedes it leadership.
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Across a couple of days, we talked about unplugging, records as gateways, the possibility of a self-governing quiet place for listening, the depressingly appeasing quality of algorithmic choices, the stimulation of curiosity.
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Depressingly, appealing to voters' fears is often a savvy political strategy; a recent survey conducted by Chapman University found that nearly a quarter of Americans have voted for a political candidate out of fear.
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While the scene at the Virginia rally might have been the perfect comic turn on reality television, where the standard for human decency is depressingly low, it has no place in a presidential campaign.
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But the messages from the White House and Washington on this issue during mid 1990's were encouraging, and it's depressingly fitting that Mr. Clinton's personal irresponsibility doomed any further discussion of personal responsibility.
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To that end, if you were a teenager during the early to mid 2000s, there is a high chance you are well-versed in a bunch of indie tracks that now feel depressingly distant.
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But now it looks like yet another mundane activity has been added to the already depressingly long list of reasons scared white people may exert their privilege by alerting law enforcement: babysitting while black.
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And when singer Greg Barnett hits the line in the chorus where he says "there's so much to be sad about these day-ay-ays," it feels as catchy as it does depressingly relevant.
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And the show never gives the visitor an easy emotional getaway; the information conveyed through these objects is surprising, touching, appalling, and sometimes depressingly cliché — in short, representative of the gamut of human feeling.
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Before everything went haywire, he and Queen — whose given names we learn only at the very end of the movie, via a news broadcast — were in the middle of a perfectly, depressingly normal evening.
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As the months tick away, what becomes depressingly clear is that every ideal the institution stands for — free inquiry, equal rights for women and ethnic minorities — will be in jeopardy once American troops are reduced.
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The messages are playful yet sometimes depressingly dark, especially the ones about the mundanities of office life — but his comics are wholly original in a way that challenges readers to rethink the world around them.
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Emma Stone and Steve Carrell star in this very funny looking and depressingly relevant re-imagination of the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, known as The Battle of the Sexes.
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The last 40 years have been depressingly predictable for working-class communities and small towns, and Trump's critics need to establish that they too can be "change agents" -- but in a much more substantive way.
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The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards had barely finished before complaints about them started to appear: despite the diversity on show in the nominations, it was a depressingly limited slate of winners (on-screen, at least).
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Somber Trump There was one new wrinkle in the depressingly well-worn ritual of Washington reacting to the latest massacre -- a new White House now understands the heart-rending duty of dealing with national trauma.
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Even leaving aside the question of what makes cars go, there's a lot about the rest of the experience that also remains depressingly similar to what we had 22.0, 22013 or even 20 years ago.
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Here in the US, we've grown depressingly accustomed to climate battles breaking down along partisan lines: Democrats push (inadequate) solutions; Republicans deny that the problem exists or that anything needs to be done about it.
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But the political system is depressingly accustomed to processing incidents like the killing, by apparent white supremacists, of two black shoppers at a grocery store outside Louisville and 22016 worshipers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.
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The Democratic House majority that may emerge following the midterms is depressingly likely to devote outsized efforts to endless investigations used to grind the administration to a halt, dead-on-arrival legislation and, possibly, impeachment.
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While depressingly few women of her time achieved her level of creative independence in cinema, Weber's use of that work to promote social justice and equality is also unprecedented in the work of her peers.
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"While she looks absolutely beautiful in the photo, Larson remembers that before she went to the ceremony, she "felt flashes of embarrassment — I worried I was too fat, too ugly, too depressingly banal to be honored.
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It may have been the depressingly low usage that ultimately killed off Direct, but I'd argue that the optics for promoting an expansion of its app real estate on to another platform weren't particularly strong, either.
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Based on David Finkel's lauded 2013 nonfiction book of the same name, Thank You for Your Service is moving and unflinchingly honest — and its release comes at a time when its central theme feels depressingly relevant.
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If the premise of Pippa Bianco's Share feels depressingly familiar – girl wakes up with no memory of the previous night, until video surfaces of her own assault – the film is notable for what it doesn't do.
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But as the Supreme Court has been stacked with conservatives who are expected to dismantle everything from Roe v Wade to the U.S. Census, it seems depressingly unlikely that a ruling would go in her favor.
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Wolfenstein II is a fantastic game about murdering racists in an alternate version of 1960s America, where Hitler dropped the bomb on Manhattan and won World War II. It's a beautiful, violent, and depressingly relevant game.
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Albums release that month racked up staggering sales numbers: Jay Z's The Blueprint went two times platinum, while (rather depressingly), P.O.D's Satellite went three times platinum, and, still worse, Nickelback's Silver Side Up shifted double that.
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There also appears to be a depressingly high likelihood that a succession of recurrent Covid-219 flare-ups throughout the next year might require the reinstitution of shelter-in-place orders on an ad hoc basis.
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Shopping by phone or computer has always seemed to me depressingly isolated, stripped not only of the potential for human bonding, but also reflecting our culture's distaste for pleasure and play, its distrust of the sensual.
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Even in the age of Trump, even when the performative president crops up depressingly often on those rectangles, it is the shy, nerdy foreigner that can most legitimately claim to have captured and channeled the world's attention.
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Jessica and Josh's Place (Little Portugal) Notable items: a jug of orange juice, a small tub of LUSH face mask, two jugs of almond milk, and a pair of depressingly empty drawers VICE: Your fridge is empty.
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Clover Crisis for Rebirth Garments When Sky Cubacub founded Rebirth Garments, they had a depressingly uphill mission: to provide affordable swimwear, daywear, and lingerie for people of all gender identities and body types, including folks with disabilities.
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The latter, more straightforward shooter than horror experience, sounds depressingly like 2012's Operation Raccoon City, a game so bad that your local GameStop store manager will personally punch you in the face for trading it in.
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When Postman writes, "We may have reached the point where cosmetics has replaced ideology as the field of expertise over which a politician must have competent control," it's hard not to see how depressingly accurate he was.
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It could be taken as depressingly monochrome, as the cover of the record suggests, but there's something about the way the synths come back in after a brief vocal break that causes it to lilt slightly heavenward.
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It was compelling storytelling, a long and satisfying slow-burn love story that let two actors with natural chemistry play off each other (depressingly, it's probably the best showcase poor Katie Holmes ever landed in her career).
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Beside Singapore in the region, the digital banking penetration is depressingly low, ranging from 13-44 percent in 2014 — even though consumers in their 20s are 50 percent more willing than their parents to try mobile banking.
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Depressingly, the exercise suggested that since globalisation had taken off in the 1990s, there had been a surge in billionaire wealth in industries that often involve cosy relations with the government, such as casinos, oil and construction.
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Amazingly, and perhaps depressingly (When will they ever learn?), "Gilgamesh" tackles all the issues we are dealing with today: a bad leader and how he becomes an enlightened one (here's hoping), environmental degradation, class and race — i.e.
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The need to explain why a powerful member of Congress in the greatest democracy in the world has nothing in common with Holocaust victims is one of the more depressingly unnecessary exercises of the past three years.
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From Blackburn to Bristol, Leeds to Leicester, gig venues, clubs, and late night drinking dens are cashing up their tills for the final time, replaced by the depressingly obvious glut of identikit flats and chain coffee shops.
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Bangladesh is a country depressingly used to terror -- with dozens of secular bloggers, Hindu priests and others murdered in the last 18 months -- but the July 1 attack was different, both in terms of scale, and the perpetrators.
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Sheila Heti demonstrates the power predicament of heterosexual women in a depressingly realist manner: She allows her narrator to embrace her lack of power while also trying to throw it back in the face of abusive, hurtful men.
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So really, I've realized, my list —capitalizing on SEO and de rigueur anti-capitalist, anti-big tech sentiment — is not much more than a depressingly lame exercise of performative wokeness, feeding the system it lamely seeks to criticize.
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But while it is undoubtedly true that the lack of end-game content has been depressingly bleak since The Taken King, Destiny fans still love to play the game, and Sherpas are doing more than just killing time.
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The movies may offer us the promise of fleeting escape, but any woman can tell you that this getaway can feel distressingly, depressingly elusive when a film is in lock step with the worst the world gives us.
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Hoverboards were making news this year before self-balancing scooters were, inspired by all of us reaching the year Marty McFly traveled to in Back to the Future Part II and finding it depressingly devoid of actual hoverboards.
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While the chances of any of us winning are depressingly slim, that doesn't mean we can't come up with a few ideas on how we would spend all $1.5 billion if we somehow found ourselves with the winning ticket.
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But with the rise of the each new front on the civil rights battlefield human beings return to their reactionary shells and find all new (but depressingly old) ways to be intolerant and dismissive, to marginalize difference to death.
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The company, which has already raised millions in funding, has garnered a lot of attention for its name, business plan, and depressingly accurate view of the millennial market (why talk to a person when you can interact with machines?).
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There is something innately, fundamentally Brexit about this sentiment, which although not shared by all the Wenger Out hardliners – for some of them this is all just about sovereignty, okay – is nonetheless depressingly prevalent on social media and beyond.
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Those misogynistic beliefs, so depressingly familiar and widespread, have hardened into a more distinct force in recent years, and have been fueled by the election of Donald Trump and the resurrection of white supremacist groups in American political life.
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Just look at the propaganda cartoons of suffragettes depicted as ugly, sexless man haters who would cheerfully abandon a crying infant just to go to the polls — and how depressingly similar the imagery of modern sexist stereotypes can be.
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Inevitability is a great thing but democracy is even better, and before MMA could at last become a reality in New York the anti-MMA forces were going to have their say, no matter how depressingly predictable or bizarre.
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Even more depressingly - there are just ten countries on the globe that are considered to be fully at peace: Botswana, Chile, Costa Rica, Japan, Mauritius, Panama, Qatar, Switzerland, Uruguay and Vietnam- which are all free from both internal and external conflict.
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Apart from some depressingly de rigueur homophobic 1980s dialogue, the film is charming, especially during a middle section in which Noonan's monster slips loose of Dracula's commands and just starts hanging out with the kids because they're much nicer to him.
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The inhabitants of Britain's largest cities are depressingly used to violent attacks, from the Irish Republican Army bomb that destroyed the centre of Manchester in 1996, to the British-born suicide bombers who killed 52 people in London in 2005.
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Renton has sworn off drugs—his one act of genuine generosity in T2 is to help Spud kick smack—but the small-minded, chip-on-his-shoulder attitude that provoked the addiction in the first place remains depressingly in evidence.
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It's a classic commedia all'italiana with a seasonal twist: A bunch of inept Italian politicians accompany the prime minister on a state visit to Hungary, mistresses in tow, make depressingly tame jokes and encounter a dead Santa in a hotel room.
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Rihanna, rather depressingly, has little more to do than to be "the girl": inspire Deni with her beauty, worry about his safety, and (the oldest and moldiest of tropes) try to decide when and how to tell him she's pregnant.
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But as the initial elation and expectations of the Gospel faded and the settled habits of life in this depressingly durable world emerged anew, the distinctive practices of the earliest Christians gave way to the common practices of the established order.
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It is depressingly clear from reading Jon Mooallem's brilliant, witty and profound article that we are the new Neanderthals, driven to extinction by the destruction of our habitat and the inexorable force of two rapidly advancing technologies, genetic engineering and automation.
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An immersive, mildly gonzo and depressingly well-timed book about the drenching effects of global warming, and a powerful reminder that we can bury our heads in the sand about climate change for only so long before the sand itself disappears.
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And then there's the revolving door: It's depressingly normal for former officials from both parties to take jobs with big banks, corporations and consulting firms, and the prospect of such employment can't help but influence policy while they're still in office.
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Her options were limited: Their home, Palmira, had recently been decreed the eighth most violent city in the world, a standard that many Colombians have come to accept as depressingly normal in a country suffering the world's longest continuous civil war.
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Depressingly, the authors estimate just a one percent chance that we'll remain below 1.5 degrees of warming, the "stretch goal" set forth in the Paris Climate Agreement, which is thought to offer low-lying island nations the best chance of remaining above water.
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On Monday, a US senator and a local coroner held a depressingly banal press conference on the opioid crisis in Ohio, where death tolls have spiked in part due to hard drugs like heroin being laced with the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl.
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He looks to Rick Snyder's governorship of Michigan as a forerunner of Donald Trump's presidency, and draws the frightening, if by now depressingly familiar, parallels between Nazi Germany and Trump-era America, playing one of Trump's speeches over footage of Adolf Hitler.
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For seasoned observers of the American military involvement in Iraq — going back more than 25 years to the start of the Persian Gulf war — it is all part of a depressingly familiar pattern: battlefield gains that do not bring stability in their wake.
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As for the rest of the Republican conference, it is increasingly, and depressingly, difficult to imagine what level of presidential outrage it would take to spur these lackeys to stand up for the integrity of their institution, much less the American people.
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To be sure, in some ways it is — the details of Ailes' reign of terror ring depressingly familiar after years of sexual harassment exposés about one company after another — but the film's failure to dig beyond that universality is a major missed opportunity.
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Depressingly, there's a startling number of people who've engaged in the twisted gastronomic fantasy of ingesting laundry detergent, workarounds—recipes for edible Tide Pods in lieu of the actual product, attempts at legislation to get people not to eat them—be damned.
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Reading about a film that left me depressed about the role of facts, data, and information in our society, only to discover how it bent the truth, feels both frustrating and somehow depressingly obvious, like I should have expected it all along.
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In one of the film's depressingly funny, moralizing scenes, mother and son are in the car on the way back from getting Wiener-Dog put down and Delpy tries to explain why it's fine: Everyone will die eventually, and life is suffering.
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While the percentage of trafficked Nigerian women and girls who are rescued from this trade is depressingly low, any successes in this area are often achieved by Catholic charities who can offer the victims protection and hence the ability to denounce the people exploiting them.
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Just look at the propaganda cartoons from the early 20th century of suffragettes depicted as ugly, sexless man haters who would cheerfully abandon a crying infant just to go to the polls — and how depressingly similar the imagery of modern sexist stereotypes can be.
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Nevada's younger-than-average population long allowed it to have a higher share of its population employed than the rest of the U.S. But the recession set Nevada's young workforce back on its heels, and its recovery over the past decade has been depressingly weak.
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That two British critics slammed it, with the Guardian's Jonathan Jones giving it one star out of five and referring to "… some misplaced notion that non-European art needs to be looked at with special critical generosity," illustrates that this world-view remains depressingly ingrained.
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Orchestras have been the most recalcitrant in embracing his music: Major ensembles have depressingly little room for living composers in general, and beyond the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, who commissioned many of his large-scale works, Mr. Glass has lacked influential music-director champions.
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Or, slightly less depressingly, maybe we'll all end up in a retrospective BBC music documentary 40 years from now talking about how Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not and Myths of the Near Future were The Queen Is Dead of our generation.
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Blame it on climate change, blame it on some kind of cosmic retribution for collectively pouring too much attention onto Keanu Reeves, blame it on whatever you want—it doesn't change the fact that these early summer days have been depressingly filled with rain.
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The episodes also tell a more depressingly familiar story: that Mr. Jones, regardless of his innocence or guilt, did not receive close to the best possible defense from the public defenders who represented him and that the system rigidly resists admitting any possible mistakes.
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And yet they remain depressingly and purposefully ignorant of what slavery was, how it happened, what it did to us, how it shaped race and the air and space between white and black folk, and the life and arc of white and black cultures.
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According to a 2017 study by the American Psychological Association, more Americans are employing "technology usage management strategies" such as banning cellphones from the dinner table (depressingly, only 28 percent of people do this), taking occasional "digital detoxes" and forbidding devices during family time.
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But Brenda Chapman, presiding over a depressingly gender-imbalanced art production team, found herself abruptly replaced in the director's chair, on the orders of a CEO who later resigned from Pixar following allegations of sexual misconduct and accusations of "open sexism" that referenced Chapman's firing.
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It's not considered canon, as Colonial Marines so depressingly is, but by leaving the events of Alien 3 untouched but still returning to so many memorable locations—you even see inside the Derelict—it assuredly earns its unofficial place within the series in fan-pleasing style.
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It was, depressingly, not shocking news; Vince Neil performing at Donald Trump's inauguration would perhaps be a nasty insult to this country's history, its promise, and its dignity, but the President-elect just hired a committed white supremacist to be a Senior Counselor in his administration.
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More depressingly, he predicted that if we don't continue progressing quickly, we might become "like a pet or like the house cat" for AI. The best defense against this is to physically blend with technology into a "neural lace" that helps us control technology with our brains.
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Conversely, players not presently at Las Vegas but depressingly in New York include proto-journeyman Matt Reynolds, who has started all but one game at shortstop since Cabrera went down, and T.J. Rivera and Ty Kelly, both born in the waning days of the Reagan administration.
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It is a depressingly modern condition in which the tendons around the thumb inflame as a result of repetitive strain — in my case because I had, for hours a day over years of a life, tapped that right-hand digit onto the glass of my smartphone.
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As has become depressingly routine in Europe, the row over the UNcompact has little to do with its ostensible target and everything to do with the smouldering embers of a culture war that the drastic reduction in illegal immigration since the surge of 2015 has failed to extinguish.
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As I wrote at the time: Reading about a film that left me depressed about the role of facts, data, and information in our society, only to discover how it bent the truth, feels both frustrating and somehow depressingly obvious, like I should have expected it all along.
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I'm simply saying that, while a depressingly large chunk of society figures out how to be decent human beings, those on the receiving ends of fatcalls can find solace in talking about our experiences — and making sure that straight-size folks are well aware this is happening, too.
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Opinion WASHINGTON — AS someone who has spent most of the past 25 years of his professional life in the United States government, think tanks and academia trying to stop the North Korean nuclear weapons program, I found last week's nuclear test and the events that followed depressingly familiar.
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The first full-length trailer for Danny Boyle's T2: Trainspotting is like an intoxicating trip down memory lane: Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, and Begbie are all 20 years older, but their lives (with the possible exception of Renton's) look depressingly similar to how they did in the original.
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GLASGOW — The police and the courts were still dealing with the depressingly familiar aftermath of a meeting between Celtic and Rangers — identifying suspects, filing charges, hearing cases — as the finishing touches were being put on the 40-yard mural that now runs along one side of London Road.
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Among other things, I had the misfortune once to meet someone connected with her "Prevezon" company (this was in Washington) and like Masha Gessen of the New Yorker, I'm more likely to think these people are small-time scam artists of a type that's depressingly familiar in Russia.
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There are men who won't swipe a woman above a certain age (often 29), unrequested crotch shots, that notorious OKCupid report about racial preferences and all sorts of other depressingly archaic behaviors, as detailed in pop psychology studies and books like "Dataclysm," by Christian Rudder, the founder of OKCupid.
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For Smith and other disappointed advocates in the fight against household pollution, the story of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves seems depressingly familiar — another tale of well-meaning Westerners keen to help poor people in the third world, ignoring evidence that their methods might be ill-conceived.
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Inspired by a true story, the movie ladles up lots of pulpy bits and buckets of blood to tell a depressing, depressingly familiar story about what happens when young men with apparent means and a whole lot of free time get together to build their own precariously hermetic world.
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And while 2018 saw another sharp pick up in renewable power such as wind and solar, continued growth in oil, gas and coal consumption meant that overall, the world's energy mix remained "depressingly" flat, BP Chief Economist Spencer Dale said in the company's benchmark 2019 Statistical Review of World Energy.
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It might feel like Google is following Apple's script right now: remove the headphone jack from your flagship phone, ship the phone with a depressingly bad dongle adapter, and announce a new pair of revolutionary Bluetooth headphones to divert the you-caused frustrations of your customers into additional retail transactions.
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And while 22 saw another sharp pick up in renewable power such as wind and solar, continued growth in oil, gas and coal consumption meant that overall, the world's energy mix remained "depressingly" flat, BP Chief Economist Spencer Dale said in the company's benchmark 22.2 Statistical Review of World Energy.
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"Getting aid to a disaster zone is a huge challenge but Trump's rosy assessment of success has been disputed by many on the ground, like San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, who went on TV to plead for more aid and got a depressingly predictable response from the president," he said.
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To anyone with even a cursory understanding of Silicon Valley (or, in this case, Puget Sound), the reason for Amazon's behavior should be depressingly clear: the company is not out to protect itself, but rather to enforce its naïve corporate ideology on the rest of us in the name of a social justice.
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In her crucial, depressingly topical 1976 documentary "From Spikes to Spindles," Christine Choy focuses on activism in Chinatown in New York after allegations of police abuse; in the sweeping "Chicana," Sylvia Morales examines another overlooked group, creating a chronicle of identity that begins with the Aztecs and wends its way to Los Angeles.
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We ate lunch at an expensive cafe and then continued to Edgartown Great Pond, which is surrounded by depressingly large, unimaginative estates, all of them apparently unoccupied, their windows glinting flatly in the sun, and where I scuttled, in a crouch to avoid detection, through the tall sea grass to slip into the water.
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Here we are, I'm an academic, I hope to appeal to rational people's minds at times, but it is depressingly true, as Mein Kampf pointed out, that many times it's easier — and advertisers know, too — to appeal to people a very simple message repeated over and over, and one that appeals to their emotions.
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Of course there are great writers from every era (though, for depressingly obvious reasons, very few women until fairly recent history) who have led prolific creative lives and left behind lasting work while also tending to the chores of domestic adulthood — or in some cases, letting their wives or servants do so for them.
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Trump got another pick for a Supreme Court that was already depressingly busy passing down judgments detrimental to women, labor, migrants and Muslims — raising the shivery specter of even more extreme decisions to come stripping existential rights from women, gays, minorities and just about everyone else because Democrats have no way to stop it.
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" That plays out with both venom and humor, often at the same time, like on "Fake Bitch," a light-sounding ballad with sprightly handclaps that opens with a horrifying—and depressingly familiar-sounding image: "I felt you press your dick against my thigh / When we hugged / I didn't ask for it / You're not the one I want.
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But something happened in the past decade which was that CW – in addition to programming shows that were enjoyable, addictive, and unlike anything on other networks – made some really freaking good TV. A depressingly low number of people watch Jane and Crazy Ex from week to week, but this is no longer the TV era where Nielsen ratings rule.
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It was getting past midnight, and they'd both been through what sounded like a busy shift and wanted a quick, easy, and safe way to get home, adding that they usually take Ubers after late shifts as they worry about their safety on public transport—a depressingly common complaint from the women I shared the pool with.
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I'm on Vineland, a north-south thoroughfare that runs from the Hills up to Sun Valley, and I'm looking south, at a fluorescent sign for RAPID DETOX: IV DRUG & ALCOHOL, which shares a one-story building with a State Farm office, which has been tagged in depressingly tidy letters by someone who goes by Lil Valley.
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Most depressingly of all, some of the students who stepped up to the microphone to ask Spencer questions were clearly under the delusion that this wasn't just a guy with a decent Twitter following and a so-called "think tank" paid for by his inherited wealth—this was another Adolph Hitler, ready to unleash another Kristallnacht on Gainesville.
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In Milwaukee, the most compelling story won't be with the Brewers' big league team—which will probably be bad in 2017, though not depressingly so a la Cincinnati—but in the minors, where talented youngsters are plying their craft in Biloxi, Carolina, and Helena, ready to put the next generation of Brewers baseball on the map.
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The way things worked, you'd fill out a slip for the boxes you wanted, and in an hour or so an archivist would arrive in the Reading Room wheeling a cart with the boxes on it, and put them on a cart next to your desk, each one landing with an impressively, and depressingly, heavy thud.
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A Guy With a Hockey Stick Is the Only Thing Stopping Door-Opening Robots From EscapingIf last week's video of Boston Dynamic's SpotMini robo-dog opening doors all by itself had you…Read more ReadBut in our actual timeline, where everything seems to be playing out like we're in a nightmarish, Twilight Zone-inspired alternate reality, this parody instead feels depressingly plausible.
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C.K. is just the latest in a depressingly long line of famous men who have recently been accused of sexual assault or harassment: Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Brett Ratner, Woody Allen (though this is hardly new), James Toback, Terry Richardson, George H.W. Bush, R. Kelly, Nelly, Mark Halperin, Oliver Stone, Roy Price, Ben Affleck, Elie Wiesel, Kevin Spacey, and far, far more.
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Despite the divine status of his ancestors, however, Japan's 125th emperor suffers from depressingly human aliments: at 83, he is a survivor of prostate cancer and a heart bypass and has asked to step down while still able to perform his duties, which include opening parliament and conducting ceremonies and rituals in his capacity as the head of Shinto, Japan's native religion.
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The reviews were mixed and the film's premise wasn't especially innovative, but with the writers of the first Hangover movie (Jon Lucas and Scott Moore) at the helm and a main cast (Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and Kathryn Hahn) that clicked beautifully, Bad Moms was a bright spot in the middle of a slate of depressingly mediocre summer studio releases.
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I'm talking, of course, about the depressingly familiar litany of polarization: We now disagree not just over things like whether God exists or if abortion is morally permissible, but over the size of crowds, basic budget math, the safety of vaccines, Russia's involvement in hacking the Democratic National Committee — and whether the fact that the climate is changing is something to worry about.
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In sum, rather than take into account the complexity of the relationship between art and law, or cast a wider net of names that reflects the diversity of the art law world, the list of names collectively affirms the depressingly common assumptions that the "worth" of art must always be tied to its perceived market value and that power belongs exclusively to the monied.
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MacBook Air refresh: Rumors have been swirling that Apple is working on some kind of update for the MacBook Air, ranging from Apple releasing a cheaper version of the depressingly outdated model currently for sale (according to former KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo), to a Digitimes report that claims that Apple has a new entry 13-inch MacBook model planned with the same Retina display as the existing 13.3-inch MacBook Pro.
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Stories of savage racism and judicial burlesque were depressingly common in the Jim Crow South, but the tale this book tells is far more astonishing than most: In response to one girl's murder — almost certainly not committed by the three black suspects who were hanged for it — the residents of Forsyth County, Ga., drove out all African-Americans in 1912, and white that county stayed, right through the end of the 20th century.
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"12 Reasons Robots Will Always Have An Advantage Over HumansWe puny humans can be depressingly fragile and flawed, a realization that&aposs all the more…Read more ReadBrin figures that some experts will be able to tell when they're being manipulated by one of these bots, but "that will matter about as much as it does today, as millions of voters cast their ballots based on emotional cues, defying their own clear self-interest or reason.
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Three Women hews so closely to its subjects' perspectives that there's no real sense of the cultural atmosphere surrounding them (#MeToo is never mentioned), but all three stories still feel depressingly of the moment: the woman enraptured by great sex with a not-great guy; the woman who has compelling evidence that her teacher groomed her via an annotated copy of her Twilight book, calling himself her "vampire lover"; the woman who seemingly has it all but still has to put up with the selfishness and incompetence of men.
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Warren's plan also called for a cabinet-level position for a representative of a presidential Indian Country commission, as well as plans to fully fund Bureau of Indian Education schools, a jurisdictional fix to allow tribal law enforcement to charge non-Native suspects (currently, tribal police do not have the power to arrest non-tribal members for crimes they commit on reservations, which has led to depressingly high rates of sexual and physical violence), and a promise to expand and protect tribal land interests from gas and oil companies.
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Because we're joined by the podcast's original co-host Darrell Etherington, we also take some time to recap the latest season of "The Bachelor," and to debate Netflix's decision to test out different episode orders for the anthologies series "Love, Death & Robots," which then leads to a discussion of a recent piece by the critic Sean T. Collins arguing that Netflix is taking a depressingly derivative and uninspired approach to TV. We close the episode with a spoiler-filled discussion of "The Umbrella Academy" — which we reviewed a few weeks ago, but seemed worth revisiting, now that we've all finished the first season.
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The whole ordeal starts with Chuck Grassley tweeting about something he saw on 60 Minutes last night about the H1B visa program: Grassley then sent out a tweet (not threaded, mind you) that implored the president to look at his last tweet:Grassley then offered to tell the president which one of his former staffers went to work for the Department of Homeland Security, which seems like the kind of thing that you maybe shouldn't be tweeting publicly about but what the fuck do I know I'm just a blogger, not a sitting United States Senator:Then Grassley tweeted what was probably the most depressingly funny tweet of the bunch.
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The shockingly violent, depressingly predictable backlash in the American South to the end of slavery, and to the attempt to make freed slaves equal members of society, is the central concern of "Reconstruction: America After the Civil War," a four-hour PBS series written and narrated by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (It shows in two-hour installments, on Tuesday and on April 16.) Among the many lacunae in Americans' knowledge of their own history, our hazy notions of Reconstruction and its overthrow — essential to an understanding of so much in our own times, from the civil rights movement to today's mirror-like rise of white nationalism — may be the most damaging.
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