On a scale from 1 to 10, depressing French words are… well, they’re depressing. ... Tagged depressing, English, French, words. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed.

Yale University economist Robert Shiller, pioneer of Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home-price index, said there’s a good chance housing prices will fall further than the 30% drop in ...

    Moody’s Investors Service had some sobering words for Kansas City today. ... Moody's "sobering words to K.C." should be a giant red flag of things to come. It is hard to ignore 500

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That's as unbelievable as it is depressing, because anyone who has ever been in a ... A weblog devoted to spurring a conversation among those who use words to varying degrees in their daily work.

The Space Shuttle Discovery is up in orbit, safely docked to the International Space Station, and for the next five days, astronauts will be busy figuring ... Idle Words; brevity is for the weak;

Most of these daily entries are written within the depressing confines of my gray cubicle in my gray office building where everyone wears ties and furrowed eyebrows or droopy eyelids.

These, surely, have become the weasel words of contemporary social analysis. Overblown and overplayed, they have been robbed of much of their meaning.

My hero, Kingsley Amis, once said that the most depressing words in the English language were: “Shall we go straight in?”, closely followed by “red or white?” It is a mercy of a sort that he ...

So, there we were in the Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation on a Thursday afternoon looking at technical amendments to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. ... A fly buzzed somewhere.