Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.
I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.
Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.
I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.