Sentence examples for drab work from inspiring English sources

But Bathsheba Doran's play is too compressed, making drab work out of genius.

They all came today to the steps of the Bexar County Courthouse, a red sandstone building usually consumed by the drab work of government, except every Valentine's Day, when it becomes a walk-up temple of love.

Drab work clothes (jeans, work shirts, pea coats) were a rejection of materialism.

While the drab working class in the districts toil in poverty and filth and boring clothes, Capitol citizens stroll about in pampered splendour.

Perhaps all of these ultra-drab work environments are connected to austerity.

Phlegmatic and drab, the work is not alluring; nonetheless, its air of tense deliberation gets under a viewer's skin.

Which is to say, who is to do the drab, menial work of cleaning the flat, and looking after Nader's poor, incapable father?

The idea of the fun, playground-style workplace is synonymous with Google – its offices flashing beacons of colour in the otherwise drab world of work, sporting indoor ski-lifts, tropical jungle huts and slides between floors.

Females are drabber, having work to do beyond looking dreamy, but they share the redstart's best and defining feature with their mates.

You can escape the routine of the drab 9-5 working lifestyle.

His deadpan, bordering on drab, delivery works somehow, and while he always seems just one line away from saying "My name's John and I'm here to say," there's something incredibly charming about his seminal verse.