dowdily造句

• Dressed dowdily in the countrified clothes of 1920s England, Dawn Upshaw moves through the opera's nine scenes as their moral voice and indirect commentator.
• Ms . Sciorra gives Ramona the right friskiness, though she is not shown off to best advantage by the film's dowdily retro costumes or its oddly somber look.
• After so many flamboyant, cape-wearing vampires swashbuckling about Transylvania, it's vaguely refreshing to meet a Dracula who is shy, intellectual and dowdily dressed, and we're curious to see how this mild-mannered nerd will become, or be revealed as, the evil, blood-drinking count.