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As always, critics applaud Sayles' heartfelt liberalism and choice of offbeat subjects, which make him the "most restlessly independent independent filmmaker" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). But most critics say he "doesn't have a filmmaker's instinct" (Amy Taubin, the Village Voice ). Except in Lone Star , they say, Sayles' dialogue is stilted and his cinematography drab.
The one zipping around in circles is an Orbital Sander, and the drab little creature making those sad chirps is a Plain Brown Wrapper.”
Today, 35 years after Wilson's jibe, it remains the drab wallpaper of the book world.
The second name, the (special) name, modesta , means modest in the sense of free from ostentation (Cynthia was struck by the moth's drab garb).
Life is drab in Updike's novels, and sins are vast, and the Christian pieties that come tumbling down from the pulpit never seem adequate to the case.