How To Use Drabness In A Sentence
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It's the unrelieved drabness of big industrial cities that depresses me.
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These windows have bright red and orange curtains; the clash with the penitential drabness of the rest of the building is peculiar.
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The building's massing is the only thing that rescues it from complete monolithic drabness.
Keeping 'Home' Out of Sight
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On the windowsill flower arrangements added color to the drabness of the room.
Miracles, Inc.
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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
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It is a wonderful book, rich with feeling and detail and sensuality, and a perfect antidote to the drabness of London in winter.
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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.
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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?
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Moreover, ways must be found to create communal urban space capable of mitigating the drabness and dreariness of most public housing developments.
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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
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From the first strains of funky double bass, they manage to transport the cold and harassed shoppers around them from the local drabness to a world where the sun shines and the living is easy.
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Part of the overall drabness in this film emerges from the unescapable funnel effect of the visuals, which are doused in a cold blue-steel tint.
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The subway goes aboveground, and New York in all its drabness slides past the window.
Miracles, Inc.
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In time, East Berlin emerged from Stalinist drabness, but as to its material well-being — to say nothing of the repression it endured in the Stasi-dominated society — it was a poor if evolving entity.
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Georgian prose, raised from early Georgian "drabness" by the efforts of Johnson, Gibbon, and Burke, but not proceeding to the extremes of any of the three, was still the academic standard; but when a certain freedom on the one side, and a certain grace and colour on the other, were being taken from the new experiments of nineteenth-century prose proper.
Matthew Arnold
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If the editor knows that the drabness is intentional, then it’s a sign of the colorist’s ability to set the mood, NOT incompetence.
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The war in 1939 perforce ushered in an era of more grime and drabness.
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The snow pattered down around me as I looked up at her, landing in my hair and covering the dull drabness of my dress with fluffy flakes.
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Spread the custard over the fruit and then garnish with nuts and mint to spruce up the drabness if you like.
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The extravagant plumage of peacocks contrasts with the drabness of peahens.
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We need them to safeguard us against drabness and drudgery, against a mechanistic and wearisome utilitarianism.
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The secret: excellent raw materials and handicraft skills that have somehow survived decades of war and years of egalitarian drabness.