| 单词 | dreary |
| 例句 | “I lit out on a dark and dreary night....” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z In the dimness of its dreary day few things even in that land of vigilance could have espied them, save from close at hand. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A dreary place: but it seemed a charming and cheerful garden after the close Forest. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Beyond was darkness and a dreary waste of land and sea. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He left the college dormitory for a dreary furnished room where he could decorate another dream which had only now come into being. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a cold, rainy day, as dreary as you can imagine. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The women found the hotel rather dreary, especially at night, but the presence of its handsome and clearly wealthy owner helped dispel some of its bleakness. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z How dreary it must be for her, working here day after day. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Full disclosure: If you knew how scared I was, if you saw me shaking right now, white as no cloud that ever flies over Jankburg’s dreary hills, you’d know I didn’t want to let on. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z What had once been his bedroom was transformed from a smelly, dreary man cave into a simple, neatly organized room. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Then Wang Lung sat there alone in his room by his table and he felt dreary and alone, and he muttered to himself, “Well, and I have no peace anywhere in my house.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes I would go to Riverside Drive and look out blindly over the dreary Hudson River. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Ophie could not imagine such a vibrant spirit wanting to remain in such a dreary old house otherwise. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z On dreary summer days, they would stay inside. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I lodged in a dreary overpriced inn crouching in the lee of the Towers. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The months subsequent were an endless dreary battle of paperwork, full of stalemates, fought in trenches. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z This is the first Saturday in months that hasn’t been tiresome, dreary and boring. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I turn to meet his eyes, then sigh and shift my attention back to the miserable late-autumn landscape on the other side of the windshield—all cold and dreary and bereft of life. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z I could drift along like this, in some dreary proletarian idyll, except for two things. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He smiled, and felt then that some part of the dreary afternoon of the dreary Sunday had been saved. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z They packed up the tent next morning and moved on through a dreary shower of rain. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The first part of their journey was hard and dreary, and Frodo remembered little of it, save the wind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Sundays were dreary days in that wintry season. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The Hometown Heroes’ bookmobile ride from Olympia Village to the Lemoncello Library the following morning was as dreary as the weather. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “Don’t use my bible to forward your dreary agenda.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Yes, last time. When we had to go and see that dreary man with the Bibles.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z My brother’s eyes roved to the shed’s doorway and the dreary night darkening the field beyond. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z That began my emergence as a new and dreary person. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The next day, I woke to a wet and dreary morning. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z So nice to give a maid a copy of Walden for Christmas rather than that dreary envelope, and to be able to say so to her friends. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Which is why it’s so bright for a dreary November afternoon. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z There was a mere settlement, far more lonely and dreary than Saybrook. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “The humans are commonly most dreary. Say we may keep him, Fangor.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Just as there was no war in his philosophy, there was also no dreary weather. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Rain splashed from a moiling sky and the day was dreary and cold. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z So far the exposition’s publicity office had given the press a detailed list of monumental but dreary statistics. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After Emily Sue left, I went upstairs and hung my dreary new suit in my closet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Consider: Is it Coach Reed or you who is sitting in this somewhat dreary room that smells of vinegar on a beautiful October afternoon?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Turner knew from the map there were another seven miles, and once they were on the move again, they were the hardest, the dreariest they had walked that day. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The part of Germany I was in was bleak, flat, and dreary. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Occasional lampposts opened up dreary patches of light. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z But what I gather from what Mother writes me now is that she works night and day wearing a horrid white coat in some dreary big-deal place in Atlanta where they study disease organisms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z On dreary summer evenings, Roz and Brightbill would curl up together, just the two of them, and listen to the rain pattering on the roof of the Nest. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Her voice sank into a dreary drone of despond. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z In the wan, dreary afternoons Gogol goes running. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Er—Hazel,” said Hawkbit, looking past him into the face of the dreary black cliff. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the dream of each child within those dreary walls that someday a real family would come and claim him. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He paints as spring comes to the South of France, after many dreary winter days, inside and out. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “But there are many kinds of trees ... We must save our birds, too. Can anyone imagine anything so cheerless and dreary as a springtime without a robin’s song?” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “The thought of a school without boys, who had been to me such a stimulus both in study and play, seemed to my imagination dreary and profitless,” Elizabeth later wrote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z There was my mom, my staunchest support, whose vigilance had saved me from languishing in a dreary second-grade classroom. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We watch as the scene on TV changes from the happy couple in the wildflower meadows and sunshine to the dark, dreary cellars in the castle’s dungeons. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z And so dreary, I think, taking in all the gray huddled-up old men disguised as trees. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Instead of the courtroom I had envisioned, we were crammed into a dreary conference room in a court reporter’s office. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The room was an old, damp lecture hall buried in the innards of the college; it resembled a dreary accountant’s chamber in a Dickens novel. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Compton relayed Lawrence’s words to Bush the next day, repeating Ernest’s dreary assessment of Briggs as “slow, conservative, methodical, and accustomed to operate at peacetime government bureau tempo.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And although the characters were different in each picture, there was a dreary similarity about their postures. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Here in New England books contained only a dreary collection of sermons, or at most some pious religious poetry. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “Not that I think your father is dreary;” Mrs. Hurd said quickly: “It’s just that I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping the Sabbath here at home.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I remember standing at an end window of our Quonset hut for a very long time, looking oid at the slanting, dreary rain, my trigger finger itching imperceptibly, if at all. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The building is so dreary and sterile that it almost looks like a prison. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Then she would never have to face the dreary politics of court life; she could be on a horse all day, going to places she had never been before. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z During the dreary days in which she had heard nothing from her husband, the name Chickamauga had held desolation and despair for Nancy. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z She lost her dreary air, her face became animated, the bloom of youth came back to her. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a dreary Friday, the rain beat down on the tin roof of the hooch all morning, and we were all down. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z 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 They covered the secretary’s table, the reading desk, the stools—dreary papers of government, still bravely persevered in—of law, still to be codified—of commissariat and of armament and of orders for the day. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Good Friday was forlorn, heavy and dreary with the death of God’s son and the accompanying sense of utter hopelessness. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe we could go out and come in again,” said one of the men in a dreary voice. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The moans of agony amongst the clank of chains made a chorus as familiar as the dreary work songs they sang all day. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A man of few words, Mendel was even more concise in his writing: he had distilled nearly a decade’s work into forty-four spectacularly dreary pages. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z ‘That’ll be a lot more fun than fiddling around with figures. I hate figures. Figures are probably the dreariest things on this earth.’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Heaps of things have happened, but I often think I’m boring you with my dreary chitchat and that you’d just as soon have fewer letters. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The wind of the world blew now from the West, and the great clouds were lifted high, floating away eastward; but still only a grey light came to the dreary fields of Gorgoroth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Thus they started across the fields, a dreary small procession moving so slowly that it seemed they would never be to the wall of the town. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Only a sliver of sunlight cracked through the closed drapes, making the room feel dreary. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z This was almost more than Wilbur could stand: on this dreary, rainy day to see his breakfast being eaten by somebody else. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The meeting came to an end in a dreary silence and a half-hearted silflay. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z That even in escape, dreary days lay ahead. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The voice seemed far away and immeasurably dreary, sometimes high in the air and thin, sometimes like a low moan from the ground. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Turner wondered if his hair would have to be white before he didn’t have to put up with dreary Sundays. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Under the lifting skirts of the dreary canopy dim light leaked into Mordor like pale morning through the grimed window of a prison. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z 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 The views are dreary: a bare brown hill, a chain-link fence, searchlights stacked on a pole. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The moment they touched them, the whole of that dreary world vanished from their eyes. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z It’s getting to be a bore, and it’s all I can do to keep from turning into a dreary old crone myself! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Mostly because of Pop, my father’s life has been pretty dreary. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he put down the letter, went over to the dreary window, and began humming a tune called Brume, brume on hil, whose words have been lost to us in the wave of time. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It poured every day, the rain coming down in long, dreary sheets that made Luke feel worse as he watched from the attic vents. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The first time I visited Nana at the nursing home I expected to find her alone in a dreary room, sitting in her own feces while the orderlies ignored or berated her. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z What a consternation of soul was mine that dreary afternoon! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z They all had a listless and dreary air of waiting somebody’s pleasure, and the most talkative of the ladies had to speak quite rigidly to repress a yawn. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The thick glass windowpanes are covered by dreary dark brown curtains. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z How could they make these places so dark and dreary? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It’s dreary because of a late-night storm, but we can ride with the windows down. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I was in disbelief that I’d just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z That Sunday turned out to be the dreariest one on record. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Already the dreary wallpaper on the lower floors was gone, and Odile was busy making curtains appropriate for a house large enough to have a bathroom. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z They lived through many dreary days of waiting. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z And the sub made the entire day so dreary and dull that Emma had started looking for and counting weird things about the day just to keep herself awake. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It was dreary and wearisome: Cold clammy winter still held sway in this forsaken country. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She told me my father had lured her away from “a miserable dreary hell” with sweet music and sweeter words. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There is a dreary chain of causality: The Germans were working on the bomb at the beginning of World War II; so the Americans had to make one first. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw dreary wigs, pots of rouge, empty flasks, and an unruly collection of impossible objects scattered everywhere. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon, after another dreary Sunday, he walked home from Mrs. Cobb’s with the sea breeze determined to shove him to Malaga Island. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The bell rang at that point, and they had to line up in their classes and go in for the long, dreary afternoon. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It was a dreary afternoon that followed a dreary and silent dinner. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It was a dreary December without the abundance of snow that Lyddie yearned for. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It was a dreary prospect but a means of destroying them, at least in Harlem. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Cheryl Moody is a public school girl who works in a dreary mall job to earn money for college. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z When we woke in the morning, the rain had stopped, though the world was still insipid and dreary, and water was dripping from the trees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The vlei people moved around him as they went about their dreary work. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I stay in bed, not wanting to get up and face the dreary day. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Only a sliver of sunlight cracked through the closed drapes, making the room feel dreary. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z With dreary obedience the choir raised their hands. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “I thought you were going to be fun. If you’re just going to be tacky and dreary, then you’d better leave.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I think Jessica is too beautiful to be working at a dreary clinic with rubber balls and rusty gym equipment. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z All fall he had been looking forward to winter break, and to spending time with Joyce somewhere other than in the dreary student cafeteria. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The snow melted around the school as February arrived, to be replaced by cold, dreary wetness. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I was too cold and too sleepy to be keenly observant, and not sleepy enough to betray my trust so altogether I had a dreary, miserable time. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Even with the overhead fluorescent lights the room felt dreary. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The handwriting throughout was shaky and hurried, but the style resembled her husband’s and the melancholy, self-pitying tone was familiar, although more dreary than usual. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “So one day I up and decided I wouldn’t go anymore. Imagine that, Turner III. After all, why should Sundays be so dreary?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z But now I’m sitting here, on the road to rainy, dreary Port Angeles. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Our kitchen smelled incredible, and the sight of the colorful berry and sugar combo perkily bubbling in a nearby pan lent cheer to an otherwise dreary midwinter weekend. Sassenachs, this "Outlander" ice cream is worth your time . . . and a few hours of effort 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Not far ahead were dreary hills, rising higher and higher, dark with trees. Tolkien Day: how well do you know the lands of Lord of the Rings? 2013-03-25T14:53:46Z The outcome was predictable—the usual dreary disaster. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z She is also intent on marrying dreary Lord Fawn or, maybe, as the mood suits her, the fly-by-night Lord George de Bruce Carruthers or Frank Greystock, who is engaged to Lucy. Review | The words of Martin Luther King Jr. as you’ve never heard them before 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z It was a dreary space with dated cabinets and dark brown appliances. 2010-02-17T18:12:00Z Unlike other similar palaces — the poetic pink sandstone Jaipur House, say, now the National Gallery of Modern Art — Bikaner House met a drearier fate as government offices and a bus depot. An Airy Store in a New Delhi Palace 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Many of her plays, including the Pulitzer Prize finalists “Becky Shaw” and “Rapture, Blister, Burn,” feature heroines trying to escape the social immobility that locks them into dreary lives. Review: Money-Hungry Women Scheme for a Better Life in ‘Can You Forgive Her?’ 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z It certainly explains the dreary heritage fare to be found on TV. Sundance 2011: fewer stars, more ideas 2011-01-30T00:06:59Z This dreary set-up may not appeal to readers any more than it appeals to David, but if you persist as he does, you’ll find surprising richness here. ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’: A powerful elegy for lost love and lost empire 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z The main complaint seems to be that without the show's main gimmick – the blind auditions – we're basically left with a sort of dreary, borderline inept am-dram recital of The X Factor live shows. Has The Voice lost its charm? 2012-05-18T10:56:43Z The mess of the season, with its dreary tone, pretentious dialogue and a plot twistier than the poses at an advanced yoga convention, proved that lightning can’t always strike twice. Rip it up and start again: why so many shows press reset for their second season 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z The Voice: dreary, borderline inept am-dram recital of The X Factor live shows. Has The Voice lost its charm? 2012-05-18T10:56:43Z The action takes viewers from the dreary landscape of postwar East Berlin to the sun-drenched sights of Rome and the Italian coast. Tour the Stylish ’60s Sets of The Man from U.N.C.L.E 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z When the story is being allegorical, it can be dreary and more than a little condescending. Review: The Graying of Samuel L. Jackson 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Ms. Rodriguez has the drearier role — it’s obvious that the show was written by three guys, since only the female characters are accessorized with flaws — but her singing is ardent and assured. Theater Review: ‘First Date,’ a Musical, Opens on Broadway 2013-08-09T02:00:09Z And acting is a dreary burden to him for the same reason: he is "simply uninterested in the work". The Richard Burton Diaries edited by Chris Williams – review 2012-11-29T08:00:03Z The backbiting — and the sub rosa efforts to thwart their own president — led to constant personnel turnover, a dreary parade of firings, resignations and defenestrations. A Sober Look at the ‘Cartoonishly Chaotic’ Trump White House 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Clearly, Amazon intends to milk this premise a bit longer, but the first round is so dreary that it’s hard to imagine anyone clamoring for more. Review: ‘Z,’ Hardly the Last Word on the Fitzgeralds 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Now 20th Century Fox has taken up the franchise with largely dreary results. | 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader': Enchanted Realm, Aquatic View 2010-12-10T05:23:00Z Meade and the others had to operate without any assistance from the dreary, cheap-looking new production by director Anne Bogart. New roles for Racette and Meade at DC Opera 2013-03-18T16:33:09Z Politicized religion is the sheet anchor of the dreary forty-year-old culture wars. GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party 2012-08-05T16:00:00Z Oh sure, it grabs all the fun intergalactic action of the cartoon and transplants it to dreary old mid-80s US. From Trolls to Transformers: toy films – ranked! 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z In a cinematic landscape where the anxiety of surveillance has been sufficiently explored — with movies like “The Conversation,” “Enemy of the State” and “Kimi” — this simplistically dreary offering doesn’t crack a new code. ‘Unlocked’ Review: A Surveillance Thriller Best Left Offline 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Set designer Christine Jones has got dreary used-car lot down, including the sad plastic fringe. Review: 'Hands on a Hardbody' tuneful, sweet ode 2013-03-22T00:10:15Z This is probably because I made the egregious error of starting with Daniel Deronda, her last novel and, by some measure, her dreariest. Hadley Freeman's 10 awesome women: from Katharine Hepburn to Miss Piggy 2013-04-22T15:38:00Z On a dreary Wednesday morning, the sky low and bruised, Moore and I met to take a walking tour of the Boroughs, the traditionally working-class area of Northampton where he grew up. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z For her, the rushed encounters in his office are part of a dreary workplace routine, evidence of an ongoing malaise. ‘Empire of Light’ Review: They Found It at the Movies 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z On a dreary day in 1910, the Devil’s daughter binds her horns to hide them and sets sail for the city in a boat made from a coffin. A Gothic Novel Haunted by Nine Lives Over Nine Decades 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z That kind of talk could bring out the heedless rebel in any kid, particularly one who is already feeling itchy at the lack of prospects in his dreary suburban burg. | 'American Idiot': A Musical Inspired by a Green Day Album Opens 2010-04-21T03:16:00Z The contrast between gorgeous shots of green mountaintops and black earth exploding into fountains of toxic waste should serve, unlike Al Gore's dreary lecture, "An Inconvenient Truth," as a dramatic call to action. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-06-01T17:39:05Z But now, with the cold, dreary weather — not to mention blizzards — dragging on, you find yourself craving a hit of warmth and sunshine. Last-Minute Winter Getaways 2010-02-27T06:55:00Z To this shy, unathletic boy, drawing was a way of earning the grudging respect of schoolmates; more important, comics provided him with an escape from his dreary everyday reality at home. Books of The Times: ?Backing Into Forward?: Jules Feiffer?s Ink-Stained Memoir 2010-03-17T22:47:00Z Once you taste it, you may never again settle for a dreary pumpkin tart. Thanks, Patti Labelle: Sweet potato pie will always beat pumpkin in my household 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z The British filmgoer is perpetually bombarded with dreary mediocre fare, or out-and-out dross – and yet, mysteriously, some really fascinating Cannes films, genuinely brilliant or bizarre, never make it over the Channel. The Cannes film festival in my head 2010-05-11T09:53:00Z It all leads Adam to the conclusion that one glorious week on Death might be better than a dreary life of failure and drudgery. The Hit by Melvin Burgess – review 2013-04-17T10:24:26Z However, the current anguish undoubtedly felt by Europe's youth doesn't always translate into such dreary terms. France's 'lost generation' of jobless youth finds film portrait in Juliette 2013-07-20T23:06:06Z What with the closing notice already posted for Mr. Mamet’s dreary new play “The Anarchist,” which opened last week, this season has not been kind to one of America’s greatest living playwrights. Theater Review: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ by David Mamet, With Al Pacino 2012-12-09T03:00:00Z Designed by David Zinn, this consists primarily of a cavernous bus terminal painted a blue that can look alternately dreary or cheery. Theater Review: ‘Violet,’ Starring Sutton Foster, Opens at Roundabout 2014-04-21T02:00:12Z Despite the subtitle, “Looking Out, Looking In,” the effect is entirely the latter, it’s all looking in, and the in we are scrutinizing is strangely dreary and defeated. Andrew Wyeth leaves viewers on the outside looking in His ability to capture alienation, as well as dreary/ brutal Northern English atmosphere works, in parts of “Autobiography,” works as well as it does in his songs. Morrissey’s writing a novel: Will “List of the Lost” be a morose delight or a shrill garbage fire? 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z But they don’t address the more practical and dreary preoccupations that can trigger many of us day to day, such as bills and arguments and loneliness and excessive boozing, for example. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z On a dreary afternoon in late November, inside a cavernous former shipworks at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Michael Zaragoza was busy dipping shredded burlap sacks into buckets of gritty plaster. Designing Luxury Condos, and Operas, Too 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z But something more “global” appears to be at work, and in any case he is distracted from his dreary rounds of diagnosis-seeking when a more urgent tragedy befalls the family. | 'Sons of the Prophet': ?Sons of the Prophet? at Laura Pels Theater - Review 2011-10-21T02:14:08Z After his father dies, Arjan Banga, a graphic designer in London, returns to the dreary West Midlands to help run the family convenience store. Following a Punjabi Indian Family, a Missing Distinguished Novelist and More 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, compared with those earlier works — among them true glories of opera history — “Antony and Cleopatra” is a dreary disappointment. Review: In ‘Antony and Cleopatra,’ John Adams Goes Conventional 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z After Harry has a fight with his wife and mother-in-law on returning home still drunk, the three then head off for an impulsive break in London – of all the dreary and unpromising places. Husbands – review 2012-09-27T21:50:01Z Moorehead writes engagingly about domestic matters, the tension inherent in the underground resistance and even the dreary monotony of life in confino on the remote penal islands. Anti-Fascism With a Human Face 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z What a dreary, third-rate attitude; what a great way to nurture intellectual laziness. Hold that tweet! Artists should stick to the day job 2012-05-23T14:25:04Z Brooke is on the piano for the beginning, doing the most she can with another dreary, boring song. 'American Idol' results night recap: Say goodbye to Andrew, Katie 2010-04-15T15:46:00Z In the Omaha timeline of the show, he reconnects with Francesca, his benighted assistant, whose life in the aftermath of “Breaking Bad” turns out to be dreary and haunted by law enforcement. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 11 Recap: Back to the Beginning 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z I'm afraid there is no "logic" about it, and wouldn't it be dreary if there was. Planning cock-up on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth 2013-05-01T15:18:00Z Plot: In an attempt to find a way to escape her dreary life, a British teen reinvents herself as hard-partying music critic “Dolly Wilde.” These eight movie adaptations are headed our way. But first you should pick up the book. 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The rest of this 86-minute schlep, however, nestles deep into Drake’s dreariest comfort zone: a deeply aggrieved, impossibly paranoid place where nobody loves a global superstar. Review | Drake’s ‘Certified Lover Boy’ is a lonely, predictable wail from the mountaintop 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Instead it looked like a rather chaotic story with a very dreary plot. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z And some parts, such as the second half of the third movement, became downright dreary. Review | Acclaimed Los Angeles Philharmonic fails to live up to its hype 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Plagued by dreary pacing and weak plotting, “Censor” is less a mystery than a portrait of lingering trauma and flaring delusion. ‘Censor’ Review: Dirty Work 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Constance Hoffman's costumes run the full eclectic gamut of dreary modern warfare, from sweatshirt to jackboot. Billy Budd; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Idomeneo/ Queen of Spades – review 2012-06-23T23:05:37Z I had never been in this maze of hallways, linoleum floors and dreary courtyards before, yet the building was as familiar to me as any deeply embossed memory from childhood. The Teen Streets of John Hughes’s Chicago 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z As for what churns beneath its opulent surface, it’s still a rather dreary slog. Review: Divine Decadence Revisited in ‘Grand Hotel’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Taylor knew well the endless dreary tasks with which postwar domestic life and motherhood were filled. The other Elizabeth Taylor's Complete Short Stories 2012-07-06T21:55:05Z This is a dreary experience, which incidentally includes a fair bit of stereotyping about how adorably geeky and yet unthreatening south Asians are. The Internship – review 2013-07-05T09:01:03Z Wildmann shared his boyhood sketches of the camp evoking the French Pyrenees landscape and the dreary barracks. Trimpin's new work evokes images, survivors' memories of Holocaust 2012-05-15T03:02:05Z That familiarity is a problem, but the bigger problems are the dreary tastefulness of Edward Bazalgette’s direction and the thin, inconsequential nature of the mystery, which limps to a particularly unsatisfying conclusion. Review: ‘The Guilty’ Chases a Missing Child Down a Familiar Path 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z But every scene that seemed well-observed on the page felt dreary and obvious when performed, a problem I ascribe not to the actors, who are quite good, but to the mystery of stage time. Review: Will Death Never Come in ‘Peace for Mary Frances’? 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Consumed with caution, crisps provide salty rewards for the dreary daily tasks of my paternal and professional duties. New year raises the eternal question: is it possible to live a life without crisps? 2013-01-13T00:05:38Z The house was much nicer than I expected, but the reality of Terry’s final days was dreary. Suicide isn’t painless 2012-08-24T19:30:00Z On a dreary Tuesday morning before work, what better way to start the day than to open my eyes and heart to the cradle of civilization. A Journey Into Iraqi Kurdistan 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z This creature inevitably brings to mind Edgar Allan Poe’s Raven, who arrived upon a midnight dreary to intone the single word “nevermore.” Review: What the Crow Knows in ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z For some time now, those dreary days when it seemed almost impossible to get out of bed were made considerably better with the help of Noodle the pug. No bones days are permanent now that we've lost Noodle the pug 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z So if your impression of “The Crucible” has long been yoked to that dreary homework assignment about literary devices you were given back in 11th grade, put those memories of a chore aside. ‘The Crucible’ as you’ve never seen it 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The latter includes mush such as The Majestic, comedic misfires such as The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and such dreary genre misfires as Dark Crimes. Jim Carrey's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The dancers keep going too, attacking and oscillating and staring this dreary material down. Dance Review: Menacing Working Girls Stuck in Punishing Grind 2011-06-30T20:59:24Z If you’d rather save Gothic pleasures for dreary weather, consider bringing some romance to the shore instead. Dear Match Book: What Should I Read on My Summer Vacation? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Maybe audiences were burned by dreary futuristic tales such as Total Recall or bored by repetitive comic-book rehashes like The Amazing Spider-Man. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-01-12T06:00:11Z Dealing with refugees is a matter of dreary routine — displaced people pass through here frequently, hoping to make it to Germany — though a television news reporter tries to sensationalize the situation. ‘Fear’ Review: Stranger in a Strange Land 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Soon, the story vaults ahead eight years and Julio, still wilted if now bearded, is a struggling writer who is having a dreary affair with a neighbor. Movie Review: ?Bons?i,? From Chile, Directed by Cristi?n Jim?nez 2012-05-10T22:15:46Z His dancing pentameters would open my imagination, and help me to see depths, subtleties and possibilities in the dreariest desert island. Australian poet, Les Murray 2010-04-29T13:15:00Z However, with the second act, in which the escaped Vixen finds emancipation and love, the staging settled into a drearier vein. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Stages a Musically Glorious ‘Vixen’ 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z “There are so many dark, dreary days where you feel incredibly inadequate, and completely lost,” he said. The Agony, Absurdity and Ecstasy of the Oscar for Best Song 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Pursued at my age purely to slow, not prevent, my musculature's turning to pudding, my dreary little fitness regimen doesn't begin to compare to any proper athlete's training. Lionel Shriver: 'If you're thin, you are a kook; if you're fat, you're a failure' 2013-05-11T07:00:27Z The modern analog is the “chick flick,” a demeaning name applied mostly to cynical and threadbare rom-coms trotted out with dreary regularity every spring. The Carpetbagger: Box Office Heroines 2012-12-07T15:00:34Z Not all that long ago was a drearier time, when Haydn’s piano sonatas were taken less seriously than those of Mozart and Beethoven. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z On a dreary Wednesday, in an open classroom, the young men and women had volunteered to be there. A Master’s Degree in ... Masculinity? 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z I went on the day of a dreary rainstorm. How to Think About Curiously Unfashionable Footwear 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Of the tracks premiered here, Being Followed is a dreary plod, while Leave a Light On sounds like a turgid take on old favourite Save a Prayer. Duran Duran ? review 2011-03-08T18:29:38Z On the other side of the window, an airplane takes off and fills the dreary morning with a thundering rumble. The journey to confront my rapist 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z “A shoddy piece of work, full of childlike generalizations and dreary, feminist auto-think,” wrote Zoë Heller in The New York Review of Books. Naomi Wolf on Her New Book, “Vagina” 2012-09-19T22:10:40Z Yes, there are great shows on cable, and dreary franchise action fare clogs the multiplexes in the warmer months. A. O. Scott’s Top Movies of 2013 2013-12-11T15:00:05Z Sure, everyone is wearing masks, and social distancing rules make dining hall dinners a little drearier, but there is at least the promise of the ever elusive Covid bubble. The Boarding-School Boom 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z At other times Mr. Levenson’s writing evokes the style of Annie Baker, who in “The Flick” took a microscope to the lives of unremarkable folk toiling together in even drearier circumstances. Theater Review: ‘Core Values,’ by Steven Levenson, at Ars Nova 2013-05-07T02:00:01Z It’s rarely a compliment to describe a composer as “academic”: the word is usually applied to those perceived as being sequestered on campus creating esoteric, dreary works. Review: Yale Composers Showcase Their Works at New Music New Haven 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Writing in The Times in May, Mr. Scott called the movie “a sharp, small-scale comedy of male misbehavior that turns out to be one of this dreary spring’s pleasant cinematic surprises.” DVDs: Tough Women and Flawed Men 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z But how dreary this must be once the global spotlight follows the Biden camp south. Biden put Wilmington on the map — but for garden lovers, it was already a destination 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z The brothers criticizing the sisters for being inauthentic, for being anti-male, for airing the community’s dirty laundry, all from a dreary nationalist point of view. The search for decolonial love 2012-07-02T20:54:00Z I know what she means – that does sound dreary. There's a right way to deal with hecklers. Then there's Michelle Obama's… 2013-06-08T23:05:27Z The tragedy was that Badger didn't win the show that year, pipped by dreary Michelle after a final task that involved staging a corporate jolly inside Tower Bridge. The 10 best Apprentice contestants 2010-10-02T23:04:00Z I'd like to have a dreary chat about Shakespeare, science and religion before going to live on my own in a lighthouse in Surrey. Digested classics: the 20th century's greatest novels 2010-10-13T06:59:00Z It means that 'official printing' is no longer being considered as something that can afford to look dreary. John Pitson obituary 2011-02-20T17:57:51Z But that was one of the few bright moments in an otherwise dreary evening. At Christie's London Auction, Little Action 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z A more dreary country than this in which I now am, can scarcely be conceived. The Antiquarian Rediscovery of the Antonine Wall by Lawrence Keppie – review 2013-02-15T09:00:02Z The “bad screen,” in this case, is the work computer on which one does dreary things like scheduling meetings, filling in spreadsheets and circling back on emails. The Complicated Business of Personal Lives 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z The dreary action film “Kite” takes place in a dystopian city with an impressive range of accents and acting styles. ‘Kite’ Is Based on Yasuomi Umetsu’s 1998 Anime 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z She was similarly peripheral in Live By Night, another rather dreary film in which she was one of the best things, fizzing and crackling whenever on screen. Sienna Miller: 'I feel relatively immune to bitchy criticism now' 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z There will always be an addictive quality to Future’s syrupy flows, which have inspired so many rappers to replicate the duality of charming euphony attached to dreary subject matter. The Happy-Sad Hooks of YNW Melly’s “We All Shine” 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Cloaked on this night in a dreary haze, the Glasshouses provided panoramic views of the surrounding Chelsea neighborhood. | Jason Wu Hosts a Summer Soiree for the Young Friends of ACRIA 2013-06-14T21:04:31Z This nervously edited film flashes back and forth from the dreary December gloom to Dolly and Joseph’s lushly photographed summer of love a few months earlier. Movie Review: ‘Cheerful Weather for the Wedding,’ With Elizabeth McGovern 2012-12-06T21:22:23Z Instead, McPherson dares to present music as belonging to a parallel universe, a realm that abuts the dreary reality of the play’s here and now but never overlaps it. ‘Girl From the North Country’ Review: Bob Dylan’s Amazing Grace 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Some of them were pretty dreary affairs, and others were very exciting. Politics is a “blood sport”: Roger Stone on his CNN ban, the “real” Donald Trump and the billionaire’s scheme to lure delegates 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z It is repetitive, filled with dreary bookkeeping details and overly polite give-and-take. Books of The Times: Fighting The New Yorker Over Extra Commas and Steaming Cowflops 2011-02-08T22:00:14Z The surreally artificial colors, powdery finishes and even the wrappings contributed to, in her phrase, “an enticing sadness and dreary simplicity,” qualities she hopes to convey in her spring show. FITTINGS: Countdown to Fashion Week: Thank the Deli for That Dress 2013-08-21T18:17:47Z This is one of the saddest, dreariest subjects imaginable, but “You Don’t Know Jack” is anything but. | 'You Don?t Know Jack': ?You Don?t Know Jack,? With Al Pacino, on HBO 2010-04-22T19:28:00Z It's not the same as a night under the Arizona stars, but it absolutely livens up a dreary spring evening. A spicy taste of Mexican street corn, ready in 15 minutes 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z I can't imagine feeling any urgency to write in such surroundings, I reckon my prose would be flabby and my dialogue dreary. Phil Earle: Where I write 2013-04-24T09:00:00Z Then there's the dreary Ode to a Girl and So Long, My Lover in which Carl filters James Blunt through a pint of Camden snakebite. Carl Bar?t: Carl Bar?t 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z Told to a soundtrack of Billie Holiday, this is a story of women trapped in a seedy underworld, and sexual obsession mixed up with dreams of escape in dreary, grey 50s Britain. This week's new theatre 2013-03-30T06:00:21Z But that season looks dreary compared with those being offered by similarly tradition-bound orchestras elsewhere. Even the Tuning Up Gets an Ovation as Tanglewood Reopens 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov found it less compelling, describing it as “a dreary town.” Review | A Basque author contemplates a complex city in ‘Nevada Days’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z What made me most mad about all this, however, wasn’t just the dreary eating experience. Jay Rayner: thou shalt eat veg! 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z These words are like bland curatorial copy stencilled on the walls of a dreary gallery, and they're unworthy of the linguistic powers she shows elsewhere. Strands – A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland – review 2012-07-27T21:45:12Z And the bursts of impassioned lyricism in the play’s later scenes are sometimes infused with dreary, obvious moralizing. | 'The Silver Tassie': War Changes a Man, and a Play 2011-07-27T22:15:20Z “We couldn’t present that dreary Northern Ireland again, where it’s always men in leather jackets, everything’s gray and nobody has a sense of humor,” McGee said. In ‘Derry Girls,’ the Lighter Side of Life in a Conflict Zone 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z How dreary would it be if everything was like this? Reader reviews: your take on Three Kingdoms, Snow White and Henry IV 2012-05-18T09:56:45Z This, the penultimate episode, has been a bit on the dreary side. "True Blood" recap: Warning signs 2010-08-30T12:30:00Z “To the Finland Station,” Edmund Wilson’s history of socialism, published in 1940, took for its title the name of the dreary railroad terminal that welcomed Lenin to St. Petersburg. Lenin and the Russian Spark 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z So San Francisco, my favorite place, was jumpy, but dreary Erie, Penn. — where my room overlooked the lake — turned out to be as pretty and light-filled as Venice. A ‘Girl Singer’ and Her Extra Hair Hit the Road 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z These updates interrupt the flow of the show and involve the dreary banter with travel reporters with which Radio 2 is seemingly obsessed. Radio head: Graham Norton 2010-10-13T06:00:00Z The first dreary stretch of May, I started testing iced tea cocktails, trying to magical-drink the weather into collaborating — to “tea up” spring, if you will. What’s better than a tall glass of iced tea? One with booze stirred in. 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z It was our third Maine winter — not the pretty part leading up to Christmas but the dreary aftermath. Modern Love: A Measure of Desire Modern Love 2012-06-28T21:46:34Z Talking to him on a dreary rainy night was much better than sitting in stony silence. 'Who is the queen?' And other ways to get talking to strangers 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z That premise may sound a bit dreary for the cabana, but the story begins with a kind of midsummer night’s dream, with visions and prophecies on the first night the fireflies appear. ‘Summerlong’: A story for adults about adults gone wild 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Feelings are fleeting, but finding words for them brings solidity — or even solidarity — to moments both ebullient and dreary. Review | Can’t name that feeling? Try consulting ‘The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows’ 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Look, not all tuna salads are created equal, and we're not talking about the dreary mayo varieties of the 1970s and 80s. 7 shelf-stable school lunches kids'll actually eat 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z But “You Should Have Left” also offers us a dreary term of confinement. ‘You Should Have Left’ Review: This Haunted House Is Familiar 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Defending his choice against the inevitable dreary calls for censorship, Sendak spoke of “the dignity and truth of the human body.” In Praise of Maurice Sendak 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z That minor vindication came way too late for the Wiggin family, and it doesn’t do much for this quirky but dreary new musical, either. | 'The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World': Three Sisters, a Deluded Dad and Some Wretched Rock 2011-06-08T02:15:25Z But a sense of dreary stasis slowly envelops the play as the academic arguments drag on. Theater Review: ‘The Twenty-Seventh Man’ at the Public Theater 2012-11-19T03:00:00Z He goes to Box Hill in Surrey in the footsteps of the Sunday Tramps, a middle-class walking group seeking to escape the dreary 19th-century Sabbath who dared each other to trespass. Ramble On by Sinclair McKay – review 2012-06-22T21:55:19Z A small lineup it might be but seeing as it's so perfectly formed, we won't hold their venue of choice's dreary new corporate name against them. Clubs picks of the week 2011-03-19T00:06:36Z If someone explains a new mechanism of killing or torture, it is our dreary job as the audience to tick off the moments until that method is deployed. The Counselor: Hard-Boiled Hokum 2013-10-24T09:45:41Z Languishing in a dreary job at a London law office, 27-year-old Robert Martineau dreamed of an adventure to banish his boredom and malaise. The best travel books of 2021 — so far 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z “The dreary, dead-end jobs, the bitter divorces, the disappointing and disrespectful children . . . none of them imagine that this is what the future holds for them,” he writes. Bill Clinton vs. Lena Dunham: The Shakespearean battle of boomers and millennials 2014-03-01T21:00:00Z Lili Taylor, great as always, and Frank Whaley arrive in a dreary alley as aggressively gregarious activists, doling out sandwiches to the downtrodden. 'Gotham' Recap: Batman as a Goth Boy, the Butler as an Angry Young Man 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z These moments of tightly controlled theater are dreary enough. Dance Review: Weavers Threading a Tale, Chapters 1 Through 20 2011-03-16T21:14:47Z You might find it all a bit hazy and dazed, bleary-eyed and dreary. New band of the day – Teen (No 1,359) 2012-09-26T14:00:35Z Find me one dad who doesn’t believe his daughter should earn the same as the dreary bloke on the desk opposite. My partner lives in my home - but what is fair financially? | Mariella Frostrup 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z "Visiting the old theatre was a very dreary experience," said Mackintosh, who likened the venue to "a brick mausoleum with a very municipal feel". 'Queen welcome' at London theatre 2012-06-28T09:11:08Z Her dresses bring a splash of bright color into the dark, brooding atmosphere, much as her temperament flavors the dreary affairs of state with wit and charisma. ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ Review: Sexy, Spirited and Almost Convincing 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z As the series unfolds from dreary Twickenham to the eminently more convivial Savile Row, we observe the Beatles crafting new songs before our very eyes. Peter Jackson's "Get Back" docuseries is a mesmerizing feast for the eyes 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Still, it is probably preferable to carry on expressing oneself in ways that are “weird and defiant” than to slump into dreary nostalgia for a youth when one did “crazy” stuff. The Gimlet Eye: For Dazzle Dancers, It?s Clothing Optional 2010-05-19T19:42:00Z While spring is on the horizon, many of us are still experiencing the tail-end of some dreary winter weather. Make pasta night special with Martha Stewart's sausage and kale stuffed shells 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z These are the sort of sentiments that headmasters of the dreariest type express at parents' evenings. Reading is overrated 2011-02-17T15:48:22Z Buying the data card was no small act but a huge gesture, emblematic of a new, better place occupying an older, drearier one. St. Pancras International was London’s Valentine to Europe 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z The ends of burning cigarettes flicker in the ghostly gloom of night in those dreary years after the Spanish Civil War. Carlos Ruiz Zafón leaves behind characters who will never die 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z “Oh, I’ll take over the world later,” Ms. Kloss added, referring to reports her new agency, the sports and entertainment powerhouse IMG, had plans to turn her into that dreariest of all things, a brand. Fashion Diary: At New York Fashion Week, Constant Motion, Elusive Point 2012-09-14T21:14:15Z The explosions and action sequences have an odd cheapness to them and the central plot is one of those dreary take-over-the-world routines. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z It isn’t only that PowerPoint has become synonymous with the dry, dreary, droning of corporate meetings or that it’s an application developed by Microsoft, itself a favorite target of Jobs. Movie Review: Ashton Kutcher in a Biopic About Steve Jobs 2013-08-15T23:10:13Z Undoubtedly, British culture would be a much drearier place had they never met. Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer return to TV with Lucky Sexy Winners 2012-08-17T23:05:00Z The opening track, “I Am All That I Need/Arroyo Seco/Thumbprint Scar,” careens from dreary, self-doubting dirge to bright, breathless acoustic rocker and back multiple times before strings sweep in like a soothing balm. How the Fleet Foxes Frontman Got Out to Get Back In 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Setting aside the dreary result, the scandal seemed to plant a seed for progress. Oscars So White? Or Oscars So Dumb? Discuss. 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Most of the nonfiction I remember from my childhood features poorly reproduced archival photographs crammed against dreary typefaces. Help: My Child Doesn’t Know Another President Besides the Current One 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Watching seemingly carefree children thrive and fail as they age — or, more prosaically, turn into dreary, respectable citizens — can be like a knife in your heart. Movie Review: Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ Is a Model of Cinematic Realism 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z “That set in motion this aesthetic of dreary New York City and imagining theses little animals in the nooks and crannies that we don’t normally think about what their lives are like,” said Luciano. WATCH: From bedbugs to pigeons, New York’s despised vermin have rich inner lives on HBO’s “Animals” 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Things came to a dreary head in 2008 when, thanks to the writers’ strike, the ceremony took the form of a 32-minute press conference. Ricky Gervais isn't the Golden Globes host we want – but the one we deserve 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z I was unaware that graduate school was supposed to be a dreary pool of loathing, and therefore it was not. You only hate grad school because you think you’re supposed to 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z Decades passed, but it lingered in my memory every time I shopped for a rug to dress up a dreary room. On the Rug Route in Romania, Kilims and an Enduring Culture 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z On this dreary Thursday, Predmore accomplished his goal many times over as downtown workers and visitors walked by, saying hello and smiling at downtown’s best known street musician. Vet strums guitar for smiles in NE Pa. city 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z 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 Unfortunately, the section revolving around this working-class youth, who lives with his mother and maternal grandfather, “Pop,” in a nondescript small town, proves uninspired and dreary. Review | Three tragic characters are mysteriously linked in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z But listen we must, so they will feign interest in our dreary stories, too. Social Q?s: To Share and to Sip - Social Q?s 2011-12-22T23:10:23Z In a warm, sepia-toned filter flare lens, the cinematography and landscapes change from a dreary England to the bustling and hopeful Parisian streets. "Heartstopper" returns for a sweeter, more heartfelt exploration of coming-of-age queerness 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z What the professional filmmakers, businessmen and critics might agree on is that the 2012 fortnight has been mostly dreary — cinematically and meteorologically. Second Annual Edition: If I'd Been Tweeting from Cannes... 2012-05-24T15:10:01Z One reviewer described it as a “portentous and lugubrious revision ... the dreariest story ever told”. Faith films challenge Hollywood at box office 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z “Downstate,” which opened this week at the Steppenwolf Theater Company here, is set entirely in that home — dreary, grimy, decorated with inspirational posters urging “greatness” and “perseverance.” Review: In Scathing ‘Downstate,’ Sympathy for the Devils 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z The dead bouncer and Davis frame-up have Ani and Ray on the lam, shacked up in a dreary motel while Paul headed off for his date with tragedy. 'True Detective' Recap: Paying the Price 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Electrifying a dreary Saturday night's viewing on BBC2, his was not a simple celebration or presentation of world music. Here was a man with conviction, anger, passion and something to say. Fela! the musical couldn't be more timely | Ola Animashawun 2010-04-06T10:46:00Z He admires Beckett and Chekhov and Cather, thinks Camus had a “dreary mind” and that, next to Woolf, Joyce “seems tricky and vulgar and cheap.” Books of The Times: Isherwood?s Singular Second Wind 2010-12-01T16:58:00Z Omar is joyless, practically sleepwalking through life in an environment that is dismal and dreary. "Limbo" will break your heart with the whimsical yet agonizing in-between life of refugees 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Yet the superfluous 80 minutes have to be padded out with excruciatingly repetitive battles, dreary meetings, banal utterances, unnecessary backstory and general flannel. Is The Hobbit simply too long? 2012-12-12T16:15:00Z Instead, it’s just one of a dozen new kids on the block, anchoring dreary drags or taking shelter in old warehouses or buildings on the historic registry. Where to go for dining and drinks in Portland? It’s rocking across the Willamette 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Michael Cragg Diagram of the Heart If I Were You Sometimes all you want on a dreary February day is comfort listening in the form of straightforward, catchy electropop. F&M playlist 2011-02-10T23:00:01Z Just in time for shorter, drearier days, a new crop of breezy celebrity memoirs has arrived from a trio of formidable women. Review | Phoebe Robinson, Ellie Kemper and Busy Philipps are here to brighten your days 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z A dreary list, a compendium of the mediocre and the overpraised. ‘Surprised and Dismayed’: Readers Respond to Our Best 25 Plays List 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Silverstone, whose Broadway debut came in the dreary stage adaptation of “The Graduate,” gets a happy chance at redemption in a tricky role to which she brings warmth, actorly intelligence and delicate humor. 2010-01-29T04:55:00Z Ms. Winn did some time in the Detention Center herself: “It was cold, damp and dreary, with a urine smell no matter how much disinfectant they used.” What Would a World Without Prisons Look Like? 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z I’m therefore hesitant to write “Westworld” off as a dreary trot from start to finish; parts of it are as imaginative and intriguing as anything that’s been on TV recently, particularly in the sci-fi realm. Hold on, cowpokes: HBO’s ‘Westworld’ is a big, fat homework assignment 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Bad Boy in New Clothes: Seduction Still Stymied The Metropolitan Opera’s disastrously dreary production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” was dead on arrival at its premiere in 2011. Music Review: ‘Don Giovanni’ at the Metropolitan Opera House 2012-11-29T22:30:37Z “Since our basement has only one window, I stayed away from stark whites and grays, which can look dreary without natural light. The use of taupes, beiges, browns and wood tones is inviting and warm.” Can a basement really be beautiful? 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z The book opens in a dreary Rochester, N.Y., neighborhood, when a lumbering, intellectually disabled woman in a “dime-store wig, perched awry” calls the police about a child lying on the floor of her pantry. Should More Defendants Be Claiming Insanity? 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Here’s hoping that the worst that happens to you in 2014 is sitting through a few dreary dinners with strangers-through-marriage — while making your octogenarian father-in-law happy. Social Q’s: His, Hers, Ours 2014-03-28T16:46:53Z What were once debauched and dreary addresses are the upscale lodging of the future. T Magazine: Artful Lodging 2011-03-22T18:03:21Z But it’s a long, dreary wait for any drama to emerge. ‘And I and Silence,’ a Prison Drama by Naomi Wallace 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z As first seen, occupied by straight-backed, chanting girls at their desks in a fleeting, imagistic prologue, this would appear to be a contemporary schoolroom of a dreary institutional nature. Review: In Arthur Miller’s ‘Crucible,’ First They Came for the Witches 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z He tips forward on the edge of his chair – we're drinking water in the bar in a dreary London hotel – and emotes. Our friend in the north 2010-06-18T23:03:00Z But whatever skills he has, cheesy dialogue delivered at a dreary pace and in dreary tones undermine it. 'A Dame to Kill For' is a sinful waste of a sequel 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Swimming onstage in a new musical from TheaterWorksUSA, a venerable producer for young audiences, Mr. Pout-Pout Fish admits that he spreads “the dreary wearies” wherever he goes. ‘The Pout-Pout Fish’ Review: A Grouch Gets Back in the Swim 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z He moved the story, which is set in a dreary postwar world, to the near future, to add a shimmer of technology-induced anxiety. ‘The Tenant,’ Reimagined by the David Lynch of Dance 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z The midwest may have a lot of farms, but instead of dreary prairies there were lush green hills, upland meadows, thick forests, looming limestone cliffs and, further south, cypress swamps. Mississippi yearning 2010-12-04T00:05:15Z Public Library, using shorthand for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, the dreary, well-worn, four-story central library two blocks west of Verizon Center. Meet the man who is turning D.C.’s library system into a national model 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The dreary picture then turns into a hostage scenario for people who thought “Get Out” was too subtle — except race is never explicitly mentioned. ‘Kindred’ Review: A Dreary, Derivative Hostage Thriller 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z But they rarely come drearier and more overwritten than Theresa Rebeck’s “Mad House,” which had its world premiere in the West End this summer. The Best (and Worst) Theater in Europe in 2022 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z This season has gone a long way toward rehabilitating Stannis’s dreary image, most movingly in a scene a few weeks ago that made him a front-runner for the best father in Westeros. 'Game of Thrones' Recap: Cersei's Chickens Come Home to Roost 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z The dreary unidentified Russian town that is the setting of Yuri Bykov’s devastating film, “The Fool,” is an outpost of hell. Review: ‘The Fool’ Is Yuri Bykov’s Look at Corruption 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z This version, in the dreariest Hollywood-remake tradition, turns a grim, morally ambiguous story into a fable of empowerment. ‘Miss Bala’ Review: Gina Rodriguez Finds the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z He walked around Hull during the day and went on at this club that night and just talked about the dreary weather, about work, the wife and the mother-in-law ... and the crowd clapped. Looking after Les Dawson's legacy 2012-09-28T23:04:02Z In times as dreary as these, such celebrations are welcome. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The dreary amateur lyricism clarified nothing but the extent of his aloneness. Hotel Room Theater: Richard Maxwell's 'Showcase' at the Millennium Biltmore 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z I continually shifted my gaze from the actors droning away in this more than usually dreary piece to observe the more entertaining tableaux their customers were creating. Perspective | Why pay $100 and more for a theater ticket if you sleep during the performance? 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Stay, I wanted to tell my grandparents, as I read their words—this is the “after-life” you prepared for, not the dreary years spent peddling life-insurance policies to the neighbors in Southern California. The Second Man in the Front Row: A Forgotten Story of the First World War 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Despite its attention to the past, the movie isn’t an exercise in futile authenticity or a dreary compendium of biopic banalities. ‘Emily’ Review: A Brontë Sister’s Savage, Hardy and Free Life 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Your ears won’t be able to detect Manson’s contribution to the dreary “Jail Pt 2,” and you’ll forget about DaBaby’s guest verse on that same song before he’s even finished delivering it. Review | Kanye West is now trolling us from the void 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z I remember it, not fondly, for the mean old ladies roaming the halls in their nightgowns and the dreary demeanor of the whole place. How Has Amazon Affected America? And Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z We’ve seen it before: Faces, substances and locations may change, but the self-destructive behavior and dreary vibe are pretty much constants. ‘Castle in the Ground’ Review: Dazed and Used 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Don't get me wrong, it's still a dreary action movie cliche. White House Down trailer: we've seen this somewhere before, surely? 2013-05-07T12:15:18Z The difference between the staid, sometimes dreary atmosphere of the opening concert at Mannes on Tuesday and the vital, fresh installment the festival staged at Le Poisson Rouge on Sunday was enormous. Music Review: TimeTable Percussion and Friends at Le Poisson Rouge 2010-06-21T22:57:00Z If this malaise continues through to the live shows, we're all in for a dreary winter. The X Factor: how will Simon Cowell make his return? 2012-08-29T13:37:43Z Julie is a miserable woman, and she has two very dreary evenings with her prospective employees. Last night's TV 2010-08-03T07:00:00Z It’s affirming for parents to see their lives reflected back at them, and in a theme-park fun house no less, with all of the dreary bits made stretchy and silly. Review: ‘Catastrophic Happiness,’ a Comedy of Manners About Bumpy Child-Rearing 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z For the first time, no spectrum of dreary grays. GOP: Gays out of the party 2012-10-09T11:45:00Z The genial Mr. Foster is well cast as Richard Hoover, a determined optimist who has set aside his dreary white-collar career with the hope of becoming a self-help guru and motivational speaker. | 'Little Miss Sunshine': Taking Dysfunction on a Road Trip 2011-03-08T16:48:24Z And sometimes — especially in the epically dreary cinematic month of January — the pleasures of craft can be more satisfying than the challenges of art. Movie Review: ‘Parker,’ Starring Jennifer Lopez and Jason Statham 2013-01-24T23:27:56Z “To split open the dreary world to expose an enchanted one.” Remembering Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize-winning author dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z They can add color to a neutral space or pizazz to a dreary one. Our favorite floor lamps 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z In this young woman's dreary and suffocating world her mother looms large, ultimately blaming her abused daughter for stealing her man. 2010-01-29T08:23:00Z It's a great addition to anybody's collection of cheesy movies to watch on a dreary, rainy afternoon. Feedback: Cats and dogs making the scene 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z He seemed to see capitalist cash as a palpable measure of his own significance, a reassurance that he was not just another dreary technocrat but someone extraordinary. Review: In ‘The Billion Dollar Spy,’ David E. Hoffman Recalls a Cold War Spy 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Clara and Eleanor are living and hunting in a dreary contemporary British city when the story opens, holed up in a tower block. Movie Review: ‘Byzantium’ Draws on Caribbean Vampire Folklore 2013-06-27T21:44:42Z But this is how Hamm prefers to punctuate the dreary sameness of his days: with bursts of unprovoked aggression that send Clov scrambling to placate him. ‘Endgame’ Review: A Laugh at the Apocalypse? 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s a firecracker of a song — and, from an art critic’s perspective, more sophisticated and more genuine than their earlier forays into museums and galleries, such as Jay-Z’s dreary Marina Abramovic parody “Picasso Baby.” At the Louvre, Beyoncé and Jay-Z Are Both Outsiders and Heirs 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z The mammoth public memorial service honoring the late metal legend was, fittingly, more akin to a spirited rock concert than a dreary funeral. Fans gather to remember Ronnie James Dio 2010-05-31T05:31:00Z Otherwise, the second half of the sale went on in the same dreary atmosphere as at Sotheby’s. A Dreary Sense of Duty Reigns at Auctions 2010-07-02T16:30:00Z It might not be time yet for shift dresses and wraparound sandals, but a new everyday bag is a sure way to liven up this dreary start to the season. | A Sweet, Springlike Confection of a Bag 2014-04-02T16:15:05Z And while some might look down on a rather dreary place on a grey day, he says it's a fantastic vantage point: "a great place to get a sense of the geography of the town". Town with Nicholas Crane; Love and Death in City Hall – TV review 2013-05-22T06:00:16Z “The Tribe” deploys an elaborate, rigorously executed conceit in support of a weary, dreary hypothesis: People are awful. Review: ‘The Tribe’ Communicates Without Words 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z What is the explanation for this deadly, dreary sameness? Invasion of the dumbasses 2011-08-11T20:32:01Z Meanwhile, worthy characters tend to be dreary, like Captain America, or plain irritating, like Poppy Cross. Arbitrage's villain takes advantage – why do we love it? 2013-03-04T13:07:12Z Edgar Allan Po’boy: Once upon a midnight dreary, While he pondered, weak and weary, Suddenly a rapping eerie sounded at his chamber door. Style Invitational Week 1344: Well, that’s just great — it’s Limerixicon XVI 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Perhaps it is the production’s perversely dreary physical world that amplifies the leaden quality. Into the often drab woods with Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ‘As You Like It’ In that dreary case, I'll pout, skip it and never come back. The Ice Cream Sundae Must Be Stopped 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Psychically enslaved to man as father-figure, this woman paints her face and dreams of white weddings and arranges the home that will be her dreary, sexless prison for the rest of her life. The Female Eunuch, 40 years on 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z It's brutal in its particulars — with dreary streets, bleak houses and grim faces — yet the film is also marked with oddly funny, touching exchanges that waver between the ridiculous and the tragic. 'Aurora': quietly tracking a shadowy figure 2011-10-06T21:05:04Z The wonder of nature is assumed, rather than explored, and the psychological insights are narrow and dreary. Review: Sorrentino’s ‘Youth’: A Euro Buddy Film 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Even if it weren’t cheap-looking and dreary, “Cell” would still be hobbled by an entertainment landscape already lousy with zombies, and a hive-mind premise that — at least metaphorically — has been all but realized. Review: ‘Cell’ Offers Zombified Victims and an Unfocused Narrative 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Chekhov once wrote of his own dramatic intentions, “All I wanted was to say honestly to people: ‘Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!’ Antaeus Company's 'Uncle Vanya' is a sharp execution of midlife drift 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z But practicality is something of a commonplace; it feels a bit too aligned with the dreary expression “a woman’s work.” Schiaparelli and Prada Connected With Women?s Inner Feelings 2012-04-11T22:01:05Z Men with no jobs and no purpose loiter in the market chewing khat leaves to escape their dreary existence. A Civil War, Then the Long Limbo of Life as a Refugee 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Midway through the concert, the singer disappeared for a long, dreary sequence in which May and Taylor performed as old footage of Mercury played on an enormous video screen at the rear of the stage. Queen + Adam Lambert are overcome by Freddie Mercury at the Forum 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z It’s not art of the cloying variety; it doesn’t depict pain that is pity-seeking, or that aims to emotionally hijack an audience on a ride through some dreary personal catharsis. The Need for Art That Hurts 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z I’d escaped my dreary, workaday legal demons, purging them from my consciousness once and for all. My fancy law firm hell: I set up a Scale of Dismay to measure the degree to which my job was ruining my life 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z The sequel, bachelorette parties will be delighted to hear, ditches the dreary indictment of the American dream. This Chart Shows How Magic Mike XXL Sizes Up 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z But Romeo Castellucci’s hotly anticipated staging of “Don Giovanni” was dreary, an unsatisfying mixture of naturalism with ambiguous symbols like basketballs and a meat slicer. After a Quarter-Century, the Queen of Salzburg Calls It Quits 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z At the Tate, “Global Groove” and the “TV Cello” share space with cheesy jokes and dreary shamanistic installations. Standing Up for Humanity in a World of Screens 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Pacing was dreary in slower sections, and there was a foursquare quality to everything. Virginia Opera mounts a high-flying ‘Dutchman’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z The general impact on what used to be an enormous, dreary barn is a flood of warmth, even conviviality. How the Philharmonic’s New Home Sounds, From Any Seat 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Dromgoole and Mr. Buckhurst’s production seems conceived to reach as wide an audience as possible, in particular winning over those spoilsports who find Shakespeare a dreary slog. Theater Review: Michael Benz in ‘Hamlet’ at the Schimmel Center 2012-10-03T21:57:28Z Again, this seems to be catching the cultural wave, as 3D now seems to be breathing life into what was for so long a dreary idea – opera, theatre and ballet on screen. The Royal Opera House: Welcome to the new people's palace 2011-03-06T00:16:48Z There were multiple copies of prints that apparently had not sold well, including photographs of women looking detached and exhausted, posed with props as dreary as paint solvent cans and air-conditioners. A Naturalist’s Notes on London; Bettie Page Photos 2012-08-10T04:47:10Z The composer’s personal circumstances, by contrast, were the opposite of dreary. Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish Composer With Cinematic Flair, Dies at 86 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z “A dreary rock appeared at first sloping up from the sea and into the fog,” the author wrote in “The Aran Islands,” his classic account of his time here, first published in 1907. Ireland’s Aran Islands, Hiding in Plain Sight 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s not all dreary, of course — there are environments where these kids excel. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: They ‘really cannot stand’ their rambunctious grandchild 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z The "Shadows" was a dreary, monotonous epitaph for what had become establishment conventions — in both art and popular culture. Alas, mere 'Shadows' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z For long stretches Mr. Nunn’s staging, on a minimal set by David Farley that suggests a hallway in a dreary summer hotel, seems to be waltzing in cement shoes. Peters and Stritch in ?A Little Night Music? 2010-08-02T01:58:00Z A lot of Season 4 is relatively dreary and unfocused compared to the rest of the series. ‘The Sopranos’ 20th Anniversary: Here’s Your Complete Guide to Rewatching It 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z “It’s more a designation to describe a spinster figure, a dreary single woman.” Let?s Hear It for Aunthood 2011-09-17T01:51:44Z “Skylight” takes place in Kyra’s dreary working-class flat, where wealthy restaurateur Tom shows up unannounced one evening. In London, stages are set for pleasure Darkness of a midnight dreary still lurks in the depths of their inner 19th-century souls — and sometimes in their closets — proving there's no expiration date on being goth. Forever goth: Elders not about to lighten up 2012-02-15T19:29:02Z But he astutely captures the dreary, oppressive Sunday afternoon atmosphere of the era, and a family in emotional retreat from each other. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore 2010-09-27T22:20:00Z When I was in kindergarten, my mother brought me to see the movie for the first time on a dreary afternoon, as they all seemed to be when we lived in upstate New York. The hills are alive with the sound of a Bowl sing-along 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z This year at the movies has been much drearier. Poking at Politics, Without a Stick, on Big and Small Screens 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Her days, Brown writes, were “burdened with a succession of royal duties, most of them bottom-drawer and dreary.” Review | Princess Margaret’s beauty and arrogance are on parade in ‘Ninety-Nine Glimpses’ 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Perhaps most infamously, New York’s gorgeous Penn Station was demolished in the 1960s, only to be replaced by the current dreary underground station. The World's Most Beautiful Train Stations 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z One dreary afternoon, he lingered for a particularly long chat, sharing details about his new lemon trees. He Delivered for Me 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z That alarm clock goes off, the questionable outfit’s been picked, the dreary commute commences, and we’re craving a small treat—something familiar and delicious—before the workday begins. Here Are the 22 Best Donuts in America 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most depressing thing about Sophia Banks’s “Black Site” — a dreary, underwritten thriller — is an ending that suggests a sequel might already be in the works. ‘Black Site’ Review: Stranger Danger 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z As the go-to actress for TV sex scenes, Piper gets plenty of raunch, but considering it's supposed to be an exciting stocking-ripper, there's something strangely flat and dreary about it all. The Grand National 2010-04-10T05:45:00Z But now you sense that designers, their talents apart, are being used in a dreary chess game of brand power. News Analysis: Why Was the Designer Raf Simons Dismissed? 2012-03-04T01:03:30Z But that sounds far drearier than the actual experience of reading this novel, which is leavened with wry silliness that fans will remember from Fox’s previous novels, “Friends Like Us” and “Still Life With Husband.” ‘Days of Awe’ review: A novel of grief and humor 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z From one election cycle to the next, these campaigns became longer and more expensive, drearier and yet ever more circus-like. Goodbye, age of great expectations: We know how America got here, but where does it go now? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z On dreary winter days, it flickers like a flame in the corner of the room, and on insomniac nights, when the rest of the world is asleep, it stays up with me, troubling the water. Perspective | My doctor told me to get a dog, but I couldn’t. Meet my emotional support fish. 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z They yearn to be married, but the available women all want to live in town, not in some dreary cottage with a turf fire. William Trevor, Spare Chronicler of Diminished Lives 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Through him, we were thumbing our noses at the long, dreary history for black men in America by elevating this one to a paternal Olympus. Cliff Huxtable Was Bill Cosby’s Sickest Joke 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Hawley was sitting in his office in a trailer on the dreary outskirts of Calgary in February. A TV Version of ‘Fargo’ Has Parallels to the Film 2014-04-09T16:00:25Z The story of singer Sally Bowles in the Weimar Republic, which came out late in 1972, into a very dreary Britain. The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Some of these ideas are stale and the moviemaking is dreary or worse, but I’m glad they exist. The Good, the Bad and ‘Black Panther’ 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z If Cleo finds her job dreary – and Roma doesn’t skimp on how thankless his blindly privileged family often made it for her – Cuarón’s cinematic thank-you letter effectively takes pride in it for her. Roma: why Alfonso Cuaron's Oscar frontrunner is a triumph 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Such fresher faces aside, some of the day's line-up has a slightly ageing feel, typified by black-clad doom rock poseurs Interpol, whose dreary set feels like it has been going on since 2002. Elbow and Muse weather the storm at Leeds festival 2011 2011-08-27T11:50:15Z More than a year passed before we met for pizza on a dreary November afternoon in Boston. Modern Love: Would Hemingway Cry? 2010-09-30T21:28:00Z It might be to blame for the dreary drudgery that’s bogged down many ensuing superhero adventures but it remains a ruthlessly entertaining example of just how daring and necessary the genre can be. Critics assemble: our writers pick their favorite superhero films 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Perhaps his lack of political or economic conviction is to blame; he holds no lasting partisan allegiances, and found his one university economics course “dreary”. Man in charge 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z I used to sit in class in this dreary classroom and just read it over and over again, thinking, ‘I want to be on a river taking a nap on a sandbar.’ Jeff Nichols Spins Another Southern Tale With ‘Mud’ 2013-04-19T18:47:43Z The first hour is a wintry talkathon, while the second — set a year later and concerning plans for a climactic castle siege — plays like the dreariest feudal heist movie until the swordplay starts. 'Last Knights' a pale 'Game of Thrones' wannabe 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Thanks in part to the dreary weather, the coziness quotient at the Homestead was off the charts during our visit — and the fireplaces that line the Great Hall hadn’t even been lit yet. ‘Taking the waters’ at the regal, glamorous Homestead Resort Already I was spooked, and not just because the room was uncomfortably small and dreary. | 'Hotel Savoy': The Porter Will Kindly Show You to Your Doom 2010-10-06T21:59:00Z So she packs up her brood and decamps from dreary Britain to a sunny Greek island. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Berlin Station’ and ‘Graves’ on Epix 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z The two married quickly, in what Henry James, who gave away the bride, described as “a dreary little wedding.” Taking Another Look at the Author of ‘The White Man’s Burden’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z So bumptious an opening, at once comic and tragic, raucous and dreary, overcomes the challenges of long names, unknown moonshine and “skin-rotten street dogs whimpering in their dreams.” Review | Decades after the raucous ‘Harbart’ became a cult classic in India, a translation finally arrives 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z About 95 percent of the city center was destroyed during World War II, and unfortunately it was quickly rebuilt, in that typical, postwar low-key style that conduces to a dreary anonymity. T Magazine: Grand Teuton 2012-11-12T16:00:53Z For all its cosmic ambition, "The Scientist" is a dreary, 88-minute cure for insomnia, accompanied by a really cool soundtrack. 'The Scientist': big ambitions, little insight in philosophical film 2010-04-22T21:14:00Z "Grace Potter & the Nocturnals" represents that ray of sunshine in an often dreary music world. 9 of the year's best overlooked albums 2011-01-07T22:04:04Z As he is cooking his eggs "on a cold, dreary November morning", Obama gets the news on a scratchy line from Nairobi. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z It is necessary for me to consider what I’ve learned, to put these dreary months to use. 'I was weak, despairing, confused': did writing a novel make me ill? 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Madison is blond and not very smart, and Deutch brings remarkable energy and wit to a dreary stereotype. ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ Review: Back to Crack Wise and Crush Skulls 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z We can all go to the grocery store during the cold, dreary, wet months and buy familiar "summer" produce any time of year from all over the world. Why we celebrate winter vegetables 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z “The Other Side of the Wind” has often served either to burnish Welles’s legendary status or to further establish what dreary minds like to call his unfulfilled promise. Review: ‘They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead’ Documents Orson Welles’s Last Film 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Given the dreary landscape of contemporary horror, making a creditable imitation of movies that were actually good qualifies as an artistic breakthrough. "Insidious": "Saw" creators go back to horror basics 2011-03-30T19:45:00Z And now, a dreary Tuesday in the office was just a dreary Tuesday. Seduced, Then Scorned, by My Work Wife 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Many paladars are still little better than Cuba's dreary state restaurants and must contend with the daily struggle to find ingredients on an island long accustomed to scarcity. New York meets Cuba in art-fair chef exchange 2012-05-12T21:31:04Z The performers bring distinctively different styles to the material, which adds some variety and interest in the drearier passages. | 'Panic! Euphoria! Blackout': Wall Street: 60 Goats and a Soft Shoe 2010-10-14T22:43:00Z Dauber is more comfortable with the triumph of Jewish-American comedy than with the dreary denouement of the European branch. Why Are Jews Funny? 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The movie is “largely dreary,” Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in December. Video: When DeMille Parted the Red Sea 2011-04-01T21:39:04Z About once every two months, they guilt us into getting together for dinner at a restaurant, and it is always dreary and dull because there is nothing that everyone is interested in talking about. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A caregiver fears the emotional roller coaster is about to derail 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Harder to say is what Whitney Houston had in mind when she recorded the unbearably dreary One Moment in Time for the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Culture flash: Olympic Games 2011-07-28T08:14:35Z A window in a dreary, everyday world has been opened onto Elysian views. Theater Review: ‘The Most Happy Fella’ Is Revived at City Center 2014-04-03T23:17:30Z Maybe it happens a little later, when her job making shirt collars on an assembly line begins to seem dreary. Caleb Crain: The Hectic Career of Stephen Crane 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z 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 The setting: a dreary, downhearted household, still reeling from the death of Billy's mother. 'Billy Elliot' author talks about blending politics and artistic aspiration as tour comes to Seattle 2011-03-17T01:40:20Z The movie “is a thoroughly dreary, by-the-numbers exercise,” Mike Hale wrote in The Times in October. DVDs: Visions From 1951, Noir and Psychedelic 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z Between the dreary apartment blocks hides an impressive architectural heritage. Bucharest, Romania: Little Paris of the East 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z And yet it’s all so dreary, Logan’s very appearance such a visual cliché. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: The Romantic Moment That's Not 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z The story proceeds by fits and starts with a narrative line — Alita’s journey of self-awareness — that is embellished with a dreary old-fashioned romance and regularly interrupted by chaotic action scenes. ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ Review: Do Female Cyborgs Dream of Breasts? 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The next morning I woke early to dreary skies and cycled the photographer’s suggested route to St. Johns Bridge. Try a 120-square-foot home on for size at the tiny-house hotel in Portland, Ore. 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Too dreary for youngsters and too rote for grown-ups, “Come Away” empties itself of magic. ‘Come Away’ Review: Escaping Grief Through Fantasy 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z No matter how dreary and grey our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than any other country, be it ever so beautiful. Oz Revisited – Part 5: What’s the Matter With Kansas? 2013-09-20T20:09:43Z It’s hard to imagine that Self’s picturesque words need any illustration, but in a world so flattened by recession and dreary retrenchment, it is refreshing to be rewarded with such extravagant fare. 2010-01-01T00:14:00Z Though the site’s wardrobe is far from trendy, it isn’t dreary, either. A 20-Something’s Web Site for Women Over 40 2013-01-11T22:38:20Z On a typical, dreary day of Seattle rain, one Icelandic fashion designer would like to see Gore-Tex rain jackets replaced with something a bit more stylish. Nordic Fashion Biennale in Seattle 2011-09-28T22:04:57Z Regional airports across the former Soviet Union tend to be a dreary lot, with all the appeal of a 24-hour bus station. Impossible to Forget: Lviv, Ukraine 2011-01-07T19:55:00Z That was a guilt-ridden act of liberation, but it marked the beginning of my crusade against dreary summer reading. Perspective | Summer reading shouldn’t be a chore 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z This is surely delusion; The New York Times, in the late 1800s, described his script as “an unutterably dreary, romantic play,” and here it’s comically inscrutable. Review: ‘The Black Crook’ Inspires Its Own Alcohol 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z In order for their roster of superheroes to be able to move naturally and freely from property to property, all their films must maintain a rather dreary sameness about them. All mixed up: Ready Player One's pop-culture crossovers are just empty nostalgia 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z More radically than “J. Edgar” or even “Greenberg,” this movie, written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jason Reitman, challenges the dreary conventional wisdom that a movie protagonist must be likable. | 'Young Adult': Charlize Theron in ?Young Adult? - Review 2011-12-08T13:00:01Z The movie chokes on its own dreary discourtesies. Review: 'Your Highness' drowns in lowbrow humor 2011-04-06T19:07:08Z The final 14 minutes of the season premiere constituted a stand-alone action sequence, if you could refer to something that dreary, mundane and silent as action. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 1: New Wigs, New Family 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Naturally, this annoys everyone, until one dreary winter evening when Frederick brings back that summer warmth and color by reciting a poem about a field of red poppies in yellow wheat. What to Cook Right Now 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z He lives in a far drearier district, where the mist of misery suffuses the atmosphere. In ‘The Killer,’ Ionesco’s Everyman Seeks a Source of Evil 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z Birds of a Feather: Reflecting the tone of the show, Essex is constantly overcast, with bouts of rain as dreary and interminable as the show's theme tune. Can TV's returning Birds of a Feather cope in Towie's Essex of today? 2013-06-18T12:12:30Z The city is simply putting the school back on the market, inviting the usual deep-pocketed firms to suggest yet more desultory office space, hotels for the 1 percent and other dreary things. New mayor’s killing of D.C. cultural project shows only money matters 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z ‘Macbeth’ Individual motivation doesn’t count for much in Jack O’Brien’s dark and dreary account of Shakespeare’s study in vaulting ambition, with character taking a back seat to mystical symmetry. Theater Listings for Dec. 13-19 2013-12-13T18:23:32Z Against a phalanx of mostly dreary new apartment towers, the soon-to-open Hunters Point Community Library by Steven Holl Architects is a diva parading along the East River in Queens, south of the famous Pepsi sign. Why Can’t New York City Build More Gems Like This Queens Library? 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z He’s a cold fish, a control freak and a buzzkill husband responsible for some of the dreariest married-sex scenes in TV history. Masters of Sex Gets Dark, Delves Deeper Into Desire 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Everything that follows is as predictable, dreary and proverbial as the weather in Manchester. Song for Marion – review 2013-02-24T00:05:36Z Whether it was lighting or luck, "Laggies'" Seattle is bathed in warm sun, rather than dreary clouds or rain. 'Laggies' a lively break from the pressures of adulthood 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Certainly, after two days of dreary movies and weather, Cannes could use some brightening. Critic’s Notebook: At Cannes Film Festival, Ducking Rain and Competition 2013-05-16T22:03:37Z Composed of computer-generated images, painting and pencil drawings, the film’s textures clash to create a dreary dystopia out of this sparse but colorful setting. Improvisation Is the Heart of Cuban Animation 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The construction in the dreary hall where the all-black company is rehearsing. Tony nominee Savion Glover: Go ahead, call me a Hoofer 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Often it translated into a rather dreary, unimaginative if sometimes brightly colored social realism. Thrilling new exhibition shows modern Mexican art is bigger than murals 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The message is that women are dreary and past-it, while girls are dynamic and exciting. Stieg Larsson's being ironic, but generally 'girl' book titles demean women 2010-06-07T19:00:00Z The television is tuned to dreary game, cooking and talk shows, and you are uncomfortably aware of the sounds of appliances and of sliding doors and curtains. Movie Review: ?Elena,? by Andrei Zvyagintsev, Set In and Around Moscow 2012-05-15T22:34:55Z Fun to read, counterintuitive, more colorful than dreary unemployment statistics – and deeply unrepresentative of what’s really going on. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z Hairdressers with ideas above their stations; dreary waifs wilting in garrets; talking statues; battlement suicides; to say nothing of the one with the Viking hats. Anna Nicole: Kiss goodbye to those Viking hats 2011-02-14T22:00:00Z In a dreary Yankee prison, the rebel confronts his mortal fate before a parson. Almost heaven, West Virginia: Driving country roads in search of America today 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z “It’s dreary, the care to make it and all these people talking about it. I only eat so I can drink.” 19 Things About Betty Catroux 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z But many of the characters are repeating themselves or pedaling in place, and the historic underlay that was once so piquant is now dreary: This season it’s the inauguration of President Richard M. Nixon. The TV Watch: ‘Mad Men’ Returns to AMC on Sunday. 2014-04-10T12:00:01Z “It’s cool to have areas of campus that look better when it’s dreary out.” If any place can get young minds to unplug, it’s a college sitting on an arboretum 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Here, as in other movies that use violence to jolt up the dreary proceedings, Chris and his problem turn out to be the warm-up act for Killer Joe. Movie Review: ‘Killer Joe,’ Directed by William Friedkin 2012-07-26T17:03:26Z The weather can be cold, windy, drizzly and generally dreary, and you’ll need to pack heavier, including a good waterproof coat and shoes. Vacation like a local by embracing Europe in the offseason 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Within the first few pages, the colors are muted to sage and dreary blue as Cece is hospitalized after contracting meningitis at age 4 and subsequently losing her hearing. Review: ‘El Deafo’ by Cece Bell Rhythmically swaying her body, in imitation of her adored Shirley Bassey, the wig glowed and glinted under the feeble electric lightbulb, on that dreary day, adding just a touch of much-needed magic. Family life 2012-12-22T00:04:00Z Architecture exhibitions often seem doomed to be dreary, because models, drawings and films can never beat the thrill of seeing a building. Design: The 'Diabolic' Carlo Mollino, Reanimated 2011-09-23T18:30:08Z “The painting galleries were so dreary,” Morrison H. Heckscher, chairman of the American Wing, said the other morning as workers were putting the finishing touches on the new installation. Metropolitan Museum Completes American Wing Renovation 2012-01-05T23:11:11Z The weather is gloriously damp, the town is voluptuously dreary. Welcome to His World: Bela Tarr’s First Meteorological Event 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The roles I was up for -- mostly mom roles -- were dreary. "Eat Pray Love" marks writing debut for actress 2010-08-16T04:01:00Z Fox plays Picasso like a drop-out from the Heath Ledger's Joker school of cackling villainy, repeatedly calling Cross on the phone to toss around dreary taunts. Review: Tyler Perry's 'Alex Cross' is a bust 2012-10-17T18:03:09Z Otherwise, they’re producing a dry compendium of facts or a dreary, shapeless chronicle of people doing stuff. Perspective | Documentaries aren’t journalism, and there’s nothing wrong with that 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The vibe at these places is less dreary nursing home and more five-star wellness resort. Growing Old in High Style 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z There’s no hint of how nasty Ms. Diaz, or rather her character, Elizabeth, can be when you first see her tucked into a dreary field of other middle-school teachers, standing out like a yellow rose. | 'Bad Teacher': When the Teacher Gets High Marks in the Raunchy and the Profane 2011-06-23T22:21:08Z And who wouldn't want a little taste of that on a dreary fall night? Alexis DeBoshnek's trick for turning canned tuna into a luxurious dinner will blow your mind 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The whodunit is slight and dreary, with Edgar Ramirez largely wasted as the lead detective. ‘The Undoing’ Review: Murder, Actually 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z After decades of saving the world on the screen and on the page, the movie character seemed stuck, particularly after the dreary 2006 reboot, “Superman Returns.” Movie Review: ‘Man of Steel’ Depicts a Striving Stranger in a Strange Land 2013-06-13T16:00:30Z On another set of shelves — the salon des refusés — are the books that depress me too much, or are too miscellaneous and dreary, to be included in the regular area. ‘Odd, Unpopular and Reticent’: The Books That Sing to Wayne Koestenbaum 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The movie recreates one of the book’s great scenes, which takes place during a tornado at the dreary country club to which the Bridges belong. In Praise of Evan S. Connell 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z George Clooney plays an imperiled high-class criminal named Jack in The American, surely the dreariest thriller of the year. Review: George Clooney's 'The American' Fails to Thrill 2010-09-01T10:15:00Z Thankfully, what seems like a dreary and possibly hapless series that glamorizes suicidal ideation instead shifts into the tried-and-true plane crash survival story. Quibi is here with two dozen new shows. Are any of them worth watching? 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z It’s a depressingly dreary ending to a tumultuous life. Review: ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’ Shares a Last-Gasp Romance 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z I pushed through some dreary weather in Michigan and Ohio, climbed the roller-coaster foothills of the Appalachians and battled traffic and chewed up roads as I entered the city. Bicycling Across the Country: Bruce Weber Reflects 2011-10-21T18:50:10Z Photograph: Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images Europe Light relief in the dreary first full working week of the year came from the return of Cabin Pressure to Radio 4. Cabin Pressure; In Concert: a week in radio 2013-01-10T18:00:01Z In "Bread and Jam for Frances," for instance, there's no pontification, no dreary battles about broccoli, just a matter-of-fact account of what happens when a badger eats nothing but bread and jam for every meal. Motherlode Blog: 'Do You Want to Be Careful, or Do You Want to Be Friends?' 2012-10-29T18:05:10Z But I didn’t want my book to be some dreary polemic—I wanted it to be fun. My fancy law firm hell: I set up a Scale of Dismay to measure the degree to which my job was ruining my life 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, at a time when so much attention is paid to skyrocketing values, the dreary performance of some artists’ portfolios is a topic seldom broached. The Art Market?s Other Side: Why Some Prices Fall 2011-05-30T17:43:28Z Ms. Mead thought the subject was too dreary. Suze Orman Is Back to Help You Ride Out the Storm 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z It’s a tragic narrative, filled with calamities, yet never somber or dreary. Novels by Kathleen Alcott, Vu Tran and Alaa Al Aswany; a Memoir by David Payne 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Sullivan too remembers the old divisions – "the dreary dreadfulness of the 70s" of his teens, the ideological and regional divide. Broken Britain? Read returning natives before Joan Collins 2011-08-25T08:56:29Z He was Jackie Robinson, the first major league African-American baseball player, in the by-the-books drama 42, as well as Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, in the dreary Marshall. Black Panther's Chadwick Boseman: 'Everybody’s minds are opening up' 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Right now publishers are pushing a lot of picture book nonfiction — much of it quite dreary — and this book is a welcome reminder that a story can be factual without exactly being true. Mac Barnett Reviews Picture Books About Time and Space 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z So was the dreary green carpeting — replaced by tiny marble tiles. The Tipsy Diaries: Where the Lights Aren?t Neon 2011-03-17T14:00:16Z These dreary hangouts are just a big joke. Frank Skinner's attack on free libraries is a bad joke 2010-09-01T09:55:00Z On Andrew Boyce’s satisfyingly familiar-looking set of a bland motel room, the sort of dreary interior you find in a Sam Shepard play, Waters and Hnath indulge in a few unexpected pyrotechnics. Review | A harrowing hostage story is told with stunning subtlety in Broadway’s ‘Dana H.’ 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z In the dreary darkness, his days melded into one another and became one continuous, indistinguishable blob. Book Excerpt: Joshua Foer's 'Moonwalking with Einstein' 2011-03-13T05:45:00Z Few people wear their Lilly Pulitzer pieces on a dreary day, or to a routine dental appointment or a boring business meeting. It's hard to resist the sunny Lilly lifestyle 2013-04-08T18:48:12Z The link between the three is the satire on the lives of boozy slackers, on dreary, unchanging small provincial towns and low-budget horror movies. The World's End – review 2013-07-20T23:05:25Z Yet you grow antsy in District 13 both because it’s such a dreary militarized world — created for maximum defensiveness and that’s it — and because it locks up Katniss, who was made to roam. ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1’ 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z It seems a bit trite and dreary at Christmas time to point out the perils of consumerism, but a Christmas pudding for £250? Can a Christmas pudding ever be worth ?250? 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and – and in short you are for ever floored. Quiz: Debt in literature 2011-08-03T09:57:51Z There's nothing particularly wrong with the Park Savoy, except that it's cramped, dreary and free of style. Frugal Traveler Blog: 7 Manhattan Hotel Rooms for $150, More or Less 2012-10-16T20:58:33Z Those undercurrents go almost completely missing in the far drearier sequel, which amounts to an interminable slog of soapy love-talk and fetishy sex scenes. Women almost never direct big movies. ‘Fifty Shades’ shows why that matters. 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Bing Thom, a Canadian architect whose swooping, playful design for the Arena Stage company’s Mead Center for American Theater enlivened Washington’s dreary southwestern waterfront and drew critical acclaim, died on Tuesday in Hong Kong. Bing Thom, Canadian Architect, Dies at 75 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z She is shocked that the dreary structure she assumed was a barn or bunkhouse is to be her home. 'San Miguel': T.C. Boyle's novel of dashed dreams on a remote island 2012-09-20T20:44:04Z But then there’s something generic about this movie too, with its dreary, dimensionless digital photography that dribbles from character to character, all of whom are underwritten and largely in the service of the joke. | 'Cyrus': Jonah Hill in Duplass Brothers? Comedy 2010-06-17T21:55:00Z He’s unpleasant, but not in an especially interesting way, and ingratiating in a way that’s even drearier. Review: ‘Wilson,’ With Woody Harrelson as a Misanthrope 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z That included drives across the country and close to 40 trips to various and dreary rehab centers. My heroin addict friend: 'When Shelly starts using again, I will be there for her' 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Broad cultural stereotyping is just one example of this movie’s dreary sense of humor. ‘Song of Back and Neck’ Review: A Painful Comedy About Pain 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z "This particular poet's middle name doesn't happen to be dreary!" Poet, comedian, or both? 2010-08-27T16:10:00Z I was just working off some of the dreary music that lies near the top of a composer’s mind. Music Review | 'Gershwin ... Here to Stay': Gershwin by K T Sullivan at the Oak Room 2010-03-15T21:33:00Z The neighborhood itself is rather ho-hum, composed mostly of dreary postwar apartment buildings on the edge of Prater park, where Freud would play as a young boy. Freud’s City, From Couch to Cafes 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z So to sum up: we spent over an hour on a half-baked plot with no proper climax or resolution, and the only main character who had any proper emotional journey was dreary Clara. TV Review: 'Doctor Who' Episode 801, 'Deep Breath' -- A Heroic Failure 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z In the van painting, there is an almost primitivist use of color and altered perspective, the bright red popping from the dreary Boston background. A mother's vanishing: A secret that haunted my family for generations, hiding in plain sight 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z At the reception in the church’s dreary Fellowship Hall, my husband and I toasted one another with nonalcoholic sparkling grape juice. I was a teenage bride 2012-08-15T00:00:00Z In Sunday’s performance, lucent accounts of the principal roles and an incandescent London Philharmonic Orchestra, under Enrique Mazzola, more than propped up Mariame Clément’s dreary production, which is both too simplistic and too convoluted. Review: ‘Poliuto,’ a Rare Donizetti Bel Canto Thriller 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Claire and Solange collapse into the dreary routine of their everyday lives, scampering around the room to return it to perfect order before Madame comes home. Theater Review: ?The Maids? by Jean Genet, From Red Bull Theater 2012-03-16T02:00:00Z The idea of a running debate over the value of S&M between two people in one place might sound dreary, but the dialogue is clever and the actors' chemistry is electric. Roman Polanski knows the ropes in 'Venus in Fur' 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z "It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races. For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary," Einstein wrote. Albert Einstein was known for speaking out against racism, his travel diaries reveal racist views 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Mulroney is stuck with a much more dreary type and back story, and the supporting characters are instantly forgettable. Review: ‘Pure Genius,’ a High-Tech Doctor Drama, Does Little to Disrupt 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z “During World War II his paintings were very funereal and dreary, as though they were contained within gray walls,” Mr. Richardson said in a telephone interview. Inside Art: The Torrent That Flowed in Picasso?s Final Years 2010-02-19T05:45:00Z The dreary weekend comes after a relatively quiet Thanksgiving holiday at movie theaters, despite analysts' predictions of potential holiday records because of a great lineup of films. 'Twilight' stays bright but Hollywood snoozes 2011-12-04T17:42:08Z How about Galadriel, the distant, dreary elf queen from The Lord Of The Rings? Cate Blanchett: ‘I used to be very socially awkward’ 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Derek waits “with dread” to hear Ms. Flack sing her biggest, dreariest romantic hit. Books of The Times: ?What It Was? and ?Chalk Girl,? Crime Novels - Review 2012-01-22T23:06:34Z I thought polar night would be dreary and dark, but I was wrong. The Road to the Top of the World 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Despite the film’s flaccid gestures toward the sexism of the period — to boost sales, the women’s pictures are added to their bylines — “Boston Strangler” is a dreary, painfully stylized slog. ‘Boston Strangler’ Review: Chasing a Killer (and a Byline) 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z On a recent dreary Tuesday, Fetterman sat at a greasy-spoon lunch spot peeling the bun off his burger and scrolling through a Google search that nagged at him. The ballad of Big John Fetterman: Democrats yearned for a folk hero. But will they vote for one? 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z To the left is a dreary corridor, but characters also enter and exit through an armoire that sometimes serves as a wine cellar. Opera Review: In Matters of the Heart,' Contes d'Hoffmann' Skips a Beat 2011-11-15T13:00:10Z But it’s not nearly as dreary as it sounds. What’s on TV Tuesday 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z There were tasty and dreary roles, missed opportunities and heartbreak. Review: ‘Bombshell’ Tells the Amazing Story of Hedy Lamarr, the Star and Inventor 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z “Mustang” represented an exhilarating respite from the dreary, downbeat and formally uninteresting movies that dominated Cannes this year, a large number of which possessed an elegiac, almost funereal tone of unresolved grief. Top honor at Cannes goes to story of Sri Lankan immigrants in France 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z 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 If the weather’s dreary why not allow yourself an idle afternoon watching oddities on television, as I did. Zurich, for a Song 2010-09-24T18:42:00Z But in what is shaping up to be a strong movie autumn after a dreary spring and summer there is a steady parade of arresting and idiosyncratic individuals. At the New York Film Festival, a Defense of Human Dignity 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Its engagement with the subject is lopsided, and the presentation is dreary and overstuffed. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z It’s a dreary way to end the first act. Review: In Chicago, an Opera Triptych Reaches for Connection 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z And that’s why a movie culture defined by the white male gaze isn’t just unfair and dreary, but toxic. Women almost never direct big movies. ‘Fifty Shades’ shows why that matters. 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z As far as your external circumstances, you are kindling this little flame of a dream in a damp and dreary atmosphere. Why didn’t I self-publish? 2013-09-06T00:00:00Z Many cemeteries are kindly recollected in the letters, and the accommodation in which he stayed was rough – a lighthouse, a sailing boat in bleak seas, dreary hotels. Summer readings: Letters from My Windmill by Alphonse Daudet 2011-08-03T09:40:08Z The script provides a few hints about her relationship with her mother and her marriage to the hapless Mladen, but she is mostly a grand enigma, a heroine of literature stranded in dreary, pedestrian circumstances. Review: ‘The Lesson’ Is a Test of Conscience and Patience 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Three years into the master plan, the result is a city that, while still unable to hide the shabby concrete apartment buildings and dreary stores that contribute to its aesthetic, also reveals a colorful flamboyance. A Bilbao on Siberia?s Edge? 2011-07-22T18:59:16Z Completed in 1983, it is perceived by some to be one of Prague’s dreariest and most dissonant examples of Communist-era architecture. Scene/Seen: Prague: What's New in the Cube 2011-01-07T13:00:08Z Men huddle around tables in featureless hotel rooms, their silent quest illuminated by dreary cinematography and explained only by onscreen notes. Review: ‘Magnus’ Delves Into the Life of a ‘Mozart of Chess’ 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Remember Josh Radnor’s dilettante drama teacher in NBC’s ill-fated “Rise” last spring, whose lack of interpersonal awareness made the show so dreary? Perspective | ‘Magnum P.I.,’ ‘Manifest’ and the problem of reviewing fall’s dreadful new shows 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z He believed that there had been too much reliance on long stretches of austere recitative, which could get a little dreary. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Classical Music Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Best act Hercules and Love Affair Overheard "Seriously, who needs football when you've got disco?" as the dreary matter of a certain sports match caused a delay to the Hercules and Love Affair set. Garden festival 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z "Don't worry – this particular poem's middle name does not happen to be dreary," he promises, then reels off agitprop rants about Chairman Mao and roadkill. Kevin Eldon 2010-08-18T21:00:00Z Let England Shake is well-named – insistent rhythms push the songs along, making them anything but dreary. PJ Harvey ? review 2011-03-06T00:09:25Z Hamm, the volatile, unseeing tyrant in Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame,” has ordered the creation of this cloth companion: one more creature to shrink from him in the dreary, age-worn room that is his realm. ‘Endgame’ Review: A Laugh at the Apocalypse? 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z It's a long, dreary road from Kiss Me Kate, and light years inferior to almost anything on the box this last fortnight. Living in a television time warp 2011-01-03T07:00:01Z If dreary winter nights are getting you down, maybe some hair-of-the-dog crime fiction from someplace really chilly — the Nordic region — will help. A bookshelf of new Nordic noir 2013-02-07T00:10:27Z A dreary pileup of hard-luck monologues and run-down locations, Mark Webber’s “Flesh and Blood” straddles the line between fact and fiction with exhausting earnestness and a fatal dearth of narrative. Review: Reality Bites in ‘Flesh and Blood’ 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Batman v Superman may well be dreary and dumb, but at least it looks like it will figure out a slightly less obvious way to be dreary and dumb than Man of Steel. Pulling punches: why origin stories keep superhero films from soaring 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The last time Rascal Flatts recorded an album, the trio ditched dreary Music City in the winter for sunny California. Rascal Flatts preps new album for April 3 release 2012-01-19T12:00:20Z Paint one room and suddenly the entire house looks dreary. Inside Art: Met Is Ready to Unveil New European Paintings Galleries 2013-05-09T20:39:52Z They make for agreeably watchable, sometimes amusing spectacles, even though there’s no disguising that their characters are the usual dreary family-circle causalities. Movie Review: ‘The Eye of the Storm,’ With Geoffrey Rush 2012-09-06T22:03:02Z But the after “four dreary months,” Letterman called and wanted to come on. Conan O’Brien says goodbye to David Letterman: “He’s been the North Star for me and for every comic of my generation” 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z All his movies, including dreary ones like “Dogville,” have their feverish fans. Arts & Leisure: Conflicting Voices in Lars von Trier?s Words and Works 2011-09-21T16:24:21Z Minchin had wanted to be portrayed on a neon Perspex cross, but Leach objected that this was not his style, which turned out to be the dreariest kind of photorealism. So an artist found a work on the web, copied it and won an award. Why the fuss? 2010-04-25T21:15:00Z The simplifications and sanitizations of “Brooklyn” would be only dreary if they merely served the purpose of a streamlined and simplified story-telling mechanism. The Sanitized Past of “Brooklyn” 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Fast forward to a dreary succession of 40 lots of tobacco jars, mostly made of stoneware in 18th- and 19th-century France or Germany. Auctions: In France, the Spirit of Bygone Auctions 2011-03-11T13:30:07Z But the most disappointing releases, by far, were “Batman v Superman” and “Suicide Squad,” each of which adapted a DC Comics property with its own dreary mix of frenetic action, lackluster characterization and coldhearted cynicism. Starting with ‘she-ro’ Wonder Woman, spring’s movies look encouraging for exhilarating female roles 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z It’s usually a tipoff that the dialogue is going to be dreary. Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column Exhumes the Murderous Past 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z The color palette is monotone, bordering on dreary. '24 Days' a gripping, anguished account of a kidnapping 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z There are no talking critters at Pittock Mansion on this dreary day. 'Wildwood Chronicles' conjures a Portland fantasy 2014-03-26T13:22:10Z Setting the play in an office so dreary it seems fit only for workplace homicide grounds Fitzgerald's endlessly romantic narration in the ordinary, where the only escape is a daydream or a novel. Stage Marathon: Is Seven Hours of The Great Gatsby Too Much? 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z And she called the next day to see if I was interested in returning “even though it’s a bit dreary outside.” Critical Shopper: Proenza Schouler on Madison Avenue: Critical Shopper 2012-09-20T00:01:02Z 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 play begins upon a midnight dreary and never lets up. ‘Nevermore,’ a Musical Biography of Edgar Allan Poe 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Ms. May’s “George is Dead” presents even drearier depictions of women, but the playlets as a whole are such offensive throwbacks, it seems petty to quibble with how any one group is treated. Critic?s Notebook: Women Playwrights and Gender Stereotypes on Broadway 2011-12-24T01:47:25Z As this dark, monochromatic image suggests, life is dreary for the train’s poorest passengers. Designing the Train Sections for Bong Joon-ho's 'Snowpiercer' 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The kind of rich vulgar taste she represents is d for down, d for dreary, d for dull, and for depressing, dismal and deadly. Imagining a World After Anna 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z The show captivates the townsfolk, transporting them from their dreary provincial lives. Review | Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘Tyll’ — a future Netflix series — follows a German jester navigating war-torn chaos 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z But weighed against a dreary day job, music suddenly held considerable appeal. Recent College Graduates Wait for Their Real Careers to Begin 2011-09-01T00:01:27Z As dreary as it all was, several restaurant and fast food chains used the opportunity to revamp their marketing techniques. Behind Gen Z's web-fueled love affair with chain restaurant merch 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z Television’s night of nights, once spurned by blue chip designers and their megastar clients as a dreary also-ran, has emerged to compete with the Oscars as a powerful contender in the image-boosting derby. Old Hollywood Vavoom Dominated on the Emmys Red Carpet 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Perhaps drearier, since it now lacks the Met’s starry cast, which did its best to convince you that the piece, with a pallid libretto by Gene Scheer, had a beating heart. ‘An American Tragedy’ and More at Glimmerglass 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Being in the audience felt like sitting inside a ship, looking out at the dreary coast. Benjamin Britten triumphs in San Francisco 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z When Iain leaves the stage, the lights will be dimmer, the possibilities less and the prospects more dreary. Iain Banks, my Fife friend and storyteller extraordinaire 2013-04-03T16:39:26Z Gloom will be the mood at its concert this week, which is also scheduled to feature a pair of excellent opening acts, each with its own particular shade of dreary. The Week Ahead: Sept. 26 ? Oct. 2 2010-09-24T16:00:00Z For much of this episode, we saw lofty ideals slapping up against dreary reality. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Watch: Arguments in Family Court 2014-05-12T03:53:49Z Early winter in west Flanders can be particularly dreary: the gray clouds low as a basement ceiling, the rain turning fields into bogs of boot-sucking mud. | A Pilgrimage to a Plate 2014-02-11T15:01:44Z Owen, also 12, has his own problems: he lives in terrible fear of his classmates' bullying at his dreary Los Alamos, N.M., middle school. 'Let Me In' Review: A Vampire Remake Worth Welcoming 2010-10-16T14:35:00Z It's dreary watching them jump through the hoops they face in "Won't Back Down," though. Review: 'Won't Back Down' fails to make the grade 2012-09-26T13:54:09Z Despite the dreary weather, the city welcomed him with a ceremony that hit like a parade. Kehinde Wiley’s Anti-Confederate Memorial 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Even a formidable diva wasn’t able to enliven this 80-minute piece’s dreary, muddled inconsequence. Review: Frederica von Stade, Wickedness in a One-Act Opera 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Worst of all, Emma's performance career is almost entirely ripped out and replaced with dreary domesticity. That Hamilton Woman: a tale of two halves (for better or for worse) 2011-01-06T09:07:00Z Both days were dreary and overcast, which probably contributed to the sense of tedium. The best way to witness Alaska’s stunning seascapes? Take a cruise along the Inner Passage 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Where so much contemporary jazz can be a dreary display of muscle memory, Tigran has found a way to keep improvisation fresh and lyrical. London Jazz Festival: Tigran Hamasyan – review 2012-11-11T17:51:46Z This cycle, in which a big TV series induces everything from thoughtful analysis to dreary displays of nitpicking, has perhaps taken the place of well-taught American history courses. Review | ‘Mrs. America’ tells the story of the women’s movement from the dark side of the Force 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z But with Condé Nast’s impending move to the World Trade Center, just how will this scene be replicated in the dreary wilderness that is the Financial District? The Condé Nast Entourage Heads to 1 World Trade Center 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Actually, woods is a little too stately a word for the kind of dreary, degraded places where Cook and company do much of their foraging. ‘The Mushroom Hunters’: foragers in the fungal wild 2013-09-06T14:16:07Z Former President Barack Obama and the former first lady Michelle Obama elevated a dreary academic ritual — the official White House portrait — making a routine post-presidential event an instance of change. The Best Art of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z This fantasy sequence — illustrating how Diana would rather be on a date at a disco than at a dreary classical concert — reflected the show’s unapologetic commitment to pop maximalism. In Defense of ‘Diana,’ the Show We Didn’t Deserve 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z He has and he hasn’t — in a movie that is by turns a diverting and dreary blur of babbling and fighting that translates into faces in close-ups or bodies in longer shots. Review: ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Gets the Superband Back Together 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Half a mile inside the dreary brown gates and packed front lawn of Cypress Hills Cemetery, I leave the driveway and follow a path that’s cracked and partially embedded in the earth. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z The jolting WTF? shock that used to be delivered hearing a new Timbaland or Neptunes production among the manufactured stuff and dreary indie has vanished. Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday 2010-11-22T15:27:00Z I’d drunk oddly flavorless pints, too, and pints with a taint of burnt barley, and pints so dreary I almost suspected them of being doctored with dishwater, a trick not unheard-of in earlier centuries. Some say the affable charm of the people and the culture is Ireland's draw, but it's the pubs 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Take the torrid sexual encounter Helen has just had with her otherwise dreary husband, whose body Zeus decided to inhabit during predawn hours. Books of The Times: John Banville?s ?Infinities? and ?Elegy for April? 2010-04-04T21:27:00Z Chin and Kono get dreary, topical plots: He tries to rescue a young girl from the drug cartels; she goes on a crusade against human trafficking. The Time to Fix ‘Hawaii Five-0’ Was at the Start 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z If you've been yearning for tepid, part-canine police action ever since you finished the far drearier Dead To Rights, then this is your lucky day. Games picks of the week 2010-04-23T23:11:00Z In New York City, it’s so dark and dreary in the winter that someone wearing all white stood out to Bill in the sea of people wearing all black. Bill Cunningham, Unpublished Photos 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z IN THE 1920s and 1930s Harold Ross, the founding editor of the New Yorker, liked to say “Let’s let the other magazines be important,” by which he meant dreary. Well read 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z I like my spy fiction dreary, realistic and preferably written by a former intelligence officer. Anthony Bourdain: By the Book 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z They made the pedestrian plaza in the back even drearier. For AT&T, Balancing Change and Preservation Under the Same Broken Pediment 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Yet the same approach yielded an interesting but rather dreary simulacrum in Jack Dee's Lead Balloon. Why is Britain so bad at standup sitcoms? 2013-04-05T11:07:00Z You may think that that sounds dreary but let me convince you otherwise. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - review 2013-02-04T15:00:00Z "The show is about — and this term is so dreary — midlife crisis. But for a woman," she said. Lauren Weedman and the art of oversharing: New one-woman show from 'Looking' actress 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z What resonates is the inertia of days, the dreary drip of catastrophe. A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z The drearier bits are about sex, not politics. The TV Watch: ‘Spiral’ and 3 Other French Shows Worth Seeking Out 2013-08-29T21:31:17Z He and Matthew regularly go off on "honeymoons" – bonding trips abroad – and he's equally close to Lizzie: they watch Some Like It Hot together on TV, which "really cheered us up after a dreary day". Stephen Spender: New Selected Journals, 1939-1995, edited by Lara Feigel and John Sutherland, with Natasha Spender – review 2012-08-03T21:55:00Z The Golden Arches is spicing up the dreary winter with a new "Throwback Deal" promotion, offering select menu items for less than a buck, for a limited time. McDonald's starts 'throwback' Thursday deals, offering cheeseburgers, shakes for $0.25 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Her performance as Barbra Streisand’s acidic mother in the dreary The Mirror Has Two Faces may have been diva-by-numbers stuff, but at 72, the Old Hollywood legend had never so much as been nominated. The 10 best Oscar snubs 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Perhaps efforts to drum up a Chronicle vibe also explain why the trailer reminds me of last year’s dreary and listless Fantastic Four, another movie directed by one-time man-of-the-moment Trank. Why so serious? Power Rangers' first trailer ditches the kitsch 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Heaven knows the past decade of mostly dreary jukebox musicals offers vivid proof that unoriginal music far more regularly inspires unoriginal theater. Tony Nominations Prove the Musical Has Lost Its Voice 2010-06-11T04:31:00Z Disney FantasyDisney's solution to the dreary inside cabin: a virtual porthole that displays either cartoon characters or an outside view from a live video feed. | On-Board Attractions 2012-11-14T14:00:05Z All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey as I leave dreary Britain for my date with celebrity destiny … in Los Angeles, California. Wrongbestfilmgate was a moment of pure chaos – my night of shocks at the Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z |
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