| 21. | This heightened sensory awareness might be seen as an antidote to the drabness and anaesthetic quality of Soviet daily life.
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| 22. | The script by John Fusco ( " Young Guns " ) does not help to dispel the general drabness.
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| 23. | Ultimately, that Cold War drabness fits the argument, which casts all issues and personalities exclusively in black and white.
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| 24. | At the hearing, they show their mastery of the sort of stunts that stands out in the drabness of such sessions.
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| 25. | To compensate for such oppressive drabness, Carsen supplied lighting design that was often brilliant, if occasionally self-consciously so.
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| 26. | Families share tiny apartments and the neighborhood's squat and dilapidated houses are coated with the drabness of poverty and neglect.
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| 27. | Characters were bogged down by the business of running their stalls, and the sheer drabness of the set compounded the monotony.
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| 28. | He had spent hours refurbishing it, pasting blue sisal halfway up the white walls to relieve the drabness and deaden the echoes.
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| 29. | The horrible drabness of postwar England figures heavily in David Cronenberg's psychological thriller, adapted from a novel by Patrick McGrath.
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| 30. | He no longer sported the black toupee that helped define his image as a swashbuckling entrepreneur who created splendor from post-war drabness.
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