His work was hung up in any out-of-the-way corner of the gallery that could be found; it had been bought under protest; it was admitted by sufferance; its freshness and brightness damaged it terribly by contrast with the dirtiness and the
dinginess of its elderly predecessors; and its only points selected for praise were those in which it most nearly resembled the peculiar mannerism of some Old Master, not those in which it resembled the characteristics of the old mistress--Nature.
But his choice was to sit in rags and
dinginess on a bench in a park.
Every where was dirt, and dust, and
dinginess, and gloom; every where were signs of a hoary antiquity, but with nothing touching or beautiful about it; every where were those groups of fantastic pagans; overhead the gaudy mosaics and the web of lamp-ropes--nowhere was there any thing to win one's love or challenge his admiration.
He hunted about the streets that led out of the Westminster Bridge Road, but their
dinginess was distasteful to him; and at last he found one in Kennington which had a quiet and old-world air.
But there was a branch house at the west end, and no pettiness or
dinginess to give suggestions of shame.
"That is a great clue, considering there are about a score covers here of rival
dinginess," said Stephen, drawing out the canterbury.
There is something cheery in its very
dinginess, and something free and elfin in its very insignificance.
The red tint of his clear-cut face with trim short black whiskers under a cap of curly iron-grey hair was the only warm spot in the
dinginess of that room cooled by the cheerless tablecloth.
As you disappear down steep steps you might prepare for a dark
dinginess but don't worry, there are windows down there.
Choose your fish and seafood options--King Crab Legs, Whole
Dinginess Crab, Shrimps, Crawfish, Clams, Mussels and Lobster Tails.
Starkly filmed in black and white, Roma introduces us to the
dinginess of the poor woman's days.
The
dinginess of the mainland's monochromatic horizon cannot be detected at this close encounter.