drabness
Example Sentences
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The strict realism runs the risk of drabness; the novel’s title, for instance, is so forgettable that I have had to look it up three times in the writing of this review.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
To stay sane, she releases her pent-up frustration at her gigs, where her furious guitar playing, powerful vocals and introspective songwriting torch the everyday drabness of her life with a Dionysian flame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2023
The key to “Everything” is that the proliferating timelines and possibilities, though full of danger and silliness, don’t so much represent an alternative to reality’s drabness as an extension of its complexity.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
And the danger is even greater in “A House Among the Trees,” which gives up a lot of white space to that caretaker, although she never shakes off the drabness of her conception.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2017
Could this drabness of life keep up forever, then?
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
