Relief from a drab existence?

There were views of long, dark buildings, where each of the creatures had a tiny cell-like room in which to live his drab existence.

These days were the bright spots in our drab existence that helped to make life bearable.

What makes it all fun is the narrator's warmth, for the search is an attempt to enliven posthumously a beloved father's drab existence.

Perhaps because he's brought a bit of life back into our drab existence.

Though he won't admit it, Jessel is lonely and depressed, resigned to his cheerless, drab existence.

Those nights took him out of himself, he says, and made him forget his drab existence.

She did not want to be sent back to her unutterably boring job, her previous drab existence; she knew she could never bear that now.

These days were the bright spots in our drab existence.

For most of his thirty-five years, he had been shy and ineffectual, condemned to a drab existence by his timidity.