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187 examples of Dreary in a sentence

An untidy man, known as Bill, lives in a small dreary flat, with a poster of Marilyn Monroe on the wall, and his typewriter for company.
A young woman steals some money from the dreary Vermont supermarket where she works, decides to run away to Florida where he has dreams of attending school with her friend Julie, and encounters an odd couple on the highway.
I saw it on Satellite on dreary Sunday morning.
Aside from a fairly dreary opening on horseback and a downright deadly car ride down a city street at night, this movie clips along at a very brisk pace.
(The second is the dreary "De-Lovely" in which he played Cole Porter.)
There are hardly any actual jokes or gags, just mostly actors behaving idiotically and spouting dreary lines.
Hackneyed zooms, swoops and pans are spliced into the whole dreary affair at unpredictable moments leaving the audience disorientated and bored.
The whole production had an incredibly dark and dreary feel to it.
Its so depressing and dreary but the worst thing about it is the acting i cant stand all detective programmes such as this because the detectives are so wooden and heartless.
On the whole, this is a dreary and dismal slasher that even slasher fans will do well to miss.
What a slow, dreary, boring, who-gives-a-damn-about-these-people movie!!! Just simply painful to sit through, I turned it off before it was over.
This film uses all art-house clichés (slow pace, long static shots, minimal amount of dialog) to try to hide the fact that there really is nothing worth watching here: There is no plot to speak of, the characters are dreary (female lead) or cliché (Tersteeghe's character), and they do not ever talk to each other about anything that concerns their rather uneventful lives.
Overall - dreary, incoherent, pretentious - and downright annoying for wasting so much of the viewer's time.
A dreary, hopelessly predictable film set in a most unpleasant setting (lower Coachella Valley).
God knows I have nothing against low-budget films, but the ones produced in that period have such a dreary, shabby look about them--and, in the final analysis, just aren't very good.
Suffer they do, in this dreary, truly dreadful film, but they cause the audience to undergo pain of the non-dental variety too.
The Leonard Cohen sound track is not only excessively heavy-handed but dreary beyond measure.
A dreary and pointless bit of fluff (bloody fluff, but fluff).
but this is just a dreary wast of time, portraying every character as someone to be loathed and exploited so someone could make a movie out of an 'interesting' story.
Also saying that the current available print is dark, dreary, scratchy, abysmally edited, painfully dubbed, seemingly censored and in almost unwatchable shape is also correct.
A few daylight location shots, for example, would have helped relieve the succession of dreary studio sets.
This is a dreary TV movie and even though it likes to promote itself as a "Charlie's Angels" deal,it is nowhere near as good as the original series or even the gawdawful, irretrievably stupid, recent C.A. movies.
The first half is a less-than-captivating, meet cute, coy romance between a blinkered Caan and a chipper Mason, and the dreary second half makes you long for the first half.
(So theoretically, it is possible for a contestant on this dreary debacle to actually wind up owing Shatner money.)
The script, the dreary pace, the lack of depth in any character, the pointless sub-plots, the dreadful acting, the needless climax all make this possibly the worst film I've ever seen.
The entire film is quite dreary, and well-shot in dark colors, which contributes a lot to the atmosphere.
Lead actor Claude Laydu, from the film's opening to its end, wears the same wearying and annoying mask of agony as to be practically indistinguishable from the film's eternal, dreary voice-over.
That said the material gives Lundgren nothing to work with, in fact, Lundgren is completely left out to dry in a dreary thriller which is both predictable and incomprehensible.
This seems like two films: one a dreary, pretentious lengthy saga about an ac-tor who is taken over by the parts he plays; the other a brilliant social comment about a middle aged divorce who is picked up by a waitress.
Graham)personalities becomes a dreary disjointed soap opera about that tells us little about either.
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