Sentence examples for sort of dreary from inspiring English sources

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A sort of dreary half-light also permeated two identical East End terrace houses in London's Whitechapel, where German artist Gregor Schneider installed Die Familie Schneider.

But to name these as the central themes of "Light" risks making it sound like the sort of dreary deconstruction that peels back an aesthetic surface only to reveal — surprise!

Far too much of the humor on the show - which was directed by Walter C. Miller, with Mr. Dangerfield as executive producer - falls back on the sort of dreary, old-fashioned shtick that is associated with Rodney Dangerfield himself.

He's the ringleader of a sort of dreary circus that tells the audience when to clap and laugh.

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I sort of agree.

I found myself preferring to avoid the sometimes dreary spectacle at street level and cast my eyes upward to the ornate balconies, or let the myriad colors of the buildings collect into a sort of visual kaleidoscope.

It's dreary, sort of like living through somebody else's thesis, and -- worst of all -- it gets in the way of a fascinating story.

So I'd practise my Leavis positions on him, and he would meditate in a weary sort of way, and sometimes in a dreary sort of way, on the uselessness of being, the transcendence of indifference, and so forth.

AFTER a dreary winter, a sort of spring fever of the palate now affects many of us; such a malady is best satisfied by the arrival of the first fresh, locally grown produce of the season.

But those pictures sort of made it look like a dismal, dreary version of Office Space (I know Seattle is cloudy all the time, but come on).

This, they inform us with the sort of dreary lack of appetite you'd expect from a group such as Cash, "demonstrates that it is technically possible to produce cheese with less salt in it".

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