We've seen other family reunions on TV and the North Korean people wear drab colors, with poor quality material, even in their best clothes".
David Mackenzie, who wrote and directed this adaptation of Alexander Trocchi's novel, and Giles Nuttgens, the director of photography, have managed to draw out the picturesque qualities of this drab landscape, and even to warm its chilly air with some sensual heat.
Slovenia midfielder Birsa settled a drab match with a rare moment of quality by curling a delightful shot from 22 yards beyond the goalkeeper.
The "divisiveness" of the label's music was oft-mentioned in end-of-year reviews, framed as a positive quality in a world of drab consensus and uniform radio playlists.
But she yearned to make skating more accessible and figured that selling high quality, lifestyle oriented skates designed to perform recreationally rather than the drab tan and black, rentable indoor models was the right place to start.
In marked contrast to the ornate quality of the music, Mr. Schlömer places his performers in a drab and anonymous Venetian square and dresses them in contemporary street clothes.
Although some perceive his style as unconventional as he delivers his message without the drab, planned and rehearsed monotony of his rival, this may be the very quality attracting mass grass root support for the populist candidate.
The house finch is a model species for the study of sexually selected carotenoid-based coloration; males have plumage that varies from drab yellow to brilliant red depending upon dietary carotenoid access, health, and genetic quality [ 35].
"It's everything I like," said Ms. Prada before her show, referring to the done-undone quality of the outfits, with tweed or beaded chiffon dresses worn carelessly over drab cardigans, the garments left partly unbuttoned so they fell off shoulders.
Not long ago it would have been possible to convey the bland, lazy, pedestrian qualities of this picture — its lackadaisical pacing, by-the-numbers performances, irritating music and drab visual texture — by likening it to a made-for-TV movie or an episode of a series on basic cable.
