Sentence examples for dreary work from inspiring English sources

One waits; one sympathizes, but it is dreary work".

Ramsay's superb film reminds us that someone does the dirty, dreary work of explaining, feeling unhappy, going on prison visits and generally carrying the can.

On volunteering in 1939 he failed the eyesight test, but was called up to the Royal Army Pay Corps ("dreary work, with no prospect," he wrote in a letter) in August 1940.

The combination of the Internet and scads of new environmental regulations, such as a rule that requires vessels to change from high-sulfur fuel to low-sulfur fuel when they are within certain distances of U.S. shores, has made it dreary work.

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.

After law school at the University of Michigan she spent several years doing dreary legal work in New York.

Escorting them looks like dreary, hard work without the perk of vicarious connection with the highest reaches of society.

It isn't easy to imbue the megalomaniacal Agamemnon with shading or a human grasp of choice, and Christopher McHale does not, though the unexpected reality of having a daughter who is supposed to be luminous but is really dreary, should work in the character's favor.

We passed rows and rows of dreary brick work houses from Victorian times, haunting in their ugliness and oppressiveness.

The "sober reality" was twelve to fourteen hours of dreary, exhausting work, which many workers experienced as hostile to intellectual development.

Tasked with finding great talent, you have at your disposal lots of salary of offer, in exchange for a sad, dreary, uninspired work environment.