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"drabness" Definitions
  1. a lack of interest or colour; the fact of being boring

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Despite the characteristic drabness of East Germany, Marcel had a pleasant childhood.
Bulgaria's drabness is a neutral palate against which this book's sexual and intellectual heat flicker.
His 1990 is one of communist-era drabness imbued with a longing for the West.
A red color scheme and an unmistakable brand of drabness pervade most of the offices.
Bennani manages to portray this oscillation between developing-world drabness and virtual fantasy without sentimentality.
A hand penetrated the milky mist, and pulled her back into the drabness of her living room.
"Drabness has been a kind of camouflage we're only just sloughing off," my young friend Luhan remarked.
Not even its reflection of the modern clash between millennials and Generation Olds can really save its drabness.
They are impatient with drabness and proud to assert their national identity—not to say their buying power.
The fleeting sexiness of "Beverly" is absent, the characters' drabness somehow making their awful plight all the more intimate.
In a monthly column for a magazine called Web Marketing Tools, he inveighed against the drabness of most thinking about the web.
"From motives inscrutable to his friends, the author of Living chooses to publish his work under a pseudonym of peculiar drabness," he wrote.
Not all of these movies are great cinema: Eastwood's directorial drabness often drags down his films, and he sometimes struggles to focus his ideas.
The street lamps there have never worked well, and the dim lighting, which might have been pleasant under other circumstances, brought out the drabness of the place.
But I woke up thinking about the Duke, for the second day in a row, maybe because his very existence was an antidote to that kind of grating drabness.
Set in the everyday drabness of Bucharest or other, even less glamorous Romanian cities, they turn the grievances, frustrations and hopes of ordinary people into deadpan philosophical case studies.
Flaunting its '80s milieu, Bandersnatch is a kind of inverse visual feast, laying on the retro drabness, the Brutalist cityscapes, and the low-pixel aesthetics of early '80s game design.
Or so we have been taught: that lushness equals splendor, that when a blossom wilts and fails, the plant that bore it is finished, returned to drabness, spent of purpose.
As her story is revealed through troubled dreams, it turns out that Daddy and the other men who rejected Liza early on are responsible for all that drabness and repression.
But as the drabness of the planet and the critical voices back home overwhelm our hero with self-doubt, he fails to notice he's being followed by a friendly-looking, large red Martian.
Could, say, Milton Keynes—a town built in the south of England in the 1960s, known mostly for its drabness—start a festival where culture fans from around the world might spend six days?
Through toughness and clever bluffing, she removes him from the drabness and anti-Semitism of Vilna to a life of comfort in Nice, always, always reminding him that his mission is to become a great writer.
She's engaged with our chat, but I can see her eyes every so often darting back outside to take in London's drabness; it's like she'd rather be sat alone with her coffee to soak it all in.
Like much of the movement's visual and artistic output, tie-dye was "a challenge to the perceived drabness of 'straight life,'" writes Chris Gair, a lecturer in American literature and culture at the University of Glasgow, in an email.
Directed by: Ralph S. SingletonWritten by: John EspositoBased on: "Graveyard Shift" (collected in Night Shift) Graveyard Shift has the industrial drabness and stilted plotting of The Mangler — but it's not a career low point for Robert Englund, which is an automatic improvement.
Though some of the sets are a little too evocative of Mr Anderson's style—a phrase which here means "resembling colourful dolls' houses"—most capture the shadowy drabness of Brett Helquist's illustrations (and a few of his drawings are mimicked on screen).
Adapted from Philip Roth's 2008 novel, which was inspired by his college years and set in 1951, it evokes the drabness of a time when living standards were much lower than today; anti-Semitism was pervasive; and the fear of Communism was epidemic.
Where the other two stick to a realism that today strikes us as fantastical in its utter drabness (Holland particularly has been questioned about the bleak Poland she depicted in A Woman Alone and insisted her locations were actual apartments), Chytilová's style is more fragmented, with short takes, kaleidoscopic storytelling, and jaunty editing.
No such drabness can be found in A HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY (Vendome, $55), in which the architect Peter Pennoyer and his interior-designer wife, Katie Ridder, take us through the process of planning, building and decorating a mansion on their six-and-a-half-acre property in Dutchess County, N.Y. (with an editorial assist from Anne Walker).
Only those blessed with the privileges money and slim good looks bring, these women seemed to suggest, could get away with wearing a dress that evokes virginal drabness at best and cult-style patriarchal oppression at worst; a dress which, with its sacklike silhouette, looks like a cross between a 1880s homesteading smock and the so-called bankruptcy barrel archetypically worn by old-timey hobos.
Not a smell, not a style, not even drabness nor monochromy exactly.
In some species, nymphs often exhibit strikingly vibrant colors in contrast to the relative drabness of adults. The colors can also vary between instars. Mating between adults can last for several hours, with the male and female attached end-to-end.
Some years later, after relocating to Malmö, some of the members formed the rock act Legrand. Drabness has been confirmed to play a reunion concert at the Motala Hardcorefestival August 3, 2013. The band also released their old demo tapes on Spotify.
Foraging brown-rumped seedeater in Debre Berhan, Ethiopia Length 13 cm. This is a drab uniform grey-brown canary with a small white supercilium. It has a plain (not streaked or spotted) breast with white under the chin. The uniformity of its drabness means its eponymous 'brown rump' is often not apparent.
Even though "[M]ost democratic socialists recognize that strict equality of incomes is unworkable and also unjust",(p211) extreme disparities seem to be "immoral." Small entrepreneurs are OK but corporate salaries are "obscene." There is a need for "moral restraint". Still, the extravagance of the rich is the difference between socialist drabness and urban brightness and gaiety.
Variety noted the "sharp editing and tight control of actors" and the use of "[b]leached colors, oblique camera angles and bargain-basement lighting". The film, which was aimed at male Generation X viewers, showed the unromantic drabness and pettiness of life in the suburbs in Western Canada, a stark contrast to the majestic mountains often shown in postcards.
Anders Tillaeus, Martin Lundgren and Sinisa Krnjaic formed Drabness in the summer of 1994. After just a couple of months the band recorded their first demo. The year after Morgan Gottfridsson was added on guitar, the band played many shows in the nearby area and recorded two more demo tapes. In 1996 they were approached by the local record label, TPL Records and recorded the EP, Affliction.
" IndiaGlitz gave a review stating "Arya-2, though not in any way a second edition of that mature predecessor, is nevertheless both interesting and sympathetic. Its greatest asset is the riveting second half. Its biggest drawback is the slowness Arjun's character takes to grow on us. If its intelligence and humour in the second half make it enjoyable, the drabness, tacky comedy and excruciating scenes make it unwatchable in the first half.
East London Group artists were able to see beauty in the most unlikely subjects, bringing ‘a warm feeling to their art which is transmitted to the viewer’. The drabness of the East End, painted with a muted palette, is reflected in the early works. In the work of Elwin Hawthorne, the absence of people contributes to an almost surreal atmosphere. As the artists began to travel out of the city, the tone of the paintings lightens.
It is a roman à clef about the first few months of his married life in Dublin. It is also an unflattering picture of the drabness and mean-spiritedness of lower middle class Irish life in the mid-1940s. Two further novels about South Africa followed and their unvarnished descriptions of the reality of life for the native population probably contributed to Cleeve's eventual expulsion from the country. In the mid-1950s, Cleeve began to concentrate on the short story form.
In a letter to Eleanor from North Dakota she stated: "These plains are beautiful. But, oh, the terrible, crushing drabness of life here. And the suffering, for both people and animals...Most of the farm buildings haven't been painted in God only knows how long...If I had to live here, I think I'd just quietly call it a day and commit suicide....The people up here are in a daze. A sort of nameless dread hangs over the place".
129 The RAMC felt that the women would not be properly trained to care for and control soldiers in the military setting. They were proven wrong when the women received all positive acknowledgments due to their "feminine touches" around the hospital. Flowers, bright colours, and proper lighting—all of which contrasted with the drabness of military hospitals—were attributed to the women's ability to consider the patient's psychological health as well as their physical health. During the hospital's active years, Endell Street Military Hospital staff were able to publish seven publications in The Lancet.
Critic Peter Debruge declared the style "the antithesis of your well-lit, elegantly shot Hollywood movies – or the locally made films of Mungiu's childhood". Journalist Steven Boone said that while the film was well reviewed for "its bracing drabness, its ugliness, its lack of style", he believed it was "beautiful and stylized", because "it is alive and piercingly present-tense". He compared it with the films of the Dardenne brothers. Mungiu said he aimed to begin scenes, including the first, without giving the audience background information and letting viewers discern what was happening.
The original farmhouse was enlarged and modified during their ownership, including the addition of the stepped gables, a Scottish baronial genuflection to the land of their fathers. By the time of the sale to Churchill, it was, in the words of Oliver Garnett, author of the 2008 guidebook to the house, an example of "Victorian architecture at its least attractive, a ponderous red-brick country mansion of tile-hung gables and poky oriel windows". Tilden, in his "highly unreliable" memoirs, True Remembrances, wrote of "creating Chartwell out of the drabness of Victorian umbrageousness".
The story depicted in the video centers on worker drones living and working in a cluttered, gray city, and living in an oppressive red haze. Juxtaposed onto the harsh drabness of their robotically efficient existence is a soft falling snow. Donald Fagen's face is visible throughout much of the video as an overlord like figure, watching each drone's every move. The video itself spotlights one particular man drone and woman drone, however the centerpiece of the video occurs when an inefficient, napping drone gets zapped with electricity by Donald Fagen from his watch point above the city.
Elkin (1944), rear cover The drabness of its interior decor and the lack of leg-room in the seating attracted criticism. In 1913, The Musical Times said, "In the placing of the seats apparently no account whatever is taken even of the average length of lower limbs, and it appeared to be the understanding … that legs were to be left in the cloak room. At twopence apiece this would be expensive, and there might be difficulties afterwards if the cloak room sorting arrangements were not perfect"."Occasional Notes", The Musical Times, Vol. 54, No. 847 (1 September 1913), pp.
Only sound seems to be missing, until we imagine the voice of poet Konstantin Kuzminsky (the figure nearest the center). The overall effect is to produce a keen state of sensory awareness in the viewer (there is even erotic suggestiveness in some of the plant forms). This heightened sensory awareness might be seen as an antidote to the drabness and anaesthetic quality of Soviet daily life. Tulipanov is no doubt aware of the symbolic language of the traditional still life, in which images of food, flowers, and so forth were meant to remind the viewer of the transience of worldly things.
TV Guide wrote that a "good performance by Victor and an intelligent script lift this one above the ranks." The film historians Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane agree: "The film is quite neatly structured but, without the coherence which Victor's sympathetic understanding of the central character gives, it would seem much thinner than it does. Its comedy centres on the drabness of an oppressive domestic situation and, in the flowering of George Potter, what may be lost in unthinking conformity to a routine."Steve Chibnall & Brian McFarlane, The British 'B' Film, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2009, p. 204.
Major alterations and additions occurred in 1928 with surplus funds from the government endowment funding the partial demolition of the back wing of The Maples and the addition of a three-storey wing providing accommodation for seventeen undergraduates, two graduates, a tutor, the gardener, Miss Warren, and a maid. In the summer vacation The Maples was used by staff and students who chose to remain in residence while the main College building closed for the holidays. In the inter-war period the College grounds matured, creating "an oasis in the drabness of an industrial suburb". The strength of the original landscaping was still visible, but softened by mature trees and shrubs.
The book focuses on the drabness of life in the student residence, and the suspicions and disaffection of the writers being trained to produce Socialist realist literature. The action of the novel takes place during the Soviet propaganda campaign that forced Boris Pasternak to decline the Nobel prize for literature for Dr Zhivago. It provides a lively parody of the fake public outrage of the campaign. Parallels with the life of Kadare, who also studied at the Gorky Institute in the late 1950s, and wrote an early novel entitled The General of the Dead Army (1963), suggest that the narrator should be regarded as an alter ego of the author.
I hear the Nation march Beneath her ensign as an eagle's wing; O'er > shield and sheeted targe The banners of my faith most gaily swing; Moving to > victory with solemn noise, With worship and with conquest, and the voice of > myriads. proclaiming the "shows of things" (Maine's quotation marks):This phrase occurs in a famous quote from Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning (1605): "submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind" the naïve assumption that the splendid show of military pageantry—"Pomp"—has no connection with the drabness and terror—"Circumstance"—of actual warfare. The first four marches were all written before the events of World War I shattered that belief, and the styles in which wars were written about spurned the false romance of the battle-song.
It is also considered as a healthy and a quiet place to live in as it has a lot of green areas, sports terrains and also a bicycle trail alongside the river. On the other hand, the officer blocks, and their grayness and drabness have earned Blokovi the reputation of some sort of urban ghetto during the 90s. This image was perpetuated by recent Serbian movies such as Rane, Apsolutnih sto, Jedan na jedan, Sutra ujutro, and Sedam i po. However, recently the erection of Delta City shopping mall, plans for Aquapark and Tennis courts near Block 45 have doubled the value of real estate in this area, at the time when New Belgrade with numerous development plans becomes one of the more desirable parts of the city.
A Guardian review of The Tightrope Walkers wrote "Even in writing for adults, .. Almond threads the fantastical and imaginate through the drabness of the mundane, alternating lyricism with rough realism." and The New York Times wrote "Almond’s rough, beautiful world of books and ships, sinners and saints is a lyrical reminder of how, when we lose our equilibrium, art can redeem us." Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly both gave starred reviews. The Tightrope Walkers has also been reviewed by Booklist, BookPage Reviews, Voice of Youth Advocates magazine, The Horn Book Magazine, School Library Connection, The School Library Journal, the Historical Novel Society, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, An audio version received a 2015 Earphones Award. It was also a 2016 Cooperative Children’s Book Center Fiction for Young Adults Choice.
New Belgrade seen from Kalemegdan Not much attention was paid to detail and subtlety when New Belgrade was being built during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The objective was clearly to put up as many buildings as fast as possible, in order to accommodate a displaced and growing post-World War II population that was in the middle of a baby boom. This across-the-board brutalist architectural approach led to many apartment buildings and even entire residential blocks looking monumental in an awkward way. Although the problem has been alleviated to certain extent in recent decades by addition of some modern expansion (Hyatt and Intercontinental hotels, luxury Genex condos, Ušće Tower, Belgrade Arena, Delta City, etc.), many still complain about what they see as New Belgrade's "grayness" and "drabness".
Poppy's introduction to EastEnders was criticised by Daniella Graham of the Metro, who said that "viewers were left questioning why on earth anyone thought this pointless sub-plot was necessary". In contrast, The Press and Journal Derek Lord deemed Poppy to have been "a welcome addition to the show"; he wrote that, "as a double act, [Jodie and Poppy are] no Morecambe and Wise, but at least they bring an element of something approaching humour to the otherwise soul-destroying drabness of the London soap". Jim Shelley of the Daily Mirror labelled Poppy the "Optimist of the week" for her line "I bet it's really nice here when they ain't having a funeral", and "Delicate flower of the week" for her "That is so well tragic innit?" when commenting on Tommy Moon's death. Stuart Heritage from guardian.co.
Luna Park is a member of the short lived Russian film genre chernukha, which deals with the everyday realities that people faced at the end of the Soviet rule, but also shortly after, as Russia struggled to create a new identity. Very much a movie about the post-Soviet struggle for a new identity, the violence portrayed by the gang is used to highlight the un-ease felt by the general population at the time. Dealing with the issues of anti-semitism and attitudes towards minorities in Russia at the time, Luna Park relies heavily on showcasing the nation as it actually was, and Pavel Lungin uses a setting of darkness and showcasing the drabness of actual life to illustrate the misery of the everyday person. The cramped, often hectic apartment of Naoum Kheifitz (Oleg Borisov) is an excellent example showing some of the living conditions people were faced with at the end of the Soviet period.

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