The State of the Union was dreary and superfluous before Trump and will be dreary and superfluous after he's gone.
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We sat in a dreary guesthouse on the university campus.
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Against this dreary backdrop, there has been one positive story.
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"Give a little expression — don't be dreary-eyed," he says.
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Back in dreary in England, spirits are not as high.
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Without extra pizzazz, they can look like dreary motel rooms.
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We interrupt your summer to bring you some dreary news.
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The trade was a consequence of another dreary Mets season.
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There were tasty and dreary roles, missed opportunities and heartbreak.
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Reality is a bummer, and so is her dreary life.
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" The second stanza leapt forth: "How dreary — to be — Somebody!
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In times as dreary as these, such celebrations are welcome.
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I wanted to have a little bit of the dreary atmosphere.
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The Night Of takes place in a dreary, muted New York.
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It's dreary, cold, and bereft of any tradition or basketball culture.
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Expectations are dismal and dreary as banks report earnings this week.
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As I write this, it's a rainy, dreary day in January.
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Entertainment brings colour to dreary North Korean lives; rebellion brings death.
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It was a dreary morning, the sky damp and rat-colored.
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It is packed with violence and treachery, filled with dreary scenes.
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Expect a rainy and dreary weekend, with highs in the 863s.
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A dreary list, a compendium of the mediocre and the overpraised.
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For the likes of us, the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.
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It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias.
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Usually this event occurs in the middle of cold and dreary January.
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I could have brought it for lunch, but on this dreary Thursday?
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Unboxing videos are normally dreary, pointless YouTube affairs — unless you're this woman.
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Walker advocates going all-in with a coordinated look on dreary days.
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It's the same dreary hooey, made more tedious and witless through repetition.
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Finally, advance an alternative vision to Germany's dreary emphasis on fiscal restraint.
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On this cold, dreary day in January, we just need to smile.
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One cold, dreary spring day I accompanied her to the A.F.L.-C.
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His work was morbid, vicious, and full of cruel and dreary adults.
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I didn't want to make a dreary kind of social realist drama.
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GoPros tend to produce dull, dreary video that needs some post-processing.
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They usually look out on dreary backyards, factory warehouses or parking lots.
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Dreary interior design gives spaces like the TV Station a jumpscare feel.
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She is finally seen examining the parts of herself that aren't dreary.
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Instead, they spend their time doing dreary chores for their husband's families.
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Lee, a white musician from Florida, was stuck on dreary old Earth.
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The scenes that play out before them, alas, are too often dreary.
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Far less incentive to advance via dreary defensive efforts and/or collusion.
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How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus.
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Weather: The forecast for the last days of spring is looking dreary.
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I went back to New York and it was cold and dreary.
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It was so very frustrating, because Frank is dreary and Jamie is dreamy.
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If you want to ditch your dreary life-sucking job, go for it!
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There are extended passages of dreary drones, drums are few and far between.
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As dreary as it can seem, it reveals something of the EU's soul.
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More often than not, strangers assume I'm a classically dark and dreary Scorpio.
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The antics of Saiki's buddies kept me lighthearted during a dreary finals season.
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The third ward was once a dreary part of town filled with warehouses.
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I thought polar night would be dreary and dark, but I was wrong.
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This rare spot of levity at the dreary five-yearly congress was telling.
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It's dreary, foggy, and the characters seem weighed down; they hardly ever smile.
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With Apocalypse, Singer never gets around to varying his single, gloomy, dreary tune.
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These were all bright signs in otherwise dreary results for Goldman Sachs, however.
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But it's not the kind of rote, dreary labour that exists under capitalism.
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They affect other people mostly by adding spice to their otherwise dreary lives.
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Because after today, the dreary and the drizzle are expected to roll in.
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That said, the dreary winter day and spats of freezing rain weren't helping.
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With the world so dreary, a little yellow can go a long way.
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It's dreary and dark, inhabited by townspeople who are notorious for never smiling.
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They thought people could use some added brightness during a typically dreary month.
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They came to believe that their dreary sentences were central to their rehabilitation.
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That's a lot of space to heat during the dreary Pacific Northwest winters.
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That's probably Sam Smith, so his dreary Spectre tune will get the nod.
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Against this dreary backdrop, calls for the central bank to act have been growing.
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Setting aside the dreary result, the scandal seemed to plant a seed for progress.
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In 2011 mass protests led to the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, a dreary despot.
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Corporate giants doing business abroad are painting a dreary picture of the world's economy.
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Not your death (dreary thought), their death (unspeakable), death in general: It's all bad.
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" Cavett: Try instead saying, "That must have been dreary and made you feel soporific.
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Instead, in a hastily scheduled speech in a dreary hotel ballroom on Wednesday, Mrs.
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I was happy he could to find some joy in such a dreary place.
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As for what churns beneath its opulent surface, it's still a rather dreary slog.
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No one's going to be complaining about this DC movie being dark and dreary.
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Davis was the Cubs' only All-Star, a stinging indictment of their dreary start.
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GRANDE-SYNTHE, France — Colorful condominiums with low-energy fixtures have replaced dreary old buildings.
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Often, great careers and dynasties don&apost end on happy notes, but dreary ones.
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It's a family tree of unimpeachable piety and dreary episcopal conformity, with one exception.
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Many companies explicitly blamed tariffs and the resultant trade wars for the dreary outlooks.
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Rain and snow in the West starting Wednesday tee up a dreary holiday there.
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Broad cultural stereotyping is just one example of this movie's dreary sense of humor.
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Its engagement with the subject is lopsided, and the presentation is dreary and overstuffed.
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Let it hopefully bring you some joy on this otherwise cold, wet and dreary day.
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Nothing makes a boring, dreary morning commute better than a surprise pupper in a bag.
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The look is no different on this dreary December afternoon in Dobson's north Seattle home.
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Hopelessness is relentlessly dreary to the point that it somehow flips over and becomes inspirational.
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Even a formidable diva wasn't able to enliven this 80-minute piece's dreary, muddled inconsequence.
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He visited the Valley of the Sun in the 1990s to escape England's dreary weather.
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The vehicles would be capable of providing a speedy alternative to the dreary morning commute.
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Anything to perk up that dreary British weather is enough to get the public's attention.
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For the UK, a dreary season of uncertainty, weak government and political maneuvering is certain.
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Then, they saw how the device's default settings can make images look dull and dreary.
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Scenes of bullet-trains and microchip makers have replaced those of dreary state-owned factories.
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"Basically from there until the end of New Years Eve is utterly dreary," she says.
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It was another dreary day for the 8-16 Yankees, who are eight games below .
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Despite the dreary mainstream models, I believe the president will turn out to be correct.
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They are a stark white with slight pink tinges that contrast sharply with dreary backgrounds.
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She transcends the dreary impression, endemic to most institutional critique, of preaching to a choir.
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They only have one win, and sit at a dreary last place in the standings.
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The hospital, overseen by Mother Hildegarde and her dog Bouton, is a dreary set-up.
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Influencers in Los Angeles and New York are saving us from dreary old open houses.
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Screams that are consistent and dreary, like I imagine bad spells of tinnitus might sound.
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The Pour Dreary scores and tasting notes are of little long-term use to consumers.
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DeGrom and Syndergaard have eased any concerns after a dreary three-start stretch for both.
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Rudy embraces Paris, visits the sights, dazzles audiences and hangs out with a dreary crowd.
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I like my spy fiction dreary, realistic and preferably written by a former intelligence officer.
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Jawline is at its best when capturing the dreary work of being a rising influencer.
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Adding a popular form of gambling could help draw customers during the dreary winter months.
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It's hard to get excited about beauty products in the dreary days of mid-February.
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The remnants of America look like a postcard from a particularly dreary day in Iceland.
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It's a surprising, delightful moment, particularly amid the dreary and depressing world of Death Stranding.
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That's a glimmer of hope in a somewhat dreary week of news on carbon emissions.
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The Red Sox did not hire Dombrowski, during a dreary 2015 season, to stockpile prospects.
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It's a dreary Monday in April -- this is not the spring we signed up for!
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The overcast sky bore down on the green grounds; dreary weather on a dreadful day.
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Robert Downey Jr. plays the doctor turned animal whisperer in this dreary and misbegotten adventure.
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On Baseball The start of the workweek, for many people, is always sort of dreary.
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They obscured the Mets' 116th defeat, a dreary 9-210 drubbing by the Chicago Cubs.
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Austerlitz was complaining that megastars have replaced mind-numbingly dreary indie bands in the canon.
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Low Cheekbones, has a brand new snowman tutorial that should brighten up any dreary January night.
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Days are dreary, Vitamin D is in short supply, and SAD is a thing that happens.
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Almost everyone seems to agree that this has been a dreary summer for big popcorn movies.
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The court feels not at all martial, more like a conference room in a dreary hotel.
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Reporters try their best to make null results sound interesting, and others make them sound dreary.
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The weather in the Netherlands is famously gray and dreary—and this summer was no exception.
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The album co-mingles melodic bass patterns with deep vocals and a dreary atmosphere of synths.
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"These folks want everywhere to be North Korea all the time, dark and dreary," he said.
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Despite the dreary weather outside, he is upbeat and eager to get out of the house.
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Driving alone along dreary highways, I belt Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, and The Beatles for company.
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Even on dreary and newsless afternoons — the kind that journalists dread — his non-newscasts somehow sparkled.
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So she packs up her brood and decamps from dreary Britain to a sunny Greek island.
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It has taken many years to free literature from the dreary shackles of high literary theory.
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The gameplay is simple and repetitive, but the basic mechanics belie a dreary and upsetting world.
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Metro Exodus, by contrast, is a dreary game firmly rooted in the sins of the past.
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Knowing this team and its dreary past, it's understandable why they might not be taken seriously.
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As the Mets proceed through the dreary final weeks of the schedule, Matz is back home.
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Everyone in line has imagined a night that could crack open and transform their dreary realities.
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It's a soul-crushing assignment, but this isn't a dreary story, though it's a tough one.
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N.L.," writing that this cameo "was arguably her most endearing moment in an otherwise dreary slog.
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There are a few personal nuggets lodged in some of the dreary details of endless travel.
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A dreary start to the season continued for Rice (123-4), which was outgained 427-242.
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You'll want a luxurious vacation in Zermatt or Majorca (but not in Cairo or dreary London).
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But even within this rote exercise, even amid the dreary name-checking calisthenics, truths seep out.
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Robots initially will perform jobs that are dangerous, dirty and "dreary" and require little human interaction.
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Begrudged populism fomented dreary Fascism in the early 19548th century by playing ethnic groups against each other.
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Sayombhu Mukdeeprom's cinematography is sumptuously desolate, a murky palette of greys, lifeless whites, and dreary 1970s browns.
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Cynicism because most of the practical scientific efforts would perpetuate the dreary taste of commercially produced tomatoes.
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In a dreary acceptance speech she advanced few ideas beyond holding the government to account over Brexit.
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The hotel is a dated and dreary place, decorated in a depressing blend of beiges and browns.
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And yet having done all that, she's now this dreary, uncool workaholic who should play more golf.
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One reason to stick to the past may be the two parties' dreary records in the present.
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It features the same kind of dreary, minimalist vibe that Gondry has applied to his other work.
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I had three children myself and had vivid memories of long, dreary nights fine-combing their hair.
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Nothing is better than waking up to some exciting beauty news on a dreary Monday morning, amiright?
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"There are so many dark, dreary days where you feel incredibly inadequate, and completely lost," he said.
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All hail Bongo Cat, our mighty ruler, the only ray of goddamn light in this dreary world.
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If you'd rather save Gothic pleasures for dreary weather, consider bringing some romance to the shore instead.
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That has been an obvious, dreary answer for quite some time, but "Parasite" suggests a different one.
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Postwar London of the '23s had been a dreary place of rationing, bomb sites and "peasouper" fogs.
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Republican Senators would be happy to be rid of the dreary task of defending the president's conduct.
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At first I question the address: The building — gray and nondescript — is as dreary as the day.
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It's pretty dreary outside and today is a more chill day for me $2.78 22:250 a.m.
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A lot of Season 4 is relatively dreary and unfocused compared to the rest of the series.
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The cul-de-sac where she was raised is certainly quiet and comfortable, if a little dreary.
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It's a cheap and easy way to keep fans happy, especially in the midst of a dreary season.
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There's nothing quite like meeting the Gerber baby in your office to brighten up a dreary January day.
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Instead, every element merely serves the story of a man chasing a woman through a dreary, infinite loop.
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Graham Greene visited in 21940 and described the former jewel of the Danube as a "smashed, dreary city".
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The dreary score suggests that these different contingents are all just craving a little brightness in their life.
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Served sizzling, the steaming caldrons are the perfect antidote to the long, dreary slog from February through April.
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It's sucking up all the screen time, and watering down a superhero fantasy into a dreary soap opera.
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Too many, including "God Save the Queen", suffer from dreary harmonies and platitudes about being victorious and glorious.
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Rosa was sent to a different restaurant on a low-traffic block of SoHo on a dreary night.
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Earth has its fair share of barren landscapes, but there's something truly dreary and forbidding about the Moon.
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Dreary economic numbers The latest economic data underscore the high-stakes involved in the US-China trade war.
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Against this dreary backdrop, governments, multinational corporations and start-ups are looking to innovation and investments for solutions.
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From the moment he walks through the door, parishioners forget the dreary weather as electricity fills the room.
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IN A financial landscape that ranges from the dreary to the disliked, peer-to-peer lending stands out.
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So were hundreds of thousands of others who previously toiled in safe, dreary and unproductive state-backed jobs.
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At the Tate, "Global Groove" and the "TV Cello" share space with cheesy jokes and dreary shamanistic installations.
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Suddenly, Friday night at the Copa América was an all-South American affair, and a fairly dreary one.
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But with temperatures hovering in the upper 70s, we must say, at least this dreary weather feels nice.
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The gallery announcement for "French Bashing" calls these photographs "dystopian" images—of dreary buildings, roads, train stations, etc.
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Most of the nonfiction I remember from my childhood features poorly reproduced archival photographs crammed against dreary typefaces.
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It's cold and dreary in Massachusetts, where I'm social distancing, but my deserted island is warm and inviting.
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Dearest Rosemary, It was a limpid dreary day, hung as in a basket from a single dull star.
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They package otherwise dreary trips in cheerful and quirky wrappings, targeting young people who are looking for adventure.
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Madison is blond and not very smart, and Deutch brings remarkable energy and wit to a dreary stereotype.
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Imagine if you had panicked and cashed out your investments on a dreary day in August of 2011.
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Instead of "dreary Russian dogma," communism, for most Americans involved, was about committed and effective grass-roots organizing.
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After watching "I Am Michael," Justin Kelly's dreary gay-conversion biopic, I felt rather sorry for James Franco.
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NEW MUSEUMS Dessau, a dreary German city 90 minutes from Berlin, gets a major new draw beginning Sept.
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It's a dreary morning, mist hanging in veils over the fields, a purplish tinge to the distant trees.
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"She forgot about how cold, dreary and basically miserable it was over there in the country," he said.
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NEW MUSEUMS Dessau, a dreary German city 90 minutes from Berlin, gets a major new draw beginning Sept.
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Some of these ideas are stale and the moviemaking is dreary or worse, but I'm glad they exist.
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They can skip the dreary rigors of fundraising, and they can argue they're less beholden to special interests.
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As one of Wychwood's owners says, "How dreary life would be if it was only what it is."
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One of the big mysteries about this week's Republican National Convention is why it has been such dreary television.
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The old Taylor Swift, from those dark and dreary reputation days, can't come to the phone right now. Why?
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At the beginning of the day in New York the dreary subway ride to work is filled with music.
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But when Pinterest users search the platform for something dreary anyhow, the company doesn't have qualms about stepping in.
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The entire film has the same blue-and-black color palette, and it gets really samey and visually dreary.
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Seeking a change from his dreary London life, Nicholas Urfe accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island.
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I'd cabbed out to the dreary side of Sin City to meet the men behind the Arcimoto electric vehicle.
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This data lends itself to some dreary outcomes for women of color, but the reality is even more complicated.
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Kate Middleton continues to brighten up dreary London with a slew of stylish coats in a vibrant color palette.
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Nothing will make you feel more ready to face the dreary day than wearing a rainbow on your face.
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Though the winter months can seem dreary, Larson assures wary hosts that an Instagram-ready gathering is totally doable.
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Clinton genuinely enjoys could help present a joyful picture to voters, after a primary season that was sometimes dreary.
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Donald J. Trump has turned the campaign news conference, typically a dreary affair, into a spectacle of self-promotion.
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They descend slowly into a dark room full of what looks like fuel tanks and armaments, a dreary space.
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The dream had to wait a day because of the rain and the dreary forecast in Washington on Saturday.
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The night seeps into another listlessly hungover morning, another dreary day of the Antiques Roadshow and toast for dinner.
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On an already dreary, rainy day in Atlanta, the only light in the building filtered in from the windows.
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As an alternative to that dreary status quo, I proposed a new liberal fusionism — a liberalism with libertarian characteristics.
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Gabriel begins with full surrender, accepting his own dreary fate and figuratively signing over what's left of his life.
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Palestinians, he suggested, should content themselves with the dreary West Bank town that currently houses the Palestinian Authority, Ramallah.
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Johnson) and her billionaire boyfriend, Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan), a guy with sculptured muscles, expensive playthings and dreary issues.
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The long-suffering feminist heroine would make history not in a festooned lovefest but in a dreary, mechanical slog.
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Yet those channels bear little resemblance to the dreary Soviet broadcasts with their stilted language and shabby production values.
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Beanie Feldstein plays Johanna Morrighan, a 16-year-old buried in the dreary Midlands suburb of Wolverhampton in England.
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On Sunday night, the Super Bowl was in overtime and a dreary winter rain was falling in San Francisco.
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At another, Skaramagas, near the port of Piraeus, home-cooked meals brought a flash of joy to dreary days.
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There's a certain depiction of hell that's fiery and dramatic, but the Greek underworld is very dark and dreary.
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Persecution via cinematography is dreary enough, but the omnipresence of violence in the neighborhood is a more urgent threat.
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Both groups are equally obsessed with "finding themselves," which is one of the most dreary conversation topics ever invented.
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Just because we are not gifted on this certain axis doesn't mean we have to live in a dreary land.
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For two hours the viewer gets to trade in their own dreary life for melodrama, Hollywood celebrities and ABBA songs.
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Light breaks in at unexpected angles, stirring up dust motes, revealing a citified greyness that manages not to be dreary.
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Bank of America, whose investment bank had a comeback year after a dreary 2018, had the second-most, with three.
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At the very least, the dreary spectacle probably will not have convinced any impeachment-skeptical Democrats to change their position.
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"Law enforcement officers can have a dreary outlook on life at times," the Sheriff's Office posted on its Facebook page.
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It's been a long, dreary winter and we appreciate any excuse to inject a pop of color into our lives.
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Donald J. Trump has turned the campaign news conference, typically a dreary affair, into a spectacle of self-promotion. Mrs.
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And suddenly on the dreary wasteland of TV, in vivid color, appeared something completely unlike anything we ever saw before.
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Arne's music turned out to be unremarkable, largely in lilting/skipping triple-time, with decorous but dreary 18th-century utility.
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It still reports facts with scant analysis—its officious interpretation of neutrality—and gives dreary attention to bureaucrats and politicians.
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The main hallways and living room have such little lighting it made every room but the master dreary past sundown.
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Mr. Mulroney is stuck with a much more dreary type and back story, and the supporting characters are instantly forgettable.
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"Hey!" he hollers toward the gaggle of stylists gossiping in the back of the salon on this dreary, soggy day.
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The delay will theoretically give McConnell and his allies time to tweak the bill and boost its dreary CBO assessment.
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The music can't match the words' nuanced portrayal of Mapplethorpe's vision and personality, reducing the work's impact to dreary sanctification.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, one of the most famous works of American poetry was born out of our city.
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Unlike dreary early season nonconference games, virtually all conference games, and especially N.C.A.A. tournament games, are played against standout competition.
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She's left behind a dissertation she no longer believes in; a dreary grad-school job; an empty, aimless, passionless relationship.
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Confidence: Medium-High Saturday looks raw and dreary as cool air is wedged over the region much of the day.
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"The Mummy" gestures — or flails — in a number of directions but settles into the dreary 21st-century action-blockbuster template.
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The Mets traded him for a prospect — and salary relief — as they rightly prioritize their future over their dreary present.
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There is a great deal of dark humor in the gap between his high aspirations and his dreary home life.
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Daniel Decatur Emmett, a successor to Rice, said that he wrote "Dixie" one dreary night on the Bowery in 1859.
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The morning after the dinner, the sales reps reconvened in a dreary conference room with red tablecloths and damask carpeting.
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The Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia usually means the cold and dreary days are behind us.
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NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - In the dreary archives of a Newark, New Jersey, courthouse, Ronald Motley found a treasure map.
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Dauber is more comfortable with the triumph of Jewish-American comedy than with the dreary denouement of the European branch.
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He ended up speaking to a couple dozen people, many of them journalists, in a dreary building that held livestock auctions.
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The town marks a dreary spot at what's known locally as La Bocana, the mouth, where the river meets the sea.
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If your day is dreary, may this furry little guy brighten it, just like it does for Levi on the regular.Â
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Foy does her best with what she's given to work with, but it's not enough to save such a dreary slog.
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Like so much of Dark, it's a dark and dreary message, presented with an artfulness that becomes beautiful — and inevitably, addictive.
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The sequel looks as dreary as the original, and it moves from New York to Washington, DC. It's launching March 15th.
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But it also matters that the movie is so punishingly dreary, painting a portrait of the world where everyone's a sinner.
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We didn't know he was coming that day, which made his impromptu appearance in our dreary corridors all the more galvanic.
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There's been a growing movement within the science fiction community to imagine the future as something other than a dreary dystopia.
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After all, the dreary winter is over, and a vibrant color is way more fun to wear in the sunny weather.
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This move, which was once unthinkable for Chicago management and fans, came to feel inevitable as the Bulls' dreary season ended.
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The research comes after shortly a dreary headline from Fortune, "Snap Investors Should Be Very Worried About This Number," last week.
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It feels like not long ago we were turning to Netflix (and, sometimes, Chill) to keep us warm during dreary nights.
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Based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, Cell promises to be the dreary logical conclusion of overwrought tech paranoia.
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New Hampshire A wet, dreary day in Conway didn't keep people from lining up before the polls opened at 8 a.m.
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It presented a dystopian, industrial version of Los Angeles with dreary weather, humanlike robots and people living in outer space colonies.
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To tarry as a "bachelor" or "spinster" past the age of 35 is to enter a doubtful, dreary no man's land.
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This congee with blue crab and Old Bay is the perfect Maryland-meets-Asia comfort food for a dreary rainy day.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PHILADELPHIA — It's cold and dreary on Arch Street, in the shadow of the Convention Center.
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In psychological terms, "mood" is a weather report for your personal emotions, a measure of balmy good cheer or dreary storms.
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Decades passed, but it lingered in my memory every time I shopped for a rug to dress up a dreary room.
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Americans don't like talk of class warfare; it reminds us of those dreary, failed Marxists who seldom practice what they preach.
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Her father lived for a year so dreary and relentlessly full of pain that she was forced to wish him dead.
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Men huddle around tables in featureless hotel rooms, their silent quest illuminated by dreary cinematography and explained only by onscreen notes.
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He was brought by the guards to a dreary conference room, away for the moment from a cellblock for serious offenders.
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Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things.
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At Bethel on one recent dreary Saturday morning, after the hymn, the prayer and the scripture reading, Chief Parrish and Sgt.
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Bank of America, whose investment bank had a comeback year after a dreary 2018, had the second most, with three people.
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Bank of America, whose investment bank had a comeback year after a dreary 2018, had the second-most, with three people.
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He believed that there had been too much reliance on long stretches of austere recitative, which could get a little dreary.
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For many years, Maharaj has set her sights on improving "institutional foods," the typically dreary menus of hospitals, prisons, and schools.
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It was a dreary failure that attracted around 30 people in total and literally ended before it was supposed to start.
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And if you are looking for some depressing news, Freedom House's report (which I am also a bit late to) is dreary.
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Or it could be our antidote to the dreary weather, long nights, and lack of vitamin D that the season inevitably brings.
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It knows what it is and establishes it right away: a breezy comedy providing a positive respite from a dreary new cycle.
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Lyft's week is off to a dreary start as the stock continues to tumble after dipping nearly 20% over the previous week.
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What's great about summer is the dreary fogginess of the darker, colder months is removed, relieving one less pressure of our lives.
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Check Out the Seriously Gnarly Creatures at the Bottom of the Mariana TrenchNeed a pick-me-up on this dreary Friday afternoon?
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Use this curd to top the scones above, or maybe a pavlova for a bright dessert in the midst of dreary winter.
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Take this kid with a Spongebob Squarepants shirt who sat through a dreary and unexciting political broadcast in Australia on Tuesday night.
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Burdened by bloated reboots like Batman v Superman and The Amazing Spider-Man, the category is beginning to look a little dreary.
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As for the best one in a dreary summer, let's call it a tie between Finding Dory and Captain America: Civil War.
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But now, from a damp and dreary London news room, Piers Morgan is here to offer his unwarranted opinion on Kim's body.
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The narrator is deeply embarrassed by the occasion, which brings her favorite old-world writer slap bang into her dreary Californian life.
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Turkey's most famous novelist, Orhan Pamuk, used it to describe Istanbul in the dreary years after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
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Brexit remains the inescapable backdrop, an often dreary legal and administrative process that is now the subject of a rancorous court case.
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This is not the Islamic fashion of Riyadh or Kabul, nor is it the dark and dreary dress stereotyped in the West.
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Mr. Martin told them the song sounded dreary, and insisted that they pick up the tempo and add a simple harmonica introduction.
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African-Americans, in whatever station of life, recognize this over-the-top exertion of force as a dreary day-to-day prospect.
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But it's also laced with a dark and dreary streak, feeling more like a David Fincher film than most other TV comedies.
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The dreary piano lines and synth drones evoke those long, lonely distances, evoking both the anxiety and the solitude of the road.
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But because the Angels are so dreary and because of how we watch things, it's easy to forget how great he is.
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"There are too many brownshirts now," she said at a cafe in Flen's dreary central square, surrounded by shops selling cheap goods.
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The movie's futuristic city is dark and dreary, beset by permanent darkness and drizzling rain, hinting at a history of environmental calamities.
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Not long ago, Li Tianyou was a scrawny junior high school dropout struggling to make a living in China's dreary industrial northeast.
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But whatever you do, don't conflate the pleasurable experience of real shopping with the dreary task of finding a health insurance plan.
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I thought 21917 captured both the dreary nature of life in the trenches and the unsettling danger of being outside of them.
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But over a dreary weekend, perhaps with a few exceptions, that tranquil way of life appears to have been left largely intact.
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Maybe a bar of chocolate to go along with the dreary cup of black coffee that&aposs always glued to their hand.
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Greige, that dreary hue that is neither gray nor beige, but took over our homes for over a decade, is decidedly out.
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By mid-November, the dreary gray buildings and streets begin to glow as concrete becomes covered with shiny lights and pristine ornaments.
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She dreaded being sent back again to depend on her brother's generosity, to the isolation and the poverty, to the dreary past.
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The Apple Lisa computer on his desk, which is apparently so great that this otherwise dreary scenario becomes tolerable for ol' Kevin.
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Nothing like the dreary days of winter to force a reckoning with the clutter that has found its way into your life.
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I'd visit her at Sears on our lunch breaks, where the smell of stale popcorn made the store seem dreary and old.
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But after several dreary seasons while Mr. Epstein rebuilt the franchise, the Cubs almost made it to the World Series in 2015.
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She told me that she had worked as a nursing assistant for a while, but found it to be tiresome and dreary.
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The building was appealing, but not the dim one-bedroom that was available on the ground floor with a dreary back view.
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Nearly every corner of the promenade was occupied by older snowbirds looking to escape the dreary, bone-chilling winter of the north.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Documenta 14 opened last month in Kassel, a dreary, small town in the center of Germany.
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But if it's a cloudy day, a dreary day, and he comes out and does not see his shadow, well, he'll stay out.
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But it's been more than nine months since we last hung out with Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) and her band of dreary weirdos.
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They play a style of metallic hardcore that is frightening and dreary, uncompromising and unforgiving, similar to brooding acts like Cold As Life.
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We decided to give some tweets a group hug to give you a little empowerment and enjoyment on this otherwise dreary, loveless day.
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While Ash is searching for his lost sketchbook pages, Luna also tasks him with bringing the dreary Denska to life through his paintings.
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The listless and pissy mood-disorder vibe of the team's management was mirrored perfectly by the thwarted and dreary team on the field.
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Let's keep these beach pics coming: Riverdale can be a bit dreary, but this co-star collaboration has officially brought us the light.
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A week ago on dreary San Francisco afternoon, I sat by the gray waterfront with Brooks Buffington to discuss Yik Yak's second act.
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It doesn't help that our office is mostly lit by skylight, and it's a rainy day out, so it feels pretty dreary inside.
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So while no one can deny a black turtleneck on a dreary winter day, this sweater season, we're looking to liven things up.
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We were lucky enough to try it out on a dreary Friday afternoon, before it was open to the public over the weekend.
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With a general election looming in April it is not just pictures, but dreary statistics that the government has been accused of doctoring.
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The confinement section was a dreary hell; the "escape" scene was clumsy and sloppily executed; the life-after-escape was draggy and hopeless.
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But before we turn the page, we're going look back at the last four months, picking out the highlights amid the dreary sequels.
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It's a more expected gift, for sure, but fresh blooms are always a good way to warm hearts and brighten dreary winter days.
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Mimicking his character's perpetually dreary mood, Pitt serves up a pensive stare underneath bleached locks, a stark contrast to the smiling young actress.
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By documenting the dreary trip with photographs of bleak-looking places along the way, the women sought to highlight the hypocrisy of lawmakers.
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After living for four years in a house with peeling white paint and a dreary black door, I wanted something fresh and cheerful.
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It's an ugly, pessimistic world overflowing with so much wrong that of course it has spawned a sequel with the same dreary beats.
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The wife of a devoted elderly aristocrat, trapped among "provincial, dreary, unrefined people," seeks diversion in the arms of an abusive local policeman.
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But the Boston Celtics and the Washington Wizards have carved up their own scripts in the shadows of the typically dreary Eastern Conference.
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From start to finish, the movie is a dreary rollercoaster of agonizing lesbian desire, but if Disobedience gets anything right, it's the FLG.
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Like many other precocious teenagers stuck in the dreary outer reaches of suburbia and beyond, I looked to culture as a teleportation device.
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We chose a dreary Wednesday night to insert our vibrators and video-chat on the We-Vibe app, both in our respective beds.
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Those absences, as well as the gravity of the occasion, led to a cautious — some neutral observers might even say dreary — opening half.
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The rats that lived in a complex, stimulating environment learned how to drive significantly faster than those living in dreary, boring laboratory settings.
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And maybe, worst case scenario that, being a booster, I'm loathe to subscribe to just yet, all our dreams are being made dreary.
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When it's cold and dreary out, the last thing anyone wants is to take one step outside of the cozy comfort of bed.
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Just above the brown water line on the wall, their wedding photos sat untouched, a glimmer of hope in an otherwise dreary homecoming.
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The pay is pretty good on the docks — plenty of longshoremen make well over $21953,22008 — but the work is often dreary and dangerous.
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More are killed or wounded each year, in smaller numbers but often in dreary circumstances, including the fatal attack in July on Cpl.
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And it happened in one perfect moment of time: a dreary Wednesday on the first week back in the office after new year.
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After his father dies, Arjan Banga, a graphic designer in London, returns to the dreary West Midlands to help run the family convenience store.
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The colors are fresh, lively and invite interaction and scream vitality; all of the things we all want after a cold and dreary winter.
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Still, there's something dreary about another movie-inspired TV show that does little more than borrow a known brand name as a come-on.
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It was just in 2016 that the Avengers were in a dreary, war-torn Lagos, Nigeria, to apprehend bioterrorists in Captain America: Civil War.
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" She wrote, "All of your sleepless nights and dreary days, I pray you ask God for forgiveness and to have mercy on your soul.
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Barrett disappeared more deeply into drugs and recorded two dreary solo albums, "The Madcap Laughs" and "Barrett", then retreated to his mother's Cambridge house.
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Outdated countertops, stucco walls and dreary furnishings plagued the charming one-story abode — and Fletcher and Rodgers didn't waste any time trashing the place.
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We all know that it had dreary aspects, but you always want to think that you can bond with your kids over an election.
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The overall vibe of Aquaman seems to indicate that DC is aiming for a more lighthearted tone compared to its dreary and dark predecessors.
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Or is it just a picture of me making my way home from work during a particularly dreary and cold day in New York?
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Batman v Superman was a rather dreary flick, but the screen magically came to life with every (too brief) glimpse of her Diana Prince.
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THE downtown Manhattan store of T.J. Maxx, with its dreary fluorescent lighting and haphazard displays, is about as glamorous as the average petrol station.
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And then, on an especially dark, dreary, and evil day, they're being brought to prison to see their mother or father one last time.
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Aside from some gorgeous shots of planes in flight, most of Dunkirk consists of spectacles of survival, and they pile up in dreary repetition.
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Almost sixteen, pumped with eagerness for science and fiction and outer space and dreams of escaping the dreary prisons of home and high school.
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It looks flat and dreary, and you can tell that it was shot in some Eastern European hellhole where it was cheap to film.
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"I'm buying up loads of ginger shots," said Ella Woodward, the British food blogger turned author, on a recent dreary afternoon in New York.
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A Democrat takeover of the House would undo much of what the president has accomplished and thrust us back into the dreary Obama years.
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When all the dreary days of winter seem to blend together, sometimes all you need is a pop of color to brighten your day.
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The dreary months of winter may have you hankering for a vacation, and spring is the perfect time to take a quick weekend getaway.
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This article first appeared on VICE UK. It's just past 11PM on a dreary Saturday when I arrive at the Central Bar in Strabane.
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Neither girl fully understands her own motive for coming, except that for Eleanor it is the first prospect of adventure in a dreary life.
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He moved the story, which is set in a dreary postwar world, to the near future, to add a shimmer of technology-induced anxiety.
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And if life on Earth is looking dreary, just look up and think: Something new, unknown, possibly frightening, and exciting must be up there.
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"The expedition provided an escape from the dreary future in his father's upholstery business that had seemed so unavoidable at 17," Ms. Shapiro wrote.
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In much of the Northern Hemisphere, December through March brings blustery cold that makes dreary days feel as if we've been banished to Siberia.
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Did we need to know that Bobbs-Merrill, the publishing house where Gorey spent a "dreary" year, was located at 3 West 57th Street?
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Fifteen-year-old Mia (Katie Jarvis) lives in a dreary British housing project with her volatile single mother (Kierston Wareing) and irritable little sister.
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Warren's withdrawal, which came after dreary Super Tuesday results that saw her come in third in her home state, followed primary exits by Sens.
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A whole generation was pumped and primed to tune in, turn on and transcend the whole dreary space-time continuum as we knew it.
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" A conference room at the BBC offices where Orwell endured endless dreary meetings, would subsequently reappear as Room 101, the torture chamber in "1984.
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They drafted him with their first pick in 2010, seventh overall, the prize for a dreary debut season at Citi Field the year before.
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They stood under dreary skies, shoulder to shoulder in their crisp dress blues, to honor a fellow officer killed in the line of duty.
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On HGTV's early-aughts show "Divine Design," host Candice Olson uses her interior-design skills to revamp dreary spaces into functional and polished ones.
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Aside from being a cool little addition to a usually dreary garbage bin, it's a small gesture that could save lives on the road.
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In the dreary aftermath of Durant's decision, Crouse dug out his Durant replica jersey but resisted the urge to cut it into tiny pieces.
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" One of her new stories, "Souvenir," begins thus: "This is in England, in Cornwall, and a more weird dreary spot could scarcely be imagined.
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They yearn to be married, but the available women all want to live in town, not in some dreary cottage with a turf fire.
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Once upon a time, government officials were largely thought of as dreary drones — that is, when anyone bothered to think of them at all.
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And Mr. Carrey's portrayal of the Grinch, a beloved character penned by Dr. Suess, was the lone bright spot in an otherwise dreary movie.
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Though we only have a few more weeks of darkness and dreary weather, this is the point in winter when we need the most help.
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Lee's political aspirations seem to be a goof, but in this dreary ugly violent presidential year, a little levity is just what the Spaceman ordered.
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Live-streaming has helped millions of Chinese internet users, many of them in rural villages or dreary industrial towns, personalise mass entertainment for each other.
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It's a far cry from the dreary solo performance in which I first encountered her music, which only makes it feel more wonderful and unpredictable.
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While tassels fit nicely into summer attire, we'll be wearing these all winter – perhaps to put a little spring in our step on dreary days.
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Through him, we were thumbing our noses at the long, dreary history for black men in America by elevating this one to a paternal Olympus.
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And thus, on a dreary day in mid-January, I journeyed to the New Jersey castle to witness some admittedly ahistorical history in the making.
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Instead, the big fear is that whatever sliver of optimism investors currently have in an otherwise dreary outlook will be further eroded after the summit.
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But Lee was determined not to turn the island into a dreary concrete jungle, and so 'greening' went hand-in-hand with Singapore's urbanization progress.
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Book this one-bedroom apartment for $128 per nightWhile the premise of a basement apartment certainly could sound dreary, this home is light and bright.
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The government shutdown -- and some dreary Washington winter weather -- have resulted in President Donald Trump's longest stretch away from the golf course since taking office.
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"Hollow Knight" is special in its own way — from the charming cartoon artwork paired with dreary overtones, to the pixel-perfect movement that demands mastery.
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And the dreary news weighed on rivals Intel (INTC), Applied Materials (AMAT) and Texas Instruments (TXN), all of which fell by more than 1% apiece.
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Idaho, a landlocked state with dreary winters and an overwhelmingly white population, might seem an unlikely destination for refugees from Africa and the Middle East.
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The conceit gets a dreary workout when he assumes the blonde is there for the unclogging and the black woman is his object for sex.
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This was the farthest I ever made it, as I steeled my soul against the endlessly dreary missions set in the tombs of the undead.
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Sharp wisps of fire augment scenes that formerly were dreary and desolate, looking as if the last inhabitants inside the home are a longtime gone.
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"Our winters can be dreary and there isn't always a lot to do," said Marcus Cornelious, the director of sales and marketing for the Gwen.
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We studied his habits, observing that Harold preferred cold sunrises and dreary haze; we spotted him seven times in September and six more in October.
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By his own admission at a dreary, style-free news conference back in 2010, he was a bad husband — but also a bad role model.
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The movie recreates one of the book's great scenes, which takes place during a tornado at the dreary country club to which the Bridges belong.
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The technicalities of arbitration rules are dreary, which is why it has taken the #MeToo movement to highlight why they are so unfair to employees.
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It was clear that a certain rookie running back with a lot of expectations fell into that "good" category on a dreary, rain-soaked afternoon.
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While Mr. Trump was absent, political figures from both parties made their way to the house of worship on a dreary, overcast and humid morning.
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Daunted by the dreary prospect of married life and discouraged by the difficulty of forming lasting emotional bonds, some millennials are staying away from marriage.
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Otherwise, the dialogue, cobbled together by Alexander Kerlin, is a patchwork of dreary quotes from the likes of Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Nietzsche and Jacques Derrida.
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The holiday season may be full of cheer, but let's be honest: Sometimes getting through cold and dreary winters is a bit of a slog.
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Composed of computer-generated images, painting and pencil drawings, the film's textures clash to create a dreary dystopia out of this sparse but colorful setting.
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According to interviews with Waititi, Ragnarok will be more lighthearted than its dreary, faux-Shakespearian predecessors — even though Thor has a new and depressingly short haircut.
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It's a dark, dreary, historical drama where nothing really happens—in other words, a perfect choice to lull you to sleep after smoking an enormous blunt.
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A damp, dreary day echoed the somber mood as thousands gathers in Paris to mark the one year anniversary of the deadly terror attacks of Nov.
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My partner drove us to Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn (a building I always thought looked drab and dreary as a child growing up in the neighborhood).
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Despite the dreary weather outside, the Queen looked completely cheery in a bright double-breasted pink coat, adorned with a sparkling brooch, and a matching hat.
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Their studios are all bright (even on a dreary winter morning) and welcoming, even if they aren't the most spacious (hello, nothing in New York is).
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In the end, this movie does a fantastic job of making a dreary scene all the more unhinged with the occasional creak and the sporadic death.
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We should make them understand that they won't be spending the future in heaven, but in a dreary prison cell for the rest of their lives.
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After being shut out in the rain last weekend in Athens, Ga., Kentucky steamrolled Missouri 29-7 on a similarly dreary Saturday night at Kroger Field.
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With bright new arrivals from Macy's at our disposal, we were able to inject a much-needed punch of color into the dreary day, after all.
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"Not in a sad or dreary kind of way, because there's a lot of positives that we can take away from it and teach our children."
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There are also subtle shapes adorning each square, creating a playful style that's usually not seen in the dreary black-and-gray world of server racks.
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For those stuck at a desk all day, it's supposed to help create a connection to the outdoors and make office life feel slightly less dreary.
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It's intimate and personal, as if he just mumbled the songs to himself on a dreary walk to work and we're just lucky to overhear them.
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They become strange beacons of light amidst the dark and dreary mundanity of Jeremy Kyle followed by Judge Rinder followed by something hosted by Ben Shephard.
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She's got sunny forecasts covered with her cult-favorite eyewear — and now, she has the perfect gear to make a rainstorm a lot less dreary, too.
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While families like the Rondons hurried to meetings like this, DeKalb Avenue banged and rattled with activity, replacing the dreary lull after the firefighters had left.
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In some ways, this movement is in keeping with the dreary sensibility popularized on the radio by such artists as the Weeknd and Lana Del Rey.
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"It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils," Victor Frankenstein, a university student, says, pouring out his tale.
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For the civil servants at the sole financial regulator devoted to protecting consumers, Monday morning wasn't just a dreary return to work after a holiday break.
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One particularly dreary evening, a mean and hostile gentleman left part of his bag unzipped, and as he walked up a hill, money started falling out.
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It was "dreary work," according to Poirier, following which Jünger would "chase rare editions" at secondhand booksellers along the Seine before meeting Parisian friends for dinner.
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We're too busy looking over dreary Excel spreadsheets, trying our best to sort out our hectic lives — letting our once strong imaginations fall by the wayside.
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The developer touts Nabokov's limestone facade as "a graphic design with a velvety texture," but I found the gray, boxy structure to be rather dreary-looking.
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Winterfell: Has anybody ever watched Game of Thrones and thought that for all the heartfelt sentiment wrapped around the Starks' ancestral home, it's a dreary place?
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Favors Beach is never entirely uninhabitable, but right now it's dreary enough to wonder if sun-sprinkled glory days are forever a thing of the past.
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Add to that a dreary epilogue that gives us dull, grown-up versions of the beloved characters and it's no wonder fans are clamoring for prequels.
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The man was a Miracle Sub, saving face for the now second-to-last team on the table with their dreary nine points in 13 games.
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The cities are growing, but newcomers are faced with the prospects of paying high rents for reasonable commutes or lower rents for dreary, frustrating daily treks.
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As the dreary weather continued, Mr. Alcantara said he had devised at least one strategy to fight the potential effect it might have on his mood.
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" Brooks Atkinson, the drama critic of The New York Times, hailed her Lorelei Lee as "the most fabulous comic creation of this dreary period in history.
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If this is it for him at Citi Field — and it certainly seems to be — his legacy should not be defined by the final, dreary season.
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Clearly, Amazon intends to milk this premise a bit longer, but the first round is so dreary that it's hard to imagine anyone clamoring for more.
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Chin and Kono get dreary, topical plots: He tries to rescue a young girl from the drug cartels; she goes on a crusade against human trafficking.
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His dreary-sounding assignment was to study the material that had been prepared for political appointees coming in to head the departments under the new administration.
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Anyone who has visited Scotland will tell you that winters are a dreary affair, and the old church buildings with their odd angles can be gloomy.
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As reward for the dreary labor of clearing out the family digs, you were given a morsel that will enliven family gatherings for years to come.
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This year, at least, there is a way we can reward ourselves for making it through this most dreary and dragging month with JetBlue's current flash sale.
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However, as with a dreary beige façade consuming the view in Berlin, or the nondescript towers in Tokyo, often they feel like a liminal time and place.
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And how sad that, according to my coworker Lizzie Plaugic, the dreary cover of "Mad World" is the worst part of Donnie Darko — an otherwise perfect movie.
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Less than 5 percent of certified drone pilots in the US are women, which is a dreary statistic that highlights the lack of women in STEM industries.
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As the weather grows more dreary, you can head towards the shelter of a movie theater with the friends and family you're already spending the holidays with.
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In allowing them to leave behind, if momentarily, the sexual restrictions of their time, Sinatra also allowed them to leave behind the dreary ordinariness of their lives.
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It was a dreary, dismal, abominable place, "suitable only for the haunt of noxious vermin, or the resort of pestilential reptiles" according to an early government report.
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Even if you're not currently trudging through all that East Coast snow, you're probably braving a dreary February somewhere, which is enough reason for vacation as any.
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Worst Movie: My first reaction here is to go with Warcraft, which was so dreary and dismaying I found myself questioning the actual utility of motion pictures.
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A petite single mother of two, she works for Gulf South Benefits, selling insurance mostly to workers in petrochemical plants on the dreary outskirts of Lake Charles.
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You sorta imagine a lot of things do for the two songwriters, each possessing dreary drawls and sleepy wits that more unimaginative types take for unrepentant stonerdom.
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Bird watching is a quick mood boost for any dreary day — and if she has a cat, it's basically like getting a gift for both of them.
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His blistering review in Foreign Affairs called it "astoundingly repetitive", "simplistic" and a "potpourri of half-truths and assertions" (and full of "vaporous, dreary jargon", to boot).
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It's rarely a compliment to describe a composer as "academic": the word is usually applied to those perceived as being sequestered on campus creating esoteric, dreary works.
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This British mockumentary series hails from the sister-brother team Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper, who play cousins living in a dreary area with eccentric neighbors.
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The evocatively dreary environs belong to Meg (Zoë Wanamaker) and her husband Petey (Peter Wight), though questions of ownership and control soon come to define the play.
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Moorehead writes engagingly about domestic matters, the tension inherent in the underground resistance and even the dreary monotony of life in confino on the remote penal islands.
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Her dresses bring a splash of bright color into the dark, brooding atmosphere, much as her temperament flavors the dreary affairs of state with wit and charisma.
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By which I mean that "Wonder Woman" tells an interesting, not entirely predictable story (until the climax, which reverts, inevitably and disappointingly, to dreary, overblown action clichés).
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Of course, economic and political writers are always keen to overstretch the connections so that unwilling readers will bother to read their often repetitive and dreary copy.
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Miriam-Teak Lee's ebullient Juliet is seen departing Verona for Paris, which is to say the city, not the dreary swain handpicked for her by her parents.
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As the dreary conformity of America during the Eisenhower years loosened dramatically in the '60s, mass media got more sophisticated at manipulating public moods and private consciousness.
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The sad little plots held only a few dreary evergreens pruned into geometric shapes, but Ms. Lilleskov, 60, a registered nurse and lactation consultant, saw their potential.
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In New York, demonstrators stretched for 10 blocks along Central Park West, wedged between the park and a line of buildings on a gray and dreary day.
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Donald J. Trump's name wasn't mentioned in Monday's season premiere on NBC, appearing only during the closing credits, and the dreary two-hour episode sorely missed him.
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The final 14 minutes of the season premiere constituted a stand-alone action sequence, if you could refer to something that dreary, mundane and silent as action.
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In those dark, dreary rooms, I have seen some of the movies I've loved the most next to the people about which I can say the same.
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I was there on a dreary Sunday afternoon, a time when the majority of Austin was surely sucking down a Mexican Martini under that endless blue sky.
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Now watch this cool drone aerial video of Lebanon and listen to the song (although you may want to cut it off before the particularly dreary guest verses).
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Washington (CNN)When President Donald Trump decamps from dreary Washington and jets off for an opulent weekend at Mar-a-Lago, he brings the city's advertisers with him.
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"With everything being so dark and dreary -- and we're not just talking about [in the United States] but everywhere -- all over the world is just chaotic," he said.
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With all the family visits of the holidays behind us and still more months of dreary winter ahead, we could all use something good to look forward to.
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"It's weird," Cortez says of such successes, nursing a cold glass of white wine at the bar of Henry at Life Hotel on a dreary New York afternoon.
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While he discovers his perfect place in the world, he has to choose between fixing things and returning home, or making his way in this dreary, dystopian world.
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Ikuenobe was taken to another dreary compound in Sabha, and the now-familiar routine unfolded: He was tied down and beaten as he made the call back home.
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Appearing distant and with no sincere interest in the dreary, real lives of real people, he quickly gained the nickname "President Des Riches," which should speak for itself.
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At first he is only a silhouette sitting in a boat, filled in with blinding yellow and sky-blue, a blinding ray of light in a dreary world.
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The opening credits feature extreme close-ups of Travis Bickle's eyes cut together with a dreary New York City—we see the world the way Travis sees it.
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With only 48 hours to work their magic (and a super-dark and dreary starting point), the guys had to hustle to create an A-list worthy space.
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Then there are the dreary industry trends: In 2015, streaming nearly doubled from the previous year while CDs sales were down 82 percent from their peak in 2001.
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Yet they would never visit the dreary refugee camps, much less live with blacks, let blacks marry their daughters or shake hands with blacks on a hot day.
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The girls decide to write anonymous love letters to Maya, hoping the amour in those letters will bring some zing into what they see as a dreary life.
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His only comfort is in the sublime—caves of ice, bleak skies, dreary glaciers—which shows him how meagre man's gifts are in the face of immeasurable nature.
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Maybe that's because the abortion-rights side is so accustomed to the dreary drumbeat of bad news that it's hard to fully assimilate good news when it comes.
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But in what is shaping up to be a strong movie autumn after a dreary spring and summer there is a steady parade of arresting and idiosyncratic individuals.
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Unfortunately, more cold, dreary days means more of deciding if you should force yourself to go on a run, or even just make the walk to the gym.
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But how long will it take the market react to the secrets likely buried in the "dreary and repetitious" prose that makes earning reports so "mind-numbingly boring"?
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None of the dreary zero-zero draws of soccer or the ad-laden gridlock of football—this is fast-paced, upwards of 250+ points of rubber-smearing hoopsketball.
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Maybe it can reward subway workers and teachers and farmers, rather than the throngs wasting their days in dreary, pointless, but better-paid "bullshit jobs" in offices everywhere.
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"The Other Side of the Wind" has often served either to burnish Welles's legendary status or to further establish what dreary minds like to call his unfulfilled promise.
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Swimming onstage in a new musical from TheaterWorksUSA, a venerable producer for young audiences, Mr. Pout-Pout Fish admits that he spreads "the dreary wearies" wherever he goes.
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Despite the serenity, he painted this scene from the window of his room in the mental hospital, trying to focus on the best and not the dreary reality.
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An example of what happened to Chinese food after it spent a few years in India, lasoni gobi is fun when it's spicy, and dreary when it's not.
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Commuters have long complained that the station is overcrowded and dreary, but now Amtrak had acknowledged that its tracks were in poor shape and not being properly maintained.
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"It's a bit dreich [dreary]," says one of them, eyeing the weather in Insch, a grey Aberdeenshire village, where it has been raining, off and on, all day.
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Centuries later, carols are still thriving in New York City, performed at tree lightings, holiday parties and even on the subway to help ease the dreary winter commute.
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It is hard to imagine, given today's dreary landscape of New York teams, that the Mets' title came in the middle of three local championships connected to 21972.
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Last season, though, Chicago collapsed over two dreary days at Wrigley Field, losing a one-game division playoff to Milwaukee before dropping the wild-card game to Colorado.
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The saturation also dropped, resulting in bleaker tones as the main characters spent time in the dreary North, imprisoned in poorly lit dungeons, or battling in the dark.
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Inundated with headlines of looming "snowpocalypses," most will begrudgingly grit out the winter months, grinding through dreary doldrums of January and February and counting down the days until spring.
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What's more, half of the leadership and management positions at Etsy belong to women, an impressive achievement, at least in the context of the tech industry's dreary diversity record.
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It's a long, dreary drag waiting for these plotlines to come together, and Spanish director F. Javier Gutiérrez and his screenwriters don't spend the intervening time on anything good.
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"The last Sunday before my election in November, it was a rainy, drizzly, dreary day," recalls Kathy Tran, a Democrat elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2017.
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After an embarrassing fourth-place finish, preceded by dreary campaign events and small crowds, Joe Biden is grappling with the reality that he won't win the nomination through inertia.
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It starts with a pretty standard rap beat supporting Wale's dreary drawl before turning into a slivered Jersey club riff that stands up with Sliink's best kick-drum exercises.
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Mr Kushner, by the same token, appears to be motivated in part by the prospect of thumbing it to his doubters, with their dreary talk of history and risk.
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The video opens on a gray and dreary London street – Cherry Tree Lane – with shots of sad-looking people: Michael, Jane, and a trio of truly miserable-looking children.
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Germany is desperate for political renewal, but all that its politicians have been able to come up with is a dreary sort of continuity that has left everyone unhappy.
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Washington (CNN)If President Donald Trump's winter was a dreary dirge of special counsel suspense and border wall bitterness, his spring is shaping up in far more royal fashion.
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Myths are so much more energising, and those who insist on dreary evidence risk being charged with sins that range from killjoy pedantry all the way to high treason.
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Update: In news that is sure to make your dreary Monday that much better, you no longer have to wonder when the ColourPop x Sephora is hitting the retailer.
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Let the mangonada transport you from the cold, dreary North American winter to the sunny streets of Mexico City while you wait out the end of your Veganuary resolution.
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If you don't play along with the game master, the reality can fast become dreary: You're just rolling dice against resolution tables in someone's kitchen while looting someone's refrigerator.
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The weather looks pretty dreary this weekend -- with potential for snow (oh, come on now.) To view past editions of The Hill's 12:30 Report, click here: http://bit.
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A dreary game came down to a humdrum 18-yard field goal by the Giants Josh Brown that broke a tie and gave the Giants a 16-13 victory.
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Punk's kaleidoscopic swirl of noise, aggression and attitude must have been what grabbed that first generation of teenagers in dreary 1970s Britain who fell in love with the music.
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We are supposed to, as Dana does in "The L Word," pick ourselves up out of dreary self-pity and look stylish on the streets in our colorful hats.
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The event happens spontaneously when Vid, a rich electrician said to look like Tony Soprano, impetuously invites his dreary next-door neighbors, Erika and Oliver, over for the day.
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Today, if recent reports are to be believed, droves more millennial women are choosing to marry themselves rather than continue to search for a lifelong partner on dreary Tinder.
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Faking death could be a refusal, a way to reject the dreary facts, a way to bridge the chasm between who you are and who you want to be.
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Conservators at Tate Britain recently learned that underneath the dreary sky of a countryside scene painted by the Dutch artist hid the sterling pink hues of the evening sun.
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" The song continues with its semi-dreary, semi-desperate rhythm, rising and falling, then ending abruptly when West yelps — there is no other word but "yelp" — "Chick-fil-A!
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Instead, McPherson dares to present music as belonging to a parallel universe, a realm that abuts the dreary reality of the play's here and now but never overlaps it.
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His dreary routine is shaken up by a brief love affair with another government worker (Suzanna Hamilton), but their rebellious romance is no match for Big Brother's Thought Police.
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Although "Billy Budd" can be seen as another dreary tale of good-versus-evil masked as a tragic gay love story, its place in gay literary history is undeniable.
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Mr. Goodman longed to create fantasies for people who led relatively dreary workaday lives and would never get to visit the vibrant inner sanctums that he painted for magazines.
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That may change the impression of what was largely a dreary 45 minutes, but England will take it: up by 1-0, and seeing the semifinals on the horizon.
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Many of her plays, including the Pulitzer Prize finalists "Becky Shaw" and "Rapture, Blister, Burn," feature heroines trying to escape the social immobility that locks them into dreary lives.
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After a phase of widespread violence in 2014 and 2015, the war settled into a dreary back-and-forth along a frontier consisting of about 270 miles of trenches.
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I do like the yellow color, though, and think it&aposs nice to stand out on a dreary, rainy day, even if I do look like a rubber duck.
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She must tell the American people precisely how her policies will make them more prosperous, more secure and more free, being specific without using too much dreary detail. 3.
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Thus it made sense to locate most of the action downtown, where even the dreary postmodern George R. Brown Convention Center has enjoyed a face-lift Cher would envy.
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"The Bowling Green Massacre Victims Fund" is a simple, one-page site that's just gray and dreary enough to maybe make a passing viewer believe it's a real thing.
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In New York City, it's so dark and dreary in the winter that someone wearing all white stood out to Bill in the sea of people wearing all black.
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The world is dark and postures are slumped as people trudge around in floor-length puffer coats, hunching inward for warmth like a dreary colony of sun-starved caterpillars.
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For entirely practical reasons, historians have been loath to examine the states; after all, there are 50 "dreary state archives" to visit if one is to do the job well.
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"I'm calling today a reprieve from the dreary grind, but we'll be right back at it with a truly dicey earnings season when we reconvene next week," he said Friday.
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What's in it for them isn't so much the opportunity to build a great new business as to break out of the dreary reality that their current business is boring.
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Will and Isla find Harber in a dreary mansion — formerly a summer camp for troubled youth — where the good doctor has secretly designed an experimental looking-glass into the afterlife.
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Just as Senua needs to push forward through nightmares to find her truth, you will need to put up with some dreary gameplay to see all Hellblade has to offer.
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Twice world champion Fernando Alonso finished fifth for McLaren in the team's first race with Renault power, equalling their best result in three dreary years with previous engine suppliers Honda.
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A few years ago, when I started dating my current partner, we spent one dreary winter night in drinking PBRs and playing nothing but Taking Back Sunday and Brand New.
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Even though it's a Disney classic, Burton's twisted sense of style still shines through here, making the whole world feel at once dreary, magical, and like something is very wrong.
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THE BEAUTY QUEEN: Chloe the Mini Frenchie (ChloeTheMini) Celebrity equivalent: Kylie Jenner Why we love her: Her life, which is glamorous as hell, allows us to escape our dreary ones.
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Make photo colors popIf a photo seems drab and dreary, open something more vibrant as well, then go back to the original picture and select Image, Adjustment and Match Color.
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After a dreary regular season and a largely underwhelming postseason, Super Bowl LI was an instant classic, and produced the first overtime in a championship game in the modern era.
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As first seen, occupied by straight-backed, chanting girls at their desks in a fleeting, imagistic prologue, this would appear to be a contemporary schoolroom of a dreary institutional nature.
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Even if his vision of the future comes to pass, there's something unsatisfying about Runciman's refusal to speculate on what might be done to avoid the dreary scenario he conjures.
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The diplomat, Thae Yong-ho, 55, seemed to embrace the trappings of a comfortable life in a capitalist capital thousands of miles from dreary North Korea, never hinting at disloyalty.
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After toiling in a dreary office job, Barnum finagles a loan to launch a showcase for "unique persons" and "curiosities," treating these "freaks" -- as the rabble calls them -- with respect.
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On a dreary afternoon in late November, inside a cavernous former shipworks at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Michael Zaragoza was busy dipping shredded burlap sacks into buckets of gritty plaster.
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It will not waste your time with a dreary slog through a graveyard, which is how biographies traditionally begin, dutifully resurrecting long- forgotten ancestors whose relevance is not always clear.
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The Tigers ran for 2137 yards and four touchdowns and averaged 2128 yards per carry on a dreary, rain-soaked night in which Lawrence was limited to 2115 yards passing.
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Late on a recent morning, Adel Calzadilla, a legislator's assistant, was sitting in front of his computer in a dreary, windowless room in the offices of the Carabobo state delegation.
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"Rabin depicted dreary everyday reality," Natalia Kolodzei, executive director of the Kolodzei Art Foundation and an expert in the art of Russia and the former Soviet Union, said by email.
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"He has his moments — he's not Superman," said Joan Maria Piqué, an aide to Mr. Puigdemont whom I met this past week in a hotel in a dreary Brussels suburb.
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You can understand how everyone will miss her when she's gone, but at the same time you can't be too sorry that she'll be free of these dull, dreary people.
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Sabathia, one of the Yankees' most respected veterans, walked off the mound for the final time in less-than-ideal circumstances: with an injured arm during a dreary postseason loss.
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This will be a sustained exit from a long dreary impeachment process and a great reset to 2020 — not just the 2020 reelection but the 2020 domestic and international arena.
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But he has gone 24-6 since the deal, helping to bury dreary memories of that season to confirm that it was, indeed, a blip for Texas, a perennial contender.
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This explains the testy, at times violent and generally dreary exchanges between Gamora and her sister, Nebula (Karen Gillan), a bald badass itching to deliver payback for their rotten childhood.
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President Trump left a dreary Washington on Monday with some pointed words for Democrats, who, he said, are deliberately holding an impeachment hearing while he is out of the country.
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Like the guys on the sales team of some dull corporation somewhere talk about their cars in the same way that cunts at gigs talk about boring and dreary bands.
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The lessons of 1983, though, are lost on the makers of "The Pack," a dreary Australian movie, directed by Nick Robertson, that has more dogs than "Cujo" but noticeably less plot.
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It was a typical cold and dreary February day in Indiana, with only a slight gray light coming in from the church skylight above where I sat in the front row.
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Freed up from the dreary tasks of withdrawing cash, tellers could turn their attention to helping customers with account questions or issuing cashier's checks; as a result, they became more productive.
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But it's November in New York, it's going to look gray and dreary like this for the next four months, which means the camera's AI is useless if it can't adjust.
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ACAPULCO — The hundreds of people crammed into a dreary convention center in Acapulco watched as José Díaz Navarro rushed onto the stage and recounted the horror his family had been through.
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Dano is boyish and lost, and he and Tilly have a disturbing sexual dynamic that makes him less bored and diverts her from her dreary life with her prison guard husband.
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It's a fun song, with a catchy beat — yet if you think of "Mad World" you probably think of a dreary little drudgefest of a tune and Patrick Swayze crying alone.
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That sure differentiates it from Snow White and the Huntsman, a dreary, humorless slog from 2012 that starred Kristen Stewart as the first title character and Chris Hemsworth as the second.
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Written by Ms. Donoghue and directed by Lenny Abrahamson, the movie flickers with grace and imagination during its initial half but devolves into a dreary, platitudinous therapy movie in its second.
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What is usually a dark and dreary month will be graced with two full moons this year, with the first one reaching its crest the night between January 1 and 2.
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Every day, a mobile fleet of food trucks is deployed across America to feed the legions of dreary office workers and wacked-out festival-goers looking for a cheap, quick fix.
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It's been 10 years since we were all forcefully yanked from Gilmore Girls' idyllic setting and thrust back into the dreary world we call home, but the nightmare will soon end.
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Her eye for action serves Wonder Woman well until its climax, which eventually and unfortunately devolves into the dreary CG nonsense we've come to expect from big-budget blockbusters like these.
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In the midst of a dreary Peruvian winter, there was just as much chance of spotting a polar bear among a chilled crowd covered in winter jackets, scarfs and woolly hats.
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Ammons cannot go too fast, or the poem will end before it has served its purpose as a bridge across the dreary days of winter, a period Ammons associated with depression.
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It's affirming for parents to see their lives reflected back at them, and in a theme-park fun house no less, with all of the dreary bits made stretchy and silly.
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The message may be too dreary for the campaign trail, but the candidates owe it to voters to acknowledge this fiscal juggernaut, and maybe even present a plan to resolve it.
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Although it's raining when we enter the soothing white pages of "The Airport Book," by Lisa Brown, our final trip to Grandma's (Nana and Grandpa's, actually) will prove anything but dreary.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Italy Italian porn isn't what it used to be—these days, it tends to be a dreary last resort for failed TV personalities and actors.
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High pressure moving by to the north keeps us dry and cool to close out the weekend, before a developing system brings us a cold, dreary rain overnight and into tomorrow.
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After a dreary first half last season, Arrieta had a 2.28 E.R.A. in 12 starts after the All-Star Game and earned the Cubs' only victory in the N.L. Championship Series.
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Sipping it on this dreary London day, I wonder if Petch would ever consider using Reyka and his specially sourced Icelandic ice to make the cleanest dirty martini in the world.
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Former President Barack Obama and the former first lady Michelle Obama elevated a dreary academic ritual — the official White House portrait — making a routine post-presidential event an instance of change.
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She's written several books — actually wrote them, not just slapped her name on something done by a ghostwriter — ranging from dreary academic tomes to highbrow nonfiction written for a general audience.
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For the poet, democracy wasn't simply the least bad form of government, it wasn't reducible to dreary policy and endless debate, but it was rather a vital, transformative and regenerative ethos.
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Substitute Jamie Vardy was also on target for Gareth Southgate's side in a one-sided, dreary victory that kept England top of qualifying Group F with 13 points from five games.
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To wit, while resigned to a dreary future of suffocating banalities and unsatisfying work, even the most financially well-off Americans seemingly lurch thoughtlessly from one personal forfeiture to the next.
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My husband visited our 30-year-old Serbian-born pizza waiter in his dreary, communist-style apartment, indulging in the traditional shots of welcome brandy at 9:30 in the morning.
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When most of the furniture you own is wood-stained, it can start to look a bit "drab and dreary," said Suzan Wemlinger, the principal interior designer at Suzan J Designs.
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Troemel's art plays with a central paradox of the Internet: the technology that was supposed to liberate us from the dreary real world has inspired a whole new set of anxieties.
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The next system moves through the West Wednesday An area of low pressure will pump moisture into California late Wednesday and throughout the day Thursday, leaving Thanksgiving Day gray and dreary.
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The next system moves through the West An area of low pressure will pump moisture into California late Wednesday and throughout the day on Thursday, leaving Thanksgiving day gray and dreary.
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In Edgar Allen Poe's The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall, a bankrupt bellows-repairman from Rotterdam rides a balloon to the moon, creating a DIY adventure beyond his dreary existence.
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The story yields a series of dreary episodes before said boy, Theo (Oakes Fegley), graduates into his adult version ("Baby Driver's" Ansel Elgort), who continues to be haunted by that past.
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I'd like to complain that the canon exists, and that it inspires a rather dreary stance, the stance of the rock hero, that looks upon canonization as something to aspire to.
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While fantasizing about a semi-imaginary past just barely out of reach may, in the eyes of some, stifle innovation, it also clearly brings a little joy to the otherwise dreary present.
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Considering the chaos of the holiday season and the dark, dreary, and, in many cases, snowy months that follow, we could certainly use some varieties that help boost relaxation, clarity, and positivity.
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His color and erratic whimsy provide a stark contrast to her own dreary, micromanaged life, organized by her hyper-vigilant workaholic mother, voiced with a good deal of empathy by Rachel McAdams.
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The children say they chose to learn in Chinese because they thought it would be "fun" and "interesting" and "useful"—a far cry from the dreary French lessons I endured at school.
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What makes the product so appealing is how it's written in a conversational tone, making it accessible to a wide audience who often finds reading the news a dreary but necessary chore.
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Twice champion Fernando Alonso was 12th fastest in FP2 and may have been buoyed by the result after arriving in Melbourne anxious after a dreary winter testing for the Woking-based team.
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I can't even praise the game's commitment to that dreary impersonal atmosphere or tone, because it even squanders the potential to make swarms of rotting carcasses and rats feel anything but rote.
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There isn't a concrete story to speak of, just a sort of underlying theme of bringing color to a sometimes dreary world, often using people's memories or imaginations to find that color.
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Washington (CNN)On a dreary day a few weeks before he died, Justice Antonin Scalia delivered a talk to an unusual Washington audience: a room full of Dominican Friars in white robes.
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If it all sounds a bit dreary, one should at least be grateful that the mini-cycle features none of the death and carnage so prominent in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
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Surely Kate, who seems to have so little going for her, except of course that she's lovely, loved, talented and alive, could have learned all her lessons without such a dreary prop.
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Life for Gaza's kids is back to a dreary monotony of having too little to eat and too little to do, in a territory that's without electricity for 18 hours a day.
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The books, about three orphans shuffled from guardian to guardian while attempting to learn the truth about their parents' demise, were as delightfully dreary as the title of the series would suggest.
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Today's dreary weather and small, quiet group of reporters contributed to a somber mood as Katchadourian placed a sign emblazoned with "I'm with Hillary 2016" on the rebar poles in the ground.
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In today's oft-dark and dreary age, artists and regular folk alike are constantly working to come up with new and creative ways to raise money for a multitude of important causes.
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Related: 38' Tall Paintings Lend Glamor to a Dreary Nashville Intersection A Melancholy Tale About the Father of Cinema, Eadweard Muybridge [Premiere] Ethereal Landscapes Emerge in This Gorgeous Hand-painted Music Video
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A dreary pileup of hard-luck monologues and run-down locations, Mark Webber's "Flesh and Blood" straddles the line between fact and fiction with exhausting earnestness and a fatal dearth of narrative.
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Instead, it's generated a dreary culture of incessant competition, which has soaked up billions of taxpayer dollars with no significant improvement in standards, causing enormous stress for teachers, children and their families.
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Op-Ed Contributor It was a typical dreary February day when I bundled up my daughters to head to the National Portrait Gallery to see the paintings of Barack and Michelle Obama.
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Half a century later, women like Maggie Staats and Arlette Landes are affectionate but frank in remembering the half-liberated '60s milieu, and make the otherwise dreary train of affairs surprisingly captivating.
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I'm left with nothing but a rake and a dreary chore to remind me that winter is upon us and my neighbor can now see into my bathroom window until next spring.
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"The first day I stepped in here with the Red Sox, back in 2011, he was there," Betts said on Tuesday night, after another dreary day for the defending World Series champions.
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Working as a small-time prostitute in London, Stephanie's revenge tale unfolds with a chance meeting with journalist Keith Proctor (Raza Jaffrey), whose stunning information changes the dreary trajectory of her life.
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With Stone, I worried that the only times we would see her best stuff would be at awards shows and when she played Peter Parker's damsel in a dreary Spider-Man reboot.
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But the events also have a real sticking power, be it in the memories of those who watched a day unfold or as an opulent footnote to an otherwise dreary history lesson.
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Paramount Pictures, showing signs life after a dreary run, powered Denis Villeneuve's understated "Arrival" to roughly $24 million in ticket sales, a strong total that easily surpassed what most analysts had predicted.
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The dreary follow-up has tempered Harvey's posturing — he may or may not have been humbled, but he seems to understand that it makes no sense to declare himself an ace again.
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The story proceeds by fits and starts with a narrative line — Alita's journey of self-awareness — that is embellished with a dreary old-fashioned romance and regularly interrupted by chaotic action scenes.
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New York Fashion Week can be something of a dreary routine—which, last night, was interrupted when Rihanna arrived like a shooting star to bring her Savage X Fenty creations to life.
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Though it was a pretty dreary day when the Obamas marked the first official U.S. visit to Cuba since 1928, Malia and Sasha didn't let that dampen their choice in spring break apparel.
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So, if you're feeling a little down about your love life and are worried you're doomed to crawl this dreary planet alone, let the tale of the toadlet provide you with some comfort.
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"Most of the stories are horror stories," explains Enriquez, "but I try to make very atmospheric, dreary stories that mix with politics and the social climate of my city Buenos Aires," says Enriquez.
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YAOUNDE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - During a dreary Sunday morning church service, 333-year-old Viviane - tired of wrestling with her sexual attraction to girls - resigned herself to an unhappy conclusion: she was bewitched.
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" Lum was filming Oceans 8 with the likes of Rihanna, Cate Blanchett and Sandra Bullock when Trump was elected she confirms that the mood on set was not great, "it was very dreary.
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The Ikea pieces that are newly available this month are about "boosting the energy of your everyday life," which is something many of us are desperate for during the dreary month of February.
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Nevertheless, the dreary worldview embodied by "Walking Dead" -- which has only become nastier through the years, with humans (and now the dictatorial Negan) supplanting zombies as the true monsters -- has grown especially prevalent.
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News from the corporate sector is also dreary: earnings per share at S&P 221 companies are contracting at a 22014 percent year-on-year clip, and sales growth is down 28.19 percent.
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The idea, explains Kosha Joubert, another resident, is not to adopt a dreary, ascetic lifestyle but to demonstrate that it is possible to live in a green manner without undue sacrifice or disruption.
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Public-health officials have seized on this one as an occasion both to reach out to the hesitant and to reconsider their tactics of persuasion: the dreary work of winning hearts and minds.
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No matter what you're doing in Edith Finch — swinging on a tree as a child, or going through a dreary evening working at a fish cannery — the spectre of death is always looming.
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After staying up late making dreary demos and disco rave-ups, SebastiAn said he would work with Gainsbourg throughout the day, as she sat on the floor surrounded by countless sheets of lyrics.
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Pinball videogames have often escaped the dreary physical bounds of the arcade amusements they are based on, adding impossible geometry to the playfields, blending in elements of other game genres, et cetera. PinOut!
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The draw of the series' setting, Stars Hollow, is that it feels like a place that might exist if we weren't too mired in our current dreary lives to go search for it.
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As Sunday's dreary game entered its final minutes, the Giants, newly rebuilt but suddenly reeling, were tied with the New Orleans Saints, a team with a second-rate defense weakened anew by injuries.
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The life of duty opening up before him was a dreary one of cutting ribbons at the ceremonial openings of municipal swimming pools and feigning delight at the performances of foreign folk dancers.
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"Drum Is A Woman," a collaboration with UK vocalist and producer Steve Spacek (also known as Beat Spacek), is a sparse and dreamy slice of downtempo layered with quiet clicks and dreary pads.
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But by midweek, temperatures will warm up and the rain will go away, giving all of us the nice weekend weather we earned by not calling out sick on this dreary May 14.
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Written and illustrated by Matt James Matt James's colorful acrylics and playful collage lend a youthful exuberance to a normally dreary subject, giving poignant insight into a child's understanding of the adult world.
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It was still dreary outside on the fifth day of New York Fashion Week, but the energy was high inside the venues, where our photographers saw designers and models prepping to show collections.
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Missouri is likely a forgotten theater of the Civil War, but for the Union at the outset of the war, Missouri was the one bright spot that shined through an otherwise dreary day.
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The remaining months of the EU's dreary year will tell whether or not the alliance has the will, the energy and the solidarity to preserve its shape and its mission in hard times.
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They're often joking with each other with dry, sometimes black humor, which helps make the serious moments feel more serious but adding a necessary lighter quality to what's otherwise a very dreary show.
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Sadly, not for the audience: Dreary, derivative and flat-out dopey, this dragged-out torture tale will disappoint even those whose hearts race whenever they see a female character strapped to a bed.
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"Making art, which they sometimes exhibited within the camps, provided both children and adults a way to escape their dreary circumstances and to express their humanity," the curators write in the exhibition text.
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And force everybody to see that there are thirteen hundred of God's children here suffering, sometimes going hungry, going through dark and dreary nights wondering how this thing is going to come out.
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But a display of late collages by Krasner, in the Paul Kasmin Gallery, here at the Art Show, is dreary; by the '80s, her mélanges of shapes and stains had grown decidedly mannered.
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Those caught on the back foot by the climbing temperatures should not store away those heavy coats just yet: February's regularly dreary weather will return as soon as the high-pressure system dissipates.
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"A dreary rock appeared at first sloping up from the sea and into the fog," the author wrote in "The Aran Islands," his classic account of his time here, first published in 1907.
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A dreary Super Bowl that featured a combined 343 punts ended with a sixth title for Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, who beat the Los Angeles Rams, 333-323, on Sunday.
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He advised the Treasury on the role of subprime mortgage bonds in the dark days of the financial crisis, and his colorful metaphors often enlivened the otherwise dreary discourse about fixed-income investing.
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On a dreary Thursday afternoon in March, the halls of the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, swelled with people who spend their lives trying to salvage the economies of America's forgotten towns.
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While steering the bank out of its QE (quantitative easing) program and stressing interest rates and reinvestments going forward, Draghi is faced with an economy that may be slowing and a dreary inflation outlook.
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Coraline A Gaiman classic that spawned the 2009 stop-animation movie, Coraline tells the story of a little girl with somewhat-neglectful parents who all move into a dreary new flat with odd tenants.
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Dreary utopias like Brave New World or This Perfect Day or even The Hunger Games (the people in the Capitol have it pretty cushy, after all) tend toward an over-regulation that stagnates quickly.
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Imagine a world where dreary work days end in glitter and champagne, where a morning stroll can snowball into shootings and social unrest, and where sex and drugs run as wild as political intrigue.
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"Bunkers and shelters are a dreary reality throughout the country, because in Israel threat and exceptional situations are a part of everyday life," writes Austrian journalist Danielle Spera in one of the book's essays.
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Their monogrammed pillows and tufted headboards looked incredibly high-end, but the girls did the whole thing on a budget, shopping at stores like TJ Maxx and Marshall's to update their once-dreary space.
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Dreary-eyed synth lines and wheezy woodwinds fill out this technicolor self-portrait of the New York artist John Also Bennett, a frequent collaborator of ambient greats, but seldom a releaser of solo music.
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Eschewing CGI animals for live ones was proving more limiting and costly than expected, and the sheer fun of their source material's "animal uprising" premise was getting lost in dreary stories about corporate espionage.
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I didn't know any of this until I arrived; I expected a handful of Mega Drive lifers in a dreary hotel lobby comparing details on each of their Green Hill Zone scale replica tattoos.
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Angie Han, Mashable: Her eye for action serves Wonder Woman well until its climax, which eventually and unfortunately devolves into the dreary CG nonsense we've come to expect from big-budget blockbusters like these.
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IN THE hours outside his dreary day job, the utopian socialist Charles Fourier (1772-1837) dreamt of a world where work meant play and where the seas would transform into "a sort of lemonade".
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So for the ultimate Mother's Day gift, Munn sought out Travis Morelock of MIDMODERNdesign and together they transformed the dark, dreary and cluttered abode into a bright, open and modern retreat for the couple.
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Part of the visual upgrade is down to the move to PS4, of course, but the game's cartoonish art style is now a lot more vibrant and appealing than the occasionally dreary first game.
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Frankly, given that we've sat through a dreary lull, mid-movie, in which Robert and his followers seek refuge on an island, we've earned our torrent of excitement, and Mackenzie does not hold back.
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A complete delight to drive, with puppy-dog playfulness and a refined ride at an absurdly low price, the Accent is a gem, and it reminds us that cheap doesn't have to mean dreary.
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After her father died, Ms. Thompson-Simmons, an adept businesswoman, refashioned the home's once-dreary display area into a bright showroom in which coffins rest several feet in the air, above sleek, translucent bases.
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We met with Tiga at Sonos Studios in east London on a dull and dreary Monday morning, to talk about where albums are heading as an artform, and Hull City's utility midfielder Robert Snodgrass.
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Or take 2013's Dracula Untold: It's a dismal, dreary affair — with just a 22 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes — that tried to turn Dracula into a kind of grim-and-gritty gothic superhero.
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Alex Bregman lined it to left field for a single, capping a 13-12 thriller and sending the series back to Los Angeles, where the Dodgers won Game 6 to force the dreary finale.
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In a warren of streets near the Oder River in Police, a dreary town of 2150,225, North Korean workers are often seen walking near train tracks from the Partner shipyard to a grocery store.
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The pink-edged magnolias are in full bloom on my street in Los Angeles, and it's almost spring, but it's still a bit dreary around here, so I feel like eating bright, lively food.
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Consider that an asteroid with the scientifically dreary name of 2011 UW158 comes within a few million miles of Earth in its eccentric orbit -- and it reportedly contains about $5.4 trillion worth of platinum.
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Despite the protesters' disruptions and the dreary weather, the Trump-loving millennials seemed to be relishing their time in Washington — especially if they could engage in some light trolling while they were in town.
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About once every two months, they guilt us into getting together for dinner at a restaurant, and it is always dreary and dull because there is nothing that everyone is interested in talking about.
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A slow-moving winter storm is forecast to sock portions of the Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast with a dreary mix of snow and rain Tuesday, which will persist and potentially intensify Wednesday.
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New Yorkers are sure to notice and appreciate many landmarks, some uncannily recreated, but a dreary, snowy, plague-ridden New York is a tough place to spend dozens of hours in, let alone hundreds.
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The uniformed guards formed a sea of blue in the dreary institutional lunchroom, with Maury Povich's talk show playing on an overhead TV and a smell of waffle fries and bleach in the air.
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I suspect that she isn't mentioned much because she writes almost exclusively about unfashionable subjects and doesn't perform the social role of genius — no fedora or pipe or dreary public spats with other writers.
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"Once the problem was racial discrimination, now it's religious discrimination," said Younis, who declined to give his surname, sitting at the entrance to a dreary eight-storey block of flats opposite the suburb's small mosque.
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That a woman might still rise to the highest office in the most powerful country in the world is a silver lining in the dreary cloud that has fallen over us in the past week.
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I was able to try out the Nokia 3203 PureView's cameras in person, and even on a pre-production unit, the phone was already delivering some pretty impressive detail, despite the rather dreary lighting outside.
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For his week on the Nashville Sign, Tull chose the bright, summery pieces that contrasted sharply with the dreary winter, and called further attention to his complicated relationship with both the past and the present.
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But poor and lower-middle class families in Iran's flyover country — small towns on the country's periphery, agricultural hubs, and dreary satellite towns of large cities — appear to be at the forefront of today's protests.
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Japan has tried this literally dozens of times over the past quarter century, most often with the same results — perhaps a momentary bounce in activity that ultimately leads back to the same dreary growth pace.
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Dark, dreary winter coats and boring cold-weather staples are starting to surface in almost everyone's closets, but thanks to a new merch rollout, those necessities may just get an injection of sweet '90s nostalgia.
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I would tool around in our pickup truck on the cemetery's single-lane roads, past busted mausoleums and dreary landscaping, and he would tell me to hang a left so we could visit his grave.
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I'd also hate to omit Patriot (Amazon), whose vision of a weary, worn-down America struggling to maintain global hegemony is one of TV's most entertainingly dreary — there's a descriptor you don't hear every day!
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City and N.C.A.A. officials aligned the stadium to open toward the CenturyLink Center arena and the edge of downtown instead of a dreary warehouse district, never dreaming that the wind would affect play this much.
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The decision marked a small victory in an otherwise dreary day for Stone, whose bid to dismiss the case over a laundry list of complaints, including allegations of political bias, was rejected by the judge.
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Should CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves make a run at Viacom, he would have considerable leverage over the terms of a deal because CBS' growth prospects are as bright as Viacom's are dreary, Barron's said.
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Instead of combating the site's harassment problem, the management have instead decided to make it better for just those people who might write another of those dreary newspaper columns about how mean their readers are.
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After a long, dreary NFL season, where we've barely had a whisper of a reason to watch, we've finally found a matchup that constitutes some pyrotechnics—napalm mixed with gasoline, aka Green Bay and Dallas.
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Nevertheless, Chapman's hesitation when the pitch came toward him prompted rampant speculation that he never saw the pitch coming, because Mays supposedly had thrown a scuffed ball that blended in with the dreary afternoon sky.
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Even if it weren't cheap-looking and dreary, "Cell" would still be hobbled by an entertainment landscape already lousy with zombies, and a hive-mind premise that — at least metaphorically — has been all but realized.
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Eleanor Roosevelt was a zealous proponent of scientific eating and, in concert with her housekeeper, Henrietta Nesbitt, kept the sybaritic president on a dreary austerity diet of, among other things, watery soup and prune pudding.
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The wheels first started coming off Bloomberg's campaign weeks ago, when he turned in a dreary debate performance where he was unable to either effectively land an attack or defend himself from scores of barbs.
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I visited on a damp and dreary afternoon, and when I ducked out of the descending gray mist into the bright and tidy cafe, an aromatic cloud of sugar, cardamom, vanilla and bread immediately surrounded.
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" It's a firecracker of a song — and, from an art critic's perspective, more sophisticated and more genuine than their earlier forays into museums and galleries, such as Jay-Z's dreary Marina Abramovic parody "Picasso Baby.
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Television's night of nights, once spurned by blue chip designers and their megastar clients as a dreary also-ran, has emerged to compete with the Oscars as a powerful contender in the image-boosting derby.
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But every scene that seemed well-observed on the page felt dreary and obvious when performed, a problem I ascribe not to the actors, who are quite good, but to the mystery of stage time.
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Slough – a town often mocked in Britain for being dull and dreary — has been named the country's best town or city to work in for the third consecutive year, according to a ranking published Wednesday.
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" To him, the first "Guardians" presented a chance to reinvigorate the drab, dreary space-opera genre with the buoyancy of favorite films like "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and the gaudy colors of "Flash Gordon.
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For the past several decades, within the dreary halls of every unionized public school in this country, a great fiction about our nation's history has been spoonfed to the minds of the young and impressionable.
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Now the story took place not in Russia but in a dreary town on the southern coast of Brazil, a town with gusty mornings and white skies, with shops selling beachwear, floaties, Styrofoam boogie boards.
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Needless to say, this dreary state of affairs cannot be allowed to persist, and the bracing news brought by the sequel, "Independence Day: Resurgence," is that the aliens have returned, to harvest Earth's molten core.
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With a plan laid down by the singer himself, the editors have included his own choice of some 60 poems, the lyrics from his last four albums and a long dreary selection of notebook jottings.
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But as the season draws to a close, what better way to celebrate the return to dreary autumnal life than by baking up a storm—and getting baked out of your skull in the process?
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If you're used to flying in and out of a dreary airport with subpar food options where the most interesting thing to look at is parked planes, this one will blow it out of the water.
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Opened in March 2017, the ambitious hotel is part of an urban renewal project aimed at transforming Brunkebergstorg, a once-dreary square in the city center, into a lively gathering point for visitors and locals alike.
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"It sort of makes me feel like my identity's been stripped away from me," another teen remarked, referring to the negative impact of spending lengthy stints in dreary hospital gowns, completely devoid of any personal expression.
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At the end of the day, showboating may please the fat punters and dreary celebs in attendance, but it's best to protect yourself at all times with your hands held high and your chin stuck low.
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Read: The gravity-defying updos, bright two-toned eyeshadow, and sleek blowouts seen on Ashley Graham, Selah Marley, and others were a bright spot in an otherwise dreary East Coast day (yay for more of those!).
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Waiting for a plane to take you halfway across the world, only to arrive at the appointed time in a dreary office and sit in a plastic chair, waiting for an official who never shows up.
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On the primary trail, its fallout has been lesser: mainly a dreary argument over whether Mr Christie should or would interrupt his campaigning in New Hampshire to see out the storm in his snow-struck state.
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And if you've ever suffered from Seasonal Affective Disorder during the dreary, gray days of what may seem like a never-ending winter, you know that the promise of increased sunlight truly is cause for celebration.
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It shares a great deal of its aesthetics with STALKER: Both are beautifully dreary games full of world-weary survivalists doing battle against the paranormal using cobbled-together equipment, amidst the remains of the Soviet empire.
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"Coming on the heels of dreary economic impulses, the MLF arranged by the PBOC today could very well be aimed at countering weak economic data," Stephen Innes, chief market strategist at AxiTrader said in a note.
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But what he isn't free to do, bound as he is, is to take this to the court of public opinion — so that unaffected colleagues may feast on a juicy story over dreary afternoons at work.
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For one thing, he presents Ms. Hearst's life as Mr. Weed's fiancée as dreary (according to the book, the two never spoke again after the kidnapping) and her new life as dramatic and romantic by comparison.
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Living In 21388 Photos View Slide Show ' In Paul Simon's 212004 song, "My Little Town," he and Art Garfunkel croon about a dreary place, where laundry is hung out to dry in air polluted by factories.
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His upgrade of Anish Kapoor's London tower opened the day after the Brexit vote, bringing a touch of brightness to a dreary morning, but we see this as the beginning of a worldwide slide art revolution.
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A somewhat dreary statement in some ways—an argument that old dogs can't be taught new tricks, and established conservative or liberal voters can't be simply moved from party lines by throwing conventional issues at them.
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PARIS — The need to accelerate growth has long been visible in almost every corner of the French economy, from dreary unemployment offices packed with job seekers to businesses whose financially stretched customers struggle to make do.
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His statistics the last two seasons: 8-13 with a 5.02 earned run average, a dreary ledger that just might be his penance for piling up innings in his first full season after Tommy John surgery.
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AL HOCEIMA, Morocco — The house, down a dusty dirt track in a small village near the city of Al Hoceima in northern Morocco, looked dreary outside, with its unpainted facade, but inside the mood was cheery.
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When Mongiardino heard he was searching for a new location in a dreary business district of the city, he proposed to Bulleri that if he stayed in the neighborhood, he would design the space for free.
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When it comes to surviving cold and dreary winter days, stocking your wardrobe with cute and cozy sweaters is just as big of a necessity as a good pair of snow boots and a heavy coat.
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The opening track, "I Am All That I Need/Arroyo Seco/Thumbprint Scar," careens from dreary, self-doubting dirge to bright, breathless acoustic rocker and back multiple times before strings sweep in like a soothing balm.
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The travel trailer Masula sets up on this dreary January morning is unassuming, but in the fight against the opioid epidemic, it's saving lives and bringing resources to areas and people who need it the most.
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It's a reminder that we now have a long, dreary winter ahead of us, with short, generally sunless days, and that it will be months before I can plunge my hands back into the warm soil.
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Inside a dreary industrial shed at a private company called Regal Recycling, a team of workers in rubber boots and face masks combed through a 203-foot-tall pile of organic waste collected from various schools.
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"I chose the L line after waiting 20 minutes for a train to take me to Brooklyn and seeing how dreary and upset riders were at the inconvenience the new construction provided," Lewis told the outlet.
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And if I had to be kept in a dreary institution — a very real possibility for millions of people like me, if the schemes to slash Medicaid become law — I might request a terminal dosage myself!
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There are no more dilapidated houses for rent, as Alan Cullinane, who owns and runs the idyllic breakfast place Cafe Heaven, told me regretfully when I visited again on a dreary weekend at the end of April.
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The Mirai botnet, a collection of hijacked gadgets whose cyberattack made much of the internet inaccessible in parts of the US and beyond a year ago, previewed a dreary future of zombie connected-device armies run amuck.
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As Buster is hunted by police, we jump to his memories of being family man Jonah — who spends his nights working at a dreary hotel, and his days in a claustrophobic house with his hostile in-laws.
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Bates fired his weapon as he assisted officers of the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office in subduing Harris, the subject of an undercover sting operation who was attempting to flee that dreary Oklahoma Thursday in April last year.
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If you're going to spend five hours of your life researching scholarships or colleges online, for example, you don't have to do it in a dreary bedroom with the curtains drawn shut and the lights turned off.
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Caldwell some years after her marriage has turned, if not loveless, at least dreary, and she has long given up the nearly mad fantasy of taking off to Paris with a lover or becoming a published poet.
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"When we first entered the gardens they reminded one of those magic grounds described in fairy tales; we marched from them upon the 240th October, leaving them a dreary waste of ruined nothings," wrote one British officer.
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In its latest barrage of insults against the South's leader, the North's official media carried a commentary on Wednesday likening Park to an "ugly female bat", fated to "die in the dreary cave, its body hanging down".
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Bing Thom, a Hong Kong-born Canadian architect whose swooping, playful design for the Arena Stage company's Mead Center for American Theater enlivened Washington's dreary southwestern waterfront and drew critical acclaim, died on Tuesday in Hong Kong.
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I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.
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In another essay, our contributing editor Rita Konig sings the praises of drab walls — painted or wallpapered in dull, dreary hues that act as the perfect foil to bright colors, sharp whites and a bit of shine.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The Kasai Canoe Slalom Centre for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was officially unveiled on a dreary and foggy morning in the Japanese capital on Saturday, the latest newly-built permanent venue to open on schedule.
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If you need a primer, cyberpunk is the sci-fi/film noir mashup subgenre where everyone is a cyborg antihero, corporations rule the world, and every location looks like Tokyo or Hong Kong on a dreary night.
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It's not quite enough to make you wish you were back in high school, but the affirmative spirit of the movie provides a winning and persuasive counterpoint to the latest dreary flurry of kids-these-days complaints.
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. Back in November 2016, Dev Hynes played a set for Pennsylvania's Boiler Room Weekender and official video footage of the full concert is now online to save your dreary January.
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The show, directed by Jonathan Tessero, is barely a few minutes old and it's already ahead of last year's "Home for the Holidays," the dreary revue that hit Broadway with whatever the opposite of gale force is.
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Warren in particular sees the heist as an act of existential revolt against conformity, a chance to break out of the dreary destiny that seems to be the lot of young men oblivious to their own privileges.
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Then I reflected upon how much I regularly enjoy soup, especially for the comfort it provides on cold, dreary days -- even though, thankfull,y I have no health issues that would require such an easily digestible meal.
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Adah, a thinly disguised version of the author, lived in a dreary apartment, worked menial jobs to support her young children and abusive husband, studied at night and weathered the slights meted out by a racist society.
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It was a dreary morning, but the mother still put her 3-year-old son in a stroller draped with a teal rain cover and headed out for a coffee and bagel in their East Harlem neighborhood.
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Combining an almost photo-real style with dainty music by Jon Brion, The Blue Umbrella turns a dreary cityscape into a hidden world teeming with friendly faces and helpful souls, if only you know where to look.
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"Sea" follows Hiroshi (Satoshi Abe), a shy high-school student hoping to get into university, and get away from his dreary coastal hometown where he is bullied by the likes of Tatsuya (Seiya Okada) and Kengo (Seijyuro Mimori).
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What happened: Part of Uber's fall from grace has been Lyft's poor performance as a public company and the stock market's dreary week, but Uber also is fighting newly woke investors worried about its penchant for losing money.
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And save for a dreary middle portion with a Time-Life montage of the major geopolitical moments of the 20th century, The Who put on a show that would still shame 99.8 percent of rock bands under 30.
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On a cold, dreary, rain-sodden Tuesday night in Brooklyn, the 14-4 Clippers took on the 4-12 Nets, losers of seven games in a row while giving up 110-plus points per game in the process.
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Unfortunately, it's gray and dreary, nevertheless the producer is high on the fact that he's playing to a sold-out crowd at Mercury Lounge later that night—one of 13 sold-out shows of his first headlining tour.
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He piles on plenty of imagery that captures America (largely the New Jersey of his childhood) as a dreary name-brandy shopping mall, but impeccable comic timing prevents him from drifting too far into the Debbie Downer zone.
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You're escaping the dreary mortal coil for a completely simulated experience: There you are, climbing the side of a mountain, exploring a faraway museum, flying through space or getting in bed with someone way out of your league.
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It's a 24-hour disorder characterized by a "dreary quality of life," Lichstein writes in the review, as it throws you off the next day because it can result in anxiety, fatigue, drowsiness and difficulty learning or remembering.
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Manonmars is a member of Young Echo, a Bristol-based collective of eleven producers and vocalists who make music that is dreary and flamboyantly slow, washed out in a haze, and clearly indebted to the late DJ Screw.
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Liberally illustrating her advice with case studies, Hillis transforms the idea of living alone from a dreary monotony suitable only for women who can think of no better option into a thrilling opportunity teeming with glamour and verve.
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For so long, it seemed to carry a cocaine scarlet letter that subjected me and many of my compatriots to dreary inspection rooms, where people are compelled to demonstrate they don't embody the worst stereotypes of their nations.
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That film, a bloody, R-rated affair with a cherry-red, semi-demonic superhero (David Harbour) at its helm, landed in third place with a dreary $12 million in North American theaters this weekend, well below analysts' expectations.
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Yet, even after a midweek sweep by the soaring Cleveland Indians, they stayed alive behind the Minnesota Twins in the race for the final American League playoff spot, a sharp improvement over last season's dreary 74-88 finish.
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"Prison, Day 1," a 2010 essay from the Lives column, by Piper Kerman On a dreary February morning in 2004, my fiancé, Larry, and I pulled into the parking lot of the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn.
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Baltimore has not lost a series yet this year but was blanked on two hits by five Tampa Bay relievers after manager Kevin Cash elected to hold out scheduled starter Erasmo Ramírez due to the dreary weather conditions.
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Yankees 20, Red Sox 22 BOSTON — A dank and dreary night, a head-over-heels flip into the stands and a jittery performance from Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman could not put a damper on Aaron Judge's 221th birthday.
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But Midi-chlorians aren't just a dreary, overly literal science fiction conceit that dragged down the otherwise fun mythos of the Star Wars movies, they're also real, according to three science journals that published findings about them recently.
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Plucked with the third pick of the 2008 NBA Draft—right after Michael Beasley, and right before Russell Westbrook and Kevin Love—and touted as a possible superstar, Mayo's career has been mostly dreary but never quite calamitous.
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LIMA (Reuters) - The athletics at the Pan Am Games failed to get off to a blazing start on Tuesday with even the presence of Olympic 100 meters champion Elaine Thompson unable to light up a dreary afternoon in Lima.
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Packing all the technology you demand into a lovely hatchback form factor makes it a perfect companion for your practical needs, while an inspired chassis and available manual transmission make it a more fun choice than its dreary competition.
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As shown in the images below, Sidewalk Labs shows the transformation of a dreary-looking Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn into a bustling and desirable community — which, it should be noted, the two-year old company was not responsible for.
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" In 1926, the Book Review published an unsigned review of "Soldiers' Pay," which said that Faulkner's use of "the episodic and elliptical pattern of modern experimental fiction" allowed him to avoid "the dreary piling-up of details of naturalism.
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Pick the image with the superior color palette as the source and your dreary photo comes to life—the results can be a bit hit and miss but it's a fun way of getting your pictures looking more appealing.
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As you'd expect, feelings were especially upbeat among some of the drivers of that change: the young bloggers and stars of cyber-space who had used technology to communicate freely with their compatriots and bypass the dreary official media.
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This is the strange impasse at the heart of British politics today: a stalemate that manifests itself as chaos, a historic decision that has brought Britain to a dreary standstill, ever since the Brexit referendum on June 23, 2016.
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It was a dreary afternoon, and for Giants fans clinging to be joyous memories of Super Bowl victories in 2008 and 2012, the end of the Eli era will be far more depressing than a day of soaking rain.
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Like most working lunches, the event had the taint of the obligatory, where both of you act as if you're doing something social and fun by choice when in fact you're doing something vaguely dreary because it's your job.
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An inventive architect had opened up the dreary galley kitchen and borrowed space from the bedroom to create a glass-tiled bathroom with plenty of elbow room in the shower and lighting that gives the illusion of a skylight.
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A dreary, overextended yawn, this is the latest movie to feature John Dolittle, the doctor turned horse whisperer that Hugh Lofting, a British-born civil engineer, invented during World War I in letters to his children from the front.
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The results wouldn't surprise anyone who's spent a dreary Sunday afternoon scrolling through others' vacation pics from Positano: Those who saw the highlight-heavy profiles reported feeling worse about themselves, while the other group felt less of a change.
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How is it, then, that just a few decades in, we find ourselves trapped in a dreary spectacle that seems to replicate the old patterns of exploitation and dominion in almost every sphere, but with a creepy new intimacy?
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Large stretches of it aren't particularly enlightening — who needs to relive the dreary, predictably acrimonious battles over budget stalemates and health care, or to hear sound bites of right-wing radio stars fanning the flames of racism and hate?
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One can't slap the name Blade Runner on a movie without it calling to mind all of those iconic visuals from Scott's original: dreary Los Angeles, the Tyrell (now Wallace) headquarters where light is always randomly shimmering from some unseen corner.
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He was a Canadian diplomat's son who served as a naval officer, then as a professor of theology and philosophy, but was inspired to change course after seeing the dreary conditions inside an institution for men with learning difficulties near Paris.
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But between the out-of-work uncle, the cans of Vienna sausages, and an overall dreary palette that seems to hint that middle America is somehow low-class, Haters Back Off lacks the heart of other series treading the same themes.
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The one bit of light in this dreary report is that two-factor authentication — arguably more important than a good password — is in fact making strides, and some of the worst offenders in password policy (looking at you, Amazon) allow it.
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Grizzlies 216, Spurs 216 Marc Gasol scored 230 points and pulled down 214 rebounds as host Memphis took charge in a dreary first half and then held on late to beat San Antonio and snap a six-game losing streak.
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This is perhaps an appealing new way to view a music industry that has found its income decimated by copyright infringement; audience-focused data metrics can be used to define success in ways that differ from the dreary traditional sales figures.
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If there's one thing that motivates me to get out of bed in the morning and try my hand at this dreary carnival called Life, it's the thought of clocking my eyes on a freaky-looking robot I've never seen before.
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LIMA (Reuters) - Surf, sand, sun and fun are beach volleyball hallmarks but it was cold and gold at Pan Am Games on Tuesday as the United States and Chile claimed titles on a chilly, dreary afternoon on the Costa Verde.
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He is serious and earnest about his artistic goals, especially when it comes to wanting to transform dreary spaces using large-scale murals made under the auspices of TAG Public Arts Project, a nonprofit he founded to encourage street art.
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FARMINGDALE, New York (Reuters) - Rain and the Bethpage Black Course go hand in hand when the world's best players visit so it was perhaps appropriate that the PGA Championship week started cold and soggy on a dreary Long Island Monday.
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Unhappy about the cultural scene in Lower Manhattan — so exciting in the '242s and '22000s, so dreary in the '213s — they began holding weekly get-togethers at the apartment Mr. Wink and Mr. Goldman shared on the Upper West Side.
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Whether you're looking to swiftly and efficiently clear out your sinuses or just warm yourself up from the inside out once the weather starts taking a turn for the dreary, there are countless ways to get your spicy food fix.
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Instead, they are busily crafting and polishing their dreamy policy positions, all of which Mr. Trump will use against them to great effect, particularly in my part of the country — which has already shown a dreary susceptibility to his wretched message.
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It didn't matter that he lived in Ohio and I in a dreary town in the West Midlands; I was experiencing a small slice of normality that all my peers took for granted, and to which my access was otherwise blocked.
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On Friday, the day after their dreary 8-3 loss to the Astros, the Yankees announced Sabathia had sustained a subluxation, or partial dislocation, of his left shoulder and would be replaced on the roster by the right-hander Ben Heller.
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This promising but still unfulfilled adaptation of John Carney's 2016 film about a fledgling pop band in dreary Dublin begins with an unhappy family watching a television show about the discontents of being young and Irish during the 1980s recession.
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The film's deliberate lo-fi design leads to endless shots of people sitting in cramped and dreary rooms — although there is a great scene involving the French actress Sarah Bernhardt (Rebecca Dayan) slinking and brooding through a snowy walk with Tesla.
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Few, however, have gone as dark or dreary as a new three-part production from the BBC, which FX is presenting as one (very) long movie that should be of interest to serious devotees of the story, and few others.
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Analysts cited a number of factors for the surprising strength of the protest: pent-up anger over government suppression of peaceful demonstrations; some rankling over the dreary economy; and the weather, because Sunday was sunny and relatively warm for March.
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"If Twitter controls publishing, we'll soon enter a dreary monoculture that admits no book unless it has been prejudged and meets the standards of the censors," Jennifer Senior wrote in a New York Times opinion piece about young-adult literature.
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Kipling, who was visiting India, where his parents still lived, raced back to London, and scarcely a week after he returned he married Balestier's younger sister, in a dreary little ceremony that was more like a funeral than a wedding.
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Mac left Pittsburgh when his music career took off, opting for the sunnier weather of Los Angeles over the dreary Pittsburgh skies (the city sees only about 234 sunny days per year, though, as a resident, this number feels shockingly high).
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Besides the obvious benefit of temporarily trading New York's dreary February weather for that of warm and sunny Southern California, I also enjoy getting a little out of my comfort zone to work on the entertainment calendar's biggest night of the year.
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On a dreary, drizzly day last November, a few dozen nattily dressed men and women paid between $299.9 and $303 for a branded soccer scarf and a day of talks and roundtables about "activation" and "engagement" at a generic midtown Manhattan hotel.
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With the political outlook still confused a year after the Brexit vote took place, the show's writer, 39-year-old EU trade lawyer Chris Bryant, told Reuters the show was meant as "an escape from the dreary reality of where we are".
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Normally parties nominate a presidential candidate with the opposite portfolio of skills (Ronald Reagan had demonstrated proficiency in both policy and Hollywood), which is probably wise from a governing standpoint but has led us to a dreary dead end in terms of conventions.
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Wonder Woman's latest trailer focuses on Diana Prince's backstory, and it's better off for it — the brighter, less dreary footage of her home really sets this film apart from the darkness of the rest of the DC universe, and it's a nice reprieve.
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It was easy to hate him when Toronto was mired in the dreary days of Rafael Araujo, and it's easy to love Carter now and enjoy the good old days when the team employs Kawhi Leonard and is gunning for a championship.
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There's now a lot of evidence for that proposition, with my only worry being that potential output isn't an actual number, just an estimate that may tell us more about the dreary minds of international agencies than about real supply-side effects.
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Across Yerevan, and even in the city's dreary outskirts, people speak of a renewed sense of optimism, crediting the new government with bringing down rampant corruption, taming powerful oligarchs and paving the way for the first free and transparent election in a generation.
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It's not quite as dreary as it sounds however; the 30-second spot, entitled "Hold your breath," does compare money problems to drowning, but it also tries to strike a positive note with a reminder that you shouldn't let them consume you.
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It's not great for my wallet, but it's wonderful for bar owners like Betty (who would rather not share her last name: "The people of Ghent call me Betty from Rococo") whose establishments do exceptionally well on dark and dreary winter days.
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The movie's first half is excessively dark -- both in terms of its actual dreary look and the story, as the young Han (Alden Ehrenreich) escapes an impoverished upbringing on his native Corellia and takes off to pursue his dreams of becoming a pilot.
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What lengths she went to, she reflected, how determinedly she guarded herself from the cruelty that was more than Tommy Kildare's treachery or Donald deciding that he was homosexual, more than the haunting years of Arthur's dreary world, more than tediousness and boredom.
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The production value is on par with Broadway and film (Counts' co-producer, Jennifer Worthington, is former film executive who worked for Jerry Bruckheimer), and it's plausible that the dreary office building and seedy karaoke bar are all part of the set.
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And its framework is more or less intact in this murky (narratively, visually) adaptation, which stars Ewan McGregor, as Perry, a professor of poetics whose dreary life perks up after he's swept up in a scheme involving a charismatic gangster, Dima (Stellan Skarsgard).
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I didn't particularly want to see this girl, or hear the piano recital, so why was I spending all my allowance on a bouquet, and travelling all the way to the top of a mountain on a dreary Sunday afternoon in November?
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Back at work, he was punished for various infractions, like allowing a prisoner to use the restroom unaccompanied, and he was shuttled among a series of dreary "punishment posts" — the auto pound by the Gowanus Bay, the lost-property division in Queens.
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Given this, the bright, popping red of the superhero costume in "Shazam!" is an early warning sign, as obvious as a matador's cape, that the dreary and crepuscular have given way to something less self-serious and end-of-the-world grim.
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Alone among the scores of reporters who had converged on this dreary outpost, Colvin had crossed the border with a member of the Kosovo Liberation Army and spent several days in a muddy trench being shelled and shot at by Serb forces.
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After a dreary opening act in New York — in which he twice struck out five times in a game — Stanton, baseball's leading home run hitter in 2017, was predictably greeted with hearty boos when he came to the plate in the first inning.
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At the same time, a truer side of Janet's rebellion emerges, as she confronts Appa about the years of free and dreary labor she provided in the store, only to be punished emotionally as the fruit of that labor — her freedom — neared.
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The Good Incredible multiplayer technology • Dark Zone gameplay will keep you coming back The Bad Dreary,repetitive environments • Campaign missions often feel unfair and dull The Bottom Line The Division is an incredible multiplayer game, but it doesn't always reach its full potential.
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But just as we gather our coziest blanket around us on the dreariest days of winter, so too must we comfort ourselves in this dreary political time by remembering, and nurturing, the successful examples of bipartisanship, and yes, nonpartisanship, that still do thrive.
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Bill was like a kid in a candy store at the Easter parade because people from all walks of life would come out dressed up in bright colors to celebrate the beginning of spring and the blossoming of flowers after a dreary winter.
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If you're seeking some sunlight and warmth in these dreary winter months, look no further: This movie, on track with Disney's expansion of its "princess" genre, features Moana (Auli'i Cravalho), a chief's daughter, as she ventures to sea to save her island.
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Despite his short tenure, Meyer has a nearly equal claim with Gropius to what remains of the Bauhaus's built record, including the one Bauhaus building in the region around Berlin: a trade-union school in the De Chirico-dreary suburb of Bernau.
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The only solutions offered by too many shrugging doctors were the prescription painkillers that, Stickney and her family knew, were turning a once cheerful teenager into a dreary, opioid-dependent 20-year-old pushing herself around her college campus on a kneeling scooter.
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The sun is starting to peek its presumably sunglasses-wearing head out from behind the dreary March clouds, we're only wearing two layers instead of three, and we're firing up the kinda-broken margarita machine so that our daiquiris will be slushy by mid-April.
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In Event to Change the Image of Snow (1970), GUN's members used a fertilizer blower to spray colored food dyes across a wide, snow-covered gravel riverbed of the Shinano River in Niigata Prefecture, a region famous for its long, dreary winters and heavy snowfalls.
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Into the dreary swirl of injections and hormones and the news of yet another horribly expensive round of failed IVF comes Richard and Rachel's niece, Sadie (Kayli Carter), who's dropped out of her college writing program to come stay with them for a while.
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In line with the current trends in urbanism, it's a cookie-cutter metropolis where fake woke projects, an insufferable club scene, a dreary dating landscape, and eco-friendly initiatives coexist alongside tech conglomerates that are cannibalizing the little lifeblood that's left of the city.
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It's that sense of realism that gives the film its dreary yet believable atmosphere, because it feels like a world that could exist, with a bunch of scruffy people attempting to get by in a damp forest (a bit like 2015's The Survivalist).
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AHMED SHIAANAmbassador of the Maldives to Britain and the European Union London Here's to boring politics Your leader on the potential coalition government in Germany describes the probable result as a "dreary sort of continuity that has left everyone unhappy" ("Reheating the GroKo", February 10th).
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The Duchess of Sussex knows a thing or two about looking chic through England's dreary and wet weather, and one thing she — and several other stars like Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Garner, and Hilary Duff — love to wear are their Hunter rain boots and wellies.
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If the writer wants her fiction to aid actual people outside it, desires her words to be more than a well-intentioned display of good intentions, more than a dreary recital of a plight suffered by countless young, underprivileged women, the story requires help.
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"I thought yesterday about how this would be maybe the dozenth time in recent memory where I made that dreary trudge onto to the floor of the House of Representatives for a moment of silence associated with another mass slaughter," Himes told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.
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But she soon grows to love her biracial daughter, gives her the nickname Tommy, and they eke out their survival in a dreary bed-sit infested with cockroaches, heated only by puny gas fires that require feeding with coins, of which Bella never has enough.
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"The dreary fact," he wrote, "is that if supermarkets and food chains in the New York area gave up all their profits and handed them over to the shopper as price cuts, a basket of food costing $10 would be cut only to about $9.90."
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Genuine outrage about the current direction of the country, along with a real hope that we can do better and escape the dreary constraints of even Democratic politics in the Clinton and Obama eras, surely has mobilized or inspired some candidates to enter the fight.
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" After all, these are often the students who are condemned to dreary drill and repetition, in hopes of bringing them to a higher level: "What if the arts are a lever of school reform, better than the drill and kill we do with remedial students?
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Conceived in utopian promise and born in the violent upheavals of the "Great October Revolution of 1917," the union heaved its last in the dreary darkness of late December 1991, stripped of ideology, dismembered, bankrupt and hungry — but awe-inspiring even in its fall.
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But if reaching a World Cup semifinal for the first time in almost three decades has absolved the team of its perceived sins, the nation's relationship with Wembley — the backdrop to so many dreary hours, the scene of so many disappointments — remains much more complex.
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CreditCreditWinnie Au for The New York Times Against a phalanx of mostly dreary new apartment towers, the soon-to-open Hunters Point Community Library by Steven Holl Architects is a diva parading along the East River in Queens, south of the famous Pepsi sign.
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No pitcher has come within 210 of that number ever since, but we just might witness history at Citi Field this season: Jerry Blevins, the veteran Mets left-hander, is on pace to make 210 appearances after Wednesday's dreary 225-22014 loss to San Diego.
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The desire to find commonalities and some lighter link to economics and politics in the U.K. is totally understandable of course, given that we all know that at the moment writing about these two topics without a World Cup-type reference is repetitive and dreary.
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KRZ moves effortlessly from dreamy to dreary, oppressive to oblique, all in an effort to show the beauty and complexity of the world that is being closed down and ironed out by the Consolidated Electric Co ( KRZ's chief allegory for the colonizing power of capitalism).
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In the time it would take to "like" two posts on Instagram, your husband and his siblings could send a kind message to a relative who loves them, probably celebrated their various milestones, and even flew to their (let's face it) dreary destination weddings.
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"People nowadays desire real change from the grind of their daily commutes, the dreary workplace environment with its ever-present noise pollution and the constant invasion of smartphones," said George Morgan-Grenville, the founder and chief executive of Red Savannah, a high-end travel company.
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These are the wilderness teens, ferried here with ironing boards and rucksacks full of the clothing from their old life, and given short practical haircuts and dreary-looking canteen food, woken up at 5:133 AM a lot until they fully embrace the new.
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Let's recap the plot: Petulant teenager Sarah (a 14-year-old Jennifer Connelly, in her fourth film role) lives in a fantasy world but is constantly being dragged back to earth by the dreary realities of her life — including her perpetually wailing baby half-brother, Toby.
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That nasty polar vortex that's currently sweeping across the nation has people all over stuck indoors, and while most of us are happy to not be outside enduring the freezing-cold temperatures, even the warmth of our homes can feel a little dreary this time of year.
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He's so embedded in his dreary routine that he doesn't notice the telltale signs of zombie infestation: people running in panic, bloody handprints on the glass case at the convenience store, and, of course, the undead making their stiff, vacant way down the street behind him.
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In there, they are free to congratulate each other on their richly deserved success, lend each other money, place side bets on the goings-on in the dreary, parlous, Keurig-breathed world below, and presumably exchange esoteric complaints about the pros and cons of private jet ownership.
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After a scoreless first half between Scottish Championship league teams St. Mirren and Dundee United, fans from both sides began packing up snowballs and hurling them at each other across the corner of the field, bringing a little of their own fun to an otherwise dreary day.
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After the dreary Batman v Superman drew criticism for director Zack Snyder, Affleck could be a step in the right direction for DC fans, having already proved himself more than capable behind the camera — the Batman actor's Argo won the Oscar for best picture in 2012.
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It's one thing to be on location in the West Bank or Lagos and to feel nervous, but the idea that I was going to meet my dreary demise in a social housing estate in south London, close to where I grew up, just felt all wrong.
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The Flea and the Acrobat (Season 1, Chapter 5) There are definitely some great scenes in this episode but the most important of all is when the boys figure out Will is trapped in an alternate Hawkins; one that is cold, dreary, empty and run by monsters.
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With Aggretsuko and its predecessor, Gudetama (about a Bartleby-like lazy egg), Sanrio is in line with the growing tendency across many forms and media to meld kawaii aesthetics with seemingly incongruous genres including horror, the surreal, and dreary narratives about everyday themes in Japanese culture.
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It was a far cry from my memories of Lewisham High Street, where more than three decades earlier I'd go shopping in mainly shabby stores for things like shampoo and dental floss, returning to my dreary dorm in time for the bell summoning us to tea.
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Weirdly, the most boring section of the new film is the actual raiding of the tombs, partly because Lara is dogged by a dreary villain, Vogel (Walton Goggins), who might just pass muster as a henchman, and partly because the obstacles that greet her seem so familiar.
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Paul was the first to arrive—he was out here on business, staying long-term at a hotel in L.A.—and I think he was eager to escape the four walls, dreary views, and artificial relationships he'd established with the concierge, the barman, and the waitstaff.
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If you're performing a short set at a small, intimate venue or just playing for friends at home, the device allows you to really spice up the performance and avoid what can at times be that dreary, folk-song-y thing that acoustic players often struggle with.
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Whatever the network's intentions were at the outset, when it came time to show her actual fighting ability, it and the promoters handling the pay-per-view opted for a dreary junior welterweight affair between Darlys Perez and Maurice Hooker over Shields' fun battle with Franchon Crews.
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It is the kind of dreary canvas that could have been the backdrop for a memorably stark, even brutal account of Wagner's opera, in which a suffering company of knights guarding the Holy Grail is saved through the slow progress to understanding of an innocent young man.
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The league is healthy and wealthy and fun in a way it has seldom ever been before, but also top-heavy in a way that cast a dreary and inexorable fug over the playoffs right through the inevitable confetti storm and trophy presentations at Oracle Arena.
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"When we're able to share with someone who we do feel safe with, we can realize that these things that are happening to us don't make us unloveable and aren't anything to have as a huge secret and don't make our future dark and dreary," he said.
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"Rising Star," the voluminous 1,460-page biography of Barack Obama by David J. Garrow, is a dreary slog of a read: a bloated, tedious and — given its highly intemperate epilogue — ill-considered book that is in desperate need of editing, and way more exhausting than exhaustive.
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A stark change from the quarters Grindr formerly occupied in an anonymous building on a dreary stretch of Sunset Boulevard, the company's news offices occupy a glass-walled floor at the Pacific Design Center, with stereoscopic vistas of the Los Angeles area visible from every desk.
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WASHINGTON — Judge Neil M. Gorsuch's road to a Supreme Court nomination included stops at a fancy law firm conference room, the dreary basement of a government office building, President Trump's gilded penthouse in Trump Tower, the White House's Lincoln Bedroom and a ride on a military jet.
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And yet, what could have become pretentious, tedious or dreary wasn't that at all, because in every frame is a snapshot of one or more individuals paired with a teddy bear, that soft fuzzy toy we believe to be essential to childhood, its moment of innocence, power, and hope.
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We so often turn to celebrities' vacation Instagram content to provide us with escape from our dreary lives: Please, show us your exotic yacht life while we sit on sticky subway seats; let us see that perfect powder day on the slopes as we waste away in our cubicles.
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There's loooots of evidence to support that the Starks share blood with the White Walkers (they don't call 'em the Kings of Winter for nothing), and that their house words — "Winter is Coming" — began at first as a boast of their powerful magic rather than a dreary climate warning.
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The aesthetics of the dreary, starless world outside of the prince's fantasy universe seem inspired primarily by the relentlessly gray, boxed-in world of Jacques Tati's masterpiece of French cinema, Playtime, itself a hymn to the human spirit of ingenuity and individuality in a drab grown-up life.
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Wearing a sky blue polka dot dress by New York-based designer Altuzarra, Kate brought a ray of sunshine to the dreary weather conditions in Harlow, Essex, in the U.K. where she and Prince William were visiting Stewards Academy in association with their Heads Together mental health campaign.
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The first and most obvious: they lost their first game 22016-27 in a dreary, uninteresting affair against Colombia, then smacked Costa Rica 28-28 in a redeeming victory—thanks to a clever tactical shift after 22016 minutes from a 20143-22014-22014 to a 211-4-2.
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Once in the game, you could forget about the dreary annoyances of school as you slipped into your handcrafted persona of a thieving elf with high Strength and Intelligence scores and went off to battle the Demogorgon or a giant toothy Purple Worm with your fellow treasure-seeking friends.
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"I wanted to balance pieces you can wear with pieces that are fantasy and that make you smile," said Mr. Gómez Palomo, whose show was greeted with enthusiastic hoots by his fan claque, the models and those who always look to Paris for relief from dreary conventional fashion.
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Jasmine Dunn: Mia Forrest who we had approached to create something for us, was just about to embark on a trip to the Edinburgh International Film Festival for one of her short films, so she kindly hired a camera while over there and found some appropriately dreary locations.
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Only time will tell if the eighth DC Extended Universe film will be able to hold up to the box office success of its predecessors, but regardless of the numbers, one thing is for sure: Harley's story definitely added some necessary color to DC's drab and dreary repertoire.
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People want to get away from their dreary, humdrum lives, so whether it's Oz or Middle Earth or Hogwarts or you know a galaxy far, far away, it's just a great way to be swept away to a place of more fun than where we are right now.
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But it was a bit dreary to hear somebody who said, "I cannot enjoy this episode because, you know, that speed of that raven ... " There was a lot of wonderful stuff going on here and if it really gets that much in your way, that's not good to hear.
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Given that her misbegotten desire for a child with Clark was one of the falling dominoes that ultimately led to her current predicament, it's a nice suggestion of a future bright spot in her current dreary situation, even if it does have the whiff of manipulation about it.
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They ideal fantasy shopping cart items are the things we save up for, the things we walk away from purchasing one day only to think about it nonstop over the next few weeks, the ultimate mood lifters that, with one glance on a dreary day, can instantly make us smile.
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From the Yachay pipe dream to Lago Agrio, a backwater drilling town buried in the Amazon jungle, to dreary slums in the gritty metropolis of Guayaquil and the most notorious ghetto in Ecuador, this story follows a petrodollar trail of truth, taking in people and places touched by Correa's revolutionary vision.
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In one of the funniest moments, Nimoy chuckles at a convention while reading the original Variety review of the show, which dubbed "Star Trek" a "dreary mess of confusion" and called Shatner's performance "wooden," which might be the first and last time anyone used that adjective in relation to him.
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The weather was damp and dreary, but inside the new 12South neighborhood hot spot he and wife Lauren frequent for the bar (they love the jalapeño margarita) and the tacos (duck for him, pork belly for her), the vibe was as warm and laid back as a day at the beach.
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" But no, this isn't inspired by Mindhunter, it's just a reflection of the dreary London landscape and the stark simplicity of the too big and too empty mansion ( think American Psycho) "It's not a serial killer video, but I wanted it to be very upfront and strong in this cooler environment.
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This is Ramirez's first year on the ballot; his last Major League at-bat came during a brief and Carlton-ishly dreary stint in Tampa, during which Ramirez went 1-for-17, then retired rather than serving the 100-game suspension he'd received for a positive PED test during spring training.
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Example: One of 2015's best movies, which you'll find nowhere on the list of Oscar nominees, was "Tangerine," a low-budget indie about two transsexual prostitutes spending a dreary, desperate Christmas Eve thrashing along the near-deserted side streets of Los Angeles, dealing with frustrated romance and broken promises.
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This dreary cycle, as far as Mrs Clinton is concerned, followed even more damaging events in Nevada on May 14th, when a crowd of Sanders supporters hurled chairs and abuse at Democratic officials whom they accused of fixing the selection of delegates to the Democratic National Convention to her advantage.
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Down a steep staircase in the boat's main cabin, her boss Taison Chang sorts through the supplies piled on seats and a wide, curved table -- maps and charts, a GPS tracker, snacks, waterproofs, two-expensive cameras with long lenses, and several bottles of suncream in defiance of the dreary skies overhead.
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Jump on one of those trains though and toward the city's outer reaches—places like Walthamstow, Elm Park, Forest Hill—and the capital's architectural promise becomes a distant memory, replaced with blocks of social housing and coloured in the kind of run-down hues befitting of England's famously dreary weather.
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Because, as Mr. Almereyda marshals his material, which includes Mr. Fancher digressing at length as well as clips from his early TV and film work, "Escapes" dodges the dreary obligations of the standard documentary profile to become an exploration of life as (if we're lucky) a long, endlessly inventive tale.
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In neither case can the actor be blamed for the face God gave him, but the whole dreary concentration on the sadistic delights of the dungeon was certainly the fault of the showrunners, whom we might have punished by ceasing to watch their show, if only we could have done so.
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For others, the tournament is a stopgap to get through the lull of the superior NBA season—less a celebration of basketball than a dreary hotbed for zone defenses, an endless parade players of players that can most kindly be characterized as scrappy, and an orgy of bricked crunch-time free throws.
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Roundup Chelsea's dreary opening 45 minutes against visiting Everton on Saturday made way for a thrilling second half that started with an own goal by Chelsea defender John Terry and ended with Terry's scoring in the eighth minute of stoppage time to clinch a 3-3 draw in a Premier League game.
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Carlo A. Scissura, the president of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, has a grand vision for the borough's Fourth Avenue, which for decades was a dreary boulevard where you were more likely to get your tires replaced or buy a cheap mattress than eat a fine meal or find a luxury apartment.
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