It is surprising that baked stuffed tomatoes – pomodori al riso – have entered my group of faithfuls, as the words "stuffed" and "tomatoes" together generally makes my heart sink – thanks to some pretty dreary examples, many of which were made my me.
Mediocre as some of the later products are - avoid, for example, that dreary Dali exhibition down on London's South Bank - surrealism has always generated first-rate PR.
The camera conjures up not only the stories and settings of Grass's novels of this period, for example, in a dreary car park the ghost of the inn where 17th-century poets meet in The Meeting in Telgte (1969).
Compare, for example, Biswell's dreary little paragraph (at the end of chapter five) about Burgess's final gesture of collapse in Brunei with Burgess's own marvellously funny account in Little Wilson and Big God.
Yet Truffaut has appeared to some as an example of a dreary art-house officialdom, as though his work was there to browbeat you into taking it as Great Art.
Both were textbook examples of the dreary (and surprisingly long-lived) aimless-disengagement school of modern-dance choreography.
"The Office," for example, is set in a dreary suburb where employees bicker and wallow in middle management, a scenario that many Americans recognize from sitcoms like the "The Drew Carey Show" or even the comic strip "Dilbert".
The experience of passing through dreary, industrial landscapes of an inner city, for example, is in stark contrast to driving through the open countryside.
Completed in 1983, it is perceived by some to be one of Prague's dreariest and most dissonant examples of Communist-era architecture.
For example in August 1950 Williams was understudying for Richard Burton in The Seagull: "Dreary day spent watching the lousiest production of 'Seagull' in rehearsal.
