| New Zealand is a country peppered with lots of skateparks and friendly people, far away from the cold and dreariness of the San Francisco winter. |
| But I just saw what my future was and I didn't want it to be small-town middle class, that dreariness. |
| Each evening we put into a French port, and each port greeted us with the same dour dreariness. |
| Because we were the generation that had been raised on a diet of 1970s dreariness, of safety-pinned punks and urban grot. |
| He spoke of poetry and emigration to New Zealand as a ten pound pom, his discovery of marching girls, local verse, and suburban dreariness. |
| In fact, since the plodding dreariness is usually broken by bouts of howling misery, the slow points come as rather a pleasant respite. |
