She feels that Miss Finney is a pathetic character and imagines that her life is very drab and sad.
She was already rapidly losing her rich coppery-coloured coat of summer and the comparatively drab winter coat was very evident.
She was very nearly stopped, and men were leaving in dribs and drabs.
The football, for long spells, was very much like the noise conjured up by the England supporters' band – drab and uninspiring.
Certainly she was very beautiful, Alan thought, though without her makeup, of course, here at the retreat, and in the baggiest and drabbest of clothes.
When I started the Skeptic magazine in 1987, one of the first subscribers to write back was Hilary, offering us the run of the picture library's collection to liven up the pages of what at the time was a very drab, poorly designed newsletter.
"It's a very drab feeling," she adds, providing the understatement of the series so far.
Seymour and Audrey work at Mushnik's Skid Row Florist, a drab little establishment where business is very, very bad.
In Aickman's fiction, peculiarity is intertwined with a drab twentieth-century realism that is very English and sometimes dryly funny.
The effect of this picture is very like the biography's effect: wildly interesting in theory, but unaccountably drab in fact.
