Sentence examples for is rather dreary from inspiring English sources

He is rather dreary, a textbook composite of an awful childhood, social isolation and misogynistic impulses, and his domination of a story "inspired by real events" is in poor taste and stark contrast to Emma Donoghue's focus on the victim.

But from my point of view it's rather dreary.

I was told it was rather dreary and not worthy of inclusion.

2. Such a vocational commitment is apparent in religious figures and artists, but it is also found among people in rather dreary jobs, who feel they are making a sacrifice for their children and for their families (see Sennett and Cobb 1972).

The food and bargain prices are the draws at Public House 49; the rather dreary setting and noise are the shortcomings.

According to Odile Fillion, general director of Jean Nouvel Design, it is the first time Mr. Nouvel has worked with stone but he chose it because he was determined to return a rather dreary 1960s office block to its former Haussmanian glory.

And despite the fact I find the desert area outside of the beautiful seaside Corniche and cosmopolitan downtown rather dreary, I am having a love affair with Qatar.

Similarly, its theme could be reduced to the protagonist's rather dreary discovery that in tracking down his father he is "really looking for himself".

I met Marcouch a month before the Gay Pride Parade, at the district office in Slotervaart, an area of cheap three- and four-story concrete apartment blocks built mostly in the nineteen-fifties, which are dreary rather than visibly poverty-stricken.

As a rule, however, service in the Luftwaffe auxiliary was dreary, though dreary in a different way from school.

I am all for bringing history alive with the powerful stories of heroes rather dreary abstract determinism.