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dreariness
noun
The characteristic of being dreary.
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It's very autumnal in feel – blackberries, cinnamon, toffee-ish brown sugar and hearty oats – but I can't see any reason why it can't be enjoyed now, too, on cooler days when spring slips back into drizzle and dreariness.
From then on the reader, too, is alert for him, doffing his robe to dance, dominating the tiltyard, until in 1509 he throws the windows open and sweeps his father's miserly dreariness away.In this section Vintage is the new vanguard Oh heavens, no Man of words Horrid Henrys Biographies in paint ReprintsThis imbalance is a shame.
Years of shared experience, he says, have transformed this apparently desolate wasteland into a small island of enchantment in an ocean of suburban dreariness.
It could hardly, they might reflect, be much worse.Enough dreariness alreadyMr Darling needs to start rationalising the gloom a little.
JOKES under communism were not just a welcome contrast to the dreariness of everyday life; they also helped undermine it.
Ms Menteith spends much of her time outside walking dogs and has noticed a significant change in the weather in the past five years or so – as cold, crisp winters gradually give way to "constant wet dreariness".
We now greatly admire that dreariness, and no one would touch it.
Peep Show launched the careers of now household names Mitchell, Webb and Olivia Colman, perfectly encapsulating the dreariness of post-millennium life in an overpriced London flat.
Tastes change in these matters – Charles James Fox, in the 18th century, admired Chatsworth for standing in "wild and desert places – to step from dreariness into splendid apartments".
Peep Show launched the careers of now household names Mitchell, Webb and Colman, perfectly encapsulating the dreariness of post-millennium life in an overpriced London flat.
"Much as Lucienne Day and other contemporaries created bold patterned textiles to excite and invigorate a post-war Britain, designers are doing much the same today to overcome the dreariness of a recession-obsessed Britain," he says.
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