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Example sentences for: dreary

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She "put life back into a dreary over-intellectual magazine that was little read and even less talked about," it said.
("[W]hen she does a wobbly fall in a tight skirt and heels, it's like the moment in Bambi when the little deer fumbles and skitters across a patch of ice," says Ken Tucker in Entertainment Weekly .) Or is the show dreary and cliché-ridden?
Man, they should have killed off Livia when they had the chance, and that way they wouldn't have to saddle us with her dreary daughter.
Most pin the blame on the dreary, endless lawsuit; as David Denby puts it, "a movie that reaches a climax with the hero writing a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency has landed in a certain amount of trouble" ( The New Yorker ). Richard Schickel of Time disagrees, calling the film "smart, tough, yet curiously moving."
Why is the NYTBR so dreary?