The outward effect of Thakoon Panichgul's compelling show, on Sunday evening, was savage layers — fur escaping from the edges and open sleeves of a drab-blue twill peacoat, models' heads receding into deep hoods while their legs displayed second skins of curly chiffon.
Was it the dispiriting drab-blue uniforms of the waitresses?
Except for its glorious blue-domed mosques, Qum is a drab city of low brick buildings and musty shops selling honey-soaked pistachio candy.
Though the sisal-like carpet was a drab gray, the space was brightened with a cornflower-blue front door that matched a molded plastic Eames-style desk chair and the patterned upholstery of a vintage armchair.
Most people picture concrete as a drab, grey material, but many integrally colored concretes are available, ranging from pure white, to blues, reds, browns, and almost any other color you can imagine.
A few years later, in a suite of large-scale paintings, he proposed a working man's alternative to the artist's studio: a bunkerlike office with a metal desk and lockers in a drab palette of gray and navy blue.
Their drab "Dolores" has a drab Dolores at its center.
A drab stringy stalk is not.
Speak in a drab monotone?
A drab industry will become a little drabber.
When the road forked, the blue beast peeled off to the left, and with a mad rumble pawed its way through a drab industrial district to a nondescript beige building, where, with a final grunt, it eased over the threshold.
