Sentences with word «drabness»

Two Latina mothers criticized the bland colors and general drabness of Target's apparel.

Although it is an alternate history and many things are different, I try to catch the atmosphere of 1950 s Britain in such things as the general drabness, the intense social conservatism, but also the importance of personal integrity as epitomized in characters like David and Sarah.

But we have found that people, indeed that we ourselves, remembering joy, will not settle for drabness.

It would be absurd to refabricate or accent surviving traces of such drabnesses and marrings.

Liverpool's 3 - 0 victory, for the opening 45 minutes threatened to be a washout, as the Reds struggled, with an all - too - familiar drabness.

Comedies about ordinary people have a tendency to fall into drabness relieved by desperation — for instance, Tina Fey and Steve Carell's recent mishap, «Date Night,» was so tepid that it required repeated shots of Mark Wahlberg's bare torso to keep the audience awake.

Director Judd Apatow is no stylist, and the film suffers a bit from a general visual drabness and a limping pace that keep some of the jokes from hitting as squarely as they should and drains some of the third - act momentum.

Shot with an eye for claustrophobic mood by the filmmakers» regular DP Andrij Parekh, and with Jade Healy's production design perfectly evoking a certain glitter - gilded drabness, the film achieves a resonant intimacy, a sense of aimless drift in an endless American night.

Payne's reluctance to go deep with these characters may have something to do with his desire to maintain an even, folksy tone — a kind of heightened drabness.

As the story unfolds not only does the landscape evolve from desert to ocean but the lives of the characters evolve also from drabness to beauty.

While some of her colleagues took this to extremes, cultivating an almost Soviet drabness, Liz instinctively subverted it.

One memory is of my neighbor Li Lihua, the famous movie star, and her glamorous life downstairs in contrast to our refugee drabness.

Charles Thomson, who heads the Stuckist Movement that stages demonstrations every year against the Turner, said Abts work «deserves a prize for vacuous drabness».

Herbert Read's description of one of the impulses of fantasy in modern art is thus more a restatement of our problem than a solution: «The inner world of the imagination becomes more and more significant, as if to compensate for the poverty and drabness of everyday life» (Art Now [Pitman, 1960]-RRB-.

Just the thing to counter the drabness of «Ordinary Time.»

In this description of Charlotte's death, we do not fail to hear the loneliness, the sadness, and the drabness of death.

This explains, I think, the drabness of the writing.

In the drabness of Jadwin Hall she blazed like a particle shower.

In a world of rivets and drabness, a boy befriends a fantastical red creature that appears to be totally lost, while out collecting bottle - tops at a beach.

Shot in» Scope by Nichols's regular DP Adam Stone, the film acutely catches the drabness of Texan back roads and the grubbiness of cheap wood on motel room walls; in this sense, it has more of a»70s feel than any kind of»80s Spielbergian glossiness.

In a tradition ranging from the kitchen - sink realist films of the late»50s and early»60s to the contemporary works of Mike Leigh and Andrea Arnold, English movies set among the working classes have tended to have fatalistic trajectories and miserabilist aesthetics, underlining their drabness to reflect their characters» sense of hopelessness and to visually convey a lack of upward mobility.

Director of Photography Rachel Morrison captures the drabness of the late 1970's and Costume Designer Samantha Kuester gives viewers a look of what men's clothing looked like in in 1979 (ugly).

The film is also gorgeous to look at, with production designer Paul D. Austerberry accentuating deep teals as the color of Elisa and the amphibian man's love amid the drabness of their environments.

Jean - Michel alleviates the drabness of the film's human landscape with his charisma and warmth — something accomplished in a different way by Maxime Sassier as Nono, a trusting childhood friend of Vincent's — and proves to be as welcome to us as he is to Vincent.

What makes Midnight Special so authentically special is the way that, like Spielberg in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Nichols contrasts his story's cosmic dimension with gritty - realist mundanity — all those grim motel rooms, gas station forecourts and back roads, their drabness vividly captured in Adam Stone's widescreen photography.

The stages are composed of rusted metal and drabness.

The book revels in political incorrectness — which mocks the drabness of real textbooks.

In truth, however, any update would've elevated the 2013 version from the depths of its drabness.

Originally created to fuel the collective fantasies of a generation eager to forget the olive - drabness of World War II, the cars that Bortz collects are one - off, custom - built vehicles that lived short, sur - real lives on display at auto shows in the 1950s and 1960s.

Inside, large and commanding front seats lend a feeling of executive - style appointment, and while an all - black interior may add a bit of drabness, it's never unattractive.

Knowing that I'll never be forced to visit the drabness of Coldharbour again felt like a relief, and Naryu Virian is much nicer to look at than The Prophet.

Susanne Vielmetter unites Andrea Bowers, Sadie Benning and Dasha Shihskin in one electrifying space that takes on patriarchy, racism and other forms of drabness.

The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left the drabness of day - to - day reality to be transported into - not a world of fantasy, it's not a world of fantasy - but a world of freedom where you can say what you like and what you don't like.

Artist: Cheryl Donegan Exhibition title: Banners, Layers, Legs & Vines Venue: LEVY.DELVAL, Brussels, Belgium Date: November 12 — December 19, 2015 Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artist and LEVY.DELVAL, Brussels ------ The drabness of true artifice comes alive!

Our therapeutic culture «solves» the conflict between the drabness of the familiar and the excitement of the unknown by advising clients to renounce their yearnings in favor of more rational and «adult» sexual agendas.

Went looking at campers today, came away sad & slightly depressed by the drabness & actually the badly designed storage.