Sentence examples similar to dreary tones from inspiring English sources
That performance, perhaps better than anything else, il lustrates the dreary tone of a market that watched, for the 14th straight session, declines outnumber advances on the New York Stock Exchange.
Polke's use of paint to replicate the half-tone dot process of newspaper photographic reproduction gave paintings such as Bunnies (1966)—a reference to the byname of the scantily clad hostesses at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Clubs for men a blurred and dreary quality, ironically causing the women, dressed in sexy costumes, to physically and psychologically disappear from view.
She found that it set a dreary, somewhat intimidating tone for meetings with employees.
Once the floor gets dirty, it tends to bring down the whole tone of a kitchen and causes it to look dreary.
The mood in the Giants' locker room was not especially dreary, and there were no hushed tones or players blinking back tears.
This morning I was feeling particularly dreary.
Curriculums are well thought out and rich in detail, while the lively tone makes up for the more dreary elements of online learning.
Another poem that contemplated the Taliban's enemies, "The Waiting Bullet," found a different tone, recognizable to anyone familiar with the dreary rhythms of counterinsurgency or civil war.
Were that the extent of the performance it would have been, at least in some senses, an appropriate mirror for the subject matter of album humanity writhing indefinitely in the face of unsettling circumstances but the dreary mood ended up being something of a fakeout for the tone of what would follow later in the show.
Yet for all the muted tones (there's plenty of black and gray), Arsenault avoids the dreary.
