Sentences with phrase «drabness of»

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

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

Sexual libertinism, at the one extreme, and the cold drabness of sex in many American marriages, at the other, are two sides to the one coin which is the price we pay for distortions in this area.

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

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Without advocating drabness or monotony, and certainly not the denial of the minister's individuality, we may properly look askance when both Bible and pulpit receive only conventional nods and neither is permitted to stand in the way of the preacher's rapport with his audience.

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

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.

The picture is finished by its stunning (if that is the word) evocation of fifties drabness, courtesy of Eve Stewart's production design and Jacqueline Durran's costume design.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.