dreariness

The dreariness of “May gray” hangs in the air, but soon enough people will be turning on their fans to fend off the heat.

The Pogues may have sounded traditional, but their spirit was vulgar and vital, a bracing departure from the glitz of new wave and a needed counterpoint to the dreariness of the Thatcher era.

That’s easier said than done, and “Giovanni” — long, circular, slippery — is one of the hardest assignments for an opera director, with attempts tending to fall into either unremitting dreariness or irritating glibness.

But although Friday in Washington seemed definitely damp, its daytime dreariness seemed curtailed by its quota of cherry blossoms and other early spring sights.

The dreariness of ChatGPT, the soulless works of visual art produced by similar programs seem to confirm that hunch.