"
Drab Zeen," for instance, includes two versions of the World War II classic "Lili Marleen," reanimated by the sultry voice of Yasmine Hamdan.
Tory AM David Melding said the destruction of art during the Reformation meant Wales' public spaces had looked 'bleak and
drab' ever since.
Banville capture the fascinating ancient history behind the city and its people, but he relates first hand the
drab oppression of the recently deceased Soviet era, and the crazed new blossoming freedom of a people lost and searching the modern age for a new direction out of the fast food wilderness.
Hunter's Boat and Tote, shown in camouflage and also available in olive
drab, is water-resistant, durable, and this fall's must-have.
The final section on the book is labeled "The Making of the Self-Made Man, 1750-1850." The author has relatively little to say about the self-made man's apparel--what is there to say about frock coats and
drab colors?--but quite a lot to say about the ideology of masculinity in a bourgeois age.
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Portland's The Thermals are destined to become indie-rock superstars, which generally means that they play
drab, shoegazing, emotionally fraught music, but not so in this case.
Years of baking in the Texas sun had turned its olive
drab color to a pale lime green.
Our craftsmen and technicians, with their years of restoration know-how, worked together with the state representatives, general contractor, construction manager, and the local school people as a well-organized team to transform these
drab, deteriorated houses into safe, attractive places to be.
The
drab, lifeless character of the photos is especially shocking given the ecological richness of Louisiana and the Mississippi River.
Finally, it is a pity that Penn made the book such a
drab visual object; a considerable number of the photographs are too muddy to confirm their descriptions.
Ocean liners, the favored wartime transport chosen by the military to carry troops overseas, highlights "Dazzle &
Drab: Ocean Liners At War," the first exhibition ever to chronicle the vital wartime roles these customarily luxurious vessels performed.
The researchers now argue that the unexpected success of
drab birds comes from older males showing less aggression toward them than toward flashier studs.
The venue in Berlin, with the still-unrepaired Kaiser Wilhelm Gedachtniskirche (the city's landmark church, which was extensively damaged during World War II), was especially interesting because of the great progress that has been made in incorporating the previously
drab and depressed East Berlin into Western culture.
low-budget and visually
drab, pic is mostly a series of tableaux, set first in rocky desert, then briefly in lush jungle and finally in the Vatican, where the saint begins his life work.