| 单词 | dinginess |
| 例句 | There’s the right amount of makeshift and dinginess for me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modem life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He's better at the idealism; for the realness, he favors wobbly closeups that often render his characters' faces unintentionally grotesque, and he works too hard at signaling the dinginess of Patti's surroundings. A Jersey Girl Dreams Big 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z “Using too little detergent not only means that your stains won’t be removed, but it also allows body soils to build up on your fabrics, resulting in odors, dinginess, and dullness.” This is why your workout clothes still stink after being washed 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z With three narrow beds and a grand piano crammed on to the stage, Nicolai Hart-Hansen's design conveys the dinginess and lack of privacy that crushes these people. Vieux Carré – review 2012-07-20T14:42:31Z Her room is small and drab, its institutional dinginess matched by the putty-looking cinematography and relieved only by a few knickknacks and the indifferent blue of cut hydrangeas. ‘Lilting,’ About a Divide Between Bereaved Strangers 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The litter on the streets as well as the dinginess and decay inside the buildings can be chalked up to an emphasis on realism as well as visual metaphor. The dirt on "The Deuce," David Simon's next great HBO drama 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z The loot on the map is now positioned differently, and a new skybox is supposed to make things brighter compared to its original dinginess that could wear on you after a while. Apex Legends’ new character comes with a cute sidekick and a big sniper rifle 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z And the park’s dinginess fosters a freewheeling atmosphere, where bleacher die-hards bang drums and heckle outfielders, while upper-deck denizens pack picnics and pass joints. The Beauty of America’s Ugliest Ballpark 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z And the abandoned casino had that perfect Blade Runner-y combination of dinginess and grandeur. Was Blade Runner 2049 worth the 35-year wait? 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z We decided it compensated for its dinginess by blasting colors and hoping customers wouldn’t notice. First look at 'Golden Exits' with Jason Schwartzman, Chloë Sevingy and Beastie Boys' Adam Horovitz 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z That applies particularly to the visuals, which are gritty to the point of dinginess, full of harsh neon blues and basement browns. ‘Bleed for This’: Hits, misses in boxer’s gritty comeback tale 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Ignore the squalor of Whitechapel, the general dinginess, neglect and poverty without, and you will find a continual medical riches in the London Hospital. . . . Bradley Cooper in “The Elephant Man” | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z But the dinginess was naught to the two who knelt looking into it, afraid to move. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z It is high and narrow, like a cage, with no very large rooms, and a general appearance of dinginess and accumulated dust. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z Perhaps even her dinginess was part of her generosity, for in order to fit into the pattern one has sometimes to forego something of one's individual beauty. The Return of the Soldier 2011-08-26T02:00:23.937Z The normal cloud of dinginess was miraculously dissolved, the sunlight glittered on the rain-pools, and a Sabbath calm lay upon the streets. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z But this dungeon had ample compensations for its darkness and dinginess. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z Half a dozen vases of flowers—brilliant chrysanthemums, heavily scented violets, American Beauty roses, slender and nodding—fought bravely against the pervading dinginess. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z New books seem more grateful to me there than elsewhere; for the dinginess of Paternoster Row harmonizes better with literature than the plate glass and gairish glitter of Piccadilly or Regent Street. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z Our first member of this family is the exception to which we have already alluded as a relief to the general dinginess of the 'Browns.' Butterflies and Moths (British) The rosette is typical of a curious character that the room has for all its dinginess. Woman Something about the dinginess of the felt hat seemed familiar to Swift. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories This is what makes interesting the dinginess of the cantonment on the Isle of Dogs. Last Words For all its dinginess and its picturesque disorder there was something infinitely beguiling about the room. Hempfield A Novel Something was wrong with them: their dinginess or want of symmetry annoyed her. Carnival Italian merchants, unkempt in appearance, carry on meagre and uncertain kinds of business, and Cooper's old house is so decorated with signs inside and out as to be picturesque only for its dinginess and disorder. Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations The boarding-houses were cleaner than the dinginess of an old-world seaport would allow, and the proprietors who manned their doorways looked genial monuments of benevolence. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea Red, white, and blue cheesecloth in crude, sharp colouring draped windows and stage, making gay little splashes of colour that emphasized the dinginess of the room. The Wishing Moon But when the spring comes, and the bright days show up all the dinginess, poor mother, how she does sigh! The Girls and I A Veracious History Perfect harvest weather; the blue sky with a touch of gray from the dusty exhalations of the grain fields and a suggestion of dinginess from the hot breath of the steaming earth. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 —Yes, to make sketches and flattering comments, but not to ridicule the dulness and dinginess of the place, or the local papers will "slate" you. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 29, 1890 A metal nameplate on the cover caught his eye by reason of its dinginess. The Monk of Hambleton The thing to remark here, as well as in all the gatherings of the people of this city, was the absence of dinginess and dowdiness that goes with poverty. Westward with the Prince of Wales In Belfast as elsewhere, sweetness, light, and loyalty are inseparably conjoined, while evil smells and dinginess are the invariable concomitants of disloyalty and separatism. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule His flannel shirt, trousers and leather apron, and even his arms and hands were as dark as the inside of his workshop, whose dinginess he seemed, as it were, to wear on his person. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 There were squares and crescents rising in every quarter and the white tops of chimneys, and the blue dinginess of roofs, became visible from the upper windows of Surbridge Hall. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 He gave an impression of dry dinginess, like rawhide, and his eyes were mean and shifty. Louisiana Lou A Western Story In front of the distances that dusky pall was visible, and the houses at the edge of the Park were blurred in outline and made beautiful by the inimitable dinginess of the city. Daisy's Aunt Her eyes seemed to take in the dinginess of his uniform. The Road to Frontenac Archibald regarded it with a troubled gaze; somehow, its dinginess had never before so impressed him; and then as he looked at his sister the frown deepened on his face. Not Like Other Girls "This flower may brighten the dinginess of your lodgings." A Romantic Young Lady She humanly enjoyed their discomfiture, knowing that it was based upon the dinginess of Fred's clothes and prospects. Otherwise Phyllis Maybe I’m lazy, I don’t know; but I’ve worked so long that I’m weary to death of commonplace and repression and denial and—dinginess. The Dominant Dollar Not a pane had been cleared of its dinginess; not a cobweb had been swept from its ceiling; nothing had been removed, except the pair of living skeletons who once acted as his attendants. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 He sat down mechanically and looked round the dull little room, and the dulness of it, the dinginess, the unhomelikeness of it struck on his heart as it had never done before. The Girls of St. Olave's When, however, he turned from the dinginess of the passageway into the sunny little room where Lucy lay, he forgot everything but Lucy herself. The Wall Between The Cathedral of Seville Your first impression when you walk round the cathedral of Seville, noting with dismay the crushed cupolas and unsightly excrescences, the dinginess of colour, is not enthusiastic. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia She toiled up the three long flights of stairs—her dainty soul revolting at their unswept dinginess. Captain Jim What charming corners one can find in the immense dinginess of London, and what curious encounters become a part of the London-lover's experience! More Trivia "We note his predilections for dinginess and dirt." The Gentle Art of Making Enemies It was a world of strange and awful beauty into which Roosevelt stepped as he emerged from the dinginess of the ramshackle hotel into the crisp autumn morning. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands It was a perfect resurrection-swarm of remote mortals and fragments of mortals, reflecting, in their varying degrees of freshness, the sombre dinginess and sprinkled brightness of the crowd below. Romola The dinginess of the house had not struck Miss Mackenzie so forcibly when she first visited it, as it did now. Miss Mackenzie The red tint of his clear-cut face with trim short black whiskers under a cap of curly iron-grey hair was the only warm spot in the dinginess of that room cooled by the cheerless tablecloth. Chance A Tale in Two Parts Through all its dinginess and confusion he saw that the roof was tight, the windows whole, and the interior quite capable of being swept out, scrubbed and put in order. Ted and the Telephone He there occupied three rooms, all of them sufficiently spacious for the purposes required, but which were made oppressive by their general dinginess and by a smell of old leather which pervaded them. Orley Farm The bright spring weather only made the dinginess more apparent, but nothing would induce the landlord to treat them to a fresh coat of paint. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient Despite the dinginess of his costume, Mr. Dootleby was a handsome old man, and he looked very out of place on the Bowery. Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life The parts where the public is allowed to go are fairly respectable, if not beautiful, but the purlieus and the basements and the upper floors are scenes of unimaginable dinginess and decay. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25 Every sail that loomed in the dinginess filled me with alarm. The Frozen Pirate There is a point where dinginess becomes picturesque; and the vines, undisturbed by repairs, were doing their best to hide all deficiencies. The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story The moment our stove was heated, however, the crystals became fluid, and ere long evaporated, leaving the walls exposed in all their original dinginess. Hudson Bay There was the same colour of paint on the walls, which had been so managed as to represent the dinginess of antiquity. Rivers of Ice But for these, the general aspect would have been one of unbroken dinginess. True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best As for the furnishings, Georgiana looked about her with an appraising eye which took in all their dinginess. Under the Country Sky They are not reddish: they are brown, to which grease and dinginess add not a little. Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' We made the tour of the theatres and shows one evening,—glad to escape the gloom and dinginess of the hotel, once the pride of the city, but now its reproach. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Beneath might be seen the edges of two or three worn and dirty cotton quilts and a pair of blankets of like dinginess. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West The light revealed the dinginess of the little room. The Cow Puncher That was interesting, but did not compensate for the dinginess of the surroundings. The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 Hilary and his wife were most suitably domiciled therein, environed by a splendid dinginess and squalor, pretentious, tawdry, grandiose, and superbly evading the common. The Lee Shore Hillyard entered a room which surprised him, so greatly did its size and the wide outlook from its windows contrast with the dinginess of its approach. The Summons The purity of the dawn seemed extraordinarily beautiful compared with the sordid dinginess of the mud and khaki that were always with us. Combed Out Oh, what a change after the close, narrow streets, the gloom and dinginess, the want of space! The Story of Jessie There was a look of sober respectability about its dinginess that might have appertained to a suburban doctor with a large family and a small practice. The Lost Lady of Lone The works reeked of uniform mediocrity, they were characterised by a muddy dinginess of tone, despite their primness—the primness of impoverished, degenerate blood. His Masterpiece To this affluent, creative mind dinginess and dimness were not. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 But the dinginess was naught to the two who knelt looking into it, afraid to move. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France She was prepared for the moat and for the drawbridge across it, but not for the exceeding dirtiness of its water and the dinginess of its barges. New Faces This is one of the instances where exaggeration has served as a healthy antidote to the tendency toward extreme dinginess rampant about ten years ago, resulting from an obsession to antique everything. The Art of Interior Decoration All round him the loghouses rose in all their unadorned dinginess beneath the sombre pines, and the largest of them bore a straggling legend announcing that it was Horton's store and hotel. Alton of Somasco He had had twenty years of it—twenty years of garrets and roof-chambers and dingy flats and shabby lodgings, and he was tired of dinginess and shabbiness. Widdershins To-night he went forward, mingling with the inhabitants of the district, revelling with morbid realism in the forbidding dinginess of their appearance. Max Long, thin gray hair hung about his face, and imparted the only relief to the monotonous dinginess of his features and clothing. Romance of California Life There should be no dirt or dinginess in the house, if she could help it. Harvest He oscillated between the dinginess and dulness of the capital as he knew it, and the well-accustomed rurality of his home. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 When I applied at the publisher's house there was something in the loftiness of my air, and the dinginess of my dress, that struck the clerks with reverence. Tales of a Traveller Even in that dingy place—perhaps accentuated by the very dinginess of it—Lily's blond loveliness struck Rose-Marie with a sense of shock. The Island of Faith The moroseness of my uncle, the sullenness of his housekeeper, the gloom and dinginess of the bare rooms had grown insupportable to me. Strange Visitors The class that elsewhere is pressed by necessity to the inexpensive dinginess of back streets, here blossomed forth in truly tropical luxuriance. The Rules of the Game The place had all the greasy dinginess of the ordinary print shop. Starr, of the Desert The Jewish gaberdine is gradually dropping off; I mean the dinginess of your early complexion. Miriam Monfort A Novel Rue Mazel was bright with the gold braid and scarlet of the fournisseurs militaires, and in the late afternoon chic young officers enlivened the provincial dinginess with a brave show of handsome uniforms. A Volunteer Poilu The spirit of the mighty dead seemed to hover around, as a sort of genius loci, rescuing the wretched tenement from otherwise deserved oblivion, and making its very dinginess venerable! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 388, September 5, 1829 Kincaid's Battery 'doesn't want to parade its dinginess till it's done something'--pure vanity! Kincaid's Battery And her dress was indefinite in his memory—an amorphous dinginess. Love and Mr. Lewisham The buildings, which surrounded and formed the courts, evidently the oldest and strongest of Bicêtre, harmonized in dinginess with the scene. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832 Never monarch wore, I swear, Such a radiant dress; All the whitenesses we prize Suddenly before our eyes Turn to dinginess. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919 Not to be described are the dinginess of the walls, the smokiness of the ceilings, the grimy windows, the heavy, ever-murky atmosphere of these rooms. Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire In hallway and front parlor she was conscious of dinginess and lugubriousness and airlessness, but she insisted, "I'll make it all jolly." Main Street Only its dinginess and evil surrounded him; no respectable house was open to him; the barrooms—except that of the "National House"—welcomed him gratefully and admiringly. The Conquest of Canaan No. 7 Philibert Place rose before them in its noisy dinginess as the one desirable spot on earth. The Lost Prince He hunted about the streets that led out of the Westminster Bridge Road, but their dinginess was distasteful to him; and at last he found one in Kennington which had a quiet and old-world air. Of Human Bondage The dinginess of her present life threw into enchanting relief the existence to which she felt herself entitled. House of Mirth There is something cheery in its very dinginess, and something free and elfin in its very insignificance. The Wisdom of Father Brown But there was a branch house at the west end, and no pettiness or dinginess to give suggestions of shame. Middlemarch They looked past its dinginess, and past Lazarus, and The Rat, and Mrs. Beedle—THROUGH them, as it were,—at Marco. The Lost Prince The foreigner is as bigoted to his original dinginess and discomfort, as the Turk to the Koran. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 She had hated dinginess, and it was her fate to be dingy. House of Mirth Michael thanked him and went back to his hot little room on the fourth floor, happy in spite of heat and dinginess and a certain homesick feeling. Lo, Michael! I tried to accept his assurances, but it was not easy to imagine such forlorn dinginess changed into dazzling splendour. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Its sordid dinginess was no longer present to our consciousness. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Its dinginess is venerable; its relics are illustrious. The Nation in a Nutshell That was the burden of her lament; and her last adjuration to her daughter was to escape from dinginess if she could. House of Mirth Even the Turkey carpet was in the very stage of dusky dinginess that had distinguished the carpet on which Henry Dunbar had stood five-and-thirty years before. Henry Dunbar A Novel The streets were thunderous; a vast energy heaved under the universal coating of dinginess. The Magnificent Ambersons To this uncomfortable chamber repaired, one March evening, Mr. Frank Pixley, Republican precinct committee-man, nor was its dinginess an unharmonious setting for that political brilliant. In the Arena Stories of Political Life The town was alive with a chattering, laughing, good natured, excitable population, all black, but with some slight variation in the dinginess of the hue. By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War The dinginess, the crudity of this average section of womanhood made him feel how highly specialized she was. House of Mirth There was such a dinginess about the old man's garments, and such a dignity about his face, that Kit almost laughed to see him. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea He was a pitiful image of shabby gentility and the dinginess of "reduced circumstances." A Passionate Pilgrim And now he stood in dim light, in the vapour from damp garments, in dinginess and ugliness, with a sense of spiritual squalor and destitution in his very soul. The Marquis of Lossie The apartment seemed stuffy; there was a trace of dinginess, neglect, about the black velvet rugs and hangings. Linda Condon Her danger lay, as she knew, in her old incurable dread of discomfort and poverty; in the fear of that mounting tide of dinginess against which her mother had so passionately warned her. House of Mirth Every letter seemed fresh-painted, and after the dinginess of prison, the crude decorations struck me as worthy of the old masters. Prisoner for Blasphemy The dinginess of the house had not escaped him on the morning that they had made their first inspection, but Tommy, who loved freshness and colours, had made no sign. Back to Billabong Filled with wonderment as to why I had been sent for, I halted at the foot of the steps gazing about the dreary interior, surprised at its positive dinginess. Wolves of the Sea Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur" There was not the least shape to their garments; their dresses simply hung down in straight ungraceful lines; there was no colour of ribbon or flower, to light up the dinginess. The Open Air "That is a great clue, considering there are about a score covers here of rival dinginess," said Stephen, drawing out the canterbury. The Mill on the Floss He had taken in shabby carpets, furniture, faded walls, general dim dinginess. The Head of the House of Coombe They feel, let us say, the temper of the foreman, the nerve-racking monotony of the machine, the depressingly bad air, the drudgery of their wives, the stunting of their children, the dinginess of their tenements. Public Opinion After all it is the centre of the town that one naturally gravitates to, and no charm of suburbs can remove the general impression of commercial dinginess. Without Prejudice I mean the needless dinginess of much of Russian fiction, and of many of these powerful short stories. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism It had caught just one glimpse of the sun through some rent in the vapours, and flung it across to me, ere it vanished again amid the general dinginess of the hour. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood “I wonder you care to stay here,” remarked Déroulède, with a momentary smile, as he contrasted in his mind the fastidious appearance of his friend with the dinginess and dirt of these surroundings. I Will Repay Here Mrs. Wilkins stopped to give a remorseful groan and stroke her faded dress, as if she found great comfort in its dinginess. Work: a Story of Experience It is common enough too, at a big dinner-party, to meet three or four people, without the least professional dinginess, who have written books. From a College Window The little vestibule had somehow put off its dinginess, and an unwontedly brilliant light from the sitting-room revealed changes of the interior which the visitor remarked with frank astonishment. Born in Exile London has infinite variety, and quaintness, and picturesqueness, and is of all possible shades of dinginess and weather-stains. Winter Sunshine I noticed now his frayed cuffs and the dinginess of his over-brushed clothes. Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy But there were other times when to the dreamy, studious Margaret the home circle seemed all discord, all ugly dinginess and thread-bareness; the struggle for ease and beauty and refinement seemed hopeless and overwhelming. Mother His fresh young nature revolted at the dinginess and bareness of the surroundings. The Fortunes of Oliver Horn Few of them were alike except for the dinginess of the print and the sinister smudge of the portraits. The Return Gloomy colours wear better than bright ones for curtains and carpets, and the keepers of lodgings in London seem to think that a certain dinginess of appearance is respectable. The Last Chronicle of Barset The black roof-tree of the cottage sagged in the middle, and the weather-boarding was dingy with the streaky dinginess of old paint that has never had enough oil. Stories of a Western Town But his choice was to sit in rags and dinginess on a bench in a park. The Four Million His very bulk emphasized the shabbiness of the stained and almost buttonless Prince Albert coat he wore, the dinginess of the little room he seemed to dwarf. Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) The three English towns which I have named are very dirty, but all their combined soot and grease and dinginess do not equal that of Pittsburg. North America — Volume 2 The disreputable dinginess of Hollowell Street is dear to me, and I love to thread my way up the Olympic into Covent Garden. North America — Volume 1 The red tint of his clear-cut face with trim short black whiskers under a cap of curly iron-grey hair was the only warm spot in the dinginess of that room cooled by the cheerless tablecloth. Chance A Tale in Two Parts But no dinginess of travel or shabbiness of attire could tarnish the splendor that radiated from his youth and strength. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains The clear inky dinginess that comes before the raw dawn of a spring morning, found his white face at the window, looking out upon the great terrace and the park. Soul of a Bishop The place appalled him—its gloom, its dinginess, its somber quiet. The Street of Seven Stars Big trees, and especially elms, cleared of undergrowth and left standing amid such things, acquired a peculiar tattered dinginess rather in the quality of needy widow women who have seen happier days. The New Machiavelli I thought there would be a temporary dip into dinginess, but that was all. Soul of a Bishop He looked at the mean, poverty-struck room, he marked the dinginess and tawdriness of its detail and all the sordid evidences of ungracious bargaining and grudging service in its appointments. Soul of a Bishop Along that line and along that line alone, he saw the way of escape from the great sea of London dinginess that threatened to submerge his family. Soul of a Bishop |
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