How To Use Dreariness In A Sentence
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I do not of course mean, Heaven forbid! that people should try to converse seriously; that results in the worst kind of dreariness, in feeling, as Stevenson said, that one has the brain of a sheep and the eyes of a boiled codfish.
From a College Window
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In "Sunset Park," Auster is more interested in the neighborhood's vast semi-industrial stretches peppered with nondescript houses, all the better to endow the proceedings with an enforced sense of dreariness.
Paul Auster Paints a Dreary Picture In 'Sunset Park'
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So there was no end to this thing, no awakening and disillusioning, none of the disappointment and dreariness which is likely to attend the translating of a dream into work-a-day life.
The Good Comrade
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They don't dare to get to grips with the ineluctable dreariness of what is going on.
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I nosed into the shadow and turned on my searchlight and the cone of brightness showed me nothing but the dreariness of pea-sized rubble and the flats of rock dust and little boiling areas where the dust, electrified by the inpouring solar radiation, hopped and jumped and skipped like a frying pan of fleas.
The Trouble With Tycho
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The arrival of cherries means the dreariness of winter is definitely over, and I can finally look forward to a long, delicious summer of fresh apricots, raspberries, nectarines, peaches, and plums.
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Because we were the generation that had been raised on a diet of 1970s dreariness, of safety-pinned punks and urban grot.
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He will have nothing about him but the flying plover that is so heart-breaking in its piping at the grey of morn, for him must the night be a dreariness no rowth of cruisie or candle may mitigate.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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The dreariness is a pretty terrible factor with this one as it gets overbearing at times.
Epinions Recent Content for Home
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Thick, grey, rain-laden clouds obscure the warm morning sun, casting a certain dreariness upon the land of Myrmar below.
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By sheer force of contrast, after the washed out bleak dreariness of the English winter I'm beginning to understand the stature of Spring in English literature.
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Here the neglectfulness and dreariness of the outer aspect of the grave are completely done away with, and the dead lie peacefully under ground carpeted with flowers, and shaded by trees.
The Englishwoman in America
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Before Mama and I ended up on the streets, it was a wonderful escape from the dreariness of the life we were living.
Family Storms
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Located in the eastern part of the city on a once dry and desolate vast piece of land, today it is a fascinating beehive of activities, the dreariness having given place to eye catching greenery and multiple activities.
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Even so, better - perhaps - the fake-Scots of this bad-tempered poet's youth than the prosy dreariness of his maturity.
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The park wore an aspect of utter dreariness and ruin.
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The variety of leniency of the different officials, and of the same officials on different days, gave a certain savour of adventure to the dreariness of prison life.
Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
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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.
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My friend was very cheerful, and seemed to enjoy everything; but a kind of dreariness came over me, and I began comparing the loveliness of the summer evening with the cold misty blank that seemed to make up my future.
Adela Cathcart, Volume 1
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Both groups separately discuss the boredom and dreariness of their lives and decide to have a night out on the town - predictably ending up in the same place.
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Each evening we put into a French port, and each port greeted us with the same dour dreariness.
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The text seems to scream out from the paper, "Fulfill your fate!" and the paint obliges with a gorgeous dreariness.
Daniel J. Kushner: "Text Painting": Grace Hartigan and Frank O'Hara at Tibor de Nagy Gallery
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It was not the loneliness of unfrequented nature, for there was a well-kept carriage road traversing its dreariness; and even when the hillside was clothed with scanty verdure, there were "outcrops" of smooth glistening weather-worn rocks showing like bare brown knees under the all too imperfectly kilted slopes.
The Bell-Ringer of Angel's
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In fact, since the plodding dreariness is usually broken by bouts of howling misery, the slow points come as rather a pleasant respite.
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Moreover, ways must be found to create communal urban space capable of mitigating the drabness and dreariness of most public housing developments.
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A certain dreariness overtakes the consistent, relentless cleverness.
Keeping a Civil Tongue
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Because we were the generation that had been raised on a diet of 1970s dreariness, of safety-pinned punks and urban grot.
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It will take years and years before it's natural dreariness is overcome.
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In Toronto at least, the heat has swung a full 180 degrees from last week's rainy and cold dreariness to a hot, humid, skin melting climate.
Going Around in Circles
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It's bright and homely… displaying none of the drab and dreariness you'd expect for any kind of health-related centre.
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I despise this kind of dreariness -- rather be in state prison near the folks.
Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers
