She has an instinctive awareness of and a photographer's eye for visual detail which makes the film cold, bleak, and aridly beautiful. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.fandango.com/vagabond_v52129/summary]
Adjective : arid land; an arid climate. ,arid farmland. ,an arid treatment of an exciting topic. From Dictionary.com.
As the Birtles goal drought wore aridly on through the winter and into parched spring, pop stars from Midge Ure to Mungo Jerry grouped together and recorded a charity record to raise money to alleviate the striker's suffering. From Wordnik.com. [Global warming to blame for Fernando Torres goal drought | Harry Pearson] Reference
They were all there, aridly complete, the limitations of the lady to whom she was helping Lindsay to bind himself without a gleam of possibility of escape or a rift through which tiniest hope could creep to emerge smiling upon the other side. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
These spaces can feel aridly corporate for much of the year. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
'Why, 'he said aridly;' I have come all the way here to see you to-day!. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
The last time Jarmusch got all trippy-deconstructionist was in 1996, when he made the aridly inert anti-Western. From Wordnik.com. [EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines] Reference
He made some very sound remarks about the Club as an answer to the common charge against St. Paul's School that it was aridly scholastic, without spontaneous growth in culture or sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
Advancing slowly, the wanderer met him by a little heap of ruinous burnt masonry, like a tumbled chimney, what seemed the jams of the fire-place, now aridly stuck over here and there, with thin, clinging, round, prohibitory mosses, like executors 'wafers. From Wordnik.com. [Israel Potter] Reference
Not to speak of his falling off in accurate observation, he inserted more and more padding in his fiction; the aridly didactic encroached upon the artist's creation; and, to make the arid portions go down with his readers, he spiced them with exciting episodes and all the stage tricks common in the serial story. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac]
"Why," he said aridly; "I have come all the way here to see you to-day!. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
“Oddly, I don’t consider myself a mere social visitor, Lady Dagenham,” he responded aridly. From Wordnik.com. [A Wicked Gentleman] Reference
His mouth turned taut as he answered evenly but aridly, "If I stay here there's very little more I can do for the Xara. From Wordnik.com. [River Of Desire]
Not to speak of his falling off in accurate observation, he inserted more and more padding in his fiction; the aridly didactic encroached upon the artist’s creation; and, to make the arid portions go down with his readers, he spiced them with exciting episodes and all the stage tricks common in the serial story. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
He chuckles aridly, gazes out at the garden. From Wordnik.com. [One wild ride to the mainstream] Reference
Mrs. Tresslyn smiled aridly. From Wordnik.com. [From the Housetops] Reference
"If for nothing else," he said aridly. From Wordnik.com. [Rat Race]
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