dreary

If the future of filmmaking really is in the hands of those who can best define this dreary period of life, “It Ends” meets that challenge with an optimistic, tenacious flair movies have been missing.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

What’s tiresome is that in learning about them we have to sit through a one-sided lecture of the usual dreary sort.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

It's a hobby that started six years ago, when he went to Shetland to see the northern lights - though the weather was so dreary he "didn't see anything".

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

A period of dreary, windy, cool weather is settling across Southern California this week, as a cold system from the Pacific Northwest moves south.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

What had once been his bedroom was transformed from a smelly, dreary man cave into a simple, neatly organized room.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Here’s another of those: a slower and drearier version of the Hollies hit.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

Academics preferred the 20th century’s drearier strains of pessimistic poetry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

He added that the world was now a "drearier" place without her in it.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2025

Instead of the chilling rationality of HAL in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” we got the drearier, very human awfulness of Microsoft’s Sydney — deceitful, irrational and sometimes plain old mean.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023

If Courtney and Jupiter take notice of my drearier demeanor post-field-trip-and-photo-discovery, neither lets on.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

And as an already sleep deprived, anxiety attack-prone person facing the darkest, dreariest season of the year, I figured it was worth a shot to try to nourish my way to a better attitude.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2023

“Amidst this dreariest of settings, Miss Rowland demonstrated that she is above all an artist.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022

"The problem with Pixar's latest feature isn't just that it's the animation house's dullest, dreariest, most spiritually empty to date. It's that it fails even on its own painstakingly contrived open-goal terms."

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2022

After losing his bid for speaker, De León was stripped of his Appropriations chairmanship and relegated to one of the dreariest offices in the state Capitol.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2022

Turner knew from the map there were another seven miles, and once they were on the move again, they were the hardest, the dreariest they had walked that day.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan