Zitat des Tages über Drücken Sie / Depress:
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.
The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.
I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.
Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.
When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.
Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
Though not really a comedy, 'Rosewater' is a demonstration of the creed behind 'The Daily Show': belief in the crucial need for impious wit against entrenched power. The freedom of the press is also the freedom to depress - and to inspire. That's a message that can outlive any Oscar season.
Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.
Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because higher yields make bonds relatively more attractive than stocks to investors.
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.