"I am just exhausted," the gaunt Mr. Baird, 30, said, before faintly uttering in French, "Fatigué, fatigué." But when asked why he joined the legion a year ago, his eyes lighted up a bit as he described an apparently dreary past life as a truck driver in Virginia.
In The Trains (1951), two hikers who lose their way in a dreary, apparently inescapable valley repeatedly pin down their map with stones to stop the wind snatching it away.
Quietly walked back to my hotel via the Louvre with its pyramid — interesting alignment from the base of the new statue of Louis XIV, the French imperial mind at work apparently, then long dreary walk down the rue de Rivoli to Concorde, majestic...
Sorry John Boorman, Nigel Terry et al, apparently the dark ages weren't all that dreary and depressing after all.
"I remember the Celtics," he said, apparently choosing to forget the dreary Tuesday nights against the Kings and the Clippers.
An allée of spindly plane trees and palms led to the first buildings, of dreary brick and apparently empty, with banners from the cajas pinned to the outside, offering units for four hundred euros a month, in rent, with an option to buy.
If the portrait is dreary the prospect is apparently worse.
Terribly dreary, I know, but apparently they didn't get the lesson the first time round.
It was a dreary exercise in the memorization and regurgitation of apparently unconnected facts.
We used to call this "the suburbs" in my day, and it was derided as a dreary purgatory by both city folk and their country cousins, but now, apparently, it's the height of desirability.
Mr. Lewis, 79, an Army veteran of the Korean War era, died, apparently by his own hand, on Dec. 17 in his cell-size room in a dreary men's hotel on South Clark Street.
