The effect turns the park into a glorious island of pink blossoms in an otherwise drab industrial city.

A first snow fell, then melted, and a drab city waited for winter to come.

We lean over the balcony, marvelling over the way this industrial city, drab and dour by day, transforms itself at night.

In this drab industrial city on the Gulf Coast, the main supermarkets are owned by the Mexican oil workers union.

Awake again, and off to work, the narrator feels his Moscow world change; children play, moods lighten, memory colors the drab city.

Aside from some very nice parks, it was a very drab city by day, but it glittered at night.

Recent visitors to Pyongyang report signs of commercial bustle in the once drab city.

The place belonged in a block of row homes in a working-class neighborhood in some drab eastern city, not here.

Even though it was night, this transporter station was one of the few places in the drab city that was brightly lit.

Then they sped over the drab city, which looked like a collection of huge Quonset huts, mired in a dust storm.