| 单词 | drabness |
| 例句 | She was never overcome by drabness or squalor. Garth Williams, Illustrator of American Childhood 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The key to “Everything” is that the proliferating timelines and possibilities, though full of danger and silliness, don’t so much represent an alternative to reality’s drabness as an extension of its complexity. ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Review: It’s Messy, and Glorious 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Those shows, with rare exceptions, were drabness incarnate. 'Drabness incarnate!' Are we finally suffering from Marvel fatigue? 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Worse, his life story remained steeped in drabness despite its early beginnings in tragedy at his parents’ home in Amsterdam. Contemporary Art Works of Often Subtle Beauty 2010-10-08T15:11:00Z Surrounded by industrial drabness, the dance halls of Lancashire pulse with light and movement. Review: ‘Northern Soul’ Shows ’70s England Through a Music Lens 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Everyone else is in somber grey and white, devoting themselves to drabness as much as the cause. Downton Abbey Watch: House of Despair 2012-01-30T13:30:25Z And the danger is even greater in “A House Among the Trees,” which gives up a lot of white space to that caretaker, although she never shakes off the drabness of her conception. In Julia Glass’s new novel, a famous children’s author leaves a mess in his wake 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Bulgaria’s drabness is a neutral palate against which this book’s sexual and intellectual heat flicker. Review: ‘What Belongs to You,’ a Story of Desire and Outcomes 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z It's at the literary end of comics you sense a narrowing of the range, the main strand being a sort of studied Pekarian drabness. When it comes to comics, you just can't beat a drunken, violent aardvark 2010-07-18T21:31:00Z Argentina’s Riachuelo River, which originates some sixty kilometres west of Buenos Aires and snakes around the city’s southern edge, is legendary for its drabness. Life Along a Poisoned River 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z In the resulting mixed splendor and drabness of his attire, Harry becomes a walking contradiction and the perfect embodiment of the spirit of this engaging play. Theater Review | 'The Temperamentals': The Churning Insides of a Quiet Revolution 2010-03-01T06:03:00Z The prodigious tats on Faux Molesley make me want to rescue his PBS doppelgänger from the prison of plot drabness that has him slathering on black hair dye in a misguided lunge at youth. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Do We Really Want Anything to Change? 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z “In these times that follow the war, people are reading fiction to ‘get away’ from the drabness of everyday existence,” said Sir Ernest. Sex Sells. It’s True Now and It Was True 100 Years Ago. 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Set in the everyday drabness of Bucharest or other, even less glamorous Romanian cities, they turn the grievances, frustrations and hopes of ordinary people into deadpan philosophical case studies. ‘The Whistlers’ Review: From Bucharest With Ambivalence 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z From November to late March, I hunker down and wait – for something to start, for the drabness to pass, for the first glints of green to rescue me. Laura Barton: ‘The last time I went home for Christmas was five years ago. I was a terrible guest’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z It used color as a weapon against hippie drabness. Growing Up Gay to a Glam Rock Soundtrack 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Other news organizations may have produced broader, more polished reports about the conflict, but Mr. Ostrovsky communicated the tension and also the humdrum drabness of life there. Vice, the News Entity, Grows on HBO and Online 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z She decided to concentrate on Chongjin because it is likely to be more representative than Pyongyang, where, for all its drabness and endless power shortages, nobody is starving. Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z There's a drabness to a lot of respectable British culture that American artists just are not capable of. Why middlebrow Americana will always beat 'good' British art 2010-07-06T10:19:00Z But there's a pervading drabness that they struggle to shake, most noticeably when These Days Are Mine strains for stadium-rock uplift. I Am Kloot: Let it All in – review 2013-01-20T00:05:52Z Through toughness and clever bluffing, she removes him from the drabness and anti-Semitism of Vilna to a life of comfort in Nice, always, always reminding him that his mission is to become a great writer. ‘Promise at Dawn’ Review: An Extraordinary Life, Thanks to Mom 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z It’s just the real thing, chilling in its drabness. In Berlin, it’s a whole new city, but the Wall’s traces remain So did Jason Cowley, the editor of the New Statesman, who wrote an essay for the program entitled “The Extraordinary Eighties,” which celebrates that decade’s “extraordinary growth and optimism” after the drabness of the 1970s. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: A 'Much Ado' With Dr. Who 2011-07-14T18:42:41Z So does the juxtaposition of the rhythms of agricultural labor and beauty of the Northwestern landscape with the standardized drabness of parking lots and big-box stores. ‘Night Moves’ Tracks Three Eco-Terrorists in Oregon 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z For Broodthaers, Brussels’s drabness and smallness was part of its artistic appeal. Marcel Broodthaers’s Brussels, and Mine 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Sure, "The Original Amateur Hour," didn’t have "Idol’s" fancy sets or phony behind-the-scenes drama, or sophisticated bands, or prompted audiences, but it made up for its drabness because it was real. 2010-01-12T01:20:00Z There was the drabness, and the trauma of the war, of Stalinism, which was also a big trauma, but there was a kind of vivacity, and it seeps through in “Ida” a bit. Have Photo Albums, Will Travel 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Charlotte, my landlady was a woman of unbearable drabness, with whom I would not have stayed but for her 12-year old daughter, Dolores. Digested classics: the 20th century's greatest novels 2010-10-13T06:59:00Z Instead, brown, gray, beige and white are dominant, an achromatic palette whose gloomy drabness is only relieved by the surprisingly wide variety of neutrals the artist employs. Review: A Getty show of Giacomo Ceruti's 18th-century paintings reveals much about our modern wealth gap 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z “With her higher-than-high hemlines, colorful tights and masculine tailored trousers, she helped wipe out British postwar drabness and create a bold new attitude to dressing.” Mary Quant, British designer who dressed the swinging ’60s, dies at 93 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z To stay sane, she releases her pent-up frustration at her gigs, where her furious guitar playing, powerful vocals and introspective songwriting torch the everyday drabness of her life with a Dionysian flame. Review: 'The Lonely Few,' a Geffen musical about lesbian rockers in love, is full of old-fashioned heart 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z For a person raised in reliable meteorological drabness, this was a shock. Heated Car Seats Are an Antidote to Our Grief 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Or so we have been taught: that lushness equals splendor, that when a blossom wilts and fails, the plant that bore it is finished, returned to drabness, spent of purpose. The Barren Charms of a Winter Garden 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Unexpected Palette Neon stripes are tamed with mustard trim, a combo that balances wildness with drabness. This Exuberant Cardigan is the Ideal Antidote to Office Air Conditioning 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z But soon enough, drabness and dull plot mechanics set in, as the film’s — what else? — ragtag team of rule-breakers rushes to hit yet another preordained mark. Review | The young Han Solo movie is here. And let’s just say a robot is the best part. 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z He urged people to resist this impulse and remember "when non-conformity and diversity leave, drabness and decay remain". Veteran criticised for 'pink shoes' photo 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z It remains, for many, the filmmaker’s greatest achievement, a picture in which the bureaucratic drabness of the setting heightens rather than diminishes the otherworldly profundity of its conceit. From Japan's Hirokazu Kore-eda, a transcendent cinema grounded in everyday 'Life' 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Could, say, Milton Keynes—a town built in the south of England in the 1960s, known mostly for its drabness—start a festival where culture fans from around the world might spend six days? The Salzburg Festival is a boon to the local economy 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z In 2006’s Niagara, he cast his gaze on the Falls, portraying a site of “spectacular suicides and affordable honeymoons” where the dream of romance is offset by a soul-sapping drabness and vulgarity. Loners, preachers, sex workers and sinners: how Alec Soth captured the real America 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z What we were really trying to convey was the drabness, the rigidity, the sense of enclosure. Forget Fidel Castro’s policies. What matters is that he was a dictator | Zoe Williams 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z “From motives inscrutable to his friends, the author of Living chooses to publish his work under a pseudonym of peculiar drabness,” he wrote. The Novelist of Human Unknowability 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z I like its lightness and I like its drabness. STM's Trestle backpack is brilliantly ugly 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Mallarmé took a certain pride in the drabness of his lineage, describing himself as the scion of an “uninterrupted series of functionaries in the Administration and the Registry.” The Terrifying Beauty of Mallarmé 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z They are impatient with drabness and proud to assert their national identity—not to say their buying power. China’s Homegrown High-Fashion Designer 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Witness the fact that mayoral candidates Zac Goldsmith and Sadiq Khan both sport similarly silver quiffs and it’s clear that grey hair no longer semaphores drabness within the political realm. Grey and proud: the hairstyle trend where millennials and middle-aged men meet 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z "He was brought out of the colour and excitement of India, which he clearly loved, to the drabness of Southsea and foster parents who treated him badly," says Kipling biographer Andrew Lycett. Solving the mystery of Rudyard Kipling’s son - BBC News 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z The comedy is enriched by satire on the uniform drabness of Soviet apartment blocks in the Brezhnev era. Eldar Ryazanov Soviet comedy film giant dies - BBC News 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z It’s like driving from the Meadowlands to Connecticut without a pit stop in the city, all drabness without any of the loud noises. Uh oh. Gruden says the Redskins don’t have a quarterback controversy. 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z That same drabness pervades much of the movie. Review: Fantastic Four desperately doesn't want to be a superhero movie 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The Communist drabness of those days, it seems, fostered in Guo Pei a desire for beauty. Guo Pei: Pop star Rihanna's fashion designer of choice - BBC News 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z He left the church and hurried through the streets, taking some comfort in their enduring drabness, and stationed himself by the school’s main entrance. “The Republic of Bad Taste” 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z The view, especially with the angelic Athenian light, was better than the space, which was bereft of personal effects and ached with the drabness of ’70s-era bureaucracy. A Finance Minister Fit for a Greek Tragedy? 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Style-wise, these new communities are hardly characterized by the drabness of senior housing of yesteryear. Riding high after 55 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Teller does manage to bring some quirky, affable charm to the role, but there’s a drabness about the character that Teller never overcomes. Review: Fantastic Four desperately doesn't want to be a superhero movie 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Away days, or away half-days, or brainstorming sessions enable managers to feel that in some way they are compensating for that drabness, that they are doing the right thing. The difficult art of a good brainstorm 2014-02-04T23:54:26Z How do you freshen up something whose very trademark is drabness? Stasi Hunt Winds Through Concrete Maze to Checkpoint Charlie 2012-01-23T07:31:55Z The Giants, like him, are a bunch of underestimated gray shirts who beneath their drabness bulge with heavily muscled ambition. Has Eli Manning arrived as an elite NFL quarterback? 2012-01-19T19:04:00Z Conversely, the failure to polish off the visitors was connected to the drabness of Didier Drogba, who was affected by malaria in the autumn and is the same age as the midfielder. Chelsea's seeping staleness of mind cries out for fresh approach 2011-02-22T08:00:08Z Despite Sunday's drabness this could yet be an engrossing season. Arsenal's flair and fragility make them the greatest fun to watch 2011-01-17T21:45:52Z I have a deep conviction that brainstorming is overestimated because office organisations are troubled by the seeming drabness of the workplaces in which so many people spend so much of their lives. The difficult art of a good brainstorm 2014-02-04T23:54:26Z A green expanse of 2,000 acres of meticulously groomed vines further reinforces the sense of removed privilege, an oasis in a vast expanse of flat, buff-brown drabness. Two Worlds of Argentine Wines 2010-03-13T02:29:00Z It was evidently a costume play, and the sight of doublets, rapiers and helmets was a pleasant thing after the drabness of the threshold. The Gay Adventure A Romance Michael enjoyed Mr. Neech's eccentricities after the drabness of the Special. Sinister Street, vol. 1 In marked contrast with the sorry drabness of that last witness was the swagger of the next, who came twirling his moustache with the gusto of pure bravado. The Tempering Thus the splendid dress of their chieftain this morning, in contrast to the drabness of the ordinary tribal dress. Big Stupe Her body gleamed pinkly, in contrast to the pallid drabness of the half-dead automatons, and she held her head proudly erect. Isle of the Undead Neither dress nor ceremony had yet been curtailed by the drabness of Democracy. Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria The loneliness and drabness of working away from people are fatal to his best effort. How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types He sensed the wondering stares of the stick men, wide-eyed in apprehension, suspended from the drabness of their own lives for the moment by the stark visitation of tragedy in his. Life Sentence We know that it is our sacred mission to save the world from the drabness of modern democracy. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 Unaccustomed to restraint, we were introduced into an atmosphere of drabness and restraint, best typified, perhaps, by the change from our tender, springy country turf, to the dry, blistered planks of Mrs. Handsomebody's back yard. Explorers of the Dawn In the air was a drone of drab creatures being happy in their drabness, rejoicing in the waste, thoughtless of the future. Stubble Here is none of the elegance and indolence of Athens, or of the ingenuity and cleverness of Constantinople, but a steadiness and drabness of a peasant clumsiness mark the new Sofia. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 But perhaps its very drabness and remoteness from the world of the footlights proved a welcome relief. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Even in Scotland, he takes us by preference to some lost mansion standing in grotesque contrast to the "great drabness of prosperity which overspreads the world." Old and New Masters So began a merry interlude in the drabness of the Handsomebody regime. Explorers of the Dawn There was time to see the drabness of his boarding place, so he changed it. Stubble And the many fountains with water-spouting nymphs and Neptunes kill the drabness of business, and freshen modern civilization so that it ceases to know itself as such. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Amid the immobility of the indifferent attendants, and in the dampness and drabness of a London day, this Italian boy radiated light. The Inferno This one of his grandfathers used to love wine, women, cards and everything else that helped to modify life's general drabness. The Soul of a Child She was discountenanced by her inherent drabness: beaten by the limits of her capacity. The Precipice It is probably nature's way of anaesthetizing him from the pain of unlimited drabness. Stubble She was tired of the drabness and clutter of crowded foregrounds. The Blood Red Dawn Here and there, breaking the monotony of dark house-fronts, were little isolated shops, which gave a touch of colour to the drabness. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919 The rays of the setting sun brought out the drabness of her. Dust Could this drabness of life keep up forever, then? Main Street I understand now how your youth and spirits Fought back the drabness of the village, And wonder not you spent the afternoons With such bright company as Eugenia Turner— And I forgive you hunger, loneliness. Toward the Gulf The patched and senile drabness of the bedroom made an environment that emphasized Sophia's flashing youth. The Old Wives' Tale Bob's society proved in some ways a welcome change from the sordid drabness of her own relatives, for he was colorful, versatile, and nearly always good-humored. The Auction Block There was a weary sort of patience, a disillusioned concession to the drabness of married life. Sisters Only we, slaves of respectability and of an inordinate appetite for order, suffered such monotony and drabness to rule. Painted Windows |
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