brown study

Example Sentences

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“The Potato Eaters,” the large, mostly brown study of peasants at a humble meal that scholars consider Vincent’s first masterpiece, was hung above the fireplace.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2021

Most people spend between 30 and 47 percent of their waking hours spacing out, drifting off, lost in thought, woolgathering, in a brown study or building castles in the air.

From Scientific American • Aug. 22, 2014

As Shroeder, Actor-Playwright Guyer is a brown study of the good ole boy, wondering what ever happened to the kingdom of machismo.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now the Committee will go into a brown study and emerge with a tariff bill that will try to satisfy the people back home�and Mr. Hoover.

From Time Magazine Archive

All that day I remained buried in the deepest brown study imaginable.

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