drabness

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The strict realism runs the risk of drabness; the novel’s title, for instance, is so forgettable that I have had to look it up three times in the writing of this review.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

To stay sane, she releases her pent-up frustration at her gigs, where her furious guitar playing, powerful vocals and introspective songwriting torch the everyday drabness of her life with a Dionysian flame.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2023

And the danger is even greater in “A House Among the Trees,” which gives up a lot of white space to that caretaker, although she never shakes off the drabness of her conception.

From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2017

His enthusiasm, they conclude, “crashed into the drabness of the day’s cases.”

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2017

She was tired of the drabness and clutter of crowded foregrounds.

From The Blood Red Dawn by Dobie, Charles Caldwell