Sentence examples for dreary effect from inspiring English sources
To offset (yet entrench) the dreary effect of such facts, "Waiting for 'Superman'" (also mentioned in this week's Economist) is structured around five children of different ages and circumstances.
Humans die in large numbers every day, every hour, from heart failure and automobile crashes and the dreary effects of poverty; but strange new infectious diseases, even when the death tolls are low, call up a more urgent sort of attention.
And only Ellen cared much for a film that "dares to challenge the grim and dreary special effects blitzathon approach of most superhero movies".
Furthermore, according to Kursty Groves, an innovation consultant who works with company leaders to "unlock [the] creative potential" of their staff, dreary working environments are having an adverse effect on businesses worldwide.
A dreary 0-0 drawasas the outcome.
The genre markers it adopts, in order to chase away the dreary critics, choke most of it at an infantile level of unadulterated effect.
The indignities of life on the road, like dreary hotels, bland food and sleep deprivation, have begun to show signs of a cumulative effect.
