drabness

She could not continue in the drabness that was the world without it.

For all its drabness, she described it as once a happy home.

Literature provided an alternative to the drabness of his life.

Could that substitute for the drabness of his remaining life?

He also perceives light and color where adults see only drabness.

Things became what they were: drabness looked drab; heat was hot.

The loneliness and drabness of working away from people are fatal to his best effort.

For some it was the happiest period of their lives, especially by contrast to the drabness at home.

Throughout the filming, however, she insisted on taking the drabness out of her character.

That drabness had nothing to do with interior decoration, as it is generally conceived.

Here they can escape the drabness, the crowded conditions, the sameness of city life.

But he never strays far from his fundamental drabness.

Fourteen paradisal days stretched between them and the drabness of their daily life.

We'll have to live in cheap places, down in the dirt and drabness like everyone else.

And with a wave of his hand he indicated the drabness of her flat.

The absence of scenery emphasizes the drabness of their world.

In addition, the industrial revolution was under way and its accompanying drabness made people look back to more romantic ages.

Does this just-the-facts approach to accessibility doom a site to drabness?

There is drabness and futility behind the fixed smiles.

No matter how far they traveled, they could find little relief from the drabness of their surroundings.

You saw the Bactricans and felt some disdain for their drabness.

After the utilitarian drabness of the rest of town, it seemed like a garden in bloom.

For Gautier these splendid images provided a continuing haven from the drabness of real life.

The King would be safe here, able to fade into the drabness that characterized this sad, sandy planet.

And do these numbers create a drabness?