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drab
(redirected from drably)

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drab
1. a light olive-brown colour
2. a fabric of a dull grey or brown colour


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And do we really need so many drably illustrated new editions of old classics when the library bookshelves are already bulging with earlier, unread copies?
Kassell and her photographer, Xavier Perez Grobet, create a drably ominous visual poetry of recurring slow-motion images--a big red playground ball rolling to a stop at Walter's feet; a little girl disappearing into a bedroom--that evoke his forbidden and anguished desire.
Then the picture was dominated by the stark contrast between the generally prosperous and free First World, the economically stagnant and drably totalitarian Second World, and the seemingly hopeless Third World.
 
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