Sentence examples for such a dreary from inspiring English sources

Serious novels (such a dreary term) seem to grow thicker every year, as if weight were a simple function of mass.

He'd started as a kind of Marxist man-about-town, but he'd run out of things to write about, because Dublin was such a dreary kip and he hardly ever went out.

In his letters Theophylactus expresses deep displeasure at being exiled to such a dreary outpost of the empire and shows an overriding sense of cultural superiority over the barbarian (i.e., ignorant of Greek) Bulgars, by apologizing for having sometimes to mention Slavic proper names.

Argentina were not a great deal more effective on a night that should reiterate Germany's position as the favourites at the Maracanã on Sunday, but the prize for Alejandro Sabella's team will compensate for the fact it had been such a dreary spectacle.

Mario Morales, a senior vice president in the company's semiconductor group, said the number of chips sold would improve, but their average selling prices have decreased so sharply that chip makers would have trouble surpassing their sales, even compared with such a dreary year as this.

Yes we did, and it is precisely that surprise from such a dreary species that we should take solace in.

Decency and rationality lead to failure, self-disgust and madness in pieces such as "A Dreary Story" or "Ward Number Six".

The past week has been lovely for enjoying California's outdoor splendor, with warm temperatures and clear, blue skies ushering in a welcome change from such a wet, dreary winter.

Who knew I would run into such a run of dreary "festival films"?

If you are a woman who supports abortion rights and do not fit Erickson's idea of what such a woman should look like — dreary, presumably — he will find a caricature for you: a silly girl who wore the wrong outfit, the one a man didn't want to see her in.

The warmth and light within was such a counterpoint to the damp dreary city that, in a strange way, the weather actually enhanced the celebratory tone of all the other elements.