Many of the elements of this tale are depressingly familiar.

It all sounded depressingly familiar except for two important points.

Some of the problems facing the new Congress are depressingly familiar.

The other recent killings followed a depressingly familiar pattern.

The English major who doesn't like to read too much is becoming depressingly familiar.

Mexico suffered from a syndrome that has since become depressingly familiar.

The writer added that the model of leadership was "a type depressingly familiar elsewhere in Africa."

The contours of the Bush campaign are already beginning to take shape, and they are depressingly familiar.

They went by bus-a form of transportation Di was becoming depressingly familiar with.

If the string of losses is new to the Jets, the way the game evolved was depressingly familiar.