Sentences with phrase «most dreary»

When PeterS talks about ``... a sophisticated coyness about a dislike of the other people they have to share those spaces with» I think immediately of poor George Monbiot and his lament that the bus he had to take from Oxford to Cambridge went through the most dreary places.

Not only is he unable to tease passable performances out of a fairly - sturdy cast from the comfort of his director's chair, but his self - written script is among the most dreary of 2002.

Yet, in even the most dreary of films, one can, if one tries very hard, find some bright spot and in MI: 3 there are two.

As always, Sue, you have a way of brightening up even the most dreary days!

She turns even the most dreary of days sunny.

While it's been most dreary (with a little sunshine) outside, it's tasting like spring inside.

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?

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.

Not exact matches

Most of the time, the answer is yes: a dreary Tuesday morning in service of a high - fiving Friday afternoon.

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.

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.

What it's telling us, perhaps even too insistently, is that the since - lionized folk / beatnik Bohemia was a cold and dreary place for most of its aspiring artists.

Given such uncertainty, and given the dreary artistic landscape that now assaults us, perhaps the last word should be given again to the death «cry of that evangel of the death of God» and of art» Friedrich Nietzsche: «In Gethsemane» The most grievous thing the thinker can say to the artists is: «What?

I opened this in my email this morning, and thought it was the most gorgeous thing I could look at on a dreary central Ohio Monday morning.

Shaquille O'Neal, like Cuban, is a serial feuder and has enlivened many a dreary season, elevating the most commonplace disagreements into Montague - Capulet - type disputes.

Most likely he was one of those whose hopes and ambitions were displaced to the happenings on the Gallowgate ground, those whose childhoods were spent kicking around the little rubber balls given free with Robertson's marmalade, those whose lives were ordered like a biological clock into two parts of the week: six dreary days, and Saturday.

After all, the U.S. has its own corruption problems, ranking a rather dreary 19th on the Transparency International list, below most other high - income countries.

This room looks so much brighter and bigger — most times, when you walk into a guys apartment, it's dark and dreary, like they play video games all day!

I, like most people, would spend most of my Sunday evenings dreading the start of a long and dreary week.

But most of all, it's the people we surround ourselves with who give us that willpower, the motivation to keep on moving no matter how dark the storm, how dreary the light.

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

It's cold outside, it gets dark early, the weather is dreary and most stores are moving on to Spring clothing, so you're stuck wearing pieces you purchased at the beginning of the season.

Now that it's mid-February, I'm sure most of us are sick of the dreary winter weather and are anxiously awaiting the arrival of spring.

These are hands down the most stylish and stand out way to walk in bad weather Wear the Original Short rubber boot from Hunter to give you the best confidence on a dreary day They are the best purchase you can make if you are a college student These boots will take you from dorm to class without worry on a

I most enjoy wearing vibrant hues when it's dreary and cold as a pick me up.

Not many people look forward to rainy days, but it's easy to make the most of dreary weather when you've got a pair of chic rain boots in your arsenal.

Ive done enough internet dating to write a litany about it, and of all the concerns most bothersome and dreary, the promise of meeting an honest person is usually the biggest.

Despite scattered favorable notices, most critics despised the picture (Roger Ebert remarked, «Here is a film so dreary and conventional that it took an act of will to keep me in the theater»), but it soared at the box and became one of the top grossers for several weekends.

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.

Though most of my messages to the Big N have mainly gone unanswered or have been left uncommented, It seems Nintendo Russia have shined some light on this dreary rut we have found ourselves in.

Because of the near - constant efforts to the contrary, this Funeral is more dreary than most.

With keywords like «Iran» and «true story,» Argo smacks of being another dreary Oscar contender — and it definitely deserves a few nominations here and there — but in actuality it's destined to be one of the fall's most purely enjoyable films.

BEST ACTRESS For me, one of the season's biggest mysteries is how the Best Actress category managed to extract such a dreary slate of nominees from a field of contenders that looked, at the start of the season, to be the most richly, creatively stacked in many a year.

One of the most beautiful and glamorous throwbacks to the golden years of Hollywood, she lights up the dreariest vehicles, and there is no one more chameleon - like when it comes to disfiguring herself for the sake of a character.

It's saying quite a lot that the bugs, in the end, are the things I remember most strongly about it - accidental windows upon an experience that is less sluggish and dreary and, well, less of a zombie.

Reviewed by Diane Ravitch Barbara Feinberg contends that most of the young adult novels that teachers assign to teenagers are dreary, depressing, and didactic.

Barbara Feinberg contends that most of the young adult novels that teachers assign to teenagers are dreary, depressing, and didactic.

Rather dreary place if this is its most majestic vista.

Unfortunately, the answer's far less dodgy, and far more dreary, than readers might like to imagine... Most of the time, my source is a footnote buried 50 pages deep in the back of an annual report, an old & random news article, a snippet from a six year old press release, or maybe it came from a forgotten corner of the corporate website.

The fact that many find the new games dull and dreary while having been the most devoted fans of that series shows that this game is not for everyone.

People I think would like to see some more colorful level design that isn't like most modern day games, you know, dreary post-appocalyptic and grey.

While a handful of these take the form of dreary escort missions, most of them are cleverly designed battles in which you're constantly trying to stem the flow of monsters while ensuring a key target doesn't get destroyed.

He projects the certainty of political art at its most earnest, with photographs of dreary streets that could describe a war zone.

A dreary grey day in late February may not seem like the most logical time to start thinking about fresh farm produce, but in fact it is.

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

And what's worse is that most of your life is spent feeling like you're less than, as if you're living in the dreary shadow of your big goal where witnessing sunshine will not happen until the goal is reached.

As a real estate agent, I have found that most homebuyers are more excited about touring a home that looks inviting on the outside than one that is sad and dreary, unless they were focused on buying a fixer - upper.

Fortunately we have a lot of big windows so our house stays pretty bright most of the time, yet when the clouds hang over us on the dreariest of Seattle days and the winds begin to howl, it's up to me to not let myself get swept up in the downward spiral of darkness I see around me right outside those windows.

I've been craving some springy colors to counteract all these drab, dreary days we've had most of the winter, so a couple of weeks ago I began painting some whimsical watercolors and have really enjoyed doing them!

Paint colors change drastically depending on the light, so select the one you like the most on both dreary and sunny days.