Sentence examples for dreary thing from inspiring English sources

And a dreary thing like plumbing can turn out to be the centre of a heist.

If the show intended to nod at the kinds of abstraction influenced by American painting of the 1960s (Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler and others painted on canvas with acrylics in a way that seemed to up the ante of the watercolour tradition), why not chose a late 60s John Hoyland, a 70s Bert Irvin or a recent John McLean rather than this dreary thing?

But real science, the fundamentals, like the subject of Nash's lecture, is a dreary thing, like truth itself.

"Others," Ms. Dickinson said sadly, "have the same dreary things that've been there forever".

As for comparisons between the princely helicopters, I'm afraid William's Sea King sports dreary things like nightvision goggles and a rescue hoist, while Harry's hardware includes Hellfire missiles and rockets and everything.

No matter how dreary things get, there will always be a certain crowd that favors gilded ceilings over mid-century furnishings; Versace over Jil Sander.

This venerable document includes some wonderful things like souffled potatoes ($6 extra, and worth it) and some really dreary things like overcreamed pastas and endless variations of veal.

In his inaugural address, he pleaded: "Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things.

To me, that is one of the dreariest things I can think of.

Historical society museums can be cluttered, dreary, disheveled things.

It sounds a bit like a return to the dreary tenement.The funny thing is, though, some economists who study spending through consumers' life cycles tell us frugality may actually be the practice of an optimist.