In the final week of a season in which the Jets have won 10 games for the third time in 18 years, Coach Herman Edwards was not about to fault his offensive coordinator, Paul Hackett, for the dreary performances against the league's best teams.
Then came a play late in the fourth quarter that helped the Rams dramatically overcome their dreary offensive performance, sending them to Super Bowl XXXIV next Sunday in Atlanta against the Tennessee Titans.
Think of what follows as theatrical speculation then, set against a backdrop of some of the dreariest political performances we've yet been subjected to.
Despite a dreary all-around performance in an ugly and chippy game, the Giants, at least for a moment, had confidence.
For Head in the Clouds, Bruce Birkland of Jam! Canoe said, "The story feels forced and the performances dreary, with the notable exception of Cruz, who seems to be in a different film from the rest of the cast".
For her part, Ms. Tautou delivers a dreary, ruinously one-note performance that, like Mr. Lellouche's natural appeal, further undercuts the story.
Revolutionary Road, which earned Michael Shannon a supporting actor nod for his standout performance in an otherwise dreary film, also pushes out this weekend.
Prokhorov, a 6-foot-8 kick boxer, international playboy and shrewd businessman, did his best to make people forget the team's performance last year at the dreary Izod Center in East Rutherford, N.J.
This thought came to mind more than once at the Joyce Theater on Thursday night, while watching the first performance of a disappointingly dreary program by Nederlands Dans Theater II.
These took place in the Ailey Citigroup Theater, and it was too bad that the last half of Thursday's closing performance comprised the three dreariest works of the festival.
