The room designated for these talks is below deck in a dark and dreary space, and when the lights go out for the PowerPoints, so do I.
Still, the floor-to-ceiling walls of windows offered a mesmerizing, if a bit gray and dreary, view of the Thames and the newly dwarfed skyline of Canary Wharf in the distance.
It has a busy surface, with Haynes switching between high Ken Russell camp and dreary journalistic investigation, but the tactic feels less like the search for a Rosebud than desperation.
Everybody does some kind of work each day, be it as a student, a homemaker, a small business owner, or a professional and each has been forced to accept the same drab and dreary products that have cluttered the marketplace for decades.
The stretch of road near Harajuku station has been a mecca for youngsters dressing up in 1960s rocker garb and, for a few brief hours each week, pretending that life is not just cram schools, exams and dreary journeys to and from soulless suburbs.
Amid new regulation, lower profits and a dreary market for mergers and acquisitions, several banks are planning to trim investment-banking units that were built for an era of deals aplenty.
Well, if you been reading the market commentary and listening to the talking heads on TV about how dreary and disgusting this market is, there would be absolutely no reason to even think of stocks right now.
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The stores sparkle in comparison to many of the dreary and worn Karstadt stores.
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When the weather is dreary and cold, there's nothing better than cooking something that heats up the house and fills it with fragrant aromas unless it's someone else doing the cooking.
Even Luca Scarzella's clever video projections can't make the dreary costumes and monolithic sets interesting, and, despite the heroic efforts of conductor Nicola Luisotti, the acting isn't of a quality to elevate either the production or the audience's spirits.
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With the Senate likely to vote on the issue this week, the payroll tax cut has devolved into yet another dreary black-and-white partisan debate.
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Its backers, who include Tom Clancy, a rich novelist, are betting that its radical design will prove superior to dreary old rockets and space-planes.
The heroine, the fortyish Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz), has left her husband, a rich, distinguished barrister (Simon Russell Beale), and is living in a dreary bed-sit in London with a former R.
Bernard failed with the conversion and the crowd were served up yet more dreary kicking when another Reihana penalty went askew straight in front of the posts and just outside the Castres 22.
At the working-class picnic on a river bank in France everyone is porcine and unlovely, the light is dreary, the grass is scraggly.
Now these horses, for all their high character and unfailing common sense, are remarkably dreary creatures.
And Clinton has never acquiesced to the dreary reality of being a perpetual senator of New York -- just not good enough to burnish her place in the history books.
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Sure, the once-yearly opportunity to poke fun at an ill-judged Oscars dress or a super-gushy acceptance speech (gather, Kate, gather) is a welcome prospect in these dreary days of economic doom and gloom.
"Let us then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind, let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things, " he said in a classic expression of our great tradition of conciliation.
The toxic combination of rapidly increasing prices and weak economic output made the 1970s a dreary decade.
It turned out to be a shared suite, a dreary place with grubby tube lights and contract carpeting, where freelancers rented desks, huddling together to make themselves feel less alone.
Dreary stadiums they don't own and stalling businesses eager to rake in more cash.
And U.K. data were just as dreary, with the services purchasing managers' index for May also falling short of expectations.
In many ways these are dreary, dreadfully boring alternatives to moon colonies and space travel.
For whom thoughts of food, and the effects of food, are the constant, dreary background static to normal thought.
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Yes: it is encouraging when truth seeks the light, wherever it may be, but beyond Penn State, 2011 was marked by a dreary onslaught of scandals, contentiousness, lockouts and litigation.
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Duffield and Bhusri met at a Truckee, California diner on a dreary February day.
They are masters of camouflage and notoriously difficult to find, so closely do they resemble the dreary, gray leaf litter of early spring.
If he directly challenges the House, and demands his programs or none, the public can expect more dreary years of stalemate.
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