The area, with tree-lined roads and an abundance of smart office buildings, is in turn a relative oasis amidst the grey-and-brown blur of flyover and construction that leads up to it.
Even the Britpop generation is now greying fast: when Blur performs at tomorrow night's Brit awards, the drums will be played by Dave Rowntree – who, at 47, is two years older than the prime minister.
At breakfast each day a sudden clatter of crockery and a blur of grey fur means only one thing: the monkeys have struck again.
I squinted through binoculars in the direction Simkhada was looking, but all I could see was a blur of grey through the dense foliage.
Traces blurs light grey almost white on white.
Four stonechats showed multiple sharply demarcated white foci of up to two millimeters in diameter in the pancreas, and the surrounding parenchyma was blurred grey-red (Figure 3a).
Evelyn Waugh wrote a hilarious corrective to sight-seeing consensus: "I do not think I shall ever forget the sight of Etna at sunset; the mountains almost invisible in a blur of pastel grey, glowing on the top and then repeating its shape, as though reflected, in a wisp of grey smoke, with the whole horizon behind radiant in its pink light, fading gently into a grey pastel sky.
Arriving in Montreal was a blur, a veritable grey haze of train rides, cab rides and the final arrival at my grandmother's house.
Color is Black, smoothed line, 2.5 pt, 0% transparency; Shadow is checked 21 degrees Outer Color 2nd lightest Grey, 100% size, 4 pt blur, 20 pt distance, 57% transparency; Glow and Soft Edges should be 3rd grey down, 2 pt size, 0& transparency, 1 pt soft edges.
As to the other three walls (designed by Chantal Thomas), think MDF, an Impressionist blur of zinc-grey skies, and the sprawling rooftops of 1880s Paris.
