| 单词 | dowdy |
| 例句 | “No, I’m tired of being dowdy, so I dressed up as a change. You always make yourself nice for table, no matter how tired you are, so why shouldn’t I when I have the time?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Mitraillette’s pullover does fit, and I have a many-times patched over wool jacket that once belonged to her brother, but the combination of these warm outer garments and the dowdy frock looks dead weird. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “She’s proud, but I don’t believe she’d mind, for that dowdy tarlaton is all she has got. She may tear it tonight, and that will be a good excuse for offering a decent one.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Dirty and dowdy among all the smiling portraits and canisters of film. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Before he had opened than, he might have been a stuffed owl, a dowdy bundle of feathers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But this part of the city is no longer flat, dowdy, shabby-genteel. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z La Chaumiere is not, however, a thatched cottage, but a prosaic, dowdy building like other Toronto buildings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She was heavyset, dowdy, strict, seemingly old to Terryl, though she was only in her thirties, and a caring talent scout. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And speaking of taste, had anyone else remarked upon that dreadful, dowdy number that so-and-so had worn to the such-and-such ball...? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Bod, in his grey winding sheet, felt dowdy and drab. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z She was a fat, dowdy, middle-aged woman with black hair and a slight moustache, but she was made of human flesh. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I promise not to call this kind of baking dowdy again. Lots of Healthy Options, but Don’t Forget Dessert! 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z “For Tammy, she said you don’t have to be dowdy to be a Christian. She never quite understood why people made fun of her look. She said: ‘This is me. Jessica Chastain redeems a televangelist in ‘Tammy Faye’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Smith shot himself Wednesday evening as Beverly Hills detectives approached to serve a search warrant in a dowdy Los Angeles apartment building. Person of interest in Chasen death was ex-con 2010-12-03T21:28:00Z To don those dowdy suits and permahats, and pick up those handbags once again, might only draw unfavorable comparisons to her earlier achievement. Helen Mirren Goes Back to the Palace in ‘The Audience’ 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z When it comes to footwear, she implies, beauty is secondary ... and comfort is the proper concern of the dowdy. Books Of Style: Following Footprints, Down Through the Ages 2012-06-22T20:53:46Z In a skinny-celebrity-obsessed world, it has been difficult to overcome the dowdy image of plus size. Plus-Size Fashion Moves Beyond the Muumuu 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z They’re far enough away to feel fashionable again, rather than dowdy. Lilith, Lilibet … Lucifer? How Baby Names Went to ‘L’ 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z I chose New York Toastmasters, which meets Mondays from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the charmingly dowdy Soldiers’, Sailors’, Marines’, Coast Guard and Airmen’s Club on Lexington Avenue between 36th and 37th Streets. Joining Toastmasters to Overcome a Fear of Public Speaking 2013-12-24T21:13:15Z But you didn’t feel they were asking you to play a dowdy widow? Marisa Tomei on ‘Spider-Man,’ ‘Empire’ and Playing Dark and Angry 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z London’s Gay Hussar, where generations of Labour M.P.’s have been spooning up chilled cherry soup, chicken paprikash and other once-exotic Hungarian fare in caricature-covered Soho surroundings since the 1950s, is, frankly, dowdy. | Under the Spell of Old Restaurants 2013-12-07T00:32:45Z No longer does a man, come winter, have to hide his svelte figure beneath dowdy layers of down and wool. Makers: The Evolution of Fleece, From Scratchy to Snuggie 2011-11-28T15:18:48Z The Ruth who sets off to Hampstead is small, fragile and dowdy in a headscarf – just like 1950s Britain, over which austerity still hangs like a horsehair blanket. The Thrill of Love – review 2013-02-27T18:06:27Z As Martha, the faculty wife, a character 20 years older than she was, Ms. Taylor gained 20 pounds and made herself look dowdy. Elizabeth Taylor, 1932-2011: A Lustrous Pinnacle of Hollywood Glamour 2011-03-26T17:35:55Z She picks up a dowdy flowered bag and joins fellow bird-watchers in Central Park, a crowd that includes an older man smoking a joint. Emily Nussbaum: “High Maintenance,” “My Mad Fat Diary” Reviews 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z The craft work was condensed into dowdy dresses with dolman sleeves, their dusty, bleached colors matching the models’ pale faces, hair raked into a side part. Fashion Review: The Rodarte Duo Explore the Outback 2012-02-15T17:56:58Z Isn’t the Cat Lady too young to have such a dowdy and extensive collection of porcelain cats? An Artist Stands Before Her Fun House Mirror 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z She's obviously too beautiful to be the mousy, dowdy wallflower the character demands, but by hunching her shoulders and darting her eyes, by playing up the clumsiness and never acknowledging her own beauty, she convinces. My favourite Hitchcock: Rebecca 2012-08-07T10:54:25Z It’s because, let’s be honest, of her looks — when she takes off her glasses, stops being that dowdy Diana Prince in a buttoned-up shirt and blossoms into her barely clad self. Is It Time for Wonder Woman to Hang Up Her Bathing Suit? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z “I refuse to wear shoes that either hurt my feet or look dowdy,” said Anne Higonnet, 63, a Columbia University professor of art history. Am I Done Suffering for Fashion? 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z When we meet Mother, she’s frazzled, serving food and wearing dowdy clothes that look like rags next to her husband’s comparatively haute couture suit. Can We Talk About the Mom in ‘A Christmas Story’? 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Over time it grew dowdy, if not plain ugly. After Years of False Starts, Geffen Hall Is Being Rebuilt. Really. 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z So how do we take an inherently dowdy girl and get her a job at a P.R. firm?” Looking Smart on the Pedals 2013-07-10T20:56:39Z Chastain last appeared on Broadway a decade ago, when she starred in “The Heiress” as Catherine Sloper, a dowdy, awkward aristocrat. Jessica Chastain Returns to the Stage With Nothing to Prove 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z There are dowdy newscasters risking frostbite to gin up color pieces on deathless topics like the contents of the athletes’ goody bags. Embracing Fashion, Saggers to Sequins, at the Winter Games 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z To some extent she’s shielded at her Jewish high school from artificial attempts to spruce up Hanukkah along the lines of Christmas, sparing her from feeling that Hanukkah is Christmas’s dowdy older sister. Motherlode Blog: Tough Choices This Hanukkah (Holiday) Season 2011-12-26T21:18:24Z Depending on how you are naturally built, maybe you'll be told that you shouldn't even be wearing pants at all and are assigned to navigate adolescence in a series of dowdy skirts. How Evangelicalism's racist roots and purity culture teachings catalyzed the Atlanta killings 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z But it’s not enough to talk about the peril facing the planet from climate change, he says, reclining in a dowdy, somewhat on-message ethanol flex-fuel Dodge Caravan that he calls the “Glamour Mobile.” Tom Steyer wants to ‘save the world.’ First he’ll have to save his campaign. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z While girlie, they weren't prim or dowdy, which is surely important to Stuart's typically young customer - someone like Emma Roberts, who sat in the front row. Color, color everywhere on NY Fashion Week, Day 3 2011-09-10T20:41:11Z In it, he maneuvered tiny figures representing the Blakes, the family that gathers in a sprawling if dowdy duplex apartment on the fringe of Manhattan’s Chinatown. How a humane playwright made it all the way to Broadway 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z The whimsy and delicate touches keep them youthful and not dowdy. For here or there, `resort' clothes are wearable 2012-06-22T17:16:04Z In the second half of the sentence, the museum twisted the fish knife again: not only were her clothes dowdy, they weren’t even nicely made. Snubbing Margaret Thatcher’s Clothes 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z One thing I noticed was that at the more accessible price points, there was almost a patronizing separation between over-the-top styles and dowdy. Styles Q+A: Ivanka Trump, Never Far From the Family Name 2013-08-30T20:33:31Z Maite, a dowdy secretary on the cusp of 30 in early 1970s Mexico City, is about to embark on quite a hero’s journey. New Crime Novels from Louise Penny and Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z In one work, the orb-like bases of dowdy bedside lamps were fused to create a double moon, a mini version of the kind of nondescript sculptures that grace corporate lobbies. Artist of the week 83: Rupert Ackroyd 2010-04-15T11:51:00Z DesignAgency also transformed the southern end of the dowdy former Trump lobby into the Astor Lounge, a sleek, neutral-toned spot for light snacks and drinks. Hotel Review: The St. Regis Toronto 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z But the only thing “Project Runway” managed to do last week was infuriate her because several stars of the reality show repeatedly used the phrase “old lady” as a synonym for dowdy, out-of-date or irrelevant. Perspective | Let’s talk about ‘Project Runway’ stars using ‘old lady’ to describe unflattering clothes 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z For the last week and until 21 August, the slightly dowdy Derbyshire spa town will be ringing to the sounds of Victorian light . Gilbert and Sullivan make their mark on Buxton 2010-08-09T17:21:00Z A Mid-Michigan Museum Draws a Crowd Along the main drag north of the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing lies the usual dowdy mix of Gothic-inspired classroom buildings and rundown frat houses. Heads Up: A Mid-Michigan Museum Draws a Crowd 2013-06-06T15:27:40Z I have no idea why I decided to make myself look so dowdy. 'As a black woman I'm always fetishised': racism in the bedroom 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z It was sophisticated and mature — but a far cry from dowdy. The Oscars red carpet showed us the most diversity of the night 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z An uncharitable person might have described her as dowdy. ‘I just knew he loved me. I could see it in his eyes’: can a psychologist cure lovesickness? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Though the dress was low cut, it was still somehow dowdy. Is This the Store for Grown-Up VSCO Girls? 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z “I hated it,” Graham wrote, calling the new building “plain, dowdy and full of compromises.” Goodbye, old Washington Post, home of the newspaper the Grahams built 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z A surprisingly dowdy Posh Spice stood apart, nervously balancing her jacket on her shoulders, as though waiting in line to be bullied. Viva Forever! – review 2012-12-16T00:05:46Z His groundbreaking colour photographs from the early 70s showed us a vernacular America that was so everyday as to be almost invisible, an almost banal place of brightly lit diners and dowdy motel rooms. Writing and photography ? is a picture really worth a thousand words? 2010-08-04T05:00:00Z But for some reason the swimsuits in the contest were dowdy one-piece affairs, and not even good dowdy one-piece affairs. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Sure, Miss America’s swimsuit portion is sexist. That’s the point. 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Costumes look like the dowdy dregs of vintage stores, and the sets seem inconsistently modeled, sometimes recalling the 1970s and at other times the 2010s. ‘Bad Hair’ Review: That Weave Is Killer 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Hall plays Rebecca, a dowdy mammogram technician who looks after her vinegary grandmother. Rebecca Hall: class act 2010-06-11T23:02:00Z Earlier this month the museum reopened its permanent collection galleries on the third floor of its extravagant home, which after 25 years had become dowdy and cramped. A Museum’s Fresh Take on the Whole Megillah 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Only Alan Tudyk, as the clownishly dowdy Georgetown interviewer, produces the one thing "Premature" strives so furiously yet fruitlessly to achieve: laughter. 'Premature' thinks crudeness is a teen's path to success 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z But now we've heard the dowdy reality, and tonight we got the worst of both worlds. Guns N' Roses fail to ignite Reading festival 2010 2010-08-28T15:09:00Z They may present themselves as dowdy and unfashionable, but get under the skin of any one of the UK's 100-odd motorway havens and you'll find a unique and lovable living thing. Service stations: my secret love affair 2010-05-01T23:35:00Z Consider the overused "give the dowdy girl a makeover" segment, which exposes Cooper's oversized white panties but little humor. Left cold by 'Hot Pursuit' 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z “I felt like I was pretending when I was going in and auditioning to play these dowdy people.” The Examined Life of Melanie Lynskey 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z The moment you’re seated, a waitress in a dowdy dress asks how you want it cooked, and hands you a mustardy green salad seconds later. | A Guide to Decent Takeout 2011-03-01T09:00:16Z There’s nothing cool about this dowdy tea salon. Seven Places in Europe We Call Home 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z In college, Isabel dresses in “aggressively dowdy clothing,” unlike her roommates, who are “better at keeping whatever private darkness they carried to themselves.” After a Camping Trip, Five Girls’ Lives Are No Longer the Same 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z And the final garden-party wedding scene suggests a transformation that is less rags to riches than dowdy to happy housewife. Dance Review: Note to Self: A Good Pair of Shoes Always Ends Up Paying for Itself 2011-06-22T22:10:02Z Her ’60s references were the austere, dowdier ones: Jackie Kennedy in black couture silk for a visit to the Vatican rather than Twiggy stick figures. Fashion Review: Milan Fashion Review: Prada, Versace, Etro, MaxMara 2012-09-21T23:37:54Z The Art Nouveau apartment buildings sit cheek by jowl with graceless office blocks, especially in the dowdy European quarter. Marcel Broodthaers’s Brussels, and Mine 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z A famous, wealthy boy meets dowdy, no-frills girl. Perspective | King Charles III and Camilla got what they wanted long ago 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z She’s made a show that seems dowdy and postmodern all at once. Dwight Garner Reviews the 'Serial' Season Finale 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Even the city’s dowdy, underused central square and adjacent waterfront have been spruced up for lounging and strolling. What to Do in Lisbon 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Pelletier is fairly uninteresting and stereotypically dowdy as a Holocaust museum official but seductive and disturbingly charming as the anti-Semitic speaker. Theater Review: ?The Soap Myth,? at the Black Box Theater 2012-04-03T22:09:44Z The entire place is designed in the style of a 1960s Soviet apartment, a colorful contrast to the dowdy Stolovaya government canteens of the same era. On the Menu in Moscow, Soviet-Era Nostalgia 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Unthinkable as it seems, Edna was dowdy then, given to mousy brown hair and pillbox hats. Barry Humphries (Dame Edna to You, Possums) Is Dead at 89 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z By 2015, it had devolved into a morass of bland shift dresses, unflattering cropped pants, and shoes that were gawd-awful dowdy. Can a faded fashion house reclaim its 1970s glory? Inside the effort to save Anne Klein. 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z The famous round table is long gone, of course, but so is the dowdy charm. A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z The prime minister’s residence at 10 Downing Street reflects the fustiness of a weakened empire: dowdy furnishings, corridors lined in linoleum, a cramped attic for advisers stranded overnight. The Plot to Kill Hitler 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z So it is a little disconcerting to see her in a dowdy wig and unflattering specs in Can You Ever Forgive Me? What's not to love? The new wave of 'unlikable' women in film 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Schmidt’s lush idiom, like Zemlinsky’s, was deemed dowdy in early-20th-century Vienna, and Schmidt’s reputation was later tainted by his support for the Nazis. Music Review: ?Notre Dame,? Franz Schmidt?s Opera, at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-20T21:34:19Z “Because Zoom is not the best quality camera, you can look a little dowdy,” Ms. Linter said. Time to Break Out the Lipstick 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Ms. Deneuve may wear the clothes of a dowdy bourgeois housewife, and Mr. Depardieu may assume some of the tics of a beleaguered, anxious bureaucrat, but their charisma is immune to fashion or time. | 'Potiche': Labor Strife? Send in the Boss?s Wife 2011-03-24T21:03:06Z And here’s the thing: All this dowdy, arguably ugly fashion? Perspective | Fanny packs. Prairie dresses. Luxury shower shoes: Is fashion trolling us or what? 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Where Holmes is dashing, hawk-like, and a boxer and swordsman as much as an amateur chemist and logician, Brown is dowdy, baby-faced, plump, a parish priest and an "Essex turnip". Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z “Instead of calling me extravagant, the press would have started referring to me as ‘dowdy’ and ‘frumpy.’ In first lady, Nancy Reagan found the role of a lifetime 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z The proportions were dowdy; the silhouettes were unflattering; the colors were Pepto pink and institutional green. Perspective | Chanel, what has become of you? Paris Fashion Week ends with a bust and then a bang. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z In other words, she is made to look as dowdy as possible, and she spends most of the first two acts cringing uncomfortably off to one side. Radvanovksy triumphs in Toronto "Aida" 2010-10-03T15:31:00Z And bright, shiny TV shows are elbowing aside summer’s dowdy reruns. What to Do This Weekend 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z However, once I left the soft glow of the velour-padded dressing room, I realized that even in the best light, the dress was a little dowdy and undeniably old-fashioned. Mint sauce gets a bad rap as being boring, but we just gave it a summer glow-up 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z Secretary of State Adams doesn’t mind letting people think she’s just a dowdy rich woman in over her little head. Review | Hillary Clinton’s thriller with Louise Penny is a thinly veiled jab at a Very Stable Genius 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Betty was a dowdy Mexican-American from Queens trying to make it as an assistant at a snooty fashion magazine. ‘Jane the Virgin’ Ends a Strong First Season 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Our train clattered into the Gare d’Austerlitz, looking dowdy compared with the sleek high-speed trains that are replacing the night routes across Europe. A Father-Son Bonding Mission in the French Alps 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z That's not to say the looks were dowdy or boring; in fact, they showed that Wang is maturing into a more sophisticated designer. Alexander Wang gets Gisele Bundchen back on runway 2012-02-12T00:31:08Z You don’t have to be dowdy to be Christian.’” How Jessica Chastain Became Tammy Faye 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The shy and portly singer, with an unfashionable bowl haircut, was instantly compared to dowdy Scottish star Susan Boyle. Lin Yu Chun, 'Taiwan's Susan Boyle', signs Sony record deal 2010-05-14T09:48:00Z As depicted by Ms. Staunton, Rose is a short, dowdy woman you wouldn’t look at twice, except for the radioactive energy she emanates. London Theater Journal: A Scorching Momma Rose 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z With her head held high and her clear, unwavering gaze, a dowdy backpack strapped to her back, she doesn’t resemble one of pop culture’s fantasy gamines. ‘One Fine Morning’ Review: The Moments That Make Up a Rich Life 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z As Martha, the faculty wife, a character 20 years older than her, Ms. Taylor gained 20 pounds and made herself look dowdy. Film Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79 2011-03-23T14:00:06Z When young Australian architects describe themselves as embarrassed by its "dowdy proportions", attention should be paid. Frank Gehry's new building looks like five scrunched-up brown bags 2011-01-09T22:30:00Z Their costumes, from dowdy to dapper, hint at back stories: police and nurse uniforms, a Hawaiian shirt and shorts, a natty pearl-gray suit, a gold-lamé skirt, an elaborate black dress. Music Review: Young@Heart Chorus Sings at St. Ann?s Warehouse 2010-04-26T22:55:00Z Any woman could play the dowdy outcast at a bridal shower, but Ms. Stone turned that character into the rasping, earnest misfit Wallis, holding her own in the sketch opposite Kristen Wiig. Television: Anna Faris and Other Female Hosts on ?Saturday Night Live? 2012-02-26T03:04:12Z Aside from a Russian moll, a dowdy paper pusher and the back of a cheating wife or two, this world is a male one. Tinker Tailor is Worth Spying 2011-12-09T22:03:08Z Between songs, she was a dowdy, chatty young woman in a prim frock: pointing out her “mummy” in the audience, detailing drunken karaoke exploits and cheerfully announcing “I can’t dance to save my life.” Music Review: Songs About What Went Wrong, but Performed So Right 2011-05-20T08:52:26Z By taking the evolution of American baking’s cultural and commercial history seriously, Parks challenges those who might consider it dowdy when compared with serious European pastry. Lots of Healthy Options, but Don’t Forget Dessert! 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z In the Netflix documentary “The Confidence Man,” two “Apprentice” producers say they found the actual Trump Organization offices too dated and dowdy for TV. Review: ‘The Confidence Man’ Finds Trump’s Business Image Was Made for TV 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The drab brown print dresses and dowdy necklines make her look dumpier than nature or the part demand. | 'Mildred Pierce': Battling the Depression for an Ungrateful Daughter 2011-03-24T11:00:00Z The staging can be “dowdy,” but the ballet remains “indispensable,” writes reviewer Lewis Segal. Essential Arts & Culture: A 2017 rewind, lots of 'Nutcracker' and Bach, art and selfie marketing 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Linney, normally so vivid, disappears into the role of dowdy Daisy, who seems too passive to hang a movie on. ‘Hyde Park’ promising but lackluster 2012-12-13T22:24:44Z Could we try something a little younger, less dowdy? Trying Out a Forgotten (and Free) Service: Personal Shoppers 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z These unisex blends challenge the “faded, dowdy, grandmotherly perception of rose,” says Craven, who finds it’s the addition of iris and vanilla that often produces an old-fashioned, powdery whiff. The New Generation of Rose Perfumes 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Everything about me is out of proportion — including my peanut-sized head — so I face the choice of billowing, dowdy garments or tighter clothes that sometimes cruelly expose my physical infelicities. The politics of my cleavage 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z Finally, with the blessings of his equally wealthy and famous sons, the famous, wealthy man reconnects with the dowdy girl and asks her to marry him. Perspective | King Charles III and Camilla got what they wanted long ago 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z In the white acts, the dowdy and overlong dresses of the swans occlude the leg-line, and elsewhere the costumes are continually forced into confrontation with the garish sets. Swan Lake ? review 2011-01-30T00:05:59Z Wrapped in sequined miniskirts and pencil dresses, they alighted on couches populated by older men with boxy haircuts, dowdy denim and physiques of retired prizefighters. Boîte: Jelsomino, a Russian Karaoke Club in Midtown 2012-07-25T18:34:12Z His dresses were a uniform mid-calf length, which, at the time, looked a little dowdy. Paris Fashion Week: Spring Fashion?s Operatic Season 2010-10-06T21:56:00Z Boyle, who used to sing in her church choir, is the antithesis of the modern celebrity with her dowdy appearance and advancing years. Susan Boyle expected to sing for the Pope 2010-06-10T12:52:00Z After more than a decade of celebrity glitz and lavishly underwritten partying, Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is shaping up to be a slimmed-down, more sober, slightly dowdier affair. The rise and fall — or maybe rebirth? — of the White House correspondents’ dinner 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z It opened hundreds of stores, from fashionable neighborhoods like SoHo in New York to dowdy airports. People Bought Crocs During the Pandemic. They Haven’t Stopped. 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Coupled with a terrific performance by Long Beach Opera that includes more than one star turn, the dowdy Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro became the unlikely locale for a double operatic triumph. Review: Long Beach Opera's endearingly messy, profound 'Romance of the Rose' is an operatic triumph 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z The only photos to emerge from the dowdy affair were official White House snapshots. Happy Birthday, President Biden: Very old and left with nothing but bad options 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Ella’s a model and New York socialite with a penchant for wearing collegiate, dowdy clothes that the New York Times referred to as “Wes Anderson chic” around the time of President Biden’s inauguration. The mullet is the haircut that refuses to die 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Conductor James Gaffigan played a large part in this regenerative approach, leading the National Symphony Orchestra through Bernstein’s confounding chordal corridors with sureness and vigor, and making the composer’s sometimes dowdy patterns feel effortlessly chic. Review | A half-century later, Bernstein’s ‘Mass’ shines anew at Kennedy Center 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z And flashy 5G devices — with the promise of next-generation speeds that your old, dowdy phone simply lacks — are the perfect incentive to get customers to sign on the dotted line. The 5G iPhone SE will be for carriers, not customers 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z “She said things like, ‘You don’t have to be dowdy to be Christian’ and ‘Who says you can’t put mascara on false eyelashes.’ How these masters of makeup brought Tammy Faye, the Guccis and Lucy to the big screen 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Decades later, Brisbane drew precious momentum for 2032 from the less dowdy 2018 Commonwealth Games held an hour south on the Gold Coast. Olympics-One-time backwater Brisbane turns Olympic Cinderella 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z The spectacle of skaters turning their boards into flying machines, soaring over obstacles, will deliver a rejuvenating injection of youthful energy to the dowdy sporting extravaganza. Skateboarding and the Olympics: New friends, put to the test 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Hurling tortillas at floats and marchers is a mainstay of Pasadena’s Doo Dah Parade, the anarchic step-cousin to the dowdy Tournament of Roses. Column: Throwing tortillas isn't a racist act — until it is 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z In his youth, he remembered watching ballets and feeling that “men always looked frumpy and dowdy, whereas women looked long and ethereal and weightless.” Slowly, more men are dancing on pointe, including in Seattle 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z In the kitchen of a dowdy hotel in Spain, a woman cooks uninspired dishes for strangers, her salary barely covering room and board and her employer just as chintzy with the restaurant’s ingredients. Review: Strong, tormented women broadcast nightmare visions from Spain 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z A 19th-century lieutenant despairs over a forced marriage to a dowdy princess, until his lover takes her in hand. Movies on TV this week: 'The Dark Knight'; 'North by Northwest' 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z It remains to be seen whether Americans will be more willing to wear dowdier, less comfortable but more effective masks to protect themselves and others. Mask-wearing coronavirus mandates leave protection gaps 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Some make the case that our dowdy, gauche old anthem is exactly the right fit: An official national song shouldn’t actually be a good song, and certainly shouldn’t have any trace of hipness about it. It's time to cancel 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' Here's what should replace it 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Even the astronauts’ spacesuits were sleek and form-fitting departures from their clunky, at times dowdy predecessors. SpaceX launch of NASA astronauts provides a chance to compare the new and old 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z “Harry and Meghan leaving the firm has left a void and I think the royal family were at risk of looking out of touch and dowdy without them,” Gristwood explained. Kate Middleton is ‘upset’ rumors claim ‘she resents her duty and hard work,' palace insiders say 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z The accompanying photo showed all the other winners kicking their legs like can-can girls and Sittenfeld “in a dowdy black dress and huge plastic glasses, frowning and not kicking my legs at all.” What if Hillary had dumped Bill? A novelist imagines a different 2016 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z She thought they were too boring and dowdy, and they made her look like a cancer patient. Breast cancer survivors create own products to help others 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z “The first song that popped out of me was ‘A Little More Mascara,’ ” Mr. Herman said in 1983, “in which you actually see a dowdy, aging, not-terribly-happy man transform himself into this glamorous creature.” Jerry Herman, composer of ‘Hello, Dolly!’ and other Broadway hits, dies at 88 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Like many young Chinese, she used to like designer clothes and handbags; now she mostly wears Muji, the inexpensive Japanese brand whose style reputation in China might be described as dowdy and demure. She Accused a Tech Billionaire of Rape. The Chinese Internet Turned Against Her. 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z When Mary chastises her for embarrassing her in front of Mr. Grant, Phyllis assumes her friend is just jealous and wonders if she should’ve dressed more “dowdy,” so as not to overshadow Mary. The Mary Tyler Moore Show pairs surprisingly well with The Morning Show 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z With a wig, a pair of glasses or some prop bubble gum, Ms. Schembri transformed herself into a high-powered businesswoman, a dowdy schoolteacher or a casual, 20-something persona she called “Queens woman.” This Investigator Used to Stake Out Women. Now, She Tails Men Online. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Accusations that its clothing is too dowdy and conservative still linger, too. M&S expected to be kicked out of FTSE 100 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z The 2009 film “The Young Victoria,” starring Emily Blunt, offered a fresh look at the young queen — a far cry from the dowdy image of her as the ruler of the world’s most powerful empire. Hail, Victoria: Britain celebrates the Queen's 200th birthday in grand style 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z After three years of hardware that honestly felt a little dowdy compared to other flagships, it seems like they are going to try to go HAM this year. Why Google’s surprise Pixel 4 tease raises the stakes 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z As Ms. Salewski found, you needn’t look dowdy in flats or like you forgot to switch into heels. Why Smart, Chic Women Are Abandoning High Heels (Forever) 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z It’s at this low point that we meet Melissa McCarthy’s Lee in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” in which the actress brings her dowdiest, most disagreeable A-game to a caustically funny, improbably affecting enterprise. Review | Melissa McCarthy is a revelation in her new film. And she’s not even the best thing about it. 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z The original Pixel was also a dowdy slab of big-bezel electronics, and the new Pixel XL doesn’t do much better, featuring arguably the ugliest and most intrusive notch — a hotly-contested prize — we’ve yet seen. Google’s Pixel 3 won’t surprise you, but it might delight you 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z "I gaze at you in sheer despair and see your mother standing there," sings the three-times-married Aznavour, as he notes with displeasure as his partner grows old and dowdy. Six of the best Charles Aznavour songs 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z The colors are muted, the costumes are dowdy, and the air of suburban suppression is close to asphyxiating. “Mission: Impossible—Fallout” Maintains the Good Spirits of Its Predecessor 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z It was arguably the dowdiest of Britain’s major charities — its highest-profile patron has long been Princess Anne, Queen Elizabeth’s daughter. A Crisis Management Guru Bungles a Crisis 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z The $$$ is important, but I’m hoping the first thing Lawrence will do is strip down this institution’s dowdy, unwieldy name so that it’s simply “The Huntington” — which is what everybody calls it anyway. Essential Arts & Culture: L.A.'s Barak Ballet goes on tour, LACMA's grand plan and a 97-year-old art star 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z It tried to shed its dowdy, midmarket image and transform itself into a luxury brand. Samsonite C.E.O. Resigns After Accusation of Résumé Fraud 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z North American refining and logistics, the dowdier “downstream” part of the business, is now the place to be. Shale Boom Fuels Refinery Deal 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z It also makes one forget that just a few years ago, the three-day celebration of college football turning into newly minted millionaires was held in Manhattan at the rather dowdy Radio City Music Hall. How Big Can the N.F.L. Draft Get? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Don’t look dowdy, but don’t look like you’re trying to dress like a teenager, for God’s sake. Opinion | Job Description for the Dumbest Job Ever 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z He lamented that “slipshod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference, and half-hearted work seem the rule,” and that young men, when asked to perform a novel task, were apt to protest, “Was I hired for that?” A Message to Millennials From 1899 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Theater Four, as the joint was called, was a dowdy old converted church in a part of Manhattan that the play’s author, Mart Crowley, called a “senseless-killing neighborhood.” A Brief History of Gay Theater, in Three Acts 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z The suffragette organisations worked hard to counteract the perception of them as dowdy harridans and urged their members to emphasise their femininity by dressing their hair stylishly and wearing attractive clothes during demonstrations and protests. Unused ticket: The suffragette story in seven objects 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z As the nation’s legislators made their way into the Capitol, glad-handing and back-slapping, the camera’s sweep of the room showed a dowdier, duller and grimmer looking audience than is usual. Perspective | At the State of the Union, fashion puts women on mute. 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z But for years, private-label apparel was dull and dowdy, no match for branded threads. The retail apocalypse is fueled by no-name clothes 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z In all the more typical ways, she was looking maybe a little drab, maybe a little dowdy. Modest Dressing, as a Virtue 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Now in its 13th year, the poll pits the country’s rare and endangered birds against one another: the cheeky Kea versus the shy Kiwi, the dowdy Bar Tailed Godwit against the alluring Hihi. Kea or Kākāriki? Bird of the Year contest gets New Zealand in a flap 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Most small songbirds — flashy American redstarts, striped black-and-white warblers, dowdy sparrows — travel at night to avoid predators and exploit favorable air currents. New York’s 9/11 tribute mesmerizes birds — and might help save them 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z A natural extension of the Tiny House movement, a new crop of stylish travel trailers is attracting first-time buyers to a market that once seemed dated and dowdy. The Ultimate Road-Trip Accommodation: A Tiny RV 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Even the dowdy styles worn by their unhip classmates are fun to look at, in their own hideous way. Review: ‘Romy and Michele’ and their reunion, on the 5th Avenue Theatre stage 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Jess is even running for office, sporting a politician crop and dowdy wares. Review: A questionable murder derails ‘Rough Night’ fun 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z There are numerous baffling interviews—“I am sorry, I need the interprete, I cannot understand your American accent”—in which dowdy matrons in lavender linen ask highly intellectual questions about Homer, Joyce, and quantum physics. “It’s a Summer Day” 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z “We want something more dowdy,” he said, “because we’re a country in a dowdier mood.” Theresa May Stumbles Awkwardly to Election Day 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Growing up, I saw elderly British women on Monty Python all the time, but they were men in dowdy housedresses, old bats who were funny precisely because they were interchangeable. “Feud”: A Bittersweet Beauty 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z In the later, more familiar images, she appears “dowdy … an older woman … conservatively dressed.” Harriet Tubman fled a life of slavery in Maryland. Now a new visitor center opens on the land she escaped. 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z The event was the true carnival torchbearer, much more so than the dowdy official season-opening parties. My night in naked New Orleans: the Mardi Gras party I'll never forget 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z It occupies a purpose-built new building, a great whorl of glass and golden stone, a few hundred yards from the PPE philosophers’ dowdier premises. PPE: the Oxford degree that runs Britain 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The actress dowdies up her portrayal with a glumly unsmiling demeanor and the flat, poignantly cynical vocal delivery of the nerd who’s smarter — and more annoying — than everyone else in the room. ‘Christine’ biopic fails to make a larger point 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The residents of this miserable burg are narrow-minded, dowdy and dumb. ‘The Dressmaker’: Too many threads tangle revenge tale 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z But he’s also equally realistic on the bad merger decision, which involved bringing in some go-go managers from Boston to run the then-illustrious but dowdy Wellington Fund during the 1960s stock boom. Jack Bogle: The Undisputed Champion of the Long Run 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z It cites terror, but people are also fed up with its dowdy, badly-repaired theme park. Not all shows must go on 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Even in a dowdy wig, LeValley seems too youthful to be matched with Ensweiler, but her splendid voice helps to overcome casting and character issues. In Taproot’s ‘Big Fish,’ the awe is small-scale 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z A skirted suit in solid black looks heavy and dowdy. New Life for the Skirted Swimsuit 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z “Their locations, their decor, their approach, has been one of the dowdier of the dowdy in the past,” Zietsma said. Lord & Taylor is going retro. Will millennials be into it? 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Others currently own dowdy houses and choose to renovate rather than relocate. California’s Hot Housing Market Drives Pricey Home Facelifts 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z These homes are a large step up from dowdy conversions done in the 1970s. British Barns With Blue-Blood Prices 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Older women didn’t want to look dowdy at their children’s weddings. Why Do Women Spend Less on Fashion After 45? 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z HP isn’t new to the premium space, but its huge PC business is weighted heavily toward the dowdier end of the market. The New HP Way: How Thin, Pricey Laptops Compute 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z The Scion xB, the Honda Element, the Nissan Cube: All were funky departures for Generation X from the dowdy minivans of their parents. Carmakers Retreat From Quirky Designs as Millennials Embrace Mainstream 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z But pyjamas, far from being seen as dowdy and scruffy, were once at the very apex of fashion. When pyjamas ruled the fashion world - BBC News 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z But the mainly low-budget cars appeared dowdy, primitive, even potentially unsafe. We Can Stop Chuckling Now. Chinese Made Cars Have Arrived in U.S. 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z He dressed in baggy trousers and dowdy shirts, and enjoyed the Berliners’ disinterest in him. Bowie in Berlin: 'He drove round the car park at 70mph screaming that he wanted to end it all' 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z And the awkward, borderline dowdy businessman expresses bemusement at the idea that he's a Don Juan. Ron Burkle raised $10 million for the Clintons. Now, he has almost nothing to do with them. 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z “I hated it,” wrote Katharine Graham, whose family owned the paper for 80 years, deriding it as “plain, dowdy and full of compromises”. Washington Post bids farewell to office where it broke Watergate 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z "Most of these Asian terminals are only 15 years old - of course ours are going to look a bit dowdy," he says. Why do so many people hate US airports? - BBC News 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Adele’s debut, “19,” meanwhile, despite its serious vocal chops, seemed a bit drowsy and dowdy in comparison. What Is It About Adele? 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z What could be more heart-warming than seeing a dowdy caterpillar transform into a beautiful colourful butterfly and take off into the sky? Seven scientific facts to ruin childhood | Dean Burnett 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z That is remarkable for a dividend-paying company in a dowdy industry. Kroger Nears Its Sell-By Date 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z By contrast, Johnson lives in a somewhat dowdy, old-fashioned early 20th century duplex. DIY Project: How to 'Masters of Sex' up your kitchen with just a little paint and paper 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z For a Western town that gangster Al Capone once described as a little too rough for him, Ogden today looks pretty staid and dowdy. In quiet Ogden, Utah, a surprising glimpse of income equality 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z Less colourful, even dowdy, butterflies are also used in art to reflect our fears. Do butterflies hold the answer to life's mysteries? - BBC News 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z In “Spy,” she lets the rest of her flags fly, first donning a series of risibly dowdy disguises, then swanning around in wigs and gowns that turn her into a slinky, seductive siren. ‘Spy’ would be a ho-hom action comedy but for Melissa McCarthy 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Although his decision to leave Google Inc., where he was the president of the Americas operations, to lead dowdy AOL surprised many at the time, Armstrong was optimistic from the start. Tim Armstrong reinvents a flagging AOL 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z So why, then, would Verizon, already the nation's largest wireless carrier and a giant in mobile communications, want to pay $4.4 billion to buy an old-line Internet company with a dowdy reputation like AOL? AOL's video a key lure for Verizon in $4.4-billion acquisition 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z “Spinster” is a dowdy old word — coined in 15th-century Europe and originally applied to women who spun thread for a living. A spinster, and proud of it 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z A quick examination of its stock revealed why: dowdy dresses, garish sweaters and jackets that any reasonably fashion-conscious woman under 60 would surely spurn. Why Target lost its aim 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Indeed, a test of the area’s desirability as an office district is underway at 4 Times Square, the 48-story tower erected in 1999, just as the area was shedding its dowdy, crime-ridden reputation. Times Square’s Crushing Success Raises Questions About Its Future 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The new owners’ idea was to capitalize on the wealth of the community, converting the dowdy Boatel into a boutique 30-room hotel. Renowned Gay Mecca on Fire Island Goes to Auction 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z It’s one of the surest shortcuts to newfound artistic appreciation: a bedraggled deviation into dowdy drama by a beautiful star. Review: A deglamorized Aniston in the drab ‘Cake’ 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Over lunch in the dowdy dining room of a nearby hotel, Tank advised a radical cure. Sebastian Seung’s Quest to Map the Human Brain 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z As a result, that long history of design is likely to inform the aesthetic sensibilities of the folks at SpaceX: After all, they hardly want customers feeling dowdy. Elon Musk Won't Send You Into Orbit Looking Frumpy 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z To her, the site seemed too dowdy, and she wanted to steer the company in a more upscale direction. Book review: ‘Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!’ by Nicholas Carlson 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z She looked marriage and adulthood square in the face—a life on the sidelines, matronly chaperones in dowdy clothes—and would have none of it. What Is It About Gone With the Wind That Still Enchants Us? 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z By day the bar would be full of dowdy bureaucrats on their lunch breaks; by night it was packed with lithe young men and women taking Sambuca shots and dancing to Britney Spears. This Gay Couple Left Crimea Because of Russian Homophobia 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Penney, chains that have not only muddled through sales and earnings crises, but have largely failed to shed their dowdy images in the minds of younger shoppers. Beware, Retailers: Ignore Millennials At Your Own Risk 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Having started her career at Battery Park City in the 1980s, she became director of real estate at the M.T.A. in 1992, where she was charged with revamping Grand Central’s dowdy spaces. In Depths of Columbus Circle, a Retail Hub Blooms 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Behind the discord is the implication that a powerful real estate player effortlessly outmaneuvered a dowdy old non-profit. Tower Will Rise Over and Above a Paint-Spattered Landmark 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Potsdam was once a rather dowdy town in East Germany. The church described as a 'symbol of evil' 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z “It embodied much of the spirit of the time — or at least the time when it was designed, early in 1955. It was clumsy, powerful, dowdy, gauche, well-meaning — a de Kooning woman.” With the Blessing of Bill Gates, an Unlikely Summertime Best Seller 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z And Time Warner took on new allure when it shed those dowdy old magazine properties that now trade under their own ticker. Riding the Juggernaut That Left Print Behind 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Despite the investment, a dowdy reputation can be hard to shed, and some prospective tenants are reluctant to visit the building for a tour. Always Iconic, Empire State Building Now Goes for Hip 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z RIO VISTA, Calif. — As the Merva W puttered down the Sacramento River, it looked like any other dowdy fishing vessel headed toward the Golden Gate Bridge. Swim to Sea? These Salmon Are Catching a Lift 2014-04-19T00:23:38Z It is less and less the dowdy working-class town that grew up around Robert Fulton’s steamboats and, later, railroads. In Gentrifying Jersey City, Super Bowl Teams Find Temporary Home 2014-01-23T15:52:21Z It promised to be a rather dowdy version of its glitzy, American equivalent - no red carpet, Hollywood stars or Emmy award-winning comedians here. Cameron's stand-up routine at dinner 2014-01-17T09:56:12Z One of his most widely quoted policy critics runs a tiny pub named "UZU," or "Tidal Swirl," hidden among the back streets of a dowdy Tokyo commercial neighborhood. Meet the Prime Minister of Japan's Most Intimate Critic 2013-12-07T04:26:45Z The rather dowdy Shoprite store situated on the busy main road was opened in 1995 and was the firm’s first venture beyond its immediate South African hinterland. Supermarkets in Africa: The grocers’ great trek 2013-09-19T14:59:24Z Young and dynamic — he was a goalie on Harvard University’s varsity hockey team — Mr. Carney brings with him attributes not usually found among the dowdy breed of central bankers. Canadian Steps In to Lead Bank of England 2013-06-30T14:12:09Z While rivals such as Next, Primark and the online store Asos are roaring ahead, M&S fashions have lurched from dull to dowdy and sales have been going backwards. M&S style boss Belinda Earl unveils first step towards turnaround 2013-05-16T23:05:03Z It is all of those problems - as well as the dowdy designs, that have contributed to the seven quarterly declines in underlying sales of clothing. M&S boss under pressure amid race to upgrade supply chain 2013-05-10T15:34:07Z Sheik’s Vision Could Trump Plan for Park in Queens There is a grand plan to be found for Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, a face-lift for this dowdy old dame. Gotham: A Sheik’s Vision Could Trump Plan for a Queens Park 2013-05-07T00:44:48Z The sharply tailored black suit was replaced by a dowdy grey tracksuit. José Mourinho's return would invigorate Chelsea and the Premier League 2013-05-01T15:48:07Z In the fall of 2011, Ron Johnson was appointed not just as CEO of JC Penney, but as the savior responsible for breathing new life into one of the dowdiest dinosaurs in American retail. The 5 Big Mistakes That Led to Ron Johnson’s Ouster at JC Penney 2013-04-09T15:50:07Z Two of the most closely watched stock-market indicators — the dowdy Dow Jones industrial average and the broader Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index — hit all-time highs last month. The April Fool’s economy 2013-04-01T12:55:54Z Penney is spending heavily to upgrade its stores from dowdy to delightful; Lampert is slowly milking a dwindling asset and revenue base at Sears. Sears and J.C. Penney: A pair of cautionary tales 2013-03-22T14:04:00Z Heinz has been too dowdy to attract hedge-fund thrill-seekers, which explains why the stock price and the volume have been so flat for so long. Heinz Buffet deal: will anyone spill the beans on insider trading? 2013-02-15T20:45:00Z Back at the Watford branch, a similar transformation is under way, although customers say it still looks more overpriced and dowdy than fresh and affordable. Mothercare tries to sharpen up and cash in on baby boom 2013-01-27T00:06:49Z Inspired, the man spends the rest of the commercial running around his dowdy apartment, tapping the furniture, wall hangings, bric-a-brac and, finally, his clothes, until they are transformed into stylish trappings. Media Decoder: Fab.com Tests Advertising on Television 2012-09-24T18:03:26Z This dowdy number seemed a bit boring for her. 2012 Emmy Awards: The Best and Worst Dressed 2012-09-24T03:05:37Z All too soon the autumn party conference season will be upon us, with the denizens of SW1 offered moments of glory on a far dowdier set of podia. The endless, combative soap opera of politics has to stop. It's such a turn-off 2012-08-10T19:30:01Z Mango always seems like a downmarket imitation and their colours are usually either crude or dowdy. Store Wars: Barratts and Clarks 2012-07-13T06:00:05Z The dowdy bird store with the parrots in the window became Magnolia Bakery. It’s the Economy: Can Mom-and-Pop Shops Survive Extreme Gentrification? 2012-06-05T09:00:10Z The men are obliged to wear dowdy colours as a mark of submission to the powers that be. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z The office was furnished with a large roll-top desk, three chairs, and a table littered with papers which a dowdy woman in pince-nez was trying to put in some kind of order. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z "Very well," said Clarissa, "if you want to be a dowdy genius and quarrel with your husband before you have been married two months, go your own way, and wear coats and skirts." The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z She had been dowdy and disreputable when she had taken them out on the first trip. The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret 2012-03-07T03:00:15.897Z Penney Co. single-handedly added nearly $1.4 billion to the dowdy retailer's value late last month after outlining his plan to turn it around. J.C. Penney's New Look Gets the Once Over 2012-02-23T23:28:04Z I should like to get her a proper evening frock instead of that dowdy thing, and take her somewhere to get her hair waved. Peter Binney A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:10.423Z As rivals Wal-Mart and Target Corp. spruced up stores in recent years, Sears Holdings confronted falling sales and perceptions of dowdy merchandise. Sears, Kmart closures spark speculation about whether famous retailer can avoid death spiral 2011-12-27T23:36:18Z “Why you said she was plain and dowdy!” Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z How stupid she had been, always laughing at her mother who called her a dowdy! The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z He had felt, only too often, that Stella was almost dowdy; she was never really smart. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z A woman was standing close behind him, looking and smiling at him--a stout and a dowdy woman. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z The wife of a North-country manufacturer, she spends a good deal of money on rather dowdy clothes. Caesar's Wife A comedy in three acts 2011-11-11T03:00:37.427Z I hope I'm not wicked, Paradine, but to wear draperies and wings in the next world offers me no compensation for looking dowdy in a Paquin gown in this. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z Val felt dowdy and dull in her mourning; it was an insult to the fair summer weather to go about in such clothes. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Miss Placid! said she, you will look so dowdy to-night in your plain muslin frock, while all the rest of the ladies will wear either gauze frocks or silk coats full trimmed. Jemima Placid or, The Advantage of Good-Nature 2011-09-25T02:00:16.800Z I had yesterday a ball of the provincial nobility—the women good-looking enough, rich enough, dowdy enough, although in Paris fashions. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z She is a very queer and dowdy person, with the most awful hat you ever saw. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z I have one of my own, now; and not such a dingy, dowdy heroine as yours!' The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:27.667Z She was but a dowdy piece of goods, to be sure; but she had fine eyes, and a fine nose; and she amused me prodigiously, she was so devilish shy.' The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:26.867Z While girlie, they weren’t prim or dowdy, which is surely important to Stuart’s typically young customer — someone like Emma Roberts, who sat in the front row. Splashes of yellow, beach parties and flora dominate runways for spring at NY Fashion Week 2011-09-11T01:15:29Z But on this night, Juventus paid tribute not only to its loyal fans but to the dowdy English club that bequeathed it the classic black-and-white striped jerseys so familiar to fans around the world. Goal: In Italy, the Old Lady Opens a New Stadium 2011-09-09T00:46:00Z I have heard the tree sparrow called a nasty, common, dowdy thing. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z My poor little black lace frock would have looked quite dowdy amongst them if it had not happened to be of such a distinguished cut. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z They bowed back and stared hard at the dowdy little girl he escorted, wondering where he had unearthed her, and why? The Triumph of Jill 2011-08-31T02:01:25.060Z Apple does a fantastic job of marketing itself as the cooler alternative to its dowdy, mainstream competitors. Apple's cool is no liberal triumph 2011-08-23T11:45:00Z No; I'm tired of being a dowdy, so I dressed up as a change. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z It is so awfully dowdy; it is not what a lady ought to wear. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z No, sir, I'm not going out a dowdy to please you or anybody else. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z “She is the dowdiest thing I ever saw.” Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton 2011-07-17T02:00:32.150Z But Mr. Tritle is giving it up for roomier, less plush and decidedly non-Catholic confines on the dowdier Upper West Side. ArtsBeat: A Word With Kent Tritle 2011-07-15T15:08:45Z My dresses looked dowdy beside theirs, too, and they told me I was getting too serious. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z As for accomplishments: what accomplishments could a dowdy little country girl have that she had not? A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z She had formerly been neat, now she was dowdy. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z You are certainly very pretty, but you are a terrible dowdy in your way of putting on your things. The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:14.900Z The daughter of the said piece of deformity was a yellow dowdy, full of envy and ill-nature; and, in short, was much of the same mould as her mother. Amusing Prose Chap Books 2011-06-27T02:01:05.043Z The domestic girl need be neither plain nor dowdy. A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z It was just like Marjorie Dean to interest herself in such dowdy persons. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z That's a Merewig,' and he pointed to a dowdy female, with a reticule on her arm, who, at that moment, went through the painted iron gates. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z The Commerce Department's revised report on first quarter GDP showed a dowdy 1.8% growth rate and less consumer spending over that period than originally thought. Is the U.S. Economy Worse Off than Europe's? 2011-05-27T20:05:00Z The ladies dazzle him; he thinks of "our London dowdies" and shudders; but alas! he cannot talk to them. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z I was far too excited to notice such uninteresting people, but for the curious personal kind of detestation in the look the dowdy woman fixed upon Aunt Josephine. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z "What you would call dowdy if he were a woman," said her more experienced friend. Boston Neighbours In Town and Out 2011-05-24T02:00:13.567Z It need not cost, appreciably, more to be neat and tasteful than it does to be dowdy and slouching. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z And there are dowdy cities and fashionable cities—the latter resembling one another as fashionable women do. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z She liked this select little circle of somewhat dowdy provincials, who she felt would be quite at one with her in her desire for the regeneration of social France. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z As we glided out of the station I noticed the dowdy woman asking her way of a policeman. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z It would never do for the men to come home and find us skimpy and dowdy and peculiar, like some of those suffragettes.... Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z She is at her best now; in striving to win me she is like a female bird, her plumage is at its best; she will grow dowdy when the incentive is gone. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z She made all manner of fun of it behind your back, and called it real dowdy. The Pearl of Peace or, The Little Peacemaker 2011-04-03T02:00:16.450Z And from out the group of dowdy country matrons and starchy-looking dévotes a brilliant figure now detached itself and glided forward with consummate grace. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z The dowdy woman gave the porter a tip, and sent him on an errand. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z Her daughter, also, was a yellow dowdy, full of envy and ill-nature; and, in short, was much of the same mould as her mother. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z Yes, I'll marry her—a dowdy—he's a seller of figs—yet, fourscore thousand— Sir J. B. And yet, do you know—— Lack. Fontainbleau 2011-03-30T02:00:17.797Z Yet upon their arrival the Kings began a sellout streak that encompassed more than a decade and two arenas — first a converted warehouse, then dowdy Arco Arena. Chicago News Cooperative: Chicago Embraces Teams as Other Cities Are Jilted 2011-03-26T23:07:51Z It was always dowdy, if not a little shabby, which most residents and visitors accepted as part of its charm. Image of France as a generous welfare state marred by grim reality 2011-03-21T17:46:00Z She was beloved; despite of her shabby dresses, her dowdy bonnets, her clumsy country-made boots. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Mr Galliano is undoubtedly a talented designer who sprinkled Dior’s once dowdy fashion house with pixie-dust. Schumpeter: When stars go cuckoo 2011-03-03T10:48:29Z She knew that she was more than ordinarily beautiful-284- and that she could talk well, but that does not count for much if you are rather dowdy, and quite uneventfully virtuous. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z And even his affectionate disposition and fine temper were not proof, after the first ebullitions of tenderness had subsided, against my dowdy wretched appearance, and my dejection of manner. A Wife's Duty A Tale 2011-02-17T03:00:19.313Z Dear me, I wish I had not seen the silk one; this seems so large and dowdy. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z A dowdy little thing like you never owned such a bag. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z "What a dowdy little friend," yawned Esm� as they sped down Piccadilly. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z Perhaps to her your dowdy Wife define Who cares no more, so that her Cupboard shine: Who revel in your House without Controul, And eat and waste your Means our Blood and Soul. An Essay on Criticism 2011-02-06T03:00:52.167Z Besides, I had heard Seymour say she was dowdy and awkward. A Wife's Duty A Tale 2011-02-17T03:00:19.313Z Even if she has to support a poor mother she will never let you know it by her personal appearance, which is never dowdy but always smart. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z “I don’t believe a dowdy thing like her ever honestly owned a bag like mine in this world!” Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z His companion was an elderly woman, dowdy, rather fussily impressed. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z Besides, the only person killed that night was a middle-aged Chechen woman, with a tight headscarf and a thick accent, whom the motel's staff describe as dowdy and cold. The Moscow Airport Attack: Were Early Clues Ignored? 2011-01-27T22:20:00Z So why hold this event in a somewhat dowdy convention center instead of the grand Assembly chamber, as is tradition? City Room: In Speech, Cuomo Elaborates on His Plan 2011-01-05T20:15:41Z Ruis is behind the shake-up that has replaced the retailer's dowdier lines with sought-after high street and designer names such as Mint Velvet and Denmark's Bruuns Bazaar. John Lewis profits bounce back as store defies gloom 2010-09-05T19:02:00Z If you're expecting a snappy comeback to the longtime series of "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" commercials put out by featuring the dowdy middle-aged PC and the cool blue-jeaned shaggy Mac, think again. Apple Vs. Microsoft: Get Over It 2010-08-16T09:00:00Z She was not remarkable in any way, merely a rather dowdy girl sitting alone at a little table. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z The authority is hoping that Condé Nast will bring the same kind of cachet to a rebuilt trade center that the publisher brought to a dowdy Times Square in the late 1990s. Cond? Nast to Move to Tower at Ground Zero 2010-08-03T18:00:00Z Even in a down economy there's no shortage of potential buyers for even the dowdiest of franchises. Owners not believable when crying poverty 2010-07-17T20:51:00Z More than anyone, Hands brought to Europe the idea of using cheap debt to pump apparently miraculous returns from dowdy businesses. Special Report: Guy Hands, Citigroup and the fight for EMI 2010-06-11T05:45:00Z Department store lingerie was dowdy, referred to as "foundation garments," and the fancier items were saved for special occasions, like one's honeymoon. Victoria?s Secret?s Secret 2010-06-09T05:00:00Z "I am one of the dowdy people who like to mess in the kitchen and dust, value a pleasure for what it costs ... it's childish." The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z "This is a bit trendy," the one in the slightly dowdy brown jacket says, doubtfully. Think different 2010-05-04T18:10:00Z It was United who were entirely dowdy when subsequently beaten at home by Chelsea. Sir Alex Ferguson wants Old Trafford effect to rouse Manchester United 2010-04-07T06:00:00Z The chain will spruce up some of its dowdier restaurants and offer free Wi-Fi. 2010-02-11T22:00:00Z It may be Dutch and substantial, but I consider it dowdy. Small Souls This stout and dowdy woman held the keys of the dullest and most exclusive houses. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z When a woman finds out that her husband is absolutely indifferent to her, she either becomes dreadfully dowdy or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man Michael's heart sank when he beheld a fat young French-woman with a bilious complexion and little pig's eyes and a dowdy black mantle and a common black hat. Sinister Street, vol. 1 You look positively—er—er—dowdy!” exclaimed Jess, gazing at her friend after first greetings were over. The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship "If—if you think I look too dowdy, I—I'll stay at home, Mother," she said, in a quiet tone that betrayed a touch of hurt pride. Nancy of Paradise Cottage Altogether she had a stately and rather foreign presence, which made Jennie feel very dowdy and very commonplace. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop And the dowdier the ladies and the less he had to do with them the prouder were they. A Traitor's Wooing There was not a large congregation—two sisters of mercy, three or four pious and dowdy maiden ladies, and the sacristan. Sinister Street, vol. 1 For a little while Jean and Jack felt as dowdy as old rag dolls, but when the dancing began they forgot to care about their clothes. The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series No girl can afford to be dowdy in appearance. Bee and Butterfly A Tale of Two Cousins If she is an old dowdy," says Mrs. Branscombe, somewhat irreverently, "I sha'n't be one scrap afraid of her, and I do so want to go right over the castle. Faith and Unfaith "I'm going to several parties and bazaars," she explained, "and, of course, I don't want to look a regular dowdy." The Eagle's Nest It appeared to him but another instance of Jean’s surprising cleverness that she always “hit upon such stunning clothes,” and he pitied from his heart the poor fellows who possessed dull, dowdy wives. A Question of Marriage All down the aisle workers were twisting sprays of ivy round the tall gas standards, in the discreet background dowdy nobodies were wrestling with window-sills. Lady Cassandra Of decentish broods you have been a begetter, And, though you are dowdy, I thought you had nous. An Englishwoman in full dress who has not a fine figure is even more dowdy than she is in the morning. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. It was eleven o'clock before she reached Blank & Blank's, and the vast shop was filled with a surging crowd of women, young and old, smart and dowdy, rich and poor. Hildegarde's Harvest Perhaps one would be more slow in getting a feeling of wronging the most smartly dressed woman in the room than would be the case with the wife dowdy or drab. Fidelity A Novel But to Sheila, in comparison with Charlotte's splendor, the white muslin seemed unspeakably dowdy. The Torch Bearer Even if they try to economize, aren't they always taunted with being dowdies? A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June In form the Englishwoman's dress is dowdy, in color frightful. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. The women he objected to in the main as being dowdy and homely and awkward. The "Genius" All the disappointed girls in the town wondered what any body could like in such a dowdy as that. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales Did you notice a dowdy creature who was lunching with two men on your right? The Silent Barrier He didn't exactly see them there, those three queer, dowdy little women. The Return of the Prodigal Negroes—the men in dirty dusters, the women in smart calicoes, girls in dowdy muslins and boy's hats—and mountain whites, coatless men, shoeless women—hung about the counters dawdling away their small change. John March, Southerner Mrs. Johns, for all her wen and her big nose and dowdy clothes, was a little better for having been able to quote this so aptly. The "Genius" She had squeezed herself on this occasion into a dowdy dress of pearl-gray silk, with a purple collar of velvet. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day If she had been plain or dowdy, they might have been friendly enough. The Silent Barrier Everything in this picture reeks of gin; the only persons not imbibing it are the proprietor and his dowdy barmaids, whom I have no manner of doubt the artist intended to look captivating. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. "What are you doing here—dressed like some dowdy just in from a farm sector?" he asked, his gaze incredulous. The Cartels Jungle The house lasses were at the burn-side washing, and saw her pass with her loose, weary, dowdy gait. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston "You know the Bart would not have liked it half so much if I had been a dowdy." When Ghost Meets Ghost The toilette of a bride is as magnificent as the widow’s is depressing and dowdy. Legends & Romances of Brittany The duchess herself was present, but she was dowdy, as duchesses have a right to be. A Country Gentleman and his Family Von Rosen had the captain’s eye in matters of the toilette; she was none of those who hang in Fabian helplessness among their finery, and, after hours, come forth upon the world as dowdies. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) These dogs of Egypt, and their dowdy queans, But ill requite these habits and these scenes, To rob Corneille for such a motley piece: His geese were swans; but zounds! thy swans are geese!” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors It may have been an accident that she looked so dowdy yesterday morning. When Ghost Meets Ghost "He'll do for dowdy Miss Jones, who has only danced once the whole night." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 3, 1890. And she had thumped her hair, and thumped herself all round till she was as limp and dowdy as the elder sister of a Low Church clergyman of forty. The Landleaguers No, sir; I'm not going out a dowdy to please you or anybody else. Eighth Reader "She makes me feel dowdy," she had confessed to Lee in the dressing-room. Money Magic A Novel The place was full of tough-looking subs, and a lot of frouzy, dowdy girls, and what they lacked in good looks they made up in paint and brass,––such brazen faces I never saw. The Award of Justice Or, Told in the Rockies A Pen Picture of the West After all, Isobel was so pretty that she would outshine the others, anyway—let her costume be ever so dowdy! Highacres Henry perceived that his mother and his aunt were badly dressed—in truth, dowdy. A Great Man A Frolic History is very careless and to-day barely recalls that at five o'clock on the morning succeeding his marriage to a dowdy fat girl, he treated his regiment to a drill. The Paliser case The house was described as "dull, dowdy, and decent," but in 1825 it was greatly enlarged and improved, and Queen Victoria took possession of the new palace in 1837, and has lived there ever since. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel Have I fretted and pined, and forgot to eat and sleep, and gone dowdy and slovenly, because my lover has been fool enough to desert me? An Orkney Maid Watts's Hope is now considered a little dowdy.' Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences Some extremely dowdy females we see riding in a barouche are the wife and daughters of a high official, who is stingy to his woman-kind, so they say. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand And what a dowdy she is with it all!” Phoebe, Junior Hollyhock, who was wearing a dress of soft silk and brightest crimson in colour, looked a magnificent young figure beside the dowdy Leucha. Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief So far from this fashion giving them, as might be supposed, a dowdy appearance, it is not inelegant when the garment is gracefully arranged. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Oh, she was such a dowdy little thing, not a bit nice-looking, and he was quite handsome, and looked rather distinguished. Not Like Other Girls The oddest combination, and quite a common one, was a sack-like Reform-Kleid, with a saucy little coloured bolero worn over it, fingerless gloves, and a madly tilted beflowered hat perched on a dowdy coiffure. Home Life in Germany Anyone else so clad would have looked hopelessly dowdy, while the carelessly knotted green tie that bulged all askew from beneath the young man's ample collar, seemed for a moment almost offensive. Too Old for Dolls A Novel Leucha knew at once that she looked dowdy, and hated Holly all the more for showing herself off, as she expressed it. Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief He might have forgiven her if she had been a dowdy. Somehow Good Yet with a face like the full moon, and a pile of petticoats which would have made a dowdy of the "Belvedere Diana," she was a capital creature. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Lady Michelmarsh is getting rather pretty—it's wonderful how these dowdy girls can work up their profiles after a month or two in town. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange "Look at them," she said, indicating with a slight revealing gesture the swarming, dowdy, listless occupants of the crowded trench. The Dop Doctor The people here lack the rosiness and freshness of face of the Japanese, and have a dowdy, sickly look, due, I suppose, to the unhealthy exhalations from the copper. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 She was dressed terribly fine—gold lace and green silk, but it was old and dowdy; and, Momsy, her cheeks were just as red! Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales They say it as Isadora Duncan might have said "dowdy." The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Dainty-draped dames, or duffel-skirted dowdies, They who in rudeness thus their spite would slake, Have plainly head of goose, and heart of snake! Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 27, 1893 I shall make myself a perfect fright—a perfect dowdy—a perfect draggletail! Dolly Reforming Herself A Comedy in Four Acts Oh, Mary, why did you put on that dreadfully dowdy frock? The Hero I notice she compliments me on my looks whenever I am decidedly off colour, when I wear a green ribbon, or a dowdy dress, or big shoes. An Anarchist Woman As the silkworm draws its exquisite stuff from dowdy leaves, so youth finds beauty and mystery in stupid days. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life “Pa, do you intend to let that dowdy little thing stay here?” cried Belle. The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City Even as a nameless 'fine lady' standing out from a mob of the dowdy and the dirty, to be stared at by eyes however undiscerning, under circumstances so questionable, would be distinctly distasteful. The Convert Not a bad, dowdy little woman—the man a worse stick in the drawing-room than the pulpit, if possible. A Sheaf of Corn That's Treadwell over there—a good-looking man, isn't he?—but have you seen the dowdy, middle-aged woman he is married to? Virginia When she’d ended, the bracelet turned out to belong to a little dowdy woman looking like a meek mouse. Antony Gray,—Gardener “For I won’t stand that dowdy thing here for long, now I tell you!” The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City It was curious to look back over the vivid green expanse and see the dotted humanity running like ants from all directions to listen to this handful of dowdy women in a cart! The Convert "She must be dreadfully old and dowdy," sighed Mrs. Winstanley, whose only historical idea of the Sailor King's reign was as a period of short waists and beaver bonnets. Vixen, Volume II. Yet what is the good after all in being beautiful for such a dowdy set? When the Birds Begin to Sing She just smiled sweetly, and returned the bracelet to the owner, and said that the dowdy little woman had been Cleopatra in a former incarnation. Antony Gray,—Gardener “I reckon your own ship will seem a bit dowdy in comparison, won’t she?” The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise Or an innocent arrogance akin to Mrs. Oglethorpe's when she is looking her dowdiest.… Black Oxen This carriage was a very fine one, and in it sat three of the ugliest, dowdiest, worst dressed females I ever saw. A Confederate Girl's Diary In the meanwhile the beautiful Mrs. Roche is causing quite a sensation at the Hilliers', who are not so dowdy after all. When the Birds Begin to Sing This was what Melissa had done, as it was, and she did look fearfully prim and dowdy, except for her front hair, which was as soft and fluffy and elaborate as usual. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 She couldn't expect to do any better, they said, and she was looking terribly old and dowdy all at once. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 And she is so fearfully quiet and dowdy—what would they all think of her at home? Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 I have seen her convert the veriest dowdy into an elegant woman. Fairy Fingers A Novel Out at elbows, out at toes, Out at knees, the urchin goes: Still he laughs, and still he grows Rowdier, dowdier, I suppose. The Nursery, March 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People But that little dowdy, who doesn't even know how to dress decently! Floyd Grandon's Honor We also know that after the fashion has changed things in the discarded fashion look dowdy and rustic. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Anne felt dowdy and old; she was very pale. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 Or in bank-notes either, because it has shown him and me and everybody else that you needn't be a dowdy unless you please. Miss Mackenzie As his eyes rested contemplatingly on his companion's bent head and youthfully-lean figure, he began to visualize a very plain, dowdy sister. There was a King in Egypt Janetta donned a thin black dress of some gauzy material, and thought that she looked very careworn and dowdy in her little bedroom looking-glass. A True Friend A Novel Still, of course, I must look dowdy at night in a high gown. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance She’s so dowdy, and reverential to folks with money, and enjoys other people’s good times so terrifically.” The Squirrel-Cage "I suppose I was a dowdy when he asked me." Miss Mackenzie Certainly she was not dowdy, nor had she any aggressive cleverness about her. There was a King in Egypt With these simple means she could and did make every other girl, though attired in robes that had come all the way from Edinburgh, look dowdy and countrified. The Dew of Their Youth And in her civilian clothes she seemed a little dowdy, shabby. The Lost Girl There was nothing of the plain or the dowdy. Nights in London I haven't caught sight of a dowdy woman since I came. Lady Betty Across the Water The dowdy "blue stocking" had vanished, and in her place was a girl as attractive in her darkness as Freddy was in his fairness. There was a King in Egypt You see, they would judge me by the Outside-Person part of me, which would be soft and silky and secure, and not dowdy and diffident. Mistress Anne Seeing you and Mrs Fane has made me discontented with my dowdy old rags!” The Lady of the Basement Flat She would wear her ordinary and more dowdy dresses; she would spend much of her time in reading sermons; she would get up very early and not care what she ate or drank. Orley Farm "You are," he said, "looking yellow and dowdy, and you are feeling blue and hysterical; if you don't go away at once you'll go on doing both for an interminable time." The Ffolliots of Redmarley The smell of printer's ink which hung about the dowdy, untidy, bankrupt printing-office had a hint of it. Despair's Last Journey But mark the anomaly: had they been Englishwomen of the same rank and similarly uneducated, they would have been uncouth and ungrammatical in speech, awkward in manner and dowdy in dress. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 I wear elderly clothes, tinted spectacles, and a dowdy wig, and with a few touches alter the shape of my upper lip. The Lady of the Basement Flat But sometimes being sensible and saving seems to mean just being commonplace and dowdy. How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence And I'm homely and frowsy, and dowdy and horrid and a perfect mess. Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage "You know you wouldn't like it if I went about in dowdy old things." Half a Hero A Novel She hated her dowdy frock, her glaring contrast to the vivid Ila, accentuated by that grotesque similarity of attire. The Californians A couple of friars shuffle past him, and go to their prayers at some near altar; he does not even smile at their shaven pates and their dowdy, coarse gowns of serge. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 I never saw such a dowdy in all my life as Mrs. Rolland. Dr. Wortle's School Catia saw the huddled gathering of the village people, already looking a little dowdy to her critical eyes. The Brentons Well, it was too much for us; and my Elsie, who is essentially the lady, if woman ever was, came away feeling a little dowdy and a good deal out of date. On the Stairs There was no attempt at smartness in their attire; they were dowdy and frowsy, and even the young faces were old. The Californians Even at an Ermetyne dinner she couldn't actually look dowdy in it. Legacy Unshaven men and ill-washed women on the streets, and dowdy, hatless girls with dirty hair crowding into cheap cinema theatres! Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Why, you will be a regular dowdy, and I told Judith so when she showed me her purchase. Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life Elma Ramsden, with the makings of a beauty, was just a pretty, dowdy girl, at whom a passer-by would hardly cast a second glance. Flaming June She felt plain and dowdy beside them, and her spirits suffered in consequence. Betty Trevor It depresses me to see you going about in that dowdy thing, and it must be a martyrdom for you to wear it every day. Big Game A Story for Girls We don’t begin by being dowdy and angular, and dogmatic and prudish; we begin by being pretty and cheerful like you. The Independence of Claire Woman is born to beautify the domestic circle, woman is always fascinating whether she be dressed up or domestically dowdy, but man is least of all fascinating at home. A Hungarian Nabob At this hour the little park was cleared of its human wreckage, and dowdy sparrows hopped unafraid upon the deserted benches. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story “And you are willing to make this awkward, ill-dressed, unmannered dowdy, your Countess, Etherington; you, for whose critical eye half the town dress themselves?” said Jekyl. St. Ronan's Well So that dowdy get-up is for my benefit, and is not habitual to her!—Or is it, that she has only one costume and keeps it for Sundays and days of fête?— Man and Maid English novelists describe American girls as exquisitely beautiful, stylish, quick-witted, energetic, and good-tempered, while the mothers are portrayed as awkward, dowdy, stupid, and ill-educated, though honest and kind. Girls and Women However dowdy, rigid, ungainly or sensual they may be, their music is nearly always elevating or at least of merit because it is written by thoroughly trained composers of whom Germany has a full complement. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life You never used to wear such dowdy clothes. Dixie Hart She removed her dowdy black dress, and, opening a drawer in her wardrobe, took out a soft gray silk which lay folded between tissue paper and sprigs of lavender. A Girl in Ten Thousand Mrs. Briggs is thriftless, extravagant, dowdy in her old age, although she had been a beauty in her youth, and knows as little about keeping a house as she does about keeping a horse. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City But there were more plain people than handsome ones; and dowdy forms strove jealously to hide the charming figures, as dark clouds swallow up shining stars. The Guests Of Hercules And I'm sure I am quite a dowdy in comparison with these lovely creatures," added Zaidie, "although this dress was made in Paris. A Honeymoon in Space The worst of Paris is that, once you have had it, everything else seems dowdy. The Woman's Way A garden that makes a wife, daughter or sister a dowdy is hardly "Joyous Gard." The Amateur Garden "Oh, yes, two or three times—at openings, or on the street, but we never held any significant conversation," Serena Hart answered, reaching for her plain, rather dowdy little hat. Murder at Bridge If the offender had been old and dowdy, every one would have grumbled angrily at the bother and delay, but as it was, men grinned and women were tolerant. The Guests Of Hercules To hold the dowdy, indifferent, slipshod and underdone in their proper places, so they could not disturb or destroy the peace, policy and prosperity of the efficient, was the task of Benedict. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Peggy's own people, old-fashioned country gentry, were regarded by Pargeter as hopelessly dowdy and "out of it," so none of them had been invited. The Uttermost Farthing Her own simply made coat and skirt of blue serge felt suddenly very dowdy. The Rebellion of Margaret A very common-looking red face it was, and a very "dowdy" figure. Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men I felt like a dowdy when I saw that pale blue——" "Oh, well, blue becomes blondes. The Circular Study The creature looked too simple, too—not dowdy, but too unsophisticated, to have anything false about her. The Second Latchkey I shall sink into a dowdy, frowsy, shabby-genteel old maid for the rest of my life! The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches I know but two duchesses in this wide world who are not dowdies, and one of them is an American. Parrot & Co. Though you had your mourning in Paris, do you know, you look quite dowdy. A Crooked Path A Novel Or again we think: "She is somewhat dowdy and run down at the heels but she is ambitious, and is replenishing her wardrobe as she can afford it." American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Flora had invariably spoken of her relatives as "ugly, dowdy little things"; but then, she had only known them at the awkward age and, being herself remarkably handsome, was super-critical with regard to beauty. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma He felt as if hypnotized, and once, rather meanly, was glad that no one saw him in company of his dowdy companion. Visionaries You are quite certain they never did, or they could not surely wear such dowdy gowns, and suck their thumbs as they do! Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons Not that Nina found them dowdy—far from it: they had a distinction of their own, which, like that of their ancient palaces, seemed to remain superior to modern decrees of fashion. The Title Market Dust the dowdy lightly with nutmeg and serve with fruit or vanilla sauce. Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions And how mean and dowdy we all looked beside this glittering vision! The Astonishing History of Troy Town Such, and of such connections, was the lady, fair, faded, with mildly aquiline features, and an aspect at once distinguished and dowdy, who appealed to Merton. The Disentanglers "The women here to-night are a great deal less dowdy than one would imagine, don't you think?" Dan Merrithew Both she in her "artistic" way and Judy in her quiet smartness were very different from the women Ishmael had been seeing of late years—the dowdy county ladies or Vassie in her splendid flamboyance. Secret Bread Place a large platter over the dowdy and then invert. Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions Poor little heart! beating so painfully beneath your dowdy muslin bodice. The Astonishing History of Troy Town But with all this good sense, they remain dowdy. Town Life in Australia Send for her picture, and you will see what a plain, dowdy old maid she is. Winter Evening Tales As a rule people look dowdy after being up all night. The Hoyden She would have taken more interest in me if I had been handsome, like Sara; but a plain, dowdy niece is not to her taste. Uncle Max Half of them will be in gray and half of them in brown, and a few old dowdies will perhaps be in black. The Rebel of the School Servants, of course, ape their mistresses' dresses as in England, and generally manage to produce a delightful sense of incongruity in their attire; but for all that, they are much less dowdy than English servants. Town Life in Australia What had he received from her that he should endure her commonplace conversation, and washed-out, dowdy prettinesses? The Claverings Walking was a sort of recreation not too dowdy. Married Life The True Romance He takes delight in large fat words, but is utterly indifferent to such things as clothes and women—except the dowdy one he married when too young to know better.... How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers She glanced with almost maliciousness at Alice, who, in the dowdiest of pale-gray dresses, with her hair rather untidy and her face destitute of color, was standing near one of the windows. The Rebel of the School Nobody seems to care much how they dress, and without being exactly countrified in their apparel, the Sydneyites succeed in looking pre-eminently dowdy. Town Life in Australia Helen appreciated the difference at once between her furs and Katy's, and felt a pang of mortification as she saw how old and poor and dowdy hers were beside the others. Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering All personal adornment's vain, Held Dr. WATTS, holds dear McDOUGALL; For dowdy dress and habits frugal Befit the Democratic strain. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892 Mother wrote me you said that all Boston girls are dowdy. Trumps I can't see their "beauty," no more than the charms of some dowdy old Dutch. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 15, 1892 It is the rarest of sights to see a real Melbourne girl look dowdy. Town Life in Australia The village he had promised her was in reality but two poor houses at a crossroads, inhabited by two Mexican men and dowdy women. The Bells of San Juan She was a loose made, dusty, dowdy woman with a persuading, conscious and embracing manner and very greasy hair. Three Lives Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena She declares, too, that all the Boston girls are dowdy. Trumps He was beginning to find out that a dowdy demagogue is not the cheeriest person to live with. The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith But, when 'tis shown, that, which does now delight you, Will prove a dowdy, with a face to fright you. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 I thought you once told me she was very pretty," she said: "but I think her a fright in that dowdy dress, and bare-headed, too! Bessie's Fortune A Novel But after she had satisfied her curiosity she was kind, beginning to talk about Lizzie, and mentally compared this thin, brown girl with rough hair and dowdy clothes to her own stylish daughter. The Girl from Montana An amused gleam, lost upon the dowdy passage, fled across her bright eyes. Nocturne |
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