(1) Glossy advertising to attract this baby boomer herd tends to feature gentle images of arcadian bliss, of smiling men and women, white, smiling, heterosexual, smiling, holding hands, smiling, enjoying communal barbeques minus smoke and smell, smiling, playing card games in ordered, uncluttered scenes of dustless domesticity, smiling, dressed in styles that don’t come out of local chainstores, smiling, a couple frolicking on a swing, smiling, she's in sensible lavender swirl, he's outfitted by RM Williams, and is pushing her, gently, smiling, against a background of manicured lawns and gardens, all bathed in photoshopped sunlight.
Dusty
Definition:
(superl.) Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.
(superl.) Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white.
Example Sentences:
(1) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
(2) In between the two sets, we slip to the Silverlake Lounge ( foldsilverlake.com ), where Silversun Pickups used to play, to listen to Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, a six-piece that meshes folk rock with the Beach Boys with Yes.
(3) As a result of the findings, a further study was undertaken by the same research team to investigate one possible solution to the problem of alcohol consumption at work in a paper-producing factory, predominantly under hot and dusty conditions.
(4) The stereotypical view of the historian is that of a stodgy, bespectacled individual poring over tomes of printed text, dusty manuscripts, and thousands of index cards.
(5) Two cases of PAME in children occurring during dusty harmattan period in Northern Nigeria are reported.
(6) In the vast dusty fields and ramshackle towns of Shinyanga the problem is that sex education is minimal.
(7) The patient, a bulldozer-operator, worked in Africa for a long period in extremely dusty conditions without any protection.
(8) "Fisherwomen, who before in a week would get 20 to 30 kilos of shellfish, now take a whole week to get 2 or 3 kilos," says De Alcántara, sitting on a folding metal chair in a dusty meeting hall.
(9) The dusty and impoverished town has few signs of diamond wealth, and the word is that its senior baron recently fled to Maputo to evade Zimbabwe's secret police.
(10) Six years later, as the cultural revolution wreaked havoc, young Xi was dispatched to the dusty, impoverished north-western province of Shaanxi to "learn from the masses".
(11) The results indicated that the manner in which a powder is handled may be as important as material dustiness as measured by a dustiness tester.
(12) dusty atmosphere also influence the tolerance; local state of the tissues.
(13) Politicians who claimed to sense the hand of history on their shoulders got a dusty response from Simon, especially if they did so in verbless sentences.
(14) These results show that antismoking campaigns are important among workers in a dusty work environment.
(15) Thorn says: ‘ I’ve always thought if Dusty’s voice was a colour, it was silver.’ Photograph: Ian Berry Ugh, all the same old words, and they won’t do, will they?
(16) Whether you’re into Dusty’s Deep Cut reggae, minimal electronics, symphonic pop, Texas blues, Japanese noise, power electronics, children’s music, christmas music, Raymond Scott, or Burl Ives, I guarantee there is an online community where you can connect with other enthusiasts to indulge the minute specificity of your tastes.
(17) As a result of Wesker’s affairs, Dusty and Wesker were estranged and Wesker went to live in Wales.
(18) Two kinds of herbivorous rabbit-fish – the dusty spine-foot and its cousin the marbled spine-foot – have destroyed vast swaths of underwater seaweed forests in the eastern Mediterranean, after migrating through the Suez in recent decades.
(19) A few yards in the dusty distance are some small houses; in better days, these served as nurses' quarters.
(20) 766 dockers exposed to dusty materials were examined.