One new site, set up outside the country by an exile political party, posts photographs contrasting the somewhat glamorous court of the late shah with the drab public face of the ruling theocracy.
And the tinting of the glasses darkens images that are already shadowy and dim, turning colors drab and faces indistinct.
So that night, I drove to the county jail, where the innkeeper ushered me into a tiny drab room facing glass.
The Hilton Gateway Hotel has a drab cement-colored face that looks like some kind of bunker at the street level.
If you feel your hair looks drab, research your face shape and a haircut that would bring out your best features (ask your stylist for help).
Ms. Williams, always a thoughtful, risk-taking actress (see everything from "Brokeback Mountain" to "I'm Not There" to "Synecdoche, New York"), here expunges all traces of movie star glamour, dressing in brown, knee-length cut-off shorts and a shapeless blue sweatshirt, and framing her delicate, slightly elfin face with drab dark hair.
As we pull up we face the drab, brown façade of a large school.
But drab reality must be faced.
He and his cinematographer, Yves Cape, use the dense grain of 35-millimeter celluloid, natural light and shallow-focus lenses to distill poetry from plain faces and drab landscapes.
Facing the drab, brown-brick Robert Fulton Houses, where Mr. Castillo has lived for more than 40 years, the shop is something of a clubhouse for the older local men.
