A drab, light-industrial corridor leads past a number of glossy paintings that portray all of Rutan's aircraft flying in formation over lush landscapes.
She was looking tired by the end of her shift, the bounce gone out of her step, her hair a shade duller under the drab lights, and even as I switched to coffee I noticed Chris slipping her a shot of something down at the end of the bar.
Though covering campaigns has its own set of challenges — last-minute schedule changes; drab, badly lit venues — there are always pleasant surprises.
In the lower town, at the foot of a hill, conveyor belts and ramps hang over canyons of disused factory walls, and a drab red-light district glows with more of a chemical purple and blue.
As the hosts huffed and puffed, Sunderland grew into a drab affair, lit up by sparks of clever play from a front three of Defoe, Fabio Borini and Adnan Januzaj.
Residents in some neighborhoods have complained that the cast-iron tops of many old-style lampposts have been changed to look more modern, and that many dome-shaped lamps that hang over city streets have been replaced with drab, rectangular lights.
"We know that patients in hospital rooms with morning sunshine need pain medication about 23percentt less than patients in rooms that only get drab, shadowy afternoon light," said Roger Ulrich, a professor of architecture and landscape architecture at Texas A&M University.
However the latter, caught as summer was fading, washed in drab "liquid grey" light, gave him a fitting atmosphere, spiced with a big pinch of puritan moral hypocrisy, as he wrote in an essay on the two cities.
The sky is drab and the light is failing.
Inside, dim light, drab wood tables and a line of customers at a steam table that included turkey and cranberry sauce, cajun strip steak, vegetables and crusted macaroni and cheese.
