Sentence examples for drab world from inspiring English sources

At first, they bridle at the idea of painting their own drab world.

Justo had arrived in Thailand four years earlier, having fled the drab world of finance in London.

But, at his best, he brought an undeniable, spiritual elan to the drab world of postwar British theatre.

The painting could neither be defined according to "the drab world of naturalistic prose", nor its opposite, the universe of "absurd academic fictions".

As a schoolboy in the drab world of the early 1950s, I remember being swept away by the glamour of it all.

Forty years ago today — now that has a nice ring to it — brash lads flashed across the firmament, bringing light and color and sound to a drab world.

Charon is a darker, drabber world than Pluto when you see an identically processed image of each (below).

TOKYO — Shintaro Ishihara has been a rare, flamboyant presence in Japan's otherwise drab political world for four decades.

It dispenses with the usual courtesies of exposition; plunging you without ceremony into a drab, postwar world full of drab, postwar people whose interrelationships and experiences are entirely opaque.

Back in the 1960s, pop culture – characterised by teenage girls in knee-length white boots bopping to the latest top 10 hits – used to appear both modern and benign; it was a welcome reaction against the drab postwar world of the 1950s, when punitive attitudes towards sex forced many reluctant couples into early and unwanted marriages.

"Hail Mary" goes so far as to import the story of the Immaculate Conception into the drab modern world, making Mary a sullen Swiss adolescent living in a shabby working-class milieu, and imagining the conception itself as a moment of terrifying carnal ecstasy.