downer

On the one hand, it’s a relief that Another Round isn’t the bleak downer you think it’s going to be, a story about a man ruined by alcoholism.

Stream it on Hulu This quirky and quiet adaptation of Jesse Andrews’ 2012 young adult novel sounds like a real downer.

But—not to be a Debbie Downer here—your death and my death are inevitable.

Unlike steroids, which make a guy crazy, HGH is mostly a quality-of-life downer.

France does not like to see it described as an AIDS documentary, which inevitably sounds like something of a downer.

On top of everything else, I do not want to seem like the Debbie Downer in this scenario.

Few political watchers thought Romney would wrap anything up Tuesday, but the returns must still have come as a bit of a downer.

The accompanying portrait is from an oil painting in the possession of his grand-daughter, Mrs. Samuel Downer, of Dorchester.

There was Downer, a little Freshman, white with the excitement of his first public performance.

Here Dr. Eliphalet Downer, in single combat with a soldier, killed him with a bayonet.

“Very well, Jerry Downer; you are dismissed,” and he waved Jerry out of the room.

Last fall I potted some of the Downer, and in the winter grew them in the house.