In the name of moral outrage, others convey a preachy, moralizing and
drably didactic accent.
One might wonder whether Davies's approach via myth and imagery (ultimately derived from Jung) risks overinterpreting a story that lacks linguistic distinction, but precisely such an approach can best explain the imaginative power exercised by some
drably written fictions.
The former was comprised of individuals who worked for large corporations, dressed
drably, and dutifully attended PTA meetings.
I think about Dylan Klebold tootling around town in his BMW with its trunk full of bombs, and I can't help thinking about the black dentist in New Jersey who was stopped by the highway patrol more than a hundred times over four years before he finally traded in his BMW for something more
drably utilitarian.
Visually as well as emotionally and melodically, it must stand apart from all else, not
drably merge with it.
Wallace (1889) noted that many species of birds that are monomorphic and have conspicuous plumage nest in cavities, while species that nest in the open have
drably colored females.
The most depressing entry was the Bolshoi Ballet's Infanta and the Jester,
drably choreographed and indifferently danced, and the prize for the most ruthless amid alien corn was shared by the Tokyo Festival Ballet and the Shanghai Ballet Company, a twain which aesthetically Western ballet seems fated never to meet.
In these forests there live certain events, shards of memory, scraps of once-heard lore, intimations once familiar--some painful, shameful, some
drably or laughably inconsequent, others thoughts that the thinker could never hold fast and begin to tell.
Dressed
drably, Chauvet demonstrated, 1 suppose, that men can act obnoxiously no matter how a woman behaves and dresses.
If the
drably derivative, infuriatingly improbable police drama "McCanick" is remembered for anything, it will be for its uniformly overqualified cast, which includes Ciaran Hinds and a lead turn from David Morse.
In short order, however, it was "translated" by the conservative firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill into a
drably well-behaved skyscraper whose latest rendering looks like so many other symmetrical and entirely unobjectionable towers that the firm has designed over the past half century.
The rest of Jonathan Miller's direction consisted of more aimless shuffling around the stage, the characters
drably costumed by Eskandar who had a whole gushing credit in the programme.
Our clothes were still
drably utilitarian, theirs fun and frivolous, with Barbie-style outfits for every occasion.
The
drably unimaginative names ("Blonde Bombshells," "Diamond Dolls," "Sassy Sisters") give you an idea of the level of cleverness at work here.
And Schmid's work, being purposefully demure (and here somewhat
drably installed), doesn't immediately stand out from the pack.
