Sentence examples for dreary shadow from inspiring English sources
John Burroughs High School has for too long labored under the dreary shadow of a field and stadium that hark back to the old days a little too much.
The game started off with a very German Expressionist look, with sharp angles, harsh edges, and dreary shadows, and we wanted to distance ourselves from that style. .
Dark, doleful, dreary, like a greedy grave.
It should be dark and dreary.
In the eyes of many longtime residents, the area's dreary past continues to shadow its present.
In the shadow of some dreary public housing developments, 16-year-old April Ong is whiling away another sweltering afternoon with friends at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf cafe, chatting about boys and nursing an icy coffee milkshake that cost the equivalent of $2.50.
A sub-Pink Floyd dirge, "Tiger Dreams" was irredeemably dreary, while "Evil Is but a Shadow" felt like bad Lana Del Rey.
As shadow home secretary, she played dreary political games with carefully-crafted interventions on issues such as immigration and drugs - and even now seems largely defined by distancing from rivals on either flank rather than her own appeal.
The director, Beth Skinner, who conceived the work with the composer Edward Herbst (who provides onstage accompaniment) in collaboration with the company Triple Shadow, has given them a terribly dreary concept to work with.
Only "My Shadow" follows the piano ballad formula that established their dreary reputation.
