Sentence examples for dreary down from inspiring English sources

It was very dank and dreary down there.

He recalls his wife, Dorothy, saying, years ago, "It's so dreary down there, why don't you paint it?" They had just returned from Florida -- "you know, everything is green and pink and blue down there, and she suggested pink".

Hospitality, Glasnot-Style : Until recently, tourists visiting the Soviet Union where limited to dreary, broken-down Intourist hotels.

It is a dreary paddle down river.

The dancers keep going too, attacking and oscillating and staring this dreary material down.

With its clichés, the movie is a dreary walk down comedy's memory lane.

With its set of clichés, the movie is a dreary walk down comedy's memory lane.

"Worst" is a dreary walk down comedy's Memory Lane, with a more updated song score, which includes "Happy Feelin's," "Hit the Road Jo" and the Craig Mack retake on Frank Sinatra's "High Hopes".

But as a dreary stroll down Park Avenue will remind you, Modernism swiftly became a gutless orthodoxy, its high ideals devolving into the rote features of the International Style, a repetitive and predictable series of gestures (curtain walls or ribbon windows, recessed plinths, decorative piloti, windswept plazas, ornamental lawns and flat shimmering pools).

Quietly walked back to my hotel via the Louvre with its pyramid — interesting alignment from the base of the new statue of Louis XIV, the French imperial mind at work apparently, then long dreary walk down the rue de Rivoli to Concorde, majestic...

Nevertheless, Carte later recalled, "I went and watched the Company playing at a rather dreary theatre down in the suburbs of London.