Sentence examples for dreary surface from inspiring English sources
The counterpoint to this dreary surface is Alex, who arrives in 1981 looking as if Bryan Ferry had just called her to sit for the cover of the next Roxy Music album.
Barely a dreary surface survives in this surprising city: every slab of concrete or brick seems to have been given colour and brought to life with strikingly professional modern design.
But Venus is actually uninviting: it has a sweltering carbon dioxide atmosphere and its dreary volcanic surface is at 500C.
I understood at once what had happened, and it was by far the best part of a lovely experience: that dreary bedrock under the surface of my life was no longer there, and off I could go into happiness.
Outside, on the lawns of Assocham, which is housed on Prithviraj Road, one of Delhi's main thoroughfares, a buffet welcomed those who surfaced from the dreary meeting.
But to name these as the central themes of "Light" risks making it sound like the sort of dreary deconstruction that peels back an aesthetic surface only to reveal — surprise!
On the surface it feels like a dreary parody of Disneyland mixed with freak show panache including grimy Disney characters.
On one episode, faced with transforming a drab kitchen, he painted every imaginable surface, creating a faux-tiled floor, faux marble countertops and a faux tablecloth for a dreary kitchen table.
What saves all this from dreary post-modern self-consciousness is pristine execution; elegance of surface, color and proportion, and a bit of radiance that is more modern than post.
