| One wrong call, she thought, and the entire country was in danger of looking dowdy and unstylish. |
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| Charlotte, the Yale graduate in her unflattering woollen tank-top is made to feel dowdy and dull by this jabbering Valley girl. |
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| You can imagine my disappointment when I was issued with my flying suit, a dowdy navy blue number complete with fetching leather skullcap. |
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| The choice of hard-wearing, if dowdy, plastics and fabrics inside means that intergalactic mileages can be covered with little sign of wear. |
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| Later, she is presented as a rather dowdy vestal virgin or as an elegant but staid matron demurely working on her embroidery. |
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| I'm not inclined to argue because the Barbour is just about worn through in some places and has become distinctly dowdy. |
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| He has a rumpled, boyish look to him, resembling the actor Michael Keaton in dowdy pinstripes and a button-down shirt. |
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| Gone is the willowy beauty, and in her place is a thin, pinched, dowdy lady, an eccentric Victorian who wears ugly hats. |
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| I've walked past it loads of times and from the outside always thought it was just a dowdy 70s office block. |
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| Unlike dowdy, brown females of the species, male blackbirds possess bright yellow-to-orange beaks and shiny black plumage. |
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| Far from being a dowdy matron, she was a strong-willed, independent-minded, intelligent woman, twice married, with a mischievous sense of humour. |
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| There is the same comic contrast between the characters' unbridled enthusiasm and their dowdy clothing and heavy Eastern European accents. |
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| Television pundits lambasted her image as a frumpy housewife who delivered dull speeches while clad in dowdy grey or brown suits. |
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| Several dowdy ladies gravitated towards them, bringing cups plates and enquiring minds. |
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| Only the dowdy daughter, Martha, treats him with kindness, teaching him to read and shielding him occasionally from her siblings' harshest jibes. |
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| Our living room does not have any character, unless that character is a dowdy matron who has a full-time gig as a toy tester. |
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| Tapestries, to me, had always been dim and dowdy things ravaged by time that no one but an academic drudge could like. |
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| By the end of Ann's episode, the formerly dowdy Jersey girl is certainly more stylish. |
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| He was wearing a long, dowdy beige jacket, the edges of which were marked with mud and grass stains. |
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| The co-ordination of the proceedings, the clocking and permanent nerve lance of the way in which the dowdy work tasks have been accomplished. |
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| For all their dowdy utility, cutting boards are a critical part of your kitchen. |
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| On the cover of Time, in a spread in Life, the image of Romania's Iron Lady was stout and unsmiling, a monolith with a face of stone, dowdy clothes and unkempt hair. |
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| In it, dowdy housewife types got a chance at an attitude overhaul complete with pole-dance lesson, learning the stripper strut and makeovers galore. |
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| She writes a weekly series called The Beseleys for a nameless and dowdy woman's magazine of the sort Dewar helped to fill when she was a jobbing journalist. |
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| Now the road to the grave stretches ahead, enlivened only by daytime television and the holidays he will take with an equally dowdy wife he barely tolerates. |
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| His hands, which he'd put lightly on his wife's shoulders to persuade her to go home, felt something very irregular underneath that sensible, dowdy dress. |
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| I found it hard to believe that I had ever located anything attractive in this dowdy woman with her bleached blonde hair, her nonexistent figure and her masculine voice. |
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| Well, the exterior design is certainly bang up to date. In fact, it makes some of the Japanese competitors look somewhat dowdy. |
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| Thus that inaugural series was played in dowdy whites with coloured stripes down the side. |
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| Nault also had a keen, innovative theatrical sensibility and a strong desire to rid ballet of its dowdy image. |
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| Cash-strapped sponsors of table tennis, billiards and badminton are seriously considering a change in uniform so that its women players look less dowdy and more fetching. |
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| The fact that Rice is a dowdy, silver-haired nun plays well in the Court of Public Opinion. |
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| Away from the main drag of the town, it can all seem a shade dowdy. |
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| There are mallards galore, the males with their metallic green heads and the females a dowdy brown, and busy little black scaups, bobbing like bath toys. |
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| Carla's choice of a mouse-gray suede Dior coat with pussycat bow was dismissed as dowdy. |
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| They dress down, talk quietly, are dowdy, studious. |
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| If a company fails to get its designs and buying right, the damage is as serious as a brand being devalued by poorly made products, dowdy stores and a morose sales force though the reverse is also true. |
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| The craft work was condensed into dowdy dresses with dolman sleeves, their dusty, bleached colors matching the models' pale faces, hair raked into a side part. |
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| Our future queen suddenly appeared rather dowdy in comparison with a number of high-profile women who are looking east for wardrobe inspiration as the Asian influence on fashion continues to grow. |
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| And Carinthians, they say, have always taken pleasure in cocking a snook at those dowdy bureaucrats and grey politicians in the distant federal capital. Maybe so. |
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| The Co-op movement was slow-witted and dowdy by comparison. |
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| She long ago shed the extra pounds, dowdy hair, and frumpy clothes. |
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| So at first blush, America's vision of Europeans as dowdy appears founded. |
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| Paul and Fiona Robinson, a finance and interior design couple, have turned dowdy swirly-carpeted Roseland House into a light and airy 10-room family-friendly hotel. |
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| Instead of wearing the proper uniform, he dressed in a dowdy black suit and looked more like a spiv or businessman than representative of Queen and country. |
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