Sentence examples for for a drab from inspiring English sources
(Scott) ★ 'The Future' (R, 1 31) Miranda July, a surrealist for a drab, literal age, combines piquant observations of the emotional lives of the not-quite-young with imaginative inventions that are at once whimsical and perfectly serious.
(Dargis) ★ 'The Future' (R, 1 31) Miranda July, a surrealist for a drab, literal age, combines piquant observations of the emotional lives of the not-quite-young with imaginative inventions that are at once whimsical and perfectly serious.
Here were genuine heroes for a drab, disaffected time, nerveless men hurtling through space at thousands of miles an hour in shiny tubes of science-fiction technology in pursuit of new worlds.
The Knicks' aggressive defense and Chicago's offensive ineptness meshed for a drab 78-67 victhat that enabled the Knicks to win after two straight defeats to the league's conference leaders, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Indiana Pacers.
It was, more than anything, that sense of naturalness that made Ms. Page a star in this shadowy 1950s world and later a favorite of the likes of Dave Stevens, who featured a Page character in his comic "The Rocketeer" (the basis for a drab 1991 movie with a luscious Jennifer Connelly).
Even Angelica Garnett, Vanessa's daughter by Duncan Grant, is little more than a moaner in Malcolm's eyes, her unironic tone as a writer making for a drab contrast with the "natural gaiety" of her aunt Virginia (I must admit that gaiety is not a word I previously much associated with Woolf).
What was for years a drab roadside eating and watering hole (Napeague Inn, Jolson's, Sharkey's, Pig 'n' Whistle) has turned into the sleeper of the season and for the Hamptons, a modestly priced one with dinner entrees starting at $13.95.
Key stat: Vancouver's Corsi-for percentage is a drab 49.5%.
ONE day Hollywood will spin its yarns around Cornelius Gurlitt, the eccentric 80-year-old recluse who lived quietly for decades in a drab Munich flat amid towers of canned food and 1,406 stunning works of art.
But a win looked unlikely for either side during a drab opening 45 minutes in which both sides failed to register a shot on target.
On May 14 , 2001 she started working for $7 an hour cleaning at the Barbour, a drab hotel for the homeless.
