How To Use drabness In A Sentence
- It's the unrelieved drabness of big industrial cities that depresses me.
- These windows have bright red and orange curtains; the clash with the penitential drabness of the rest of the building is peculiar.
- The building's massing is the only thing that rescues it from complete monolithic drabness. Keeping 'Home' Out of Sight
- On the windowsill flower arrangements added color to the drabness of the room. Miracles, Inc.
- I admire Indian women here who have lived in this nation for decades who still wear the beautiful tunic suits or saris of their homeland; a beacon of loveliness in a Maoist landscape; what orwell called a 'tyranny of drabness'. i also admire the middle Eastern women in my neighbourhood always so elegant in their scarves and flowing robes, so beautifully put together and ready for anything! Alfred Augustus Glendening 1861-1903
- It is a wonderful book, rich with feeling and detail and sensuality, and a perfect antidote to the drabness of London in winter.
- I got the underpainting done today, experiencing the old feeling that a nice fresh drawing was being submerged in a more or less monotone drabness.
- The contrast between the plain exterior and the immensely rich interior is like a sharp blow: perhaps an intended device to remind us of the drabness of the outer life and the vibrant richness of the inner life?
- Moreover, ways must be found to create communal urban space capable of mitigating the drabness and dreariness of most public housing developments.
- On my earlier visits to East Berlin, I was always told that the contrast between the western and eastern sectors was artificial, and that I must go farther east to see real signs of growth in the D.D.R. This I did, early this summer; but the pattern of grey drabness is the same. Germany: The Anatomy of a Crisis