Sentence examples for a rather grey from inspiring English sources

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Mr Calderón, a rather grey lawyer who picked up votes through a scare campaign comparing his rival to Venezuela's controversial president, Hugo Chávez, insists his victory was clean.

There is a poster currently decorating the walls of many European towns, particularly in France, that shows a rather grey and grim council-type flat.

In campaign rallies, Mr Mas (pictured) strikes Mosaic poses, offering his flock a promised land.For a man whose normal manner is that of a rather grey and cautious economist it is something of a turnaround, and not entirely convincing.

By contrast, the Conservatives, led by Jan Petersen, a rather grey foreign-policy analyst, saw their score shoot up from 14% to 21%, with their calls for drastic tax cuts plainly striking a chord.In this section Wake up, Europe!

I have given up everything for it and I would hesitate to start all over again, not because of political defeat but because of the enormous wounds people have inflicted on me.' Usually considered a rather grey, bespectacled and even mousy figure, he was savaged by Thatcher in her memoirs as weak and spineless.

They are a bright splash of colour on what starts as a rather grey day.

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He seems always to proceed from a rather grey-toned realism where detail accumulates without fuss, and the recognisable material world appears wholly four-square".

Unfortunately, it's all rather grey and slow-paced with Gabriel Byrne wearing a permanent facial expression that suggests he's sitting through a recitation of the periodic table.

Plus it's all rather grey.

He could talk about values, of equality, justice, liberty, democracy and speak almost in parables and people found that bewitching and marvellous and he would speak to small meetings up and down the country or big rallies, or conferences, or literary festivals and everybody felt that he was somebody very different in a world of rather grey politics.

Steak, yes, but just a solitary chunk lost in a sticky potato stodge; or lots of rather grey meat that looks like it's been boiled, or been through a hot-wash cycle.

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