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187 examples of Dreary in a sentence

By contrast, today, when we have to build a major new apartment building somewhere, we have to build lots and lots of elevators and lots of fire stairs, and we have to connect them with these long, anonymous, dreary corridors.
This is one dreary, inert, self-important bore.
an excruciatingly sluggish script, an excessive amount of stock footage from the first two flicks, a meandering narrative, a crippling lack of action and momentum, largely dreary going through the motions (non)acting from an understandably disinterested cast, and a poorly staged climactic battle between the mummy and the robot (the movie finally bursts to sidesplitting stupid life with said big bash, but alas it barely even lasts two lousy minutes and thus proves to be much too little far too late to alleviate the severity of the general overwhelming boredom), this numbingly dry, drippy, and draggy snorefest rates as a complete washout.
The female singer was positively dreary!
Set in the Philipines, Lethal Panther 2 is a dreary early-90s martial-arts action flick which sees a reckless cop hunting down the nasty criminals who killed his wife.
The film attempts to shatter the romantic chivalry image of the heroic medieval knight, by showing a rather dreary image of the period, defined by psychological dysfunction, and violence.
Kevin Bacon plays a cerebral palsy victim who is befriended by a 10-year-old girl whose fantasies of digging to China, flying away in a balloon, and so on, are her way of coping with a dreary existence.
There are some decent kill scenes, and some of them are gory; but it's never very shocking, which really just makes this another dreary slasher based on a celebratory event on the American calendar.
Perhaps the biggest problem is the flat plot, centred on the arrogant but enigmatic hero; unfortunately, it's a dreary performance from Redford, offering us little insight into his cares or motivations.
It is dreary and drab, has no excitement, the acting by Hulce is terrible as Hulce cannot pull off the proper accent required for this film.
Lame rip-off of THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (1955): the first half is deadly dull, even dreary - but the latter stages improve considerably with the scenes involving the rampaging 'monster'.
It's a dreary story (impressive managing to be dreary when there's dangerous fires and lives being saved) about a fireman.
And his dreary life, told in a pointless, 'scene from now' flashback to the past style.
Tediously long dreary cinematic waffle.
Unbelievably slow beginning: 35 minutes, two dreary songs and a botched rip off.
Drab, dreary and a total waste of my time.
This is the dreary tale of the self absorbed affair between two unlikable people, one of whom is married to someone else.
That's how I'd describe this painfully dreary time-waster of a film.
I had to sit through over twenty minutes of this dreary short that wasn't funny at all to get a good seat for a feature film that I wanted to see at a local film festival.
I kept waiting for him to go "Uh ha hah!" which would have been a high point in this dreary presentation.
I found it dreary, visually ugly and generally meaningless.
This was a sordid and dreary mess.
Maybe I'm not too much for dreary talking for 2 hours.
However, someone felt that mega-bucks could be made by detailing the dreary lives of these characters after the original film ended.
The photography is accomplished, the acting is quite good, but in virtually every other department The Greek Tycoon is a dreary bore.
The somewhat dreary story is helped greatly by the two main actors and there's a semblance of a character study going on here but the film goes downhill fast when Carrie Snodgress' character buys a monkey.
"Mod Squad" is dreary, tiring, and lethargic.
I hated it immediately but my wife became hooked on it for a couple of years.For me it just got worse and worse and the characters were all without question dreary and depressing without any redeeming features.
This isn't a great movie, but it's certainly better than the eight dreary ones for Fox and MGM they'd made in the early 1940's.
Are sea side resorts the sad, dreary places they're always depicted as in movies and novels?
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