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187 examples of Dreary in a sentence

Extremely boring, I wanted to leave the theater when I saw this but the dumb movie tickets were expensive so I had to withstand the dreary torture which felt like it lasted forever.
Casting exasperated the dreary dialogue which resulted in relationships lacking warmth, chemistry or conviction.
He has a pretty wife, I have to admit, but it would take tons more than that to save this dreary mess of a movie.
Notwithstanding socio-economic hierarchy, xenophobia, and world politics, this film expertly delves into a dark and suspenseful intrigue involving unfaithful compatriots played by Katina Paxinou and Peter Lorre, and is expertly filmed in numerous darkly lit scenes set in a dreary hotel by James Wong Howe, and manages more than once to get under your skin.
Well-made but basically dreary low-life melodrama which, according to the accompanying interview with lead Isabelle Huppert, writer/director Pialat infused with a good deal of autobiographical detail; given the mainly unsympathetic characters involved, it doesn't do him any compliments - and he does seem to have been a troubled man, as Huppert also says that Pialat often disappeared for days on end during the shoot!
Just a nice pick me up for a dreary day.
It is not easy to present these long Dickens' books - Oliver Twist would be easier - this is a long, and if you don't care for all the legal situations can be dreary or boring.
Hundstage is an intentionally ugly and unnerving study of life in a particularly dreary suburb of Vienna.
During the "run" we see the characters grow and momentarily forget about their dreary lives, about the "macho" roles they've bought into, and eventually forgetting about why they started running in the first place.
A string of disappointing efforts, culminating in the dreary Melinda and Melinda (2004) and the embarrassing Anything Else (2003) raised serious doubts that another first rate Woody comedy, with or without his own participation as an actor, was in the cards.
It starts slowly, showing the dreary lives of the two housewives who decide to rent a castle in Italy for the month of April, but don't give up on it.
To put it mildly, this film has a dreary beginning that wasn't even remotely funny, or even upbeat.
Dreary action vehicle for Sylvester Stallone is a bone-crushing bore.
wow ... for a start.. the 3 main leads .. who i have liked on screen in the past..were given dreary dialogue .. The characters were all so unlikable, the story.. what story?!.. it just wasn't worth being made.. it told nothing.
CANNONBALL (2 outta 5 stars) Pretty dreary low budget car chase movie starring David Carradine and directed by Paul Bartel who teamed up for the classic "Death Race 2000" the year before.
Pretty dreary, pretty dull.
I for one am glad that movies like TCM the beginning come out now and again to the same Criticisms that should be praised rather than scored, but then again i am of a generation that applauds the blood, and Gratuitous violence and dreary depression or horror, instead of going eeewww thats gross!
The film plays more like a whodunit than a horror film, but the "mystery" part is dreary, and the death scenes are silly and overwrought.
The horrific pan and scan video print that we all grew up with seemed to be a succession of dank and dreary night scenes, and poorly composed night scenes at that.
However, she was not assisted by the dreary subject matter made only worse by the completely unsympathetic drawn-up role of Mrs. X as played by Miss Linney.
The director also receives sole writing credit, which rather explains the film’s relentless self-indulgence – padding a wafer-thin plot with lame attempts at characterization and dreary passages of local color!
Saying that there have been dozens of films about how war ruins men so it's a cliché, and that this one is too dreary and slow means that a person has stopped feeling for what is really hurtful, is even in denial.
Drab, pointless, humorless, dreary, are some words that come to mind quickly.
This painfully predictable comedy tries to delay the inevitable by coming up with a series of forced scenes and situations, and it's also visually dreary, despite the potentially majestic locations.
It seems axiomatic that the more cruddy a movie is, the more variant titles it will collect along its merry way, and this pretentious, self-conscious mix of "horror" and "sex" is tedious, dreary and almost embarrassing in its desperate attempt to appear "meaningful".
The two decent moments in this dreary adventure are the opening scenes set to John Barry's unforgettable theme music that recounts the construction and voyage of the Titanic.
Things begin to slide precipitously downhill for the young and upwardly mobile Getty's upon recovering a lemming very far from home in the trap under the kitchen sink at their home in a staid and dreary suburbia in Toulouse, France.
Superb debut performance by Diana Ross as Billie Holiday is absolutely the only reason to see this dreary biopic.
The characters are uninteresting and the script is a dreary bore.
This is a dreary, laughless satire that completely misses its target.
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