Sentences with phrase «from dreary»

I am inspired (I probably won't do the top in chalk, I have a whole chalkboard wall in my basement cafe» that my girls write all over) to transform it from dreary to dreamy!

For the most part, they range from the dreary recitation of the obvious to relentlessly boring war stories.

What saves all this from dreary post-modern self - consciousness is pristine execution; elegance of surface, color and proportion, and a bit of radiance that is more modern than post.

Students and faculty are disappearing from the dreary halls of Water Falls High School and textbooks have turned into black market commodities.

Some enemies seem to disappear into the backgrounds due to them lacking any distinguishing characteristics to make them pop from the dreary dungeon backdrops.

Sterling's collapse is the only bright spot here — last year, it helped the FTSE 100 to finally break out from that dreary triple - top pattern it's endured since late - 1999 & deliver a tasty 14.4 % gain.

Taking us from the dreary confines of New York City's Emma Lazarus Immigrant Absorption Society to the hip frontier wilderness of Prava — the Eastern European Paris of the nineties — whose grand and glorious beauty is marred only by the shadow of the looming statue of Stalin's foot, this is both a madcap adventure and a serious look at what it means to be an outsider in America, and what it means to be an American.

While listening to the piano's melodies, Tia forgets her lot in life and escapes from her dreary, work - weary world.

Recounting memories of his family's flight from Warsaw and his years as a refugee during World War II, Shulevitz employs watercolor and ink to depict a boy liberated from his dreary existence through flights of fancy inspired by the map his father buys in the village market.

Automakers have taken to penning cabins that are more Starship Enterprise than car, so were happy to see BMW sticking to its guns with an interior that might appear dull, but is far from dreary.

While Star Trek: Beyond was a welcomed change from the dreary and somewhat predictable aspects of Into Darkness, promoting the film was no walk in the park.

From a dreary rowboat to a millionaire's haunt or junkyard dream, the production design belies the film's budget, apearing absolutely in keeping with the world that the narrative seeks to create

The film stars Tony - winner Alex Sharp as Enn, a boy from the dreary London suburb of Croydon.

It's trick - based, physics - heavy gameplay remains intact, but now the setting has changed from dreary suburbia to sunny California.

Dipping back into the filmography, Eastwood's «A Perfect World» remains one of the most under - appreciated films of the 90s, and «The Bridges of Madison County» was a superb film made from a dreary book, bolstered by two stunning performances from Meryl Streep and the director himself.

Keep things edgy and stay away from dreary basic outfits by popping in colour with a shirt or tie, throw in some trainers for a casual look or go all out with a printed waistcoat.

It's a cozy respite from the dreary outdoors.

«But our slum is better than yours» Football a temporary escape from the dreary reality of everyday existance.

Now that I have graduated from those dreary cafeteria days, I still crave this classic salad, and with all the flavor - packed ingredients thrown into this one, I don't miss the dairy or gluten one bit.

Your favorite matte berry lipstick from the dreariest of winter days may not look quite so flattering on your fresh - off - the - beach complexion.

Not exact matches

It sure is a pivot ---- from climbing for glory, to planning a slow, dreary descent.

Despite dreary annuity sales data from the most recent reports, Americans for Annuity Protection (AAP) is confident that the downward trend will turned around in 2018.

A new interactive story game from ProPublica highlights the plight of asylum - seekers by pitting players against a formidable foe: a dull, dreary existence punctuated by inexorable sadness.

You are doing the dreary old ad hominem thing to divert attention away from a legitimate issue.

But surely, feminist scholars say (and I think rightly), bourgeois Vienna with its official Hapsburg ideology of duty and hierarchy and its rigid assignment of masculine and feminine roles must be the real culprit, and not some jerry - built theory cobbled together from Freud's schoolboy Sophocles and Comte's dreary one - dimensional positivism (Wittgenstein called Freud the «great mythographer of the twentieth century»).

Bloom's counterweight to this dreary reductionism is the Great Tradition of Western letters from Plato to Tolstoy; and most of the book is devoted to individual chapters on such novelists as Rousseau, Austen, Stendahl, and Tolstoy, with a whole section devoted to the romantic comedies and tragedies of Shakespeare, and a concluding fugue on Plato's Symposium.

The reason this grim little tale so amuses me (quite apart from the magnificent pun, which one hopes was purely extemporaneous), is that the lives of philosophers are so often oppressively, obtundently dreary that any diverting story — even one as macabre as the ordeal of Schopenhauer's poor old Putzfrau — comes to the scholar as a cherished respite.

Updike honors these worldly folk because they are not exempted, as many writers are, from the dirty, dreary business of maintaining the overarching order.»

During these dreary days when suggestions for teaching and curriculum stem from the shallow roots of positivism, Whitehead's writings are at once philosophically profound and pedagogically fresh.

This has produced a rather dreary and pessimistic picture of human nature and the tendency to consider its higher values and achievements as derived only from the lower drives, through processes of reaction formation, transformation, and sublimation.

We have all learned from his Republic that we live in Plato's cave, that dreary netherworld where opinion always trumps truth.

Pope Francis said «the temptation to silence young people has always existed», and cited the many ways to keep them quiet, «to sedate them, to keep them from getting involved, to make their dreams flat and dreary, petty and plaintive».

Sheol itself was a nebulous, dreary kingdom of the dead which got its name from either a place near Jerusalem where the Gentiles made human sacrifices or a garbage dump near the city (I have heard both theories).

Instead of this single unity, we offer children — Algebra, from which nothing follows; Geometry, from which nothing follows; Science, from which nothing follows; History, from which nothing follows; a Couple of Languages, never mastered; and lastly, most dreary of all, Literature, represented by plays of Shakespeare, with philological notes and short analyses of plot and character to be in substance committed to memory.

Instead of this single unity, we offer children — Algebra, from which nothing follows; Geometry, from which nothing follows; Science, from which nothing follows; History, from which nothing follows; a Couple of Languages, never mastered; and lastly, most dreary of all, Literature... Can such a list be said to represent Life, as it is known in the midst of the living of it?

After «the dreary end to 2017» (he missed the cut at the Dell Technologies Championship and came in T58 at the BMW Championship before finishing the season at the Dunhill), his recent furlough — the longest break from competition in his career — was a blessing in disguise as he was able to rest and «reset» his body and mind.

Jan 04,2016... Catching codfish in the dank, dark dead of winter may seem to some a dreary way to get away from it...

The Arsene Wenger celebration face at the end of it all was not as visceral or as liberating as the one he produced at Wembley on Sunday but the relief to snatch a win from the jaws of a dreary draw was still worth savouring.

That bit of ingenuity from the Brazilian winger was exactly what the Blues needed, and it showed why he's been the only bright spark in this dreary campaign so far.

A good soft rug makes a welcome change from a cold hard floor in the winter months and can instantly change a room from looking a bit cold and dreary to bright, welcoming and cosy.

There was a school right next door that actually looked as dreary as a prison from the outside.

«Power is draining from those who are briefing the press; there's a painful sense of loss, mixed with a dreary nostalgia - not for the idealistic, gently social democratic Blairism, of 1997, but the market obsessed version that kicked in around 2001.»

Crossing from Warren to Washington counties, the road between Glens Falls to Fort Edward is a reflection of the district's uncertainty: slightly dreary, rough around the edges and spotted with decay and strip mall pockmarks, but also containing deep pockets of aching beauty and historic architecture.

Warm up on a dreary day from the inside out with this paleo - compliant Beef Noodle Soup.

An all black outfit with a cute pink coat can take an outfit from dark and dreary to bright and happy.

We woke up to cold and dreary weather on Tuesday and it's been downhill from there.

It is snowing here in the rural wooded outskirts of lovely Princeton NJ, and all the leafless trees have gone from looking scabby and dreary to magically iced with white.

I wore this stunning embroidered floral jacquard dress from ASOS while exploring Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art on a dreary and extra cold day.

This is hands down the most stylish and stand out way to walk in bad weather Wear the Bailey Bow II boot from Ugg to give you the best confidence on a dreary day They are the best purchase you can make if you are a college student Remember there are no more snow days in college these boots will take you from

Looks like a dreary weekend didn't stop you from having fun!