Sentence examples for dreary climate from inspiring English sources

In spite of the Netherlands' mild but often dreary climate, Mr. Reardon made sure his apartment had one last American addition: air-conditioning.

This is complicated, but westerners have often dreamed of Asia as a zone of hedonism, he says, of guiltless liberation from the "cold, pinched and dreary climate of the Christian, especially Protestant, West" -- in other words, from the missionaries.

Most famous for his books The Last Resort in 1986, which captured British holidaymakers in Brighton, Bad Weather in 1982, in which he documented England's dreary climate with an underwater camera, and Bored Couples in 1993, which showed an array of glum people, Parr's approach to social documentary is often humorous.

They said it: "Watson captures two of the country's most iconic subcultures as they come to life in the dreary climate of 1980s Britain".

If anything can help us forget the dreary economic climate, it's... the hilarious, good-time antics of Neil LaBute?

In this dreary advertising climate, when ESPN The Magazine wanted to draw some attention to itself, it chose a tactic favored by the Lindsay Lohans of the world: flash a little skin.

"For much of the past six months, despite the dreary media climate, we believed that we would see signs of recovery by the fourth quarter," Leonard P. Forman, a senior vice president at the Times Company, said in a conference call with analysts yesterday.

By contrast, e-Merlin is suited to the dreary British climate because the radio wavelengths it detects are not affected by cloud cover, and unlike telescopes that observe visible light it can operate during the day as well as at night.

Previous UN climate change forums, where dreary jargon often pours treacle over any sense of urgency, have been enlivened by entreaties from Pacific island leaders.

While the climate negotiations in Paris trudge their dreary road, Storm Desmond takes a great boot to our backsides.

The climate is temperate with lengthy, fair to moderate summers (often broken by thunderstorms) and long, wet, dreary and cool winters.