downer

How much of a downer would it be if he’s reduced to being a spectator when the Dodgers win the World Series?

The one visual downer is the stage, which is no longer wood.

Both stories end with a downer — Poppea and Nero get everything they want, and it turns out that even a catastrophic cosmic event that destroys most of Earth can't quite destroy racial segregation.

At the same time, the Trump rallies seem stale and he looks, more and more, like a delusional dilettante with the demeanor of a dawdling dweeb on downers.

Nothing's going to put a downer on it.”