John Tiffany

Philistines' was so beautiful, and it bored me to death. I never want to see another production where the rain splashes against a window and actors wander around in drab cardigans saying, 'I'm so bored.

English Director

Jonathan Miles

A mourning dove's beauty is an understated one: the colors of its feathers ranging through various shades of gray and drab violet, often with a striking splash of turquoise around the eyes.

Liza Minnelli

I thought that making movies was drab. I'd lived through that. And I didn't want to use my parents, ever... They didn't want to push me into this business.

American Actress

Mary Roberts Rinehart

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

American Novelist

Ravi Subramanian

One can become drab, dull, and boring doing the same thing every day. Writing helps break the monotony.

Indian Author

Cyd Charisse

I always thought those old drab clothes from 'Silk Stockings' were the worst things I wore.

Eva Longoria

To be with the same person for the rest of your life just sounds so drab.

Richard Burton

How drab people are, especially from the press.

Welsh Actor

Alain de Botton

My office. It's drab and boring but quiet.

English Writer

Thomas Leonard

American Businessman

Though 'drab' suggests dullness, it's not always used critically and can be merely descriptive.

Not Always Negative

Use 'drab' to evoke visual imagery of lackluster appearance in your writing.

Visual Imagery

Describing a scene as 'drab' can set a somber or dreary mood in storytelling.

Setting Tone

'Drab' can express a lack of fulfillment or enthusiasm when describing activities or lifestyles.

Emotional Impact

'Drab' as unexciting doesn't necessarily imply negativity; it can be neutral, like a routine task.

Misconception Avoidance

Use 'drab' to creatively express a need for change or contrast in a situation.

Creative Description

When 'drab' refers to a woman, it's historical and considered derogatory, and should be used with caution.

Understanding Context

Recognize the archaic and offensive nature of 'drab' in its historical context to avoid unintended offense.

Historic Sensitivity

'Drab' as a term for a small debt is an archaic usage, primarily of interest in historical or literary contexts.

Historic Usage

 colors which are some of the most dramatic you will ever see in the whole natural world these flash colors are used presumably to to intimidate a foe to scare away a predator that might want to be feasting on a blue ringed octopus and all of a sudden you'll go from a very drab early colored animal something

Steve Backshall on a...

 it's not too hot the Sun isn't art these these beautiful kind of clouds that are spread across the sky they've got green grass which is just so pleasant on the eye after months of drab Brown sort of dead voltage and so to have this and with this peaceful bull elephant as he munches away it's been absolutely

The 5 Musketeers Have an...

 my favorite time of the year and the reason why as we come out of this cold winter which I'm not a fan of cold I like hot weather and the hotter the better really and so I'm happy with the hot weather then and also we go out of cold dry drab Brown sort of dusty into life fill the beautiful greens lots of

Safari Live - Day 31 PIPE...

 is all brown and drab in coloration in compare comparison to the male but they really are nice birds to see as if you Cape turtledoves and also sitting on top you know yes they look all right now I'm sure Jamie's going to give me trouble about Cape turtledoves because this morning when said my

Safari Live - Day 292 PIPE...

 lived in a drab compound in the remote city of Yekaterinburg near the siberian border prisoners of communist revolutionaries fighting to control russia just past midnight with troops loyal to the tsar fast approaching the city the guards wake the royal family telling

Mystery of the Romanovs...

 always so pretty when they come out and add a bit of color to our drab winter although they're not exactly a bright color are they they're kind of creamy color look very much like a lot of the grass or aren't you but they add a lot of life

Safari Live - Day 198 PIPE...

 frankly I didn't think others would share the enthusiasm for such a drab and depressing topic. But apparently I was wrong, because a lot of people started to comment. And at first the comments were like --

Inside America's dead...

 And this aligns with research conducted in four countries, which shows that people working in more colorful offices are actually more alert, more confident and friendlier than those working in drab spaces.

Where joy hides and how...

 so like that of a giant panda however whereas the drab brown lemur is active during the day this rough lemur is mostly nocturnal and many animals that only come out at night are colored black and white

Sir David Attenborough...

 sometime in the distant past a drab crow like bird settled in you guineas forests over the years its descendants were isolated in separate vowels today there

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