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• Gilt furniture and ornate objects helped overcome the usual dowdiness.
• She offered box shapes, but managed to spare them from dowdiness.
• Never mind the elegance of Princess Diana or the dowdiness of Queen Elizabeth.
• The challenge is finding " the dowdiness of her, " d'Amboise says.
• She has the same street-lamp eyes, the same lanky grace, but she wears dowdiness like a badge of integrity.
• No purveyor of dowdiness, Smith turned out creative prints : Silk dresses emblazoned with gift boxes and full skirts splattered with poppies.
• Murphy spent hours looking for just the right shoes for the characters, especially the woman where he wanted just a hint of dowdiness.
• It's not surprising that Moscow hosts the world's fanciest brand names, having long shed its image of Soviet dowdiness.
• The 1940s dowdiness of their spring collection had vanished, replaced by a tasteful sexiness that made you want almost all the clothes that went by.
• Dowdiness, of a sort, has always been prized in a town where fondness for European, or even Northern, habits are seen as suspicious.
• That is the drill at the Examiners, which meets at the Union Club, where some members find the " down-at-the-heels dowdiness " setting a properly Bostonian atmosphere.
• Dad ( Gene Hackman ) is a right-wing senator who maintains that Billy Graham is a dangerous liberal, while Mom ( Diane Wiest ) makes up for her dowdiness by nursing big ambitions for her husband.
• Such buildings, mostly made up of studios and one-bedroom apartments, had a reputation for dowdiness and were considered architectural eyesores by purists, but Brady loved hers, and the women who were her neighbors.
• Here, one's attention couldn't help swiveling between stage and audience : on one side of the footlights, drop-dead elegance up to no good; on the other, genteel dowdiness on its best behavior.
• But she does, she does, and despite her dowdiness _ she's a mix of Julia Child and Queen Elizabeth by way of Joan Plowright _ Hetty has the instincts of a shark when it comes to crime-solving.
• It was a shrewd bit of casting to put Shue _ so moving as the gentle-hearted prostitute in " Leaving Las Vegas " _ in the role of Isabelle, a woman with a past who now equates respectability with dowdiness.
• It was then that the Bolshoi Ballet introduced Soviet firebrand pyrotechnicists to a male home team relegated by revisionist ballet history to a dowdiness comparable to the " mad old maids in moth-eaten musquash " who formed, in the words of the dance writer Richard Buckle, the ballet audiences of the time.
• Trenton's War Memorial building exuded a sophisticated opulence and grandeur that made the audience dress up to attend performances, but like many civic structures during the great catastrophe of urban renewal that obliterated downtowns, the War Memorial, despite its proximity to the State Capitol, slipped into dowdiness as the downtown area shifted away.
• Cianciola's collection was a bit harder to follow, although it may be a matter of looking more closely at the details _ the delicate, almost invisible fraying on a turned-back cuff, or the hand-stitching on a coat-and-skirt ensemble _ and getting beyond the overall impression of 1950s, tearoom dowdiness.