| 单词 | drab |
| 例句 | In the offices of the Market Street Railway Company, the receptionist seemed as surprised to see me there as I was surprised to find the interior dingy and the decor drab. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt young and small and very much alone, and now, in spite of my pride, I found his handkerchief and blew my nose, throwing my drab appearance to the winds. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z After the drab grayness of the Glade, it was as if they’d been transported to a living rainbow. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The community cloth was drab, all no-color; the formless shifts and trousers worn by the people were woven and stitched for protection against the sudden occasional rain, thorn scratch, or poison berry. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time we arrived there the snow had become drab and sooted, wet and heavy. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Already it wore that drab deserted air of a vanished evening and the dawn of a tired day. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The tall shrubs looked dark and drab now that the colour had gone. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Next to her Emilia looked faded, and Fani, who was drinking out of a brandy bottle in the corner, was positively drab. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We in high school could wear olive drab and campaign hats and learn the manual of arms from the physics teacher, but, Jesus Christ! East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Today her drab school outfit has been replaced by an expensive white dress, and her blonde hair is done up with a pink ribbon. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes I feel like I’m trying to clutch at drips and drabs of my old best friend, hoping she’s still in there somewhere. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I could stay as warm as a bug if I didn’t get wet, so I looked at the drab mess in the sky, whistled for Frightful, and started back to the tree. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He forced his memory to move beyond the hand to the arm: it was clad in olive drab, army cloth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They were not much older than we were and although probably just recruits, they gave the impression of being an elite as they were carried past our drab ranks. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next five years, Blake schemed a way to escape the high walls and drab food of "the Scrubs," as it was called by the inmates. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Once the Protectorate’s gates closed behind them, though, and the citizens returned with their melancholy broods of children to their drab little homes, the Elders quickened their pace. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “A drab doesn’t go far ...” she said with a glance down at the bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “So these two drabs,” he held a pair out for my inspection, “Could have come from the same bar, right?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Bod, in his grey winding sheet, felt dowdy and drab. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Others wear American-style buttoned shirts and shorts in drab, stained colors. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I did a quick count: two iron halfpennies, nine shims, and a drab. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The houses were small and drab, constructed of gray concrete blocks. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Her fingers were thick and awkward as she struggled to lace up her bodice and knot a drab brown cloak about her neck. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The morning crowd was keeping the innkeeper busy, so I had to lay an iron drab on the bar before she paid me any attention at all. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Barack and I were focused on only our faults and insufficiencies, seeing them reflected in that drab room and thrown-together party. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Rocks, dirt, barbed wire, ferocious dogs, menacing guards, and acre after acre of drab barracks stretched as far as I could see. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Against all those drab company rentals, the Fuller house probably looked like an illustration for “home sweet home.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I held the fake teeth out to Mom and nodded at her dark and drab suit. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z We were getting dribs and drabs of news from the outside, but nothing like this. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z They sat in the back, rigid and uncomfortable, like sisters of sin, like a living defiance of the drab sanctity of the saints. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Only North Korean soldiers on patrol everywhere, their tan uniforms looking drab and dusty. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z It is a large, drab, bare room in need of painting, with three windows in the back wall through which can be seen the New York skyline. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I began to piece two rows of five drabs each together to illustrate my point. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It had almost the same dispiritingly drab quality and the same bottom fine: an inhospitable place for a bright young lad with no friends to be living. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The floor was drab linoleum, and the walls were bare. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Russian doctors and health officials—male and female—all wore olive drab uniforms. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I fixed in my mind the Alar, the riding-crop belief, that the two drabs were connected. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Bright songbirds, drab little sparrows, huge black ravens, and a handful of hawks and eagles swooped in, landing on any available surface. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He dipped one of the drabs into the pitch and stuck the other one to it, spoke several words I didn’t recognize, and slowly pulled the bits apart, strands of pitch stretching between them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “A drab has too much carbon in it. It’s almost steel.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Through the window he sees palm trees and banana trees, a damp, drab sky. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I shook out my purse and was surprised to see four drabs and a copper ha’penny I hadn’t accounted for. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It is a dull, drab, ash gray; it looks very old, even though it was built several years ago. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The little boxlike houses seemed so drab to me that I even felt sorry for the demons who lived in them, for they lived like prisoners without knowing they were in a prison. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere she looked, she saw bright colors: on the drab, gray concrete apartments, on the tin- roofed, open-fronted stores, in the muddy water flowing in the gutters. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z An iron drab and a silver talent, a stone and a piece of fruit, two bricks, a clod of earth and one of the donkeys. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Tonight, though, it looked a little drab and in need of a face-lift. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Where Dreiser saw an enticing woman of mystery, Maxwell saw a schoolmarm of drab demeanor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They were quickly named the Truck of Many Colors and Staff Car, the latter a battered olive drab army surplus sedan. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Instead he held out the handful of iron drabs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Our journey to magical places alone was a spot of color on the town’s drab canvas, and our return made us even more the most enviable of people. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There were two drab tablets at the bottom. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The drab workmen scuttle all around, occupying the same universe but seemingly on a different dimension. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He rubs his arms beneath his drab gray prison smock. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Finally, an officer inside pulled open the door to admit us to A-block and our first glimpse of the great cavern, so drab and yet so stunning. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Under Desdemona’s direction, the two drab girls multiplied themselves into a small city of women, each with a signature laugh, a personal gemstone, a favorite song she hummed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It’s not real, it’s not drab, not flat, not grubby enough. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t afford a drab for an apple and meat pie, so I had snuck some barley bread and a gristly sausage out of the Mess. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The varnish around the drab began to bubble and char in a black ring around the piece of iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z On June 13, Paul Stombaugh waited for his contact on a drab Moscow city block. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When he left the store that first day, as motes of dust filled the space he left behind, her own life seemed drab beyond endurance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Even the pastor’s wife from back in Georgia seemed like a drab mallard next to this swan. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I grudged the months I had spent with her, employed by her, taking her money, trotting in her wake like a shadow, drab and dumb. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The coat was black and drab and obviously purchased for the sake of utility without any thought of fashion. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Those classrooms were the most colorful part of the unit, the walls covered with posters, word lists, number lines—a visual vacation from the drab sameness of the rest of the unit. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He gathered up a handful of the iron drabs that were sitting on the table and clinked them together thoughtfully in his hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I see platforms crowded with people wearing drab Western clothes, with spots of bright colors: little children wearing pink and yellow, red and peach. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She let out her story in dribs and drabs. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I sullenly counted my money as I left the cobbler’s shop: three jots and a drab. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Before it had been tacky and flossy and drab. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z In addition to the vice minister of justice, Russian doctors, dignitaries from other health organizations, and ten Russian generals in olive drab uniforms sat on one side of the assembled tables. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Despite reservations on Coin’s side that it’s too extravagant, and on Plutarch’s side that it’s too drab, the wedding is a smash hit. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Sandra’s beside her, drab in her jeans and gray T-shirt, long hair parted flat on her head, stringing down and covering the sides of her face. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Even with the shortages, and the blackout, and the bombs, and the rules, and daily life so drab and dull most of the time—once you cross the English Channel you are free. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I picture him standing on that floating runway, his lovely blond hair hidden under a drab helmet. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I expect her to outlive me by some years, and I dont want her to live drab. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Anthony’s bright-red shawl—the only flash of color in her otherwise dark and drab wardrobe—became iconic. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They appeared older and much more drab than the goblins in my nightmares. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It was a bold yellow that stuck out in the drab neighborhood. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The Teacherage, which stands opposite the up-to-date school, is an out-of-date edifice, drab and poignant. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The tenement houses had the same odd, flat faces and the same drab colors, making them look all the same, as if they had been hatched in the same brood. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt found an olive drab jumpsuit that didn’t look too bad. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z After paying for a private room last night and breakfast and bath this morning, the drab represented a good portion of my worldly wealth, so I kept my finger on it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Dressed in drab black, with his mariner cap pulled low and his dark hair framing his lean face, he resembled a bedraggled crow. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They would trickle out in dribs and drabs, memories surfacing suddenly, prompted by the merest thread, the way memories often do. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He seemed very bright in the middle of the drab crowd. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Clad as serving girls in layers of drab grey roughspun, they wore brown woolen cloaks lined with white rabbit fur. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They looked very well in their simple suits, Meg’s in silvery drab, with a blue velvet snood, lace frills, and the pearl pin. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The prevailing color of life in America is a dull, dark green called olive drab. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a drab room for Devon, dull green and brown and gray, but at the far end there was a big marble archway, glisteningly white, which led to the pool. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He was so handsome that Francie felt like a dark drab alongside of him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore clothes of olive drab, and his eyes were glassy. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When you are lifting one drab and the other rises off the table, the one in your hand feels as heavy as if you’re lifting both, because, in fact, you are. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Of course,” he said as he emptied his purse onto the table then fingered through the jumbled coins: heavy silver talents and thin silver bits, copper jots, broken ha’pennies, and iron drabs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z On January second drab patches of grass could be seen in the fields. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Barely a mile out into the plain it clustered like some huge nest of insects, with straight dreary streets of huts and long low drab buildings. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z In church when she knelt, in the yard when she beat rugs, beneath the peach tree when she picked fruit, Desdemona’s feminine elaborations escaped the constraints of her drab, confining clothes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Each day, Olga begins at dawn at the city’s drab public general hospital. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Dormitory windows began to fly open and olive drab blankets were hung over the sills by the dozens to air. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a typical raw, dark, wintry morning in Moabit, a drab industrial section of Berlin, the capital of Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Forty-six talents and eight drabs, if he’s honest. Forty-six even if he’s not.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z One night a brown-haired soldier wearing olive- drab fatigues stepped across the threshold of my suite. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Nan sewed those hems for my seventeenth year-fall, to brighten up my otherwise drab clothing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Danielle crosses the street, walking so elegantly in her black go-go boots to a building as drab and dreary as ours. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The dazzle of this fictive childhood—full of swimming pools and orange groves and dissolute, charming show-biz parents—has all but eclipsed the drab original. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She found a drab little place with smeared windows, and cigarette butts all over the floor, but the food could be no worse than what she was used to. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Ten drabs are the same as a copper jot; ten jots—” “Good enough,” Ben broke in, startling me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Rahel stopped and turned around, and on her heart a drab moth with unusually dense dorsal tufts unfurled its predatory wings. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Sentences of astonishing simplicity seemed to me lifeless and drab: ‘The boys ran from the rain... She wanted to sing... The kite rose in the blue.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As I’ve already mentioned, my first lesson involved a handful of iron drabs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “The no-longer-nomads, called the Cealdim by now, were the first to establish a standardized currency. By cutting one of these smaller bars into five pieces you get five drabs.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She had done away with the drab ponytails, let her hair grow, and streaked it with red highlights. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Where once the building had seemed almost a palace—not for its architectural nobility but for what it promised—now it looked drab and worn. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At the top of the staircase, a drab corridor stretched out ahead, with rough coconut matting on the floor. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He raised his hand, and the drab on the table mimicked the motion. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Following them there were some heavy trucks painted olive drab, and behind them came the troops. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Francis thus never had reason to envy those college fellows whose High Table food was undeniably better than their wives’ drab mixtures of tasteless meat, boiled potatoes, colorless greens, and typical trifles. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z She looks older, wearing the drab 13 clothes that flatter no one, with her long yellow hair in a practical braid instead of curls. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He was a thin man who could have been any age, dressed in a drab and tattered business suit, and he was holding a pencil and a sheaf of papers held together with a clip. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z One drab woman was weeping silently into a dirty dish towel. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The room was drab in the fresh, hot morning sun, and a pair of silk stockings hung limp and withered from the cord of the windowshade. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Boys pride themselves on their drab clothing, their drooping socks, their smeared and inky skin: dirt, for them, is almost as good as wounds. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I tossed an iron drab onto the bar, keeping another clenched tight in my fist. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It had a smooth shell of drab green against which he clicked his fingernail. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In our drab uniforms, the only difference between us boys was our size. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He tossed the drabs onto the table in front of me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Then it might be sort of fun. You can’t imagine how drab, drab the parties have been lately.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A layer of clouds muddied the sky, bleeding the surrounding color, leaving everything monochrome and drab. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Uncounted layers of drab brown paint covered her hull; her sails were grey and tattered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Feh! So drab! Nothing clashes, but nothing matches, either. TantpisT This was a French expression Penelope understood to mean “too bad, tough luck, that’s the way the croissant crumbles,” or something along those lines. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “That is your tip,” I said as a thin curl of smoke began to curl up from the drab. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He found himself, instead, as always before, entering into the landscape of drab hill, drab sky. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The family lives in a drab, unidentified town of storage tanks and furniture outlets that Anne Etheridge’s camera studies with a merciless eye. Movie Review: Linda Cardellini in Liza Johnson?s Film ?Return? 2012-02-09T23:12:08Z The Moscow that Philby escapes to is an even more drab city of slushy snow, long lines and drunks on the street. In ‘A Spy Among Friends,’ B.F.F. Betrayal at an International Level 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z The bright colors and delicate shapes of @Large somehow highlight the drab, sad conditions of the prison, like a child holding a bright balloon in the middle of a blackened, post-apocalyptic landscape. @Large: Inside Ai Weiwei's Unprecedented Exhibit on Alcatraz 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z In the capital you can still find plenty of old-fashioned konditorier — pastry stores — but many are quite drab, and most seem to offer the same selection of cakes and breads spiced with cinnamon and cardamom. Choice Tables: Delicious Desserts at Stockholm?s Cafes 2010-12-22T23:15:43Z This isn’t to say that Almodóvaria, as I sometimes think of it, is a realm entirely apart from the drab planet where most of us live. ‘Parallel Mothers’ Review: Almodóvar’s Brutal, Beautiful World 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z The attic floor, the hotel’s drab backside, can be reached only by clandestine conduits: the back stairs or the service elevator. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z Their khaki, brown and drab green colors don’t look like anything specific until you read their titles. Jeffrey Simmons’ fastidious geometries in watercolor 2013-01-16T20:29:07Z Golf is one of those sports that are either kind of drab or full of drama, and that day in April 1986 might have been the most dramatic it has been. Review: Golf Channel Drama and Adult Swim Duffers 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z They’re often portrayed as awkward or drab, but more often they’ve led colorful, cosmopolitan lives full of harrowing and absurd adventures. Perspective | Their testimony was pointed. Their clothes were reassuringly dull. 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z They live in a cookie-cutter home, with interiors bathed in drab grays and blues. How ‘The Little Prince’ Came to Animated Life 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Much as he liked the apartment, however, Stone did not like the drab design that went with it. Oliver Stone 2010-09-01T04:00:00Z In Pintado’s works, drab backdrops and luminescent figures are plausible individually; together they’re eerily incongruous. In the galleries: Wells & Barnes offer many seats, but no place to sit down 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z For the fourth year the nominations were announced during a splashy televised concert, rather than the drab news conferences of years past. Adele, Bruno Mars and Kanye West Lead Grammy Nominations 2011-12-01T23:24:33Z Here, in drab rooms, about 9,000 mathematicians, linguists, cryptographers, clerks and classicists worked around the clock throughout the war to break German codes. Where the Real 'Imitation Game' Happened 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z The bus rolls along wide, leafy streets, giving Nowa Huta a surprisingly parklike feeling despite block after block of drab, gray buildings designed in a form of architectural propaganda known as socialist realism. A former communist neighborhood showpiece offers a history lesson in Krakow, Poland 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Bea is our narrator, a secretary with a persona to match her looks, which are “what men called drab.” For This Lesbian Romance, World War II Is Just One Complication 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z I would spend every day putting on the drab wardrobe of my Manhattan tribe and talk to people dressed like gardens in acid flashbacks. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Sarah Vowell 2012-02-23T20:24:02Z Violet pays a visit to Prince Kuraigin's drab apartment to bring him news of his wife's whereabouts. 'Downton Abbey' recap: Not without her daughter 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Her vivaciousness and humour brought light and colour to a sometimes drab or harsh world. Frances Andrade: 'a force of creativity' 2013-02-08T16:21:53Z This section of the episode seems like the world’s drabbest buddy flick, as Eastman coaches Morgan in mental health and the two do their tai chi staff exercises by the river in the sunlight. The Walking Dead: season six, episode four – Here’s Not Here 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Occasionally you get an exterior view of the drab low-rise building where Charlie lives, or a breath of fresh air on the landing outside his front door. ‘The Whale’ Review: Body Issues 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Through many miles, narrative switchbacks, a drib of politics, a drab of shamanism, she and the Big Man develop a beautiful friendship. | 'Letters From the Big Man': ?Letters From the Big Man? Stars Lily Rabe - Review 2011-11-10T21:57:13Z Much of the film is set in a drab Oakland office, where Riley engages in a sustained rumination on the nature of working. The Many Voices of Boots Riley 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z What Mr. Slaboshpytskiy finds behind the walls of his drab and dreary school is greed, deceit and brutality. Review: ‘The Tribe’ Communicates Without Words 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z A photo exhibit that opened Thursday at a gallery in New York includes images such as these, as well as magnificent landscapes, drab cityscapes and visits by foreign dignitaries. Photo exhibit documents life inside North Korea 2012-03-16T16:43:08Z Britt's case begins with the discovery of a naked female corpse on a beach in the drab east-coast town of "Kingsmouth". My Criminal World by Henry Sutton – review 2013-05-18T10:01:01Z Some moviegoers might recoil, yet “Vacation” would have been drab had it been populated with the same bratty-but-harmless youngsters as every other family movie. Review: In ‘Vacation,’ Christina Applegate and Ed Helms Travel to Walley World 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Sharon works in a drab little cubicle, doing something not worth talking about for a company whose business is never identified. Movie Review: ?Jeff, Who Lives at Home,? a Duplass Brothers Comedy 2012-03-15T22:12:53Z It’s a drab, unpleasant line of work in which cheesy slogans and gimmicks pass for creativity.” Television Review: ?The Pitch,? A New Reality Show on AMC 2012-04-06T23:32:51Z Thus we find ourselves in a drab room with a sliding window panel and tired furniture evoking bureaucratic interiors of the mid-20th century. Review: Doubling Down on Doublespeak in ’1984’ 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z As your eyes adjust, the scene beyond the plexiglass reveals a drab, gray room; an oscillating fan; pieces of wood piled on the floor; a few plastic bags. An Adam Pendleton Exhibition Will Open in New Orleans 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The Irish podcaster David Chambers spends his days in an exceptionally drab office. An Outsider Takes on Ireland, From Inside a Plastic Bag 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z It was set in a drab modern waiting room of a subway station with contemporary costumes. A Soprano Has a Goal for Her New ‘Manon Lescaut’: Don’t Cry 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Which is why all kinds of formerly drab neighborhoods are hot. London, South of the River (Before ‘Brexit’) 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z There were a lot of slogan T-shirts at the March for Our Lives, but the enduring visual of that day is young Emma González in her torn jeans, patched olive drab shirt and close-shaved head. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z This seems a rather drab summation of the most powerful emotion we feel. I <3 you: meet the NYU professor whose love course is becoming a phenomenon 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z The rather drab and unprepossessing Juvenex is a short walk from the sleek and very well-kept Aura Wellness Spa on West 33rd Street. In Midtown, Igloos Are Hot 2010-09-16T04:20:00Z That may sound as if it’s a recipe for a drab 10 episodes’ worth of try-to-outrun-the-zombies, but although there is plenty of that, there’s a decent amount of storytelling here, too. Hold Onto Your Teeth: 2 New Shows Herald the Creepy Season 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z That drab reality made for a bland series ending. 'The Newsroom' Recap: A Too-Sweet Finale 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Posters showed nymphs and drab businessmen trying out new bicycles, thermoses and lamp oil, under slogans in a motley array of whiplash and blocky typefaces. Antiques: Antiques - Khadambi Asalache’s London House Restored 2012-05-31T21:21:28Z When she launches into a folk tale, the drab lodging suddenly fills with colorful deities, a vast prairie, and a bouncing sun. Review | Everything but the continental breakfast at ‘Crystal Creek Motel’ 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Based on the number of runways packed with more olive drab and camouflage cloth than one would ever see in “The Hurt Locker,” Paris seems set to become the next faux combat zone. Fashion Diary: The Anonymous, the Rediscovered and the Camouflaged 2010-03-09T00:27:00Z They had been painted a very drab grey. The frittata that bought us a house 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Once, when readers wanted to remember something, they had to mark important passages with thin, wobbly lines in drab, hard-to-relocate colors. Who Made That?: The Hand-Held Highlighter 2012-01-22T08:45:49Z And the Philharmonic faces intense challenges as it greets him, most pressingly the much-delayed task of renovating its drab hall. A High-Pressure Countdown for the New York Philharmonic’s New Maestro 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z The setting is a drab Dublin living room with a sad plate of snacks covered in plastic wrap on the table. | 'Hue & Cry': Sampling a Few Spoonfuls of a Savory Irish Stew 2010-09-30T05:01:00Z How has something that is so luscious on the page become mostly drab on the stage? One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs ? review 2011-08-27T23:06:19Z As the show progressed to a soulful soundtrack of gospel music, the colors faded to khaki drab and then to a camouflage pattern. Special Report: A Generation in the 'Green' Zone 2010-03-07T18:47:00Z The poignancy of this film comes from the fact that even a movement of such extremity could not transcend the drab realities of either real life, or the modern cultural world. Black metal, darker than your average music scene 2010-03-27T00:36:00Z The Topshop Unique collection was in military mode, from the opening outfit of a floor-length khaki trench to variations on olive drab. Fashion Review: Pringle Plays With Uniforms While Topshop Goes Military 2012-02-20T19:07:46Z This iteration from the director Bronagh Lagan doesn’t possess much compensatory energy, and it’s further hampered by the dreariest set imaginable, from Simon Wells, which makes a Day-Glo decade look unutterably drab. Katherine Soper’s ‘Wish List’ Blazes on London Stage 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Massachusetts in the 1670s. Sure, the costumes of the colonial period may be a bit more drab than Downton fans are used to, but the life-and-death stakes are pretty hard to beat. Downton Abbey Creator to Develop Gilded Age Drama—But Why Stop There? 2012-11-28T18:06:13Z The drab London apartment is not a jail cell. In 'This Wide Night,' friends try to transcend trauma to forge new lives on the outside 2012-05-24T20:27:07Z A long time ago, when everyone else was taking day trips to a galaxy far, far away, I decided to stay put on our drab little planet. The return of Star Wars: an evil empire in Jedi clothing? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z In daylight, this hulking rock is just a drab brown, but when hit with ultraviolet light its appearance is transformed, as layers of minerals light up in fluorescent colors. A New York Museum Staple Gets a New Glimmer 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Without the inspirational presence that lured dancers from around the world to work in this drab industrial city? Guarding a Bright Flame?s Afterglow 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z The space was formerly home to Alison Eighteen, whose prim sconces and buttoned booths remain, the latter now in military drab. Hungry City: The Gander in the Flatiron District 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z They first appear wearing matching custodians’ outfits: drab greenish pants and shirts, yellow latex scrubbing gloves and plastic caps. Review: A Baroque Opera Muddies Lines Between Him and Her 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z And it is a thoroughly designed work whose drab palette and spartan sets play their part in perfuming the entire story with paranoia, a sense that something isn’t right. The seductive deceptions of “Homecoming”: Julia Roberts shines in Sam Esmail’s latest score 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The silliest dessert is a deconstructed Key lime pie, the flavors of which are represented on a big white plate by drips and drabs and sails of ingredients. Toro Toro: a steakhouse where you shouldn’t order the steak Despite the aimless teenage talk and familiarly drab environments, we slowly discover that “Recall” is set in a grim, “Minority Report”-style future, in which crimes might be prevented before they occur. Theater Review: ‘Recall,’ a Play by Eliza Clark 2012-06-15T22:58:57Z The floors were scuffed and the walls drab. For Once, Donald Trump Did Not Enjoy the Show 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z When they asked Allen Klein for more of what they assumed was their money, he sent it grudgingly, in dribs and drabs. Secrets of the “Exile” sessions: Drugs, sex and madness as the Rolling Stones took over France 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Their cottage is drab rather than cozy, and the second act takes place not in a forest but in a drafty abandoned ballroom. ‘Hansel and Gretel,’ a Family Holiday Treat at the Met 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Classy kilts The chic kilt sported by the doorman at the Missoni Hotel is a welcome antidote to the drab affairs worn by pipers and tourists. The G2 Edinburgh festival Clap-o-meter: reading one 2010-08-10T15:42:00Z Elsewhere in the city, Maite, an unmarried, seemingly drab secretary about to turn 30, scans the titles of a newspaper stand for her favorite comic book, Secret Romance. Review | Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s ‘Velvet Was the Night’ is a noir-thriller as captivating as its title 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z Part of the album's charm lies in Thorn's voice lending romance to the drab details of dead marriages. Listen to Tracey Thorn's Love and Its Opposite 2010-05-10T11:53:00Z They looked as dull as ditch water, with colors — dirty camel and olive drab — to match. Special Report: Fashion: Burberry: A Crowd Pleaser 2011-02-21T18:29:01Z Hudson was more brutal in his assessment, saying he "couldn't bear It For Others" and describing it as "drab". Critics lash out at Turner Prize 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z To him, the first “Guardians” presented a chance to reinvigorate the drab, dreary space-opera genre with the buoyancy of favorite films like “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and the gaudy colors of “Flash Gordon.” James Gunn, Guardian of the ‘Guardians’ Franchise 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z And yet, there we were on Dec. 20, in the drab bureaucratic lobby of the Salt Lake City and County Building. Our marriage can’t be denied 2014-01-12T00:00:00Z Visitors will be able to admire public spaces lightened and smartened, the drab carpark in front of the theatre transformed into pleasant gardens, and the restaurants and toilets immeasurably improved. RSC shows off ?112m revamp 2010-11-23T20:04:00Z A motley crowd of children, veiled ladies and young men in jeans chant defiantly in the summer sun at the soldiers clad in olive drab and facing them with rifles. Drama meets daily life in Palestinian film 2012-07-23T11:16:24Z For many of those Americans, the nation's debt debacle still seems drab, dense, something to think about tomorrow. Editorial: For the Republicans, Romney 2012-03-16T21:45:00Z “We wanted a material that would tie the whole structure together without looking too drab or grey,” Stummel says. The future's orange: an architect's steel-clad home 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z And suddenly he was in a drab, dehumanizing place, first a stable in California, then the barracks of Topaz, Utah, where he spent most of his time in internment. Perspective | A great artist’s life was interrupted by internment. Now an exhibition of his work is interrupted by a virus. 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z “With the arrival of Charlotte … drab secretary by day, jazz baby by night, we enter the youthful Berlin of dance crazes and desperate excess.” Sex, Drugs and Crime in the Gritty Drama ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z This applies not only to the characters, but to England itself, which is portrayed over and over as a drab and diminished place. Kate Atkinson’s ‘A God in Ruins’ 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Yes, this cozy nostalgia mash-up earned a record-setting 50 million views within its first 24 hours online, but the video ultimately feels drab and unimaginative, stepping out of the uncanny valley and back into fantasy-land. Perspective | Ariana Grande just stepped into pop’s uncanny valley, and everybody’s going nuts 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Cézanne’s images of workers on his family farm — pipe-smoking men sitting around a table, their expressions dour, their dress drab, absorbed in a game of cards — are among his most recognizable works. ?A Card Player,? a C?zanne Watercolor for Sale by Christie?s 2012-03-26T23:27:55Z Elsewhere on the men’s floor — women’s shoes are at street level, men’s upstairs — are forests of shoes in drab colors and prints, and a handful in bold neons. Critical Shopper: At the Crocs Store, Standing Proudly in Foam Shoes 2010-05-26T01:51:00Z Maybe there’d be a section on the site where drab families could swap ancestors with people who have too rich a heritage, which carries its own burdens. Television: Is Your Family Tree Just a Shrub? 2010-03-03T23:04:00Z But overall the movies are, collectively, a damp, drab, multibillion-dollar blot on pop culture. Why is the Marvel Cinema Universe so drab? 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z It is hard to see children of a similar age enthusing about the new-look packets – drab cartons adorned with gruesome images of people with smoking-related diseases. How big tobacco lost its final fight for hearts, lungs and minds 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z It possesses almost no irony, few verbose monologues, a bare minimum of sharp moves, and a style that is conspicuously drab. ‘The Leftovers’: A biblical event leaves a sorrowful mystery But the devil is in the details, and the details of the devil are drab. ‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 5: Running With the Devil 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Neither the hecklers nor the advisory seem to have given any patients second thoughts today as they sit quietly in the drab but cozy reception area, with friends, relatives or husbands at their sides. It’s not just forced ultrasound: Abortion rights under assault 2012-10-21T12:00:00Z London is wonderfully drab and washed out, as are the actors. The Sweeney: box set review 2013-02-14T16:00:01Z There are only thumbnail images of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, and a lot of policemen and men in drab brown suits dragging women away. How Do You Talk to Children About Politics These Days? Try These Books. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Ron, meanwhile, shows up looking like an actual hunter in camouflage and drabs. "Vacation Friends" is a happy buddy comedy in a world where race doesn't matter. That's a problem 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z She needed an escape, a place to travel to in her mind that was far away from hideous beige blinds, flashing machines and drab floors. In my mother’s illness, her bedroom became a source of healing, for both of us 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z In a nod to the late 80’s style of Rhythm Nation, models in caps and closely-cropped hair marched in oversized, drop-shoulder bomber jackets and slim pants in heavy felted wool in charcoal and olive drab. | Calvin Klein 2011-02-14T21:02:53Z As shtetl fever takes hold, Kaiser cases the drab structure at Malachowskiego 12, and then, under the cringeworthy pretense of writing an academic history of the building, he interviews a resident. A Quest to Reclaim a Family Home Unearths a Past Buried by the Holocaust 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Admirably acted yet emotionally blank, this first feature from Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage focuses unrelentingly on drab people leading miserably isolated lives. ‘Them That Follow’ Review: Hiss of Death 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z But the works, which all visitors will see at the fair’s entrance as part of the Masterpiece Presents program, do not come across as drab or depressing. Anila Quayyum Agha Uses Patterns to Break Patterns 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z The word typically refers to food that doesn’t conform to Jewish dietary law, but it’s used almost like slang between these bearded young men in drab black suits. Review | The new comedy ‘Trayf’ at Theater J is Zalmy and Shmuel’s excellent adventure 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Walter as Prospero is a drab jailbird; on this sleety afternoon, wearing a bright-red sweater, red trousers, and red lipstick, she looked like a cardinal. Gender-Bending Shakespeare and Rough Magic in “The Tempest” 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z “Linens are what brings a room together,” Mishaan says, “whether you’re in the mood to refresh after a long, dark winter or to transition a drab space with a pop of leopard.” Richard Mishaan Launches Bedding Line with HSN 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Regarding the assertion: "In recent years, museums across the country have tried to shed their reputation for drab cafeteria fare and woo visitors with destination restaurants." How to Fit All of Asia (and a Food Cart) Into a Museum Cafe? 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Although, frankly, he would liven up virtually any of the drab conventional series on the air. In 3 New Travel Series, the Comic, the Solemn and the Vroom! 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z New York magazine's Bilge Ebiri says "Woman in Black 2" is a "dour, drab, dark movie, enlivened by some moderately effective chills in the first half but ultimately undone by its downbeat aimlessness." 'Woman in Black 2' haunted by horror cliches, reviews say 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Moral crusades are as alien to Anderson’s sensibility as drab khakis. ‘The French Dispatch’ Review: Remember Magazines? 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z They live in council flats, work in the same west London factory, and find romance and an escape from their drab lives at the local dance hall. Dance Hall 2013-04-20T23:05:30Z The costumes for Elektra and the other sympathetic characters are drab gray and yellow, in contrast to the garish outfits for Klytaemnestra and her retinue. Goerke stars in Lyric's blood-soaked 'Elektra' 2012-10-07T14:41:09Z His drab shirt and crinkled jeans matched the tattered couch. Ten Years Later, Adam Gwon Is Looking to Kill 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z In this exploration of togetherness there is something everyman, if a bit drab, about the way they are dressed. Dance Review: Tracing Roots of Belief Across a Quarter-Century 2011-02-10T00:15:05Z Other than Rami Malek, the results sound rather drab to me. Emmy Awards 2016: Emmys Welcome Surprises Along With the Favorites 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z And so do the scuffed American landscapes, where the faintest ghosts of old-time outlaws and cowboys can be discerned amid the drab commercial architecture. Review: Robert Redford Aims to Charm in ‘The Old Man & the Gun’ 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z But as George Stevens made the film, Winters is a drab, whining figure – someone dreamers almost want to have removed … and murdered. Elizabeth Taylor: let the story melt away and just gaze 2011-03-24T13:00:00Z Here we saw the four singers through individual windows in a drab two-story apartment building. Music Review: ‘I Went to the House but Did Not Enter’ by Heiner Goebbels 2012-11-15T00:09:06Z The décor is bland and the location, deep within an uninspiring office complex, is drab, but the neutral setting ensures that you focus your attention on the food. Restaurant Report: Masala Library in Mumbai 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z When I arrived at the storage center, which sits on a drab block near the Staraya Derevnya subway stop, Ms. Baybekova, a recent college graduate, apologized in advance for her poor English. Frugal Traveler Blog: Saving Rubles in St. Petersburg 2012-09-04T21:23:01Z Which suits Rose fine, because she doesn't like many people – not her colleagues in the typing pool and certainly not the "affected" Helen, with whom she shares a room in a drab boarding house. The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell – review 2013-06-07T09:01:01Z With obvious exceptions, the English were a shallow, drab, narrow-hearted people, in Johnny’s opinion, and guilty of monstrous crimes against the Irish. I never thought I would marry. But my friend persuaded me – after he died 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Coming in at 85 minutes, this taut, altogether absorbing thrill ride, set entirely within the drab interiors of a Copenhagen police call station, so efficiently and economically calibrates tension it seems a kind of miracle. The best films of 2018 … that you didn't see 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Also, George W. Bush landing on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln in full military drab flight suit to declare victory in the Iraq war. The Man in the Olive Green Tee 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z As always, the talent and creativity on display is a cheery respite from drab realities, and Andrew Garfield brings an impressive depth of knowledge to his guest judging on the premiere. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z With a drab winter coat, stocking cap and backpack, he could have been the unassuming theater rat from the Village who cadged a ticket off a friend. Theater: He Looks Like a Big, Scary Guy Because He Is One 2010-12-26T02:24:21Z The first stopping point for all three groups was a small drab room, barely large enough to hold the 40 or so travelers who would be squeezed in. A Window Into a Harsh Chapter in Sydney’s Past 2012-11-28T00:07:21Z Visiting this demure, borderline drab wage slave, he finds she lives in a gaudily decorated apartment, wears slinky outfits and pursues the secret life of a sexual cougar. Todd Solondz's Dark Horse: Misery Loves Comedy 2012-06-08T10:45:56Z Same streets, but not so drab and gray. ‘My Brilliant Friend’: A Fairy Tale of Youth Gives Way to Messy Adolescence 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Hunting and gathering is more luck than skill, while visually the game looks drab and lifeless. Game On: New 'Oregon Trail' bogs down; 'NCIS' a big yawn 2012-01-13T19:37:04Z The final stretch of gravel road to the beach goes from the drab to the dramatic, with a steep ascent filled with hairpin turns up one side of a dun-colored mountain. A Carefree Getaway Just Off the Persian Gulf 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z They were drab and colorless and somewhat intimidating. How I Became a New Yorker Cartoonist 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z 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 But a newer tradition, the MusiCares dinner, a fundraiser for the Recording Academy’s charitable group, packed more performances on Friday night, even if its location — the cavernous Convention Center — was considerably more drab. ArtsBeat: Clive Davis?s Pre-Grammy Mixer 2011-02-14T02:03:19Z This vivacious white-haired imp in her bright colors and chunk-style jewelry sitting with the dark-haired man in his drab earth-tone sweaters and Clark Kent glasses. When Your Greatest Romance Is a Friendship 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z These hookers — the series began with 10 — are the kind who fish, but this show hasn’t been merely drab shots of guys and gals casting at a riverside. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Sharknado’ Has Led a Summer TV Attack 2013-07-30T20:41:20Z Matthew J. Keenan’s drab senior living set transforms into a haunted house at one point, with nightmare action that’s evocatively staged. Review | Lindsay-Abaire’s ‘Ripcord’ pulls the rug out from under senior-living pranksters 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Tea Coffee Game opened among a drab row of businesses and office buildings. Why Ipoh, Malaysia, Should Be on Your Travel Radar 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z In the film, three characters gather in a drab television studio to commemorate the revolution and to also question whether or not it really happened. ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: '12:08 East of Bucharest' 2011-05-03T17:11:44Z He has graduated from a one-off segment on the Oscars: this year his performance of The Lego Movie’s song Everything is Awesome was the highlight of an otherwise drab ceremony. Andy Samberg at the Emmys: can the host go viral? 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z I forgot about the drab surroundings and the acoustical limitations. What I’ve Learned in 60 Years of Listening to the Philharmonic 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z They’re stuck in drab low-level jobs despite excellent educations and high aspirations. ‘Human Resources’ on Pivot, Gives Hope to the Working Young 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Reality is drab and painful — “lousy,” according to the film’s English subtitles — and movies provide a respite. At the Telluride Film Festival, Both Magic and Normalcy 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z At Dior, there was only a smudge of black, and none of those drab military and Sahara tones that make you feel as if you should be operating a tank. Fashion Review: Paris Couture Shows Stress Lots of Colors 2010-07-07T20:36:00Z Walking the streets of his old neighborhood Mr. Mendelsohn credited Jacques Demy, who staged romantic fairy tales and MGM-style musicals in the drab French provinces, with “giving me the permission to make movies here.” O Suburbia, With a Touch of the Cosmic 2011-03-05T05:23:05Z Claude Monet painted more than 100 snow scenes; his “Magpie,” which was rejected from Paris’s Salon of 1869 for being too drab, is now considered an early masterpiece. What It Means to Look at Paintings of Snow 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z So creating an underwater universe that’s vivid and multicolored, that’s not a response to the drab, darker palettes of previous DC movies? The Director James Wan: If ‘Aquaman’ Doesn’t Work, Blame Me 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Examples include an ombre challenge, Hollywood regency, or something nebulous like “drab to fab.” Smart Watch: Not all reality TV is trash! These unscripted shows are actually useful 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z This year, khaki ranging in shades from sandy to olive drab is used for everything from dresses to skinny cargo pants to shorts of all lengths. Cool khaki: Solid neutral plays well with other colors 2011-05-18T17:57:39Z A metal security gate guards the small courtyard, while drab curtains and collapsed Pampers boxes cover the windows, blocking the summer sun. Uncovering Strangers in a Strange Land 2013-09-03T16:40:40Z To praise Northern Broadsides's production for being drab, dreary and dispiriting might seem perverse; but the fact that 1984 is all of those things is not just good, it is "double good". 1984 2010-10-12T23:05:00Z The hotel’s Web site promises rooms with “spectacular” views of ocean sunsets and the Santa Monica mountains; the landmark that took center stage in my view, however, was the drab, squat Los Angeles Convention Center. Check In/Check Out: Hotel Review: The Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles 2010-12-31T19:55:00Z In dribs and drabs over the next 16 years, a remarkable pattern emerged — a Humpty Dumpty story with a happier ending. The Kylix Marvel: Why Experts Distrust the Story of an Ancient Cup’s Rebirth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z “At that time, it was not allowed,” she said, referring to the Cultural Revolution, when people wore drab Soviet-inspired uniforms. In rural China, elderly transgender Sister Liu longs for family life 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z The movie threatens to come down with a case of the drabs. REVIEW: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Who Needs Humans? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The drab settings only reinforce the misery of the main character, Keith, a man too insignificant even to have his name in the title of his own show. Wheel life: the strange power of films set inside cars 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The Homecoming facility, set in a drab office park somewhere in Florida, is just there to help soldiers get on with life. Review: ‘Homecoming’ Is Military, Industrial and Complex 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Liverpool may have spawned the Beatles and Birmingham was the boiler-room of the industrial revolution, but Southall, a drab suburb on the western edge of London, has just as many cultural connotations – if you're Indian. Nirpal Dhaliwal: My Bollywood bit part 2011-02-10T21:59:00Z Entertainment started to let the world in -- and not in dribs and drabs. Why "All in the Family" still matters 2011-01-12T15:01:00Z “But,” he continued, “you need to dig through a lot of drab, hard-packed filler to get to them.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Yellowstone’ and an Obscure Claire Denis Film 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z And maybe that is truly the most important task of art, to make something that catches our eye and captures our imaginations among all that is desolate, drab and indeed terrestrial-brown around us. The strange, savage universe of Ottessa Moshfegh's 'Eileen' 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z A strange little insect leads him wandering among gray, drab people to a cobweb-draped door, apparently unopened for years. In These Stunning Picture Books, Children Navigate a Big, Wide World 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The film is peppered with fanciful sequences in which Aidan is some sort of fantasy hero with a robot sidekick, which contrasts sharply with the drab routines of mundane struggle that is his actual life. 'Wish I Was Here' should have wished for insight 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Set on a drab, crude set, this is a small drama about a large subject: the ravages of war. Theater Review: ?Federer Versus Murray? by Gerda Stevenson at 59E59 Theaters 2012-04-15T18:21:49Z As the pandemic has proved, we are adaptable creatures, though I still feel the loss of a landscape rendered drab but predictable by brown earth and gray forest. Perspective | Climate change has altered the winter season and the gardener’s sense of it 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z At certain angles, the feather colors look drab, but when you crane your neck the right way, the iridescence blazes into sight. Magnificent Obsessions: Pursuits of a Lifetime 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z I started supporting my family in high school in England, in dribs and drabs from school bursaries and state benefits. How I learned to make peace with supporting my parents financially 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z The works felt like tumbleweed: busy, even frenetic, yet drab. American Symphony Orchestra’s ‘This England’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-03T21:17:17Z Anthony and Arthur visit Judith's Sunday salon and its holier-than-thou intellectuals are beautifully skewered; the streets of contemporary Dublin, somehow both drab and gaudy, are sketched with great relish and skill. This Is the Way by Gavin Corbett – review 2013-02-20T09:01:01Z For her, it was all about the flavor, and she found that heavy emphasis on spices helped perk up what could otherwise be drab meals. This Brooklyn kitchen offers the Earthbound a taste of outer space 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z At the end of a long drab hallway, on an upper floor of an office building in Koreatown, the director and designer Michael Counts was making a warren of escape rooms. From Dante to ‘Walking Dead,’ He’s a Master of Immersive Theater 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z A mature Norway spruce, to my eye, is morose and drab. Winter wonders: Conifers revive the sleeping garden. But remember, less is more. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z “Mommy” is a passionate and generous portrait of three intersecting lives on the drab outer margins of middle-class society, told without condescension or sugary coating by an artist taking full command of his powers. “Mommy”: An explosive saga of love and loss in the Canadian ‘burbs 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Determinedly drab, she is allergic to any form of artifice or titivation. Moral Questions Lurk Beneath a Ghost Story in ‘Melmoth’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Its two drab corridors included a laundry room, TV room and a place to leave muddy shoes at the entrance. This 414-mile road to the Arctic Ocean is one of the world’s most remote highways 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The generals wear drab army pants and shirts, with touches of ancient Rome, like leather breastplates. Review: In Britten’s ‘The Rape of Lucretia,’ a Savage Act With Resonance Today 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z On the lyrically and musically rich ballad "Colors," Potter sings of taking a romantic leap of faith and being rewarded by leaving a drab, black-and-white existence with a kaleidoscope of colors. 9 of the year's best overlooked albums 2011-01-07T22:04:04Z For Justin Timberlake – performing at an award show for the first time since he came out of pop retirement – you'd think an extra person might help lift the drab Suit & Tie. Grammys 2013: five things we learned 2013-02-11T14:32:22Z The newest coats and jackets, in masculine wools with nipped waists, suggested a ’50s hourglass figure, with olive drab pants narrowing below the knees and buckled with straps. Fashion Review: In Paris, Risks Bring Rewards 2010-03-05T01:09:00Z Even the photo selection in “Martin Amis: The Biography” is drab. Books of The Times: ‘Martin Amis: The Biography,’ by Richard Bradford 2012-12-05T04:49:02Z Downtown Wilmington resembles a random exurb, except for the clump of drab buildings blistered with bank logos and I-95 cleaving the place in two. Delaware is famous for corporations, chemicals, chickens — and now, finally, a president 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z The scenery is drab, the battles are interchangeable and no one seems particularly interested in being here. 'Season of the Witch': It's toil and trouble for Nicolas Cage 2011-01-10T22:04:03Z Looking at it now I saw little more than a drab concrete cube but quickly realized this was special in its own right. Next Stop: Uncovering Charms in Montenegro’s Capital 2013-09-05T13:01:37Z The show clothes were not pretty — more plain or even drab. Prada Bares Her Soul 2012-09-20T18:17:18Z In many cases, there’s a good reason for that: Their recent material is drab if not embarrassing. Paul McCartney: Busting a few myths 2011-07-22T13:48:00Z But the actor "is one of the few satisfactions in this drab, unevenly cast production." John Lithgow, Annette Bening open in 'King Lear' in Central Park 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z The Family relies on familiar, drab settings, and squeezes from them—and from Allen’s performance—real gravity and emotion. Viewers Deserve More Shows Like The Family 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Instead of a drab and cold background, that yellowish house tends to warm it up a bit. Mom’s a Corpse. Dad Looks Mad. At Least the Light Is Nice. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Today the designer boutiques have been replaced by a drab post office and a temporary public library where homeless people often gather. 50 years ago, the Watergate made D.C. sexy. Now it’s just the place I call home. 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z But the dialogue — this is one of the talking productions from Synetic, which is oriented toward physical theater — is delivered with little polish, and the visuals are drab and sometimes unclear. Review | Jane Hawkins takes center stage in Synetic’s reimagined ‘Treasure Island’ 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z The first was a sandwich of loose ground meat on a workaday hamburger bun slathered with melted cheese, ketchup and mustard, served in a drab old building underneath a parking garage. Frugal Traveler: Eating in Iowa: Farm-Fresh, Fried and Frugal 2013-08-14T22:43:34Z The Olivier Theyskens collection for Theory contained a lot of friendly basics, like leather shorts and knits, but it was surprisingly drab and uninspired after his terrific spring show. Fashion Review: Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Vera Wang and Theyskens? Theory 2012-02-15T00:09:46Z When the painting entered the Met’s collection in 1949, however, its surface was so dark that it seemed drab and quite ordinary, Mr. Christiansen said. Inside Art: At Brookyn Museum, African-American Artworks Pre-1945 2010-10-21T21:30:00Z Some of the most memorable films are journeys into landscapes, some drab, some gorgeous. Critic?s Notebook: A Film Festival With a Penchant for Making Tastes, Not Deals 2010-09-23T22:17:00Z The art critic Arthur Danto once suggested that American graphic designers helped win the cold war, since their products looked better on store shelves than their drab communist counterparts. Art Review: ‘Graphic Design: Now in Production’ on Governors Island 2012-05-31T22:07:27Z Set in a generic doctor’s office with drab linoleum flooring, this play turns latent prejudice into something palpable and uncomfortable. Grey area 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Veale’s theory chimes with the experience of a retired sales manager I meet in a drab Sheffield consultancy room. ‘I wanted a truncheon in my pants’: the rise of the penis extension 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z For years she lived in drab rooming houses, sometimes on the edge of starvation. The Cutting Mind and Romantic Heart of Elizabeth Hardwick 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z The coughing and the exhaustion had been rough, but what made me want to scream was how blah my morning coffee was, how drab and utilitarian showering had become. Sad after losing your sense of smell to COVID? Turns out there's a link between sense and happiness 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z But his shows also stay solidly within their genre boundaries, and their execution can be formulaic to the point of drab. Review: Meet the New Jack Ryan, Same as the Old Jack Ryan 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z It's too easy to get nostalgic, but when the Roses first burst on to the scene they were a splash of psychedelic colour on a drab music scene. The Stone Roses return triumphant and Manchester parties like it's 1989 2012-06-30T16:25:15Z The director Michael McGowan allows their gray Canadian malaise to extend into wan cinematography and drab scenery. ‘All My Puny Sorrows’ Review: Every Day, a Little Death 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z To enter, visitors must be buzzed in and follow a series of unpromising signs taped to the walls in the drab stairwells. A Book Lover?s San Francisco 2010-12-04T05:00:00Z It was great news for Bitmoji fans, who were long stuck with basic T-shirts and drab monochrome dresses. Even if You Can’t Afford Designer Clothes, Your Bitmoji Can 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z I saw a picture of this happening online – a drab room full of people raising their right hands like Americans. My new British citizenship test: who is Cheggers, and why is he so funny? 2012-07-14T23:06:14Z This time the Communists are in drab uniforms, and the music is raw with clashing chords and jagged bursts. Review: ‘The Manchurian Candidate,’ Eagerly Awaited, Has Premiere in St. Paul 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The ugliness of the times saturates every aspect of the film, from its faded brownish-yellow palette to the drab décor of Mario’s apartment. Movie Review: ?Post Mortem,? Directed by Pablo Larra?n and Set in Chile 2012-04-10T22:36:47Z I think his pictures are emotionally trite and technically drab, so they damage the cause of the painter. Jack Vettriano: postcards from hell 2011-02-11T12:24:33Z On one of those recent mild evenings, beyond the drab rock walls that surround the jail, there were flaming torches and a Hollywood-style red carpet. Following ‘Game of Thrones’ to Belfast and Beyond 2013-07-05T17:34:29Z Big and beautiful, the newcomer replaces the drab Morton’s steakhouse with a menu that marries Gallic classics with what the owner says are the wants of the neighborhood’s affluent residents, university students and tourists. Review | Brasserie Liberté adds some French twists to Georgetown 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z It’s more like weaving new strands into an existing tapestry than ditching a drab pattern for a more colorful one. When Marriage Is Just Another Overhyped Nightclub 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Your image contrasts a lush indoor setting with a drab outside. Tom Gauld’s “Winter Garden” 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z For years the nominations were usually released in a drab early-morning press conference. ArtsBeat: Eminem Leads Grammy Nominations 2010-12-02T04:51:00Z Since Mr. Abloh’s arrival at the label, Vuitton’s drab corporate offices on the Right Bank had been transformed into something more closely resembling a communal gathering space. Virgil Abloh Shocked the System 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z He’s as drab as the room in which he is painting a self-portrait, daubing on color that help turns the scene into a masterpiece of bleak. Review: In ‘Bridge of Spies,’ Spielberg Considers the Cold War 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Squat and flat-walled, sober verging on drab, this “test house” has its own Unesco listing. 100 years of Bauhaus: Berlin and beyond 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z As you look across the country, you find pockets of innovation and experimentation, but the landscape is overwhelmingly drab. Critic’s Notebook: How Hollywood Films Are Killing Opera 2012-08-16T21:49:50Z There were always one or two elements that did catch my eye, though, even in the drabbest productions. Against All Odds, Broadway Rose to the Occasion. Mostly. 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The items are drab, the labels practical: Banana Republic, J. Crew and the like. Becoming Elizabeth Holmes 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z In recent years, museums across the country have tried to shed their reputation for drab cafeteria fare and woo visitors with destination restaurants. How to Fit All of Asia (and a Food Cart) Into a Museum Cafe? 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z I remember the drab, uncared-for feeling of some of Britain's biggest museums in the 1980s and 90s. Museums should feel free to charge admission 2011-07-21T10:10:06Z Thus the thrilling opener Rattlesnake Highway is followed immediately by the drab All the Garden Birds. Palma Violets – review 2013-01-13T17:59:01Z The curtain rises on a dim, drab room. The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z All around, the is emptying out, the delegates departing in dribs and drabs. Cannes film festival diary: another year, another rip-roaring ride 2010-05-21T12:08:00Z “I didn’t want it to come out in dribs and drabs,” he added. James Levine Withdraws From Met?s Fall Season 2011-09-07T04:32:44Z The apartment itself was located in what had once been seminary housing and, as such, was pretty drab. How Bed, Bath and Beyond (and its coupons) helped soft-launch a generation of starter kitchens 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z Held in a covered hall, the marché brings this drab burg of 3,500 souls to crackling life. Is Gascony the Most Delicious Corner of France? 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z But not too excruciating, because Franklin is such a drab cipher it’s hard to work up much empathy for him. ‘I Love My Dad’ Review: A Father Catfishes His Son 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z But those guidelines were aspirational, and for decades after, the government continued to churn out drab monoliths. Edward Feiner, 75, Dies; Revolutionized the Look of Federal Buildings 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z We accompanied him to a drab hotel room that was dominated by a mammoth bed, covered with the ugliest bedspread I had ever seen. My Story: My Night With Leonard Cohen 2013-07-18T05:00:01Z To his credit, Hoffman describes the drab reality of most espionage work: long waits, endless paperwork, bumbling bureaucracy and often shoddy equipment. Real-life 'Billion Dollar Spy' reads like a Cold War fiction thriller 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Although he lives a drab suburban life, one built on and paid for by violence, Kill List’s returned soldier protagonist has become an essentially murderous man. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z It views the world through Mike’s eyes, and what he sees is unfailingly drab. Review: A ‘Short Stay,’ but Long Stuck in a Rut 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z It’s a slice of drab, everyday 21st-century Americana and a daydream of something more intense. ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ Review: Is It Horror, or Just Ennui? 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z While on the surface it may have looked a little drab and dressed-down, The Killing managed to create a dark and unsettling picture of Copenhagen, one of Europe's friendliest and most appealing cities. Rewind TV: Women in Love; The Killing 2011-03-27T00:05:34Z For the divorced dad trying to strengthen his bond with his teenage daughter, it’s like a drab overcoat he cannot manage to shrug off. Theater Review: ‘What Rhymes With America’ at Linda Gross Theater 2012-12-13T03:00:12Z But the drab office environment and sepia tone suggest somewhere in deepest provincial west Germany. My fair fräulein: an Eliza Doolittle for the 21st century 2012-08-14T19:00:04Z She had tamped down her looks for the role, bulking up her slender frame with padding, hiding her curves inside a series of drab country frocks. Ruth Wilson Is a Riddle, and You Like Her That Way 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Chic restaurants are also infusing a shot of energy into the once drab after-dark scene. A Food Scene Grows in Sioux Falls, S.D. 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Plus, Rocket League’s evolving toolbox of flashy cosmetics provided a splash of color to an otherwise drab year. The Video Games That Got Us Through 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z No longer the glamorous celebrity in an expensive suit, Simpson wore a drab prison uniform during Wednesday's court appearance. OJ back in court; Day 4 of bid for new Vegas trial 2013-05-16T16:32:09Z It’s 2008, Barack Obama has just been elected president, the economy is in the toilet, and Zoey’s college friends have been banished to a far-flung table in a drab ballroom at the Downtown Brooklyn Marriott. ‘Zoey’s Perfect Wedding’ Review: The Bride’s Big Disaster 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z Really, sweetie?” asked my mother, puzzled by the selection of drab clothes resting over my forearm. George Michael made me go wild: How “Faith” changed a gay, Southern, Gen-X teen’s life 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Finally, the subjective voice in the poem pronounces itself disturbed by the "drab hues" of some of the successful species. Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z The show begins with a single man, a beaten-down bureaucrat in business drab, stamping papers at a desk before giant projections of rotating industrial cogs, à la “Metropolis.” | A Goofy Display of Acrobatics, Juggling and Hula Hooping 2013-12-19T22:50:28Z These are stern folk, wearing drab attire that brings to mind the repressive culture of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The Restorative Power of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The crab’s drab colors match the old oyster shell perfectly, Farley explains, keeping him safe from predators. The catch: Can watermen be as good in tourism? Tacking deep winter gardens onto the drab facades, they extended the modest apartments out toward the terra-cotta rooftops of the city’s historic center and introduced light and air into their stuffy interiors. The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z American style soon spread around the world, beamed into drab living rooms via TV. Formica turns 100 2013-01-17T10:18:40Z But you need to dig through a lot of drab, hard-packed filler to get to them. Review: ‘Yellowstone’ Wrangles Daddy Issues on the Range 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The detective at the center of this lighthearted mystery series, based on the books by M. C. Beaton, trades drab trench coats for flashy dresses and a pop of red lipstick. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ and ‘The Last Kingdom’ 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Celebrities have escaped their drab hotel rooms there. At 20, Eighteenth Street Lounge is a geezer by D.C. nightlife standards. Why do people still line up to get in? 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The world outside of the house is equally drab. "Limbo" will break your heart with the whimsical yet agonizing in-between life of refugees 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z The men, with chiseled features and drab uniforms, gaze westward from a red U.S.S.R. signpost. Antiques: ?40s Propaganda Posters: Soviet Morale Boosters 2011-07-28T19:57:01Z That was the question lingering over the buildup to the movie, stoked by dribs and drabs of paranoia-inducing detail. Why “Into the Woods” Matters 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z It would be as drab and joyless as a world without cake. Bake Off at 10: the greatest moments from the nine series so far 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Though North Gym Room 2, with its drab walls and paltry set of yoga mats, aerobic steppers and stability balls, doesn’t look like much, at least the self-defense moves being taught there are legit. ‘How to Defend Yourself’ Review: The Murkiness of Consent, and Friendship 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z This “Fille” turned out not to be the enemy: in a field of drab, failed stagings, Mr. Pelly’s production comes as a relief. Music Review: Donizetti?s ?Fille du R?giment? at the Met - Review 2011-12-13T23:22:49Z In place of the drab realism that the regime demanded, Hrabal offered dizzying embellishments and dazzling augmentations. The Violent Insights of Bohumil Hrabal 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z My body often feels like a cage, one that I can dress up differently to be less drab, sure, but also one whose rigid structure clashes with everything society wants. "Dead End: Paranormal Park" explores theme parks as queer getaways 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z He lives in a roomy but drab Los Angeles space furnished with only the barest necessities and hangs out with a clique of macho cretins for whom friendship is almost synonymous with butting heads. | 'Mercy': Scott Caan, Star and Writer of Tough-Guy Romance 2010-04-30T00:17:00Z But Dessau’s East German heritage is all too evident today in its drab appearance. Music Review: Kurt Weill Festival: One Man, Many Different Beats 2011-03-08T13:00:06Z Through the illegal lottery, men like Russ provided hope for steel mill and factory workers of hitting it big and escaping their drab lives. Russell Shorto’s Grandpa Was a ‘Smalltime’ Mobster 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z And once outside, the ordinary may seem more drab than ever. The Thrill of Harry Potter Rides On 2010-06-10T14:38:00Z Hand-painted flowers wrap around what once was a drab black dresser. Girls’ rooms and futures look bright 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Locking the viewer in two cramped, drab rooms, he builds suspense with little more than a single character and a few voices on a telephone. Review: ‘The Guilty’ Places a Troubled Police Officer on Hold 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z In fact, Heaney’s actual desk — a board across two drab filing cabinets — has been borrowed from the family home in suburban Dublin. ‘Listen Now Again’ Is a Tasting Menu of Seamus Heaney’s Poetry 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z The Comme des Garçons headquarters, which occupy several floors of a banal office building, look like design studios everywhere, and may even be drabber. Critic’s Notebook: Rei Kawakubo, of Comme des Garçons, Veiled Like Mona Lisa 2012-05-30T23:34:55Z In its place is a drabber appraisal of the tournament by the numbers. Loss and Hope: A Documentary Presents the Flip Side of Hoosiers 2013-04-19T09:45:43Z Order from one of the windows and when your number is called, take a heaping tray to one of two dining rooms, which a recent renovation transformed from drab and dated to nautical and polished. 36 Hours on Outer Cape Cod 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z It is full of longing — hedged, self-conscious, but palpable all the same — for a vanished way of life, in contrast to which contemporary reality seems drab and numb. Movie Review: Miguel Gomes’s ‘Tabu’ 2012-12-25T22:44:18Z Combined, these traits suggest a flamboyant soul confined to a drab role in life. Theater Review: ‘Cornelius’ Is Revived at 59E59 Theaters 2013-06-12T21:15:07Z Transparency is emerging as a trend, but the drab colors were a downer, and the straight-cut shapes of the nylon were timid to a fault. Fashion Review: Outside the Met, Fashion?s Overture 2010-09-13T21:33:00Z Begun in 2008, as credit markets started seizing up, the images depict a Lehman-scarred United States of drab tract houses, gents in motels, parched landscapes, parched graveyards. American Stagnation: Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s “East of Eden” 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z Close to the city centre, Hulme is now transformed from the drab, dangerous and vibrantly down-at-hell place it was back then. The Trial of Qwerty; Les Paul: The Final Words of a Pioneer and Guitar Legend; Archive Hour; Farming Today 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z The sentiments were as drab as a Soviet winter. Siberia's bleak, beautiful baritone sweeps across L.A. Opera 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z On Saturday, he was a hip-hop king dressed in a drab T-shirt and baggy jeans. Concert review: Drake at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre 2012-06-03T06:52:00Z While the drab working class in the districts toil in poverty and filth and boring clothes, Capitol citizens stroll about in pampered splendour. The Hunger Games world is no country for glamorous women 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z "I cannot overestimate," he said, "the effect on me at the time of coming into this drab city of Adolphe Valette, full of the French impressionists, aware of everything that was going on in Paris." LS Lowry: the people's artist comes in from the cold 2013-06-08T23:05:10Z The main problem is that this three-hour affair is unrelentingly drab. Review: ‘Killing Jesus,’ Biblical Tale Retold, Softer on Its Politics 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z “There is absolutely no show of wealth there. Everyone is so conscious about not displaying their money, so the whole place ends up looking kind of drab.” ‘Silicon Valley,’ Mike Judge’s New Series, Debuts on HBO 2014-04-02T16:55:21Z But what a horrid, drab world they must live in, poor dears. Do men really care about fashion? 2013-01-12T18:00:01Z In the clip his short back and sides haircut and drab uniform-like shirt hint at a tie-in with Captain America’s second world war super-soldier back story. Avengers: Age of Ultron film trailer released by Marvel after leak 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Seems odd for the writer to present "drab fare" as a broad brush "fact"when it is actually an opinion. How to Fit All of Asia (and a Food Cart) Into a Museum Cafe? 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Her Amanda looks drab and worn, as she wrestles with poverty and despair. A strident, ghostly revival of 'Glass Menagerie' at Seattle Rep 2012-11-03T14:31:04Z Applied similarly to Manhattan cityscapes and Maine land- and seascapes, his touch is brusque, and his colors range from garish to drab. Art Review: Testing the Waters of Abstraction 2011-08-04T22:02:30Z We first encounter Kimia in the drab waiting room of a fertility clinic in Paris. A Persian Turned Parisian Insists: I’m Not an Immigrant, I’m an Exile 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The museum, until recently called the Yser Tower, is a 275-foot-high tower that looks both drab and regal and reigns as Flanders’s most nationalistic symbol in its struggle against the country’s French-speaking Walloon region. A self-propelled Belgium brewery tour through Belgium lets you bike to pints 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z The dapper Huston interrupted a white-hot career streak — and an affair with Olivia de Havilland — for olive drab and an even drabber first assignment in the Aleutian Islands. Books of The Times: Mark Harris’s ‘Five Came Back’ Covers Auteurs in Combat 2014-03-02T23:09:53Z Sawa’s loud red and pink wigs leap off the screen against drab backdrops. ‘Kite’ Is Based on Yasuomi Umetsu’s 1998 Anime 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z It’s what renovation fantasies are made of: An experienced designer swoops in to transform a drab space into a dream interior within days. Nate Berkus Shares His Tips for Kitchen Renovations 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z The encounter brings her drab life into full color. "Priscilla": Sofia Coppola delivers a sympathetic but ultimately suffocating portrait 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Certainly the unrenovated kitchen attests to that, with its vintage white enamel stove and drab metal cabinets. What I Love: Betty Halbreich’s Home Away From Bergdorf’s 2013-08-15T21:40:29Z By then his mentor had renamed him Max Martin, a drab, forgettable disco name that is almost as bad as Denniz PoP. Blank Space: What Kind of Genius Is Max Martin? 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Plenty depicts postwar, post-imperial Britain as a world of drab compromises and frustrated desires. Hattie Morahan: unhealthy obsessions 2011-02-01T22:00:03Z The drive passes row after row of blocky uniform apartment towers, lined up like dominoes across the drab plains that surround Seoul’s bowl-shaped basin and eight surrounding guardian mountains. Exploring ‘The Land of Morning Calm’ 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z From the drab 1995 cyberthriller “The Net” onward, mainstream American movies have been hard-pressed to pertinently weigh in on the internet and its discontents. Review: In ‘The Circle,’ Click Here if You Think You’re Being Watched 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z No wonder his character promptly decides to wed Angela and drown his drab, pregnant girl friend. Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79: Actress Defined Modern Fame 2011-04-14T08:35:00Z The emergence of a radical counterculture that spoke directly to his gently anarchic sensibility also galvanized Robbins, pushing him further outside the realm of the drab and predictable. ‘Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life,’ by Tom Robbins The action takes places in a drab, all-purpose room, with peeling paint, a worn wood floor and folding chairs. Review: Flawed but Fascinating Dvorak Opera in a Rare Staging 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z We still saw the Soviet Union as a drab, summerless country, one that hated all our American freedoms, not realizing, of course, how much hating them was affecting us. What '80s kids also remember: On stranger danger, Satanic panic and generations of trickle-down fear 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z She barrels through the film’s claustrophobic frames and its drab suburban locations like Anna Magnani auditioning for a role on “The Real Housewives of Montreal.” Xavier Dolan’s ‘Mommy’ Depicts a Clashing Mother and Son 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Beauty doesn’t go where we want it to go, leaving so much of our world mired in ugliness—what Wright called “the drab.” How Frank Lloyd Wright Tried to Solve the City 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Overlooking the Hudson River, it includes a drab office full of computer stations, an all-white aspirational Upper East Side living room and some merging of high-end hospital and prison featuring pink wheelchairs and filthy toilets. Why the Whitney’s Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Lippman crosscuts between the alert, guarded Heloise and the badly mistreated Helen Lewis, the drab girl Heloise used to be. Books of The Times: ‘And When She Was Good’ by Laura Lippman 2012-08-01T20:07:25Z Even in drab landscapes, he conjures up soaring, poetic descriptions of his surroundings. A British traveller’s travelogue 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Not so with the Oval Office, where the drab carpet of the West Wing gives way to beautiful hardwood and a rug with the President’s favorite quotes emblazoned along the outer edge. Watching Trump Win at the White House 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z The drab, war-scarred Channel port of Cherbourg is drenched in saturated primary colours. A little rain must fall: the tragic secret of a musical movie masterpiece 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z It is unclear what exactly Daniels, often an accomplished director of classics, was aiming for — not just in her casting, but also in the drab setting of clear plastic drapes and metal scaffolding. A ‘King Lear’ that hasn’t fully flowered, at Seattle Shakes 2014-05-01T16:58:52Z While the message board enlivened some of the drabber songs, Massive Attack’s real power was sonic. Music Review: Massive Attack at Terminal 5 2010-05-13T20:27:00Z “Welcome to BMS, a division of Decorative Fabrics of America,” Mr. Blalock said as everyone gathered around a table in a drab, outdated conference room. The Annals of Flannel 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The poetry found in her film is absent in the racing and jumping scenes in “Race,” and the movie’s overall palette is prosaic verging on drab. Review: ‘Race’ Chronicles Jesse Owens’s Rise to Olympic Glory 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Zinc yellow paint used in the most famous work at the Art Institute, Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte,” was also unstable, turning from bright lemon to drab ocher. Renoir Shows His True Colors 2014-04-20T21:29:48Z The move to the apartment — conceived by set designer Debra Booth as a drab, utilitarian space — has left Abby feeling isolated and at loose ends. Amy Herzog’s ‘Belleville’ is strong on atmosphere but short on plot Set in a drab provincial city in France that, by the movie’s end, resembles a vast public loo, “The Wounded Man” signals its vanguard ambitions at the onset. ‘The Wounded Man’: Dark Night, Lost Soul 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z They spend a lot of time wandering the fields and pathways of a drab and marshy northern French countryside, their mostly silent, idle days punctuated by spasms of violence and eruptions of metaphysical strangeness. Movie Review: ‘Hors Satan,’ Directed by Bruno Dumont 2013-01-17T23:18:44Z A study in midcentury drab, the room is clean, borderline austere, meticulously arranged and one flickering light bulb away from David Lynch-style uneasiness. Review: Hard-Boiled Play in ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z If the score isn’t sung beautifully, it’s not simply bad — it’s almost nonexistent, which is the case in the Met’s drab revival. Two Operas, Two Sopranos, Two Very Different Impacts 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z Doré’s father was French, and her name means “gilded,” yet she is a drab, dumpy woman, dressed in a palette of browns, no makeup on her face. Review: Naomi Wallace’s ‘Night Is a Room’ Unfurls a Complex Reunion 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Wearing drab gray student gear, the restrained Place cuts a bland figure. In Intiman's 'Hedda,' we don't feel her pain 2012-07-17T23:27:06Z Mr. Findlay’s set design is both complex and purposefully makeshift-looking — folding tables, microphones, cameras — and will feature video that aims to replicate the drab feel of public-access coverage that local legislative debate might well receive. ‘City Council Meeting,’ Locally Tailored, From Here 2013-05-08T21:40:41Z But a gimmick doesn’t get you very far if your main character is as drab as Pete. Review: The Predictable Tears of a Clown Flow in ‘Crashing’ 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z “The busy days I had just became nightmarish,” he said, as World Wresting Entertainment staffers darted in and out of the drab cinder block room, furnished with a few folding tables and chairs. John Cena Grants a Wish Before His Wrestling Match 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The DFI may not look much from the cycle lane but inside the drab, five-storey office building is a space brimming with film enthusiasm. Cine-files: The Filmhouse, Copenhagen 2013-03-05T15:20:29Z Though the sisal-like carpet was a drab gray, the space was brightened with a cornflower-blue front door that matched a molded plastic Eames-style desk chair and the patterned upholstery of a vintage armchair. Check In/Check Out: Hotel Review: Postcard Inn on the Beach in St. Pete Beach, Fla. 2011-01-28T19:55:12Z As Alex, Ms. Qualley downplays her striking beauty, with minimal makeup, a haphazard ponytail and a wardrobe of shapeless, used clothes, including her drab maid’s uniform. The Cinderella Myth We Can’t Quit 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The Obamas were flown in a loop over the Mall and the White House and then to Joint Base Andrews, where, in a drab hangar, he gave one last speech. As TV goes, the inauguration was perfunctory and unimpressive, but it had moments 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The hall is rather drab, and the fairy-tale flowers would dress up the place. Music Review: An Impish Creature That Won?t Be Fenced In 2011-06-23T22:21:40Z This visual mode renders the movie drab, a condition not ameliorated by the introduction of animated sequences illustrating Post’s stories. ‘Playing in the FM Band’ Review: A Free-Form Radio Legend 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Ms. Douglas wanted to expand her repertory in a setting more genteel than those drab clubs with two-drink minimums and hecklers. ‘The Living Room Show’ Brings Performances to Los Angeles Homes 2013-12-14T00:12:06Z Feature animation currently finds itself in a golden age of mediocrity, with sensationally inventive technical means tethered, more often than not, to drab and cynical imaginative ends. | 'Rango': There?s a New Sheriff in Town, and He?s a Rootin?-Tootin? Reptile 2011-03-03T23:01:04Z They were drab and white and made purely for function, to shield the eyes from the sun and elements and absorb sweat. Cycling Caps Return as a Fashion Statement 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Here, we find hints of the totalitarian banality of corporate life as portrayed in “Office Space,” but now set against the splendors of sprawling, decked-out tech campuses rather than drab office parks. ‘Silicon Valley,’ Mike Judge’s New Series, Debuts on HBO 2014-04-02T16:55:21Z The olive drab color is a welcome switch from the standard-issue blues. Task Rabbit, Meet Chore Coat 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Morrissey's autobiography was published as an instant Penguin Classic The Smiths' record label Rough Trade, he said, had been "brutally drab". Morrissey opens up in autobiography 2013-10-17T12:09:33Z Men in Japan were just drab clones of each other in the postwar period. Fashion Diary: Studying the Preppy Look and its Reference Points 2010-07-23T22:30:00Z Fourteen years later, Galifianakis is wearing, as he usually does, a red plaid button-down shirt, a gray blazer, drab khakis and a battered L.L. Zach Galifianakis Hates to Be Loved 2011-05-19T09:05:00Z If collections of dolls and action figures, a room full of pinball machines, and a closet full of drab clothing items you seldom wear, spark joy for you, keep them. The willful misinterpretation of Marie Kondo's decluttering is rooted in racism and capitalism 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Weekes’s tactics have trickled out in drabs to influence much of cognitive behavioral therapy’s approach to panic. Desperately Seeking Hope and Help for Your Nerves? Try Reading ‘Hope and Help for Your Nerves’ 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z It’s drab outside and they want something fun. Selling Shakespeare With a Nod to the 1960s 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z A group of youthful interns are employed at a drab office, presided over by a managerial nerd, adjoining a factory shopfloor. Final Destination 5 ? review 2011-08-25T21:10:00Z But his latest, which won best animated short at the Muestra Joven festival in 2016, is an Orwellian tale about a screaming dictator lording over identically dressed workers from drab, identical apartments. Improvisation Is the Heart of Cuban Animation 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z What he captured in paintings and drawings were the figures of stocky, pipe-smoking men, their expressions dour, their dress drab. Inside Art: Metropolitan to Host C?zanne?s ?Card Players? 2010-12-09T23:15:00Z Pepper introduces her to drugs and to something else that she never got from that drab boyfriend. Review: In ‘Bare,’ a Bored Woman Takes Up Pole Dancing 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z It’s also dull, incoherent and drab to look at. Review: ‘The Forger’ Stars John Travolta as a Convict and Painter 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Particularly in black and white, it's an unsentimental, melancholy portrait of a decaying American heartland - its drab bars, roadside motels and paint-chipped farm houses. Payne back on the road with 'Nebraska' at Cannes 2013-05-23T17:02:09Z Dant, who freely admits that he never cooks, wanted to upgrade the drab galley-style kitchen to create more storage and lighten the space. An art lover’s make-it-work moment: Fitting 40 pieces in his basement apartment 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z The 38-year-old is lanky, with a wide grin, thick black hair stylishly cut and Buddy Holly glasses tucked into the front of his drab prison jumpsuit. Convicted NY designer: 'Truth will surface' 2013-04-13T20:46:07Z The result is an eclectic, modern hotel housed in a drab, gray 1970s-era rectangle. Check In : Hotel Review: Hotel La Jolla in San Diego 2014-03-18T20:26:03Z For the truth is, Ms. Burden, who says she inherited “a couple of million in dribs and drabs,” is a very likeable, down-to-earth woman. At Home With Wendy Burden: A Vanderbilt Descendant Laughs Off Dysfunction 2010-03-24T22:45:00Z It’s an aggressively literal-minded movie, set in a world where metaphors are all but banished and dreams and fantasies are drab and desperate affairs. Review: In ‘The Lobster,’ Colin Farrell Plays a Divorced Man in a Loner-Hating Society 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z But it is so much more than a drab tome for levee nerds and military history buffs, because it was designed by Joost Grootens. The Artistry of Inconspicuous Quality 2010-05-02T18:00:00Z But only the male is endowed with resplendently shimmering feathers and a dramatically elongated tail; female quetzals are relatively drab. Take that, monogamy! We’re actually hard-wired for polygamy, which helps explain why so many cheat 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z I first saw Patti perform Because the Night on a rerun of The Old Grey Whistle Test and I came across her music in dribs and drabs after that. Patti Smith: how she rocks our world 2012-05-26T23:15:26Z The difference is that Mr. Pritchett’s world is enlivened by his cheerful embrace of eccentricity, while Mr. Trevor’s London is drabber, sadder, a place of widows and widowers, blighted romances, unraveling relationships. William Trevor, Spare Chronicler of Diminished Lives 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z With its gold-and-cream décor and matching period furniture, the space has been dramatically transformed from what used to be a drab office furnished with functional work desks. Carlton House Terrace: The Hindujas' New $500 Million Real Estate Masterpiece 2013-10-08T14:00:00Z Deliberately drab colors, like mustard, and geometric prints touching on the Prada ugly aesthetic made for a somber collection. The Death of the Dress? 2012-09-10T17:21:07Z The Stranger Thing-ers hit the internet en masse to bicker about whether Eleven is alive, eking out a drab existence in the dank slime of The Upside Down. #TeamLogLady! How the world finally caught up with Twin Peaks 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The war put an end to that, and when it ended the whole city had become pretty drab, even apart from the bomb damage. Diana Athill: the London I remember 2012-07-23T17:04:02Z These look plausible, if drab, on unencumbered, level sites. Architects do matter, Mr Gove 2011-03-06T00:09:40Z The restaurant was set back from a side street, in a drab, two-story structure. Bites: Restaurant Report: Pyongyang in Amsterdam 2012-08-22T19:00:20Z He bucks the trend of directors who favor décor that is drab or downright ugly. Opera Review: Traveling Through Time With 'Eugene Onegin' 2011-06-28T12:00:06Z The painting process brought the community together physically, and the finished pieces have added color and brightness to otherwise drab city streets. Art painted on crosswalks makes streets safer, group says 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z In an age of drab bean counters, Miramax had moxie and mystique. Harvey Weinstein Is Gone. But Hollywood Still Has a Problem. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Rather than a gorgeous Lombardy villa, the setting is an Army base in the Veneto and its drab surroundings, but the vibe is equally indolent and sunstruck. Here Are 20 Shows to Watch This Fall 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The Strokes drew a monstrous crowd, while PJ Harvey attracted considerably fewer fans to a drab, if well-intentioned set that found her playing everything from auto-harp to acoustic guitar. Kanye West saves day, reputation at Coachella 2011-04-19T03:04:52Z The show didn’t feel more drab because it was more serious or because it played closer to drama than to comedy. Watching the Season 4 Finale of ‘Louie’ 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z In 1933, Bill Cunningham’s mother came home to their “drab, puritanical” Boston Catholic enclave and caught her son vamping through the house in his sister’s pink organdy full-skirted dress. Bill Cunningham: An Enigma in a Blue Sanitation Worker’s Jacket 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Several London theaters currently have Chekhov productions, including "Three Sisters," a heart-wrenching tale set in a drab provincial town depicting the sisters' longing and desperation following the death of their father. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z Downtown Wilmington resembles a random exurb, except for the clump of drab buildings blistered with bank logos and Interstate 95 cleaving the place in two. Lovely, little Delaware — long famous for corporations, chickens and credit cards — is ready for its big moment 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Fans might remember with heavy heart The Invasion of Time from 1975, which realised the Tardis's vast expanses as a series of drab hospital corridors. Doctor Who: Journey to the Centre of the Tardis – series 33, episode 10 2013-04-27T18:15:01Z What qualifies as drab here is still arresting. Critical Shopper: Critical Shopper - Hickoree?s Floor Two in Williamsburg 2011-11-08T19:51:29Z Even in drab gray concrete jungles such as Baltimore and New York, young people are turning their apartments into “house jungles.” Millennials are filling their homes — and the void in their hearts — with houseplants 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z But the Stone Roses' anthem is also an expression of independence over the irritant who's the subject of the song, and an ecstasy-fuelled but not unreasonable assertion of superiority over their largely drab indie contemporaries. Readers recommend: songs about showing off ? the results 2011-02-24T16:38:51Z My friend said, finally, that it looked exactly right: the kind of house a child would find impressive but that’s not actually great — drab, slightly pompous. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z The filmmakers like to pose Arnold and other interview subjects in front of tractors or in long shot against drab warehouses or faded downtowns. Review: Going Home to Iowa With the Queen of Meth 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z And his shirt continued the drab color story. Perspective | No studio audience and an elbow bump: The Biden-Sanders debate was a study in contrasts 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z She’s a good actress, in other words, and Ms. Taylor-Johnson matches the colors and the visual texture — the chilly blues and pulsing reds, the drab daylight and the velvety dusk — to Anastasia’s moods and desires. Review: In ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Movie, Sex Is a Knotty Business 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z And it is funny, because “someplace new” is inevitably just one more drab apartment or bleak landscape on the ragged edge of American life. Review | Sam Pink’s ‘Ice Cream Man’ explores life on the fringes 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Or a world society might enforce hyper-conformity — drab, relentless and permanent. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z As a would-be expat, scornful of Pudding Island and its drab inhabitants, Larry liked nothing more than to épater un petit bourgeois. Amateurs in Eden by Joanna Hodgkin ? review 2012-02-10T22:45:01Z The movie looks drab and drained of color, and can’t even muster the antic buoyancy of an average episode of “iCarly.” Movie Review | 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid': Zachary Gordon Tries to Navigate Middle School 2010-03-19T00:20:00Z Set on a drab ward somewhere on England's south coast, it instead drew unexpected howls of laughter from the drudgery, frustrations and indignities of life for patients and staff in a typical world-of-beige NHS hospital. Getting On: deadpan with bedpans 2010-10-18T20:07:00Z “It’s not about making America a drab and miserable place,” she writes in an op-ed. Essential Arts & Culture: LACMA's new look, protests at MOCA, celebrating a California composer 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z It is a story of drab origins in the postwar period, a place of ration books, National Health specs and grandmas who insist on knitting you itchy jumpers. My Animal Life by Maggie Gee 2010-05-14T23:31:00Z I found the room to be quite drab and the food and drink an exercise in price-gouging, but the stories of times past were captivating. In Venice, sampling a cocktail revolution 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Some glow bright red, some are nearly drab green; some are opaque, some let light through. Art Review: ?Colorful Realm,? Works by Ito Jakuchu at National Gallery 2012-03-29T21:27:01Z The New Kennedy Square in Markham was no different, a drab and squat complex. Trekking to the Toronto Suburbs for Excellent, Cheap Chinese Food 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z To which the drab, meandering late 20th-century office life acts as a reproving commentary, a rebuttal of the American dream. Gatz; The Witness; You Once Said Yes – review 2012-06-16T23:06:06Z The relatable characters, who wear little makeup and only drab prison garb, also drive the show's appeal. Complex characters, juicy scripts boost Netflix's Emmy nominations 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Female students at Beijing University were still wearing drab clothing, but someone noticed canary-yellow cotton dresses for sale in a market near the campus, dresses that allowed tantalizing glimpses of young flesh. Adam Brookes’s ‘Night Heron’ is a top-notch thriller about stolen secrets There is no sense of wonder here, only a drab reality, thick with dread. Abigail Heyman’s Groundbreaking Images of Women’s Lives 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z She's traded her sensible work suits for drab bargain bin separates and ugly, puffy gym shoes, crowned by a lifeless, curl-free brunette mop. Kim, Jimmy and the moral sandwich-making of "Better Call Saul" 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z The drab, mumbly realism with which the director Edgar Wright depicts that city is offset — subverted, enlivened, thrown into crazy do-it-yourself pop-art relief — by images and situations drawn from arcade video games. | 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World': Michael Cera in an Adaptation of Bryan Lee O?Malley Novels 2010-08-12T21:50:00Z A local supermarket magnate fond of blogging about art and culture, Mr. Chirkunov works in a drab, Soviet-era government building that looms over Perm’s central square like a guillotine. A Bilbao on Siberia?s Edge? 2011-07-22T18:59:16Z And the tinting of the glasses darkens images that are already shadowy and dim, turning colors drab and faces indistinct. Movie Review: ‘Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai’ at IFC Center 2012-07-19T21:18:21Z Reporters pass the time scrolling Twitter and ruefully admiring photos of the sunset, which is not visible from this drab corridor. One year of ‘President Manchin’: For the Democratic agenda, all roads go through West Virginia 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Ceylan infuses the film with elements of absurdism and magic realism, sprinkling dream and fantasy sequences into the drab, naturalistic atmosphere. ‘The Wild Pear Tree’ Review: A Gambler and a Writer at Odds 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The only disadvantage to a savory rhubarb sauce is that as it cooks down, it loses its pinkness, turning drab beige. Rhubarb flaunts savory side in a skillet chicken dinner 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z “The Fallen” paints a drab picture of a family in Cuba. Four Social Novels in Translation Consider the World’s Ills 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z I knew he was a military guy from the large olive drab duffel bag lying at his feet. A Memorial Day Parade for the rest of us 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Behind her, pedicabs and workers in drab proletarian gear make their way along Wang Fujing Street, now the center of a bustling business district. A Modern History of China, in Photographs 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Blanchon and his colleagues are already plotting more — sprawling new construction at Whitman-Walker’s drab, gray Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center at 14th and R streets and an expansion of its clinic and services in Anacostia. The District’s HIV clinic was failing. This ‘old, straight white guy’ managed to save it. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z At the time, the family business consisted of a stable of drab, workmanlike, decidedly unglamorous trade publications, including Footwear News and Supermarket News. John B. Fairchild, Women’s Wear Daily publisher, dies at 87 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z When it premiered in 2005, the show highlighted the depressive nature of drab office life — fluorescent lighting, bland decor and annoying colleagues — where the threat of downsizing at an obsolescent company was a persistent theme. Here’s why we’re bingeing ‘The Office’ during the pandemic 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z In the studiedly drab drama “Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart,” Mr. Canet plays a notorious serial killer of young women who is one of several policeman charged with investigating the crimes. César Winners Fill Roster at Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z It boasts child fairies garbed at first in drab camouflage. Oregon Shakespeare Fest, 2013: the Bard, and more 2013-07-24T22:08:57Z As a teenager, he transformed himself from plain old David Jones - born in 1947 and raised in the drab south London suburbs - to exotic David Bowie. Show at London's V&A museum celebrates David Bowie 2013-03-20T15:59:12Z Yet outside the glamorous areas, Istanbul did not seem a wealthy city – especially for the millions who stream in and end up in drab apartment blocks without the new lives they dreamed of. Istanbul: minarets and martinis 2011-02-27T00:05:21Z Well, not to be graphic, he actually going, but only in drips and drabs so to speak, and without his knowledge. My father, the woman 2012-06-15T23:30:00Z Peasants harvesting in the summer would take off their drab wool tunics and strip down to their linen undershorts. Antiques: Beatles Photos, Medieval Fashion and Forbes?s Auctions 2011-05-19T20:54:27Z A pinch more salt, a dash of honey, or a squeeze of lemon punctuates the difference between drab and dazzling. Sweet or savory, these phyllo hand pies make for a perfect, portable snack 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z He recalls how Forster pushed a note under his door suggesting they meet up for a drink, his puzzlement over Forster's drab clothes, and how Blythe never dared mention his own writing. Guardian Books podcast: Ronald Blythe remembers Benjamin Britten 2013-06-21T13:34:11Z A cropped sequined black moto jacket/bolero with leg-of-mutton sleeves came matched with an olive drab corset atop a camo ruffled skirt. Seeing the Oscar Challenge to Fashion Week and Raising It One 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The Roxbury Russet is no poster child, with a drab, matte skin similar to that of an Asian pear. ‘Apples of Uncommon Character’: Lots to sink your teeth into Doherty plays Becky’s escape from a drab life caring for her mother, who suffers from early onset dementia, into a seemingly better life as Sasha with equal parts guilt and relish. Erin Doherty Shape Shifts in ‘Chloe’ 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z It’s what irked me about “Rent,” which inserted all that drab dialogue on screen and muted the show’s exuberance. Into the woods of musicals’ sounds: Two critics on what sings on stage and screen 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Several campers lined the lot, a cheery bolt of color in the otherwise drab landscape. In California, these minivans-turned-RVs take car camping to the next level 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z While there are still drab boulevards and forbidding side streets, the main squares and thoroughfares are aglow with illuminated onion domes, commercial billboards and bright red stars still burning above the Kremlin’s towers. Moscow in the Winter, Alive and Illuminated 2011-11-25T06:01:08Z Urged on by their efforts, an adult-size snowman is pulled out of the mound in a trice and a drab garden shed is changed into a larder winking with goodies. The House Where Winter Lives; Hansel and Gretel; Pinocchio – review 2012-12-30T00:06:25Z The early ’60s era you portray is considered to be a very drab time, of few colors and fewer options. Have Photo Albums, Will Travel 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z More dispiriting still is that this drab complacency is wrapped around messages of daring, honesty and spontaneity. Fractious Family Mourns in ‘This Is Where I Leave You’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z These fantasy scenes are beautifully filmed, and Isaac's drab room begins to seem like a portal to a different world. 'The Strange Case of Angelica' ? quietly beautiful film 2011-04-14T21:56:05Z Photograph: James Jackson/Getty Images Crawling by Selnec through drabber Manchester under a customary grey sky in the morning, it seemed impossible to believe that the Palace posters could for once be right. Danny La Rue's Queen of Hearts: from the Guardian archive, 21 December 1972 2012-12-21T07:30:00Z “Frank the Entertainer in a Basement Affair” is about a not-very-entertaining guy who lives in his parents’ basement and is auditioning a drab selection of women for, well, let’s be generous and say “a relationship.” Television: VH1: Where Love Hurts 2010-04-10T00:35:00Z The prosaic cinematography and editing give it the look and feel of a drab television movie. Review: ‘American Pastoral,’ Philip Roth’s Fiery 1960s at Low Heat 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The worst Paris Review interviews are so earnest and drab — the magazine does not do “gotcha” questions — that they’re dead on arrival, perhaps for good reason. Critic?s Notebook: Paris Review Editor Frees Menagerie of Wordsmiths 2010-10-22T23:00:00Z But the moment Marling appears, on a small stage in a drab school hall masquerading as the Eagle Ball, the pretence is shattered. Laura Marling – review 2013-06-18T16:38:57Z Despite leaving behind the fine weather and natural allure of Brazil, Issa said she finds joy in London, even if the weather is often drab. Rihanna, Issa light up London Fashion Week 2013-02-17T02:46:04Z Trying to describe five sunny fall days there with my wife — much of it aboard mountain bikes — I reach for words that seem drab and monochrome, deflating Sedona’s beauty. In Sedona, Ariz., biking a landscape that embodies the romance of the American West 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z “Kinky Boots” was a perfectly nice little 2005 British film about a black London drag queen named Lola who helps a drab Northampton shoe company find a fabulous new niche. ‘Kinky Boots’ at Kennedy Center struts, kicks and empowers — just by the book 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Greene sought the same kind of solace and refuge on previous Washed Out releases, but with a drabber, more brittle electronic palette. Playlist: New Music From Washed Out, Buddy Guy and Natalia Lafourcade 2013-08-09T18:39:31Z The compelling thing about the collection was that the tailoring, despite the formality and nipped waists, looked relaxed, and I liked the way he blended in the olive drab—as pegged trousers, as skirts. Paris: My Old Lady 2010-03-03T23:50:00Z Yet the gap here isn’t just between the drab lives and the opalescent music. Review: In ‘Girl From the North Country,’ Rolling Stones Gather Regrets 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z He has grown a goatee, and his drab brown uniform has a frayed collar and a hasty patch on its right shoulder. Walk Through This Exhibition With Dread. You Know Where It Leads. 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z I wish he'd made that movie; I'd sure rather see the comedy thriller South by Southwest than the drab, flabby Cop Out. Kevin Smith's 'Cop Out': Too Flabby to Fly 2010-02-26T20:35:00Z Acrobats, usually wearing drab work attire, leap from filing cabinets to land on giant seesaws that vault other players into the air. Theater Review: ‘Cirkopolis,’ by Cirque Éloize of Montreal, at Skirball 2013-12-23T19:52:44Z Ms. Munro’s northern world is a place of drab, wintry tones and buttoned-up emotions, a far cry from Mr. Almodóvar’s empire of passions. Review: Another Woman on the Verge in Almodóvar’s ‘Julieta’ 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z “He’s tough as a paper cut but that doesn’t mean he can’t enjoy drab workshop fiction about upper-middle-class whites,” Eichner explains. Watch Billy Eichner and Andy Samberg Pitch Hilarious New Superhero Franchises 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z It’s a universal religion, bringing the promise of grace and salvation into an otherwise drab existence. Review: ‘Patti Cake$,’ a Classic Striver’s Tale With a Hip-Hop Beat 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z This one, featuring a curiously drab Ryan Reynolds and a monster that looked like an intergalactic cow pie, was no exception. Failed Franchises: 10 Movie Series That Weren’t 2013-11-07T10:45:16Z There are several such shows premiering or returning this fall in which characters both living and dead find themselves trapped in low emotional ebbs and visually drab circumstances. Perspective | In an age of anger and outrage, the best TV shows take a different path: They’re sad. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z JB finds that his drab, intense work style doesn’t mesh with the way business is done in India. MOVIE REVIEW: Baseball film fans will cheer ‘Million Dollar Arm’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z When he met Ms. Maxwell, Mr. Waitt had a stringy, graying ponytail and wore drab suits. Whatever Happened to Ghislaine Maxwell’s Plan to Save the Oceans? 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Too many other designs, she said, were “sad” and “drab.” On the Runway Blog: Project Runway Season 9: Avant-Garde or Hot Mess? 2011-09-02T16:54:54Z Worthy also is the stylish “The Queen’s Gambit,” but Kate Winslet’s starry lead as Mare elevates her drab detective character to the win. AP Emmy pundits favor ‘The Crown,’ ‘Ted Lasso’ for honors 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Even the bustling Bengali setting seems strangely drab, and the northern accents sit awkwardly with the Indian theme. Great Expectations - review 2011-03-13T14:58:32Z Though little known outside the art world, this surprisingly drab series of buildings is renowned by dealers and collectors as the premier place to stash their most valuable works. Swiss Freeports Are Home for a Growing Treasury of Art 2012-07-21T18:52:48Z A formerly drab wall is now covered with the bright zigzags and the smiling faces of three Jamaican children. Putting a Good Face on Street Art, to Upgrade Atlanta 2012-08-18T02:56:36Z The Johnson Space Center contains a life-size mock-up of the ISS, whose drab, beige interior is lined with drab, gray handholds to tether down things and people, necessary given the lack of gravity. The Rich Are Planning to Leave This Wretched Planet 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z The lighting is fluorescent, the quarters are cramped, the characters’ faces are damp, and the prevailing wardrobe aesthetic is best encapsulated by Malcolm Tucker’s drab brownish suits. Jesse Armstrong’s Savage Comedy in “Succession” Season 1 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z His work for Apple included the swooping, multicolored iMac, from 1998, one of the bright lights in the development of personal computing, when most of the competitors were gray, drab, hard-cased. For Better and Worse, We Live in Jony Ive’s World 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Being a good girl, a perfect girl, can kill you fast or it can kill you slow, flattening everything precious inside you, the best dreams of your one life, into drab homogeneity. 'Being a perfect girl can kill you' – extract from Unspeakable Things by Laurie Penny 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Born in a drab port city in Yorkshire, she ran away at 13 to London, where she found work as a chorus girl. DVD: Dorothy Mackaill?s ?Safe in Hell? and Others on DVD 2012-01-08T01:38:11Z But some of it is enlivening usually drab corners, like “Night Class” on — what? — the History channel. Sketch Comedy’s New Faces on TV 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z I was feeling discouraged when we got to Emancipation Park in downtown Kingston, surrounded by a wrought-iron fence separating it from drab, brownish office buildings. In Jamaica, Running in Usain Bolt’s Footsteps 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Those drab colors wouldn't do for a miniseries set in the blindingly blue Pacific Basin. Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z In Drape, a related series of wilfully drab domestic black-and-white interiors, Stenram has posed women behind curtains, with only their legs on view. Les Rencontres d'Arles 2012 – review 2012-07-07T23:06:03Z That made so much more sense, he thought, than his absurd army drab. Kurt Vonnegut’s POW nightmare: Inside the World War II battle that shaped “Slaughterhouse Five” 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z To liven up a drab neighborhood, the architects created a colorful pergola for the station, inspired by the decorative patterns of the various African migrants who live in the area. Solving the World’s Problems at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z But Fred’s decision unleashes Charley’s anger at his drab, deskbound life, and his regret at having settled down before he saw the world. ‘Chains’ Review: Drab Lives, but Dreaming of More 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z It might not be your first choice, but our lives would be pretty drab without a bit of absurdity. Comic Sans not your type? Lighten up 2010-10-22T13:15:00Z The movie is shot without fuss, nothing arty, just drab reality. Jeff, Who Lives at Home: A Slacker Comedy with Heart 2012-03-16T14:53:24Z Because of the sheer number of prize categories, all but 10 were handed out in a drab, nontelevised ceremony. At the Grammys, Spectacles and Upsets 2011-02-14T05:54:53Z The District 13 decor is drab, almost colorless; the bad-taste splendor and gaudy gowns of the second episode, Catching Fire, have given way to a Stalinist poverty of the visual imagination. Review: To Shill a Mockingjay - Part 1 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Yet, for most of the play, Violet is a drab wallflower. Skin Deep: No-Makeup Look As a New Beauty Standard 2014-05-07T21:45:08Z Strong himself, emerging from a similarly drab and disadvantaged London suburban background, was on the same fast-track reinvention course as Jagger's, turning himself into the kingmaker of taste. Mick Jagger by Philip Norman – review 2012-10-04T07:00:01Z Rick Owens looked pretty stuck, if you asked me: same drab colors, same layered-up wools and thickly wedged boots, which are now pleated across the top of the foot like the bellows of an accordion. | Fashion Review: Turning the Gaze Back to the Clothes 2011-03-04T00:33:54Z The freedom to wear something other than drab, tattered, sub-Eileen Fisher linen? Review: Efficient and Gray, 'Rogue One' Gets the Job Done 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z For the fourth year in a row, the academy announced the nominations with a splashy televised concert, rather than the drab morning news conferences of years past. ArtsBeat Blog: Kanye West Tops Grammy Nominations 2011-12-01T04:55:21Z And on a night when the performance as a whole was rather drab, Ms. Voigt’s musical vitality and vocal charisma were especially welcome. Music Review: Deborah Voigt in Met?s ?Der Fliegende Holl?nder? 2010-04-25T22:14:00Z The bank for which he works and the neighborhood where he lives are so drab that his daily routine of clerical drudgery, fast-food snacks and toxic junk-culture distractions is a living hell. Review: In ‘Buzzard,’ an Angry, Unkempt Antihero 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z All the satirical edges of the cult 1975 movie Death Race 2000, about a lethal motor rally across the US, were filed off for this uninspired remake, set entirely on a drab prison island. Every Jason Statham film - ranked! 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z The concert opened with a nod to Stravinsky's taste for the baroque; flautist Yvonne Paterson played with understated grace, but Pintscher's conducting was drab in Bach's Suite No 2 in B minor. BBCSSO/Pintscher – review 2013-05-20T11:34:36Z To a readership still trudging through a drab, grey country exhausted by war and austerity, Fleming offered the prospect of azure skies, powder-white beaches, stunning women and handsome men. James Bond – a ticket to distant joys 2012-09-28T21:55:09Z Surveillance was drab work until he began writing about “pavement artists” like Toby Esterhase, the Eastern European-born character who directs the “Lamplighters.” Perspective | John le Carré didn’t just invent the characters in the foreground of the spy world. He designed the entire set. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z In “Working Class Hero,” Lennon sympathizes with drab, numb lives and wrestles with his own status, heroic or not, while in “Look at Me,” he pleads, “Who am I supposed to be?” Half a Century Later, John Lennon’s ‘Plastic Ono Band’ Still Hits Hard 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z The space is a bit drab and municipal, but in all other regards this independent operation is everything you would want. Museum food: eat the ancestors 2010-05-14T09:15:00Z After the drab virtue of Pat Nixon’s Republican cloth coat, the down-to-earth modesty of Betty Ford and the proud populism of Rosalynn Carter, Americans were hungry for some excitement and glamour. In first lady, Nancy Reagan found the role of a lifetime 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z This may suit the bleaker atmosphere of a nightmare world, but the drabber color diminishes the series’ crisp fairy-tale brightness. | 'Shrek Forever After': Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy Reunited 2010-05-20T22:28:00Z I quote from ACE's website: "The Poetry Book Society is a discount poetry book club and membership organisation …" How drab that sounds, though it's perfectly true, as far as it goes. What the Poetry Book Society means to poets 2011-04-05T08:56:01Z My wife and I, along with a few others, were dragged into a small, drab, airless room. “It’s like looking in a mirror — a pretty funny mirror”: I was Bill Murray’s stand-in 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The opera opens in the drab kitchen of Hansel and Gretel’s home, with an idle stove and a cupboard that’s empty — except for a rare, and tempting, pitcher of milk on top. Review: The Met’s Holiday ‘Hansel’ Is Surreal (and Timely) 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z The boxy, drab exterior, set a few steps up and back from the street wall, looks almost belligerently banal. The Housing Situation Is Dire. But Progress Is Still Possible. 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Eilish’s songs are actually miniature sonic fun houses, anything but drab or monotonous, with playful melodies, meticulously varied instrumentation and a theatrical spectrum of attitudes, from taunting to suicidal. Pop Music in 2019: An Escape From Isolation? 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z There are waves of brilliantly orchestrated anxiety and confusion but also long stretches of drab, hackneyed exposition that flatten the atmosphere. | 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo': ?The Girl With Dragon Tattoo? ? Movie Review 2011-12-19T18:19:04Z The bright young women of the 1970s, dreaming of Studio 54’s disco ecstasy, had no time for the Barbizon’s drab single rooms and curfews which, by now, seemed horribly dated. Waking up to New York: secrets of the world's most famous women-only hotel 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z But one thing is certain, Ms. Borda said as she surveyed the current interior: It won’t be this drab, cheerless brown. After Years of False Starts, Geffen Hall Is Being Rebuilt. Really. 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z A fur-lined sleeveless Army parka in olive drab was $2,300. Critical Shopper: Where the Well Heeled Dress Down 2010-10-19T22:32:00Z Lincoln Center shoved Avery Fisher to the back of the line for renovations and allowed the drab hall to deteriorate further while the rest of the campus was redone. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z It is set in a drab municipal hall, and its choreography is limited to a palette of shuffling dance steps and small gestures. Kontakthof | Dance review 2010-04-02T20:30:00Z Dior Homme used a lot of olive drab — for capes and coats that zipped up the back, for trousers, suits, ponchos, matching caps. On the Runway Blog: Back to the Hood for Men at the Paris Shows 2012-01-21T23:35:45Z From where I’ve been sitting so far this year, though, I’m looking at a pretty drab forest. Did American Idol Trade More Talent for Less Excitement? 2012-03-29T13:24:47Z The rest of the comedy—except for some slapstick from Will Ferrell—was similarly drab. The 2018 Emmys: The Blah Place 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Set in the undefined future, it envisions a reality that resembles our own, with the same drab institutions and obligations, the same confusing relationships and feelings. ‘Belle’ Review: Soaring and Singing Over the Online Rainbow 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Her room is small and drab, its institutional dinginess matched by the putty-looking cinematography and relieved only by a few knickknacks and the indifferent blue of cut hydrangeas. ‘Lilting,’ About a Divide Between Bereaved Strangers 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z And colors that changed from the drab beige of a clothes moth to the fantastic peach, orange and teal blues of rare species? Special Report: Fashion: When Youth Is the Holy Grail 2011-02-21T18:27:40Z They understood that movie audiences were also voters, and they asked themselves: Who would people be more likely to listen to: drab politicians or glamorous stars? Hollywood, right-wing powerhouse 2011-08-31T19:30:00Z But that's small reward for sitting through a drab, strident enterprise that doesn't deserve the name James Cameron — or the word "movie." Sanctum Review: A Soggy, James Cameron-less misadventure 2011-02-03T17:35:00Z Kabul's cinemas show Pakistani films in Pashto, American action films and Bollywood to rowdy, largely unemployed crowds in pursuit of any distraction from their drab surroundings. Is it curtains for Afghanistan's fading silver screen? 2012-05-17T06:17:29Z Enjoy these credits because they offer some of the more arresting, inventive images in this visually cluttered yet often disappointingly drab movie. Review: In ‘Ghost in the Shell,’ a Cyborg With Soul 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Within the production, the desire to please Spears has sometimes meant seizing on the dribs and drabs of information that they get from representatives of a reclusive megastar. A Britney Spears Jukebox Musical Hopes For #SeeBritney Energy 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Do I select Papers, Please, the amusingly drab, playfully tedious computer game that put me in the role of a border agent in a fictional Eastern European police state? ArtsBeat: Game Theory: The Best of 2013 2013-12-31T13:01:14Z It takes a while to really flow, though, even with Wallace amiably playing a feeble, aged Armstrong who slowly changes in his drab dressing room and gulps oxygen from a tank between anecdotes. Louis Armstrong play ‘Satchmo’ blasts into hot racial turf at Atlas in D.C. 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Shadyside is drab and dejected, full of cynical kids who work hard and play harder. ‘Fear Street’ Trilogy Review: Carnage and Close Calls 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z |
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