Bound by a drab reality, its scenes are sometimes choppy and incompletely fulfilled.

This was a stark contrast to the 1980s, drab reality of Poland.

I was alone with my memories, overwhelmed by the transcendental sadness that often comes when some bright dream fades into drab reality.

Sure enough, it was objective-but in the drab reality of their roomlet, it sounded only as a tapping, not a booming pounding.

Even in drab reality, the convention offered some encouragement to American industry.

Under Communism, jokes about the "authorities" were both means of rebellion and a way to cope with the drab realities of life.

I molded the energy in my mind, shaped it, and placed the image over my drab reality.

Nobody as slick as Yael Underwood is going to spend that much time boring everyone with drab and dreary reality.

Billy, for all his wild imaginings, may be too afraid to escape from the drab reality that imprisons him.

So do the drab realities of the Holts' everyday lives, which are spent on the other side of this town's figurative tracks.