(Bad art inspired some of her best poems, just as the dreariest characters inspired some of Chekhov's best prose).
As Tranio in Ayliff's modern-dress production of The Taming of the Shrew, Richardson played the character as a breezy cockney, winning praise for turning a usually dreary role into something richly entertaining.
Ms. Rodriguez has the drearier role — it's obvious that the show was written by three guys, since only the female characters are accessorized with flaws — but her singing is ardent and assured.
To the left is a dreary corridor, but characters also enter and exit through an armoire that sometimes serves as a wine cellar.
These Czech stories, written both before and after the fall of Communism, revolve around themes of love and death, featuring factory workers, students and other characters whose dreary lives are tempered by the consolations of sex, humor and fantasy.
After all, it's an unexciting show in a dreary place populated by characters who are motivated solely by money.
Vibrant descriptions of color, combined with simple, clear writing, are also apparent throughout, and humor in the form of irony serves in stark opposition to the dreary setting and desperate characters.
It's a great moment not because it's bleak and miserable (I'm actually exhausted at how games, like Tomb Raider, confuse dreary world design and characters' suffering with narrative sophistication) but because it lends a slight nuance to the people you're playing as.
Samuel Lewis, writing in the middle of the 19th century, said that the church was "a conspicuous and interesting object" in a parish that "partakes much of the general character of dreary sterility by which the mining districts in the immediate vicinity are distinguished".
In 1993 she left the soap, complaining that her character had become dreary, "living off her old reputation", but returned in 1997, and earns a reported £400,000 a year.
