The daily press was scathing about what was—dodgy stage-management aside—a dreary, earthbound slab of oratory.
The late nights along the Seine were as dark and dreary as the sunshine was bright that Wednesday morning on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
I pushed through some dreary weather in Michigan and Ohio, climbed the roller-coaster foothills of the Appalachians and battled traffic and chewed up roads as I entered the city.
They will brighten the dreary lives of Cubans.
How life will be changed, how dreary the world will be, when papa and you are dead.
How dreary looked the forest-track that led backward to the settlement, where Hester Prynne must take up again the burden of her ignominy, and the minister the hollow mockery of his good name!
We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles round the corner of the island, and up the narrow passage to the haven behind Skeleton Island.
Britons were only offered a clouded view of yesterday's partial solar eclipse owing to our typically dreary weather.
The idea, explains Kosha Joubert, another resident, is not to adopt a dreary, ascetic lifestyle but to demonstrate that it is possible to live in a green manner without undue sacrifice or disruption.
Fashion experts agreed that Aniston's metallic Valentino gown easily outshone Jolie's dreary black dress.
Reading is a quiet activity and it will often induce sleep in the supine position. Especially if it's a dreary textbook or work paper.
He must go the dreary round of his mind again and find out.
After the cook had slit its throat, he used it as the base for five separate dishes, one of which was a dreary soup with two feet, like inverted salad tongs, sticking out of it.
"I grew up in a place like this, where everyone I knew went to space," Garriott tells me over a lunch of veal and cabbage at a dreary Star City cafeteria.
I hate these dry dreary days.
Oh yes, I know it can also be dull and dreary, exhausting and depressing, and sometimeseven dangerous: but even these aspects can serve to embellish the final story.
The picture Mr Zubok paints so painstakingly is vivid. Yet it is only a tiny corner of the dreary canvas of Soviet life.
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