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How to use drabness in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word drabness? Here are some examples.

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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.
The extravagant plumage of peacocks contrasts with the drabness of peahens.
We need them to safeguard us against drabness and drudgery, against a mechanistic and wearisome utilitarianism.
Moths are generally distinguished from butterflies by their drabness, yet the luna moth is almost flamboyant.
It is a wonderful book, rich with feeling and detail and sensuality, and a perfect antidote to the drabness of London in winter.
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.
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.
Following the drabness of propaganda lyrics, poetry also enjoyed a revival.
Don Quixote is the symbol of imagination contrasted with reality: he represents the eternal warfare between drabness and excellence.
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.
Moreover, ways must be found to create communal urban space capable of mitigating the drabness and dreariness of most public housing developments.
After the drabness of the 1950s, her clothes were chic and slightly transgressive, but not haute couture.
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.
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.
William Blake had been dissatisfied since boyhood with the current state of poetry and what he considered the irreligious drabness of contemporary thought.
Even the unholiday drabness of the homespun dress could not dim the expectation with which she set out soon after daybreak.
Rarely in his paintings is the drabness relieved by a glimmer of hope.
Not a smell, not a style, not even drabness nor monochromy exactly.
Examples from Classical Literature
Neither dress nor ceremony had yet been curtailed by the drabness of Democracy.
Michael enjoyed Mr. Neech's eccentricities after the drabness of the Special.
There was time to see the drabness of his boarding place, so he changed it.
The loneliness and drabness of working away from people are fatal to his best effort.
We know that it is our sacred mission to save the world from the drabness of modern democracy.
In the air was a drone of drab creatures being happy in their drabness, rejoicing in the waste, thoughtless of the future.
So began a merry interlude in the drabness of the Handsomebody regime.
She was tired of the drabness and clutter of crowded foregrounds.
After the drabness and austerity of the war years, London saw an explosion of colour and changing attitudes.
The outcome is a lively new coterie of civic buildings that confound and transcend the more familiar notions of municipal drabness.
The soap, hitherto known for its dreary Northern drabness, at last gained a much-needed bit of sparkle.
But the drabness, the awful drabness, is just what you find in Kafka's stories long before Communism.
It is also what might vitiate its potential appeal, giving an impression of drabness and inconsequence.
The rays of the setting sun brought out the drabness of her.
A miasma of computer-generated special effects in the otherworldly sections is distracting and we yearn for a speedy return to the drabness of reality.
Elsewhere, the buildings and their contents are prone to drabness.
Also, the normal state of Melancholy is such that even a case of katzenjammer merely blends in with the surrounding Drabness.
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