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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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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Moths are generally distinguished from butterflies by their drabness, yet the luna moth is almost flamboyant. |
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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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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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It doesn't help that today is a Sunday, so the usual bustle of hawkers, pedestrians and cars that enliven the empty drabness are missing. |
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Following the drabness of propaganda lyrics, poetry also enjoyed a revival. |
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Don Quixote is the symbol of imagination contrasted with reality: he represents the eternal warfare between drabness and excellence. |
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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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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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After the drabness of the 1950s, her clothes were chic and slightly transgressive, but not haute couture. |
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The thing that has always struck me when I was travelling in countries that were not free, in police states, is the grimness and drabness of life that results from this utter lack of privacy. |
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Standing at the Berlin Wall in 1987, he looked over to the east and, struck by its drabness and emptiness, knew that the system behind it was evil. |
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William Blake had been dissatisfied since boyhood with the current state of poetry and what he considered the irreligious drabness of contemporary thought. |
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Even the unholiday drabness of the homespun dress could not dim the expectation with which she set out soon after daybreak. |
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Rarely in his paintings is the drabness relieved by a glimmer of hope. |
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Not a smell, not a style, not even drabness nor monochromy exactly. |
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