I picture Mary in a simple room, earthen and humble, clothed in drab homespun, surrounded by the scents of life; wood smoke, animal dung, sweat, dirt, olives.
The attack took place at 10 50 p.m. on Wednesday when the bomb, which weighed more than 100 pounds, was detonated next to the Best Western Polo Hotel, just 150 feet from the 20-foot, drab-gray walls surrounding the fortresslike United States Embassy.
He shone brightest against drab surroundings.
In a sleeping bag, beneath the star-lit skies, I return to dreams drabber than the reality surrounding me.
A writer sits in a drab meeting room, surrounded by female prisoners.
Hungary had been casting about for ways to renovate and expand its Soviet-era nuclear power plant, a complex of drab olive and red block buildings surrounding four aging reactors in the eastern city of Paks that produce nearly a third of Hungary's electricity.
They did not leave – not because they were kept here, but because the surrounding area was fairly drab and the ride into Shenzhen proper after a long day of work was daunting.
The commission had selected an awkward site for the memorial; a four-acre plot surrounded by drab office buildings.
On one of those recent mild evenings, beyond the drab rock walls that surround the jail, there were flaming torches and a Hollywood-style red carpet.
Now, Mr. Cox, 36, a hospital clerk, coaches on the same vacant lot, three and a half acres on First Avenue between 100th and 101st Streets surrounded by drab public housing and century-old tenements.
She has a point: How can you focus on writing grant applications or research manuscripts when you're surrounded by drab walls, dead fruit flies, vials of old chemicals, or dirty glassware?
