Halina and her son, Jacek (John Cameron Mitchell), move to a drab apartment and begin the difficult task of making it a home.

Instead, many live anonymously in drab apartments, the glitter of their former lives only a fading memory.

In a model Communist community like Nowa Huta, where drab apartment blocks dot the landscape, layoffs will create special problems.

Mr. Arias invited him to stay with him in the tiny, drab apartment he shared with half a dozen others.

He remembered that he all but lived in the hospital for three years, going home to his drab two-room apartment only to recharge by sleeping for a few hours.

Out of a one-night stand between two ordinary people in a drab apartment, Mr. McNally fashioned a contemporary romantic fairy tale.

Anemic fingers of light reached around the window shade's edges, allowing her a better view of Jack's barren and otherwise drab apartment.

It's the drab apartment of a widow in her late sixties with a respiratory infection.

In-gu is a gangster but also a husband and father who dreams of moving his family out of their drab apartment and into a bigger home.

Mr. Ayende was shot on a cul-de-sac shouldered by drab apartment blocks a short distance from an elevated subway track.