Sentences with phrase «in drab»

I was born in a drab colorless world and I yearn for color to this day.

Forget anaglypta covered in drab magnolia paint — décor that's as tired as it is dated.

Koidu adds, «In a sunless, low - energy kitchen, even a good quality silk plant in a drab corner adds warm, creative energy - more than a real, but wilting, plant.

It is a natural protective response to fear - based anger and withdrawal.Because resentment is really loneliness dressed wearing an angry contorted face, and apathy is really powerlessness dressed in drab clothing.

Your experience of careers advice may have been a short interview in a drab school office with the only choices on offer being administration or construction.

Now, all apps will render in the drab, but well - defined sRGB color space by default, though developers can update their apps to request that the system uses a more varied color space like DCI - P3.

With a regular program, you'd have to commute to a location and sit in a drab chair for the remainder of the day.

That means you don't have to wake up early, get dressed and sit in a drab room all day long.

It's transformed into powdery particles surfacing only in drab - colored art as silvery sparkles.

Although it isn't among the three paintings that open this exhibition, you sense it immediately, glimpsed through a doorway to the right, glittering under the lights, like an angel unexpectedly appearing in our drab, sublunary world.

Rendered in drab colors reminiscent of Édouard Manet's canvases, Yiadom - Boakye's paintings are also autobiographical — for the artist, these works allude to her West African heritage.

A new art school organized and run by art students is thriving in a drab, downtown loft,» wrote The New York Times, «it has no curriculum, gives neither grades nor credits, and grants no degrees.

Tape graffiti isn't new (we've previously covered the impressive work of Buff Diss, who uses masking tape to create elaborate designs), but Sorg's technicolor creations stand out like a unicorn dream in the drab gray concrete of urban environments.

Visiting here puts you in the Pearl District, the old warehouse area — named to bring to mind an elegant gem nestled in a drab, rough shell.

Second, fronting a junior resource stock is all about spinning a good story — that's what the suckers want, some colour in their drab little lives.

The back is made from cheap, glossy plastic in a drab shade of dark gray while the front has a thick black bezel.

I was housed for a night in a drab hotel somewhere near Green Park.

They were all dressed in drab olive uniforms and their faces masked by the folds of the khaffiyehs wrapped round their heads.

I read that Jonathan Franzen obliterated the Ethernet card in his laptop and locked himself in a drab room to avoid distractions that would divert his attention away from the manuscript for his book Freedom.

We meet Tanya as a typical Russian girl, living with her bookish professor mother in a drab Soviet apartment.

One of the finest British films ever made, this benchmark of «kitchen - sink realism» follows the self - defeating professional and romantic pursuits of a miner turned rugby player eking out an existence in drab Yorkshire.

When Jesse is cowering in her drab, dingy roadside digs, there are even a few alluring shades of Mulholland Dr., another film that sees Los Angeles as a seductive beast, sucking starlets in, then sucking the life out of them.

It's a far cry above the standard independent zombie fare that takes places in drab warehouses or unassuming apartment houses.

Much of the movie takes place in drab hotels, Wallace's dingy dorm - room-esque house, or in vehicles — but the way Ponsoldt orchestrates the ups and downs of their relationship within these environments, with tenderness and wit, is sublime.

The film becomes a guided tour of a specific hell — a modern underworld ringed by death and funk, sunk in drab streets, murky bars and dance clubs, populated by anarchic layabouts and druggies, all racing or slipping toward doom.

As I note in my original review, The Haunting is a deeply mediocre film that tells its story in a drab, slow - paced manner.

The Claim is cold and sterile — even the interiors are shot in drab and over-warm browns as impersonal in their way as the blighted exteriors.

Like a Brothers Grimm character, she magically finds her way to a sorority home (near what appears to be the USC campus) full of dour intellects dressed in drab gray and who are beyond needing a makeover — they need a facial and bodily revolution.

It doesn't help that most of the colour was leached out in post-production, resulting in a drab, monochromatic appearance that stands in contrast to the downright vibrant imagery of the original.

But in her drab surroundings, Antonietta has one touch of individuality; her pet mynah bird, which offers her some escape from the tedium of her otherwise arid existence.

Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds chart familiar territory in this drab - looking space thriller.

But although occasionally stirring, the film rarely rises above the level of intriguing anecdote, resulting in a drab drama enlivened somewhat by Matthew McConaughey «s empathetic performance.»

A grieving couple decide to take on the Nazis in this drab wartime thriller that's noticeably short on thrills.

Douglas has been here before in another tale of familial dysfunction, The War of the Roses, and Brooks has never really been anywhere else; the picture, paced like a trip - hammer by director Andrew Fleming, only really fails in its drab newlywed couple and a passel of homosexual gags that are badly dated and bordering on unkind.

It is photographed in drab tones and his lead actor's performance is as predictably bleak as it was in Taken and now verges of self - parody.

Instead of throbbing with a teenage spirit of rebellion — or things like youthful wildness, humor or sex — the two «Divergent» movies are curiously content to eke out a rigid, lifeless fable in drab futuristic environs.

The production telegraphs a lot by bathing pre-war college and jazz club scenes in a honeyed light that drips with nostalgia, while wartime and post-war scenes are shot in a drab bluish - gray.

In fact, tonight, backstage in her drab dressing room at the Paramount Theater in Seattle — a E-Z loan Auto Sales in Buffalo, Lockport and Niagara Falls, NY offers buy here pay here used cars, trucks & SUVs to our customers.

This comfy knit tunic looks so much better worn & «styled» than it does in the drab online photo!

Its like a breath of fresh air in the drab time.

That's because flaky skin doesn't reflect light as well as a smooth surface, resulting in a drab complexion.

Winter whites are perfect for lifting the mood in the drab weather.

The members were cruel, a snicker here, a pinched nose there, all in jest of the quiet guy in his drab, baggy clothing.

The bright red breast of Erithacus rubecula may be a welcome sight for humans in the drab winter landscape, but its appearance on the home patch of another robin is tantamount to a declaration of war.

Not that you get a sharp idea of the future in a drab Bournemouth hotel on a Tuesday evening, but important things are happening, and fast.

On Tuesday, Brown sat in a drab, stuffy room near a loading dock at the Board of Elections in Mineola as board employees opened absentee ballots and Democratic Party attorney Keith Corbett and Republican Party attorney Stephen Martir examined each one - by - one.

The boring objects were colored in drab tones.

The earlier kickoff between Chelsea and Sp * rs, resulted in a drab goalless draw, which really didn't help either side, but the Gunners are now 3 clear of Sp * rs and 8 off Chelsea, as they look to seal 3rd spot.

In a drab first period with few real openings for either side, it was Arsene Wenger's team who took the lead through an unexpected source.

We drew our next game against Middlesbrough at home where we played elneny and coquelin in a drab draw we were lucky to even sneak.