Sentence examples for less drab from inspiring English sources

Still, watching Colly and co is far less drab and irritating than watching say, Jonny Wilkinson".

His party, the Social Democrats, is likely to do badly in the election.Amid all this hubbub, life for most Ukrainians is becoming a bit less drab.

At its best, that has meant a mood of freedom and choice that has made these islands a brighter, less drab place than they once were.

But nothing could be less drab than Pritchett's sly approach, which, once you're alert to what he's doing, is one of dazzling virtuosity.

But it's a little less drab, a touch more serene and wily, toward the Bob Dylan-Wideal Nelson ideand and it comes with handsome string arrangements by Brian Beattie, who had the job of adding classy ornaments after the artist and his band had done their part and gone home.

One half longed for a countryside from which they had been cut off for 30 years and the others for a more urban, less drab environment.

Yes, we have shouted and sung and raised our voices – we wanted our voices to be heard, and I can imagine nothing less intellectually drab and bland than the protest we recently held.

When your understanding of ordinary shifts from basic, drab, less than excellent to containing the divine, you will know it.

Indeed, Gasparini, Serena, and Pilastro (2013) argue that male guppies (Poecilia reticulate) choose females already surrounded by drab, less attractive males rather than females surrounded by bright, more attractive males because being relatively more attractive than the competition is likely to increase their mating success.

Everything is deflated somehow, slightly drabber, less shiny and fabulous.

His characters watch the days pass on low-rise estates less iconically dystopian than drab, where in lieu of career options there's the army, where the local crime-lords are just small-time scumbags and where unbroken homes raise eyebrows.