There was a murmur of shock, then anger, in the drab room lined with snack machines.
High up in the National Theatre, Patrick Marber is huddled in the corner of a small, drab room.
Lots of work takes place on a country estate and this drab room looks like a real workplace, which is the problem: you get tired of it.
The first stopping point for all three groups was a small drab room, barely large enough to hold the 40 or so travelers who would be squeezed in.
"That's me!" Mohammad Bhuiyan, 40, said as he saw his bid of $241,000 appear on a big white screen in a drab room at 40 Rector Street.
If the ensemble isn't very Smashed, the venue is – we're in a drab room in an office overlooking a stinky Soho street market.
When housemates break the rules, they are sent to the "sin bin," a drab room where they are forced to perform chores.
The place is always thronged, waits for tables are long, and there is a danger of being relegated to a rather drab room (shortly to become a lounge) downstairs.
Confining extremes of human behavior to a single, drab room, "Compliance," the squirmy sophomore feature from the writer and director Craig Zobel, is a slow-motion punch to the groin.
He presided over the trial, and, early one morning in 2006, in a drab room in a former military intelligence building, Mr. Haddad read Mr. Hussein the execution order and then accompanied him to the gallows.
In January, a young man with the nickname of Trin (he asked that his real name not be published) sat down in a small, drab, room at a Veterans Affairs clinic in New Orleans with nine other men.
