Indian literary festivals are modeled on the broader cultural festivals, especially film festivals, but without the traditional
dowdiness of government-sponsored affairs.
The House Sparrow, that ubiquitous urban small bird, is dowdy as a female and not really much less dowdy as a male, the
dowdiness relieved by white cheeks and a black throat.
The new station has removed the
dowdiness of the old but the rebuilding has not created any significant extra train capacity and, as your correspondent has pointed out, access to and from the platforms at peak periods remains totally inadequate.
For Fuller's contemporaries a natural expression of the emancipatedness of a woman would have been, it seems, a kind of sexlessness,
dowdiness, and neglect of appearance.
Furthermore, failure to comply with such restraining models of femininity will be communicated as an undesirable attitude or as Weber (2009d) convincingly states, a "letting-yourself-go disorder (occasioned by heightened
dowdiness and insufficient self-care)" (p.
The narration shifts to the thoughts of Caroline, her sister-in-law, about how Laura will adjust to London life, whether she will marry, and the
dowdiness of her clothes.
Extra credit is due costume designer Ciera Wells and "special fashions" by Kristen Blomberg for kitting Violet and her friends out in just the right kind of prim but interesting A-line frocks and neat accessories that endow them with a pleasing mix of glamour and ladylike
dowdiness.
Increasingly, sisters in ministerial orders questioned not only the attractiveness of their modified garb but the "witness value" of conspicuous
dowdiness, especially in professional settings.
The Liverpool-born playwright Peter Shaffer noted this and says: "We really like
dowdiness in England.
When it comes to a perception of growing
dowdiness and impoverishment in the Paris region, the French look enviously toward American urban agglomerations, which take the 'first places' in comparative estimates.
And that is part of the brilliance of the film, which dissects the political times, focusing on Elizabeth's relationship with the newly elected prime minister, Tony Blair (Michael Sheen), who contradicts her staid
dowdiness with his flashy, touchy-feely style.
Meanwhile gorgeous, pouting Pauline Fowler - the sour-faced boiler for whom
dowdiness is a lifestyle statement - was stunned when her deranged suitor Joe announced that, fed up with her constant rebuttals, he was off to Dubai.
