Sentence examples similar to workaday looking from inspiring English sources

The opera opens outside an airfield in Beijing, where a contingent of Chinese Army, Navy and Air Force personnel — dressed in Dunya Ramicova's costumes, which have a touching workaday look — solemnly sing a chorus.

LG's new G5 phone is a curious bit of kit: essentially a workaday-looking smartphone, but one that features a weird slidey thing at the bottom to remove, and quite likely lose, your battery.

But most of the uses are more workaday inquiries, like looking up prices on the Web before haggling with merchants.

One centers on a plain wooden chair with a white garment draped over its back — the perfect counterpart to Mr. Williams's spare, concise American-modern poetry — while "Painting Materials" takes the workaday painter's vantage, looking down at a gray-brown cluster of brushes, pigments and solvents.

It looked workaday.

Yet the first time I saw her in a newspaper, back in 2007 – the first press she'd ever done – she was looking coy in her dad's stripy shirt and a pair of brogues, a chummy, workaday sort of gal.

Otherwise, though, looking like a George Michael impersonator in his aviator shades, he comes across like a classy but rather workaday soul man who got lucky at the expense of losing himself.

But I was looking forward to my two days in the city in September because I knew there was an adventure waiting at the other end of this workaday commuter line.

LaVoi, currently the costume designer for TNT's "Major Crimes," was working on the show's predecessor, "The Closer," a few years back and looking for a way to give star Kyra Sedgwick's character a bit of a fashion evolution out of her workaday drab.

Food Bennie's Thai Cafe, 88 Fulton Street, at the corner of Gold, (212) 587-8935, may look like a workaday cafeteria from the outside, but of all the Thai places I've sampled in New York, it is the one whose kitchen most closely captures the flavors I remember tasting at street markets in Bangkok.

Historical recommendations dating back to the Elizabeth Taylor-era suggest that the Ristorante Puny in the pretty Piazzetta is a good workaday alternative, but I thought the menu looked a bit turistico.