I think he's trying to insert some humour into what could be a dull text, but the persistent labeling is a bit much. |
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The quality of the video is also pretty lackluster, sporting weak black levels and generally dull colors. |
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His father turned on a small lamp with a rose-colored shade, which cast a dull light across a wide bed, spread with a plum satin coverlet. |
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Some of our parishes are dull little affairs presided over by a fearful clergy and laity. |
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The coffee was strong, her grey eyes lacklustre, her dull hair stringy, just like during the torn days. |
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The scholarship is substantial, but the writing is a bit dull and lackluster. |
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This is not to say all research work performed in such an environment is necessarily dull and laborious. |
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It is a gifted novelist, indeed, who can make ordinary events come alive, and who can interest the reader in ordinary, even dull, characters. |
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He would be, like King Brian, a dull, safe choice for King, despite his callowness. |
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Though you agree that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, the industrious and methodical part of you will do justice to your work. |
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And if the model of critical practice sounds urbane, recondite and not a little esoteric, it need not be dull. |
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And she would shrug in recollection, unable to remember anything except that dull relief. |
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The wind caught the sails with a dull boom and the ship heeled about, tacking into the westerly breeze sweeping across the lake. |
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The cinema was amazingly comfortable, the company was great and the film itself kinda dull. |
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Peering round the doorframe into the dull landing, he saw Hannah's door open, and the bathroom door slightly ajar. |
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Non-winged and winged adults are usually shiny black while the smaller nymphs may appear to be a dull gray to black. |
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With the tinted lenses blocking out the worst of the bright sunlight, her headache receded to its previous dull ache. |
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It was cold and grey, as I remember Scotland being on those blank-faced days in winter when you're left feeling aimless and dull. |
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Once a dull, coarse material, today khadi is a multicolored wonder fabric with weaves as fine as muslin. |
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Then suddenly two explosions rocked the water and the Kursk was down, settling with a dull thump on the sea floor. |
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Opal stepped farther into the room, his boots making dull thumps across the rugged floor. |
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As for watermelons, pick the ones minus dents or scratches and a light thump should yield a dull hollow sound. |
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By the time I left, the pressure of that bitterness had created a dull thump in my head. |
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The aging man's grey eyes were no longer dull, but full of sadness, now shining with tears. |
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The blaze began to die down, the flames diminished until all that was left was the dull reddish after-image. |
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So when you get back to work, you're not only drunk but your tongue feels like someone scraped it with the dull end of a razor blade. |
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He noticed that men had to constantly sharpen their razors, which would dull after only a few uses. |
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Two other monitors off to one side emit changing flat colours from their screens, and a dull but insistent techno-type soundtrack. |
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It was different than other tattoos in the fact that it was in metallic gold, most were done in dull flat colours. |
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I'd feel inordinately pleased with myself were it not for the fact that the ones I spent all morning doing are rather flat and dull. |
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The fact that Cosmos is such a classic tune makes this dull, flat rendition even more of an affront. |
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With no special effects the soundtrack does what it needs to do, although to be honest, it sometimes sounded rather flat and dull. |
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The first half was a rather dull affair lit up with three goals but with little else to recommend it. |
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But he doesn't spell out his theory in dull, prosaic, Kantian or Cartesian fashion. |
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It wasn't the rat-a-tat of the machine guns, nor the dull shocks of the artillery. |
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Gillian whimpers as the dull pain in her side turns into a sharp throbbing pain. |
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One of my ancestors could have got really fed up with the weather in the middle of a dull March in 1700 and moved off to Wisconsin on a whim. |
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They awoke from a short nap and upon hearing dull thuds, attributed the noise to a nearby naval gunnery range. |
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The rest of this record, however, is just plain dull and never seems to be going anywhere. |
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If the walls are painted with a semi-gloss or gloss paint, give them a light sanding to dull the surface so the glue adheres better. |
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In a dull or drab bathroom, a rag rug or oriental carpet will add charm and beauty. |
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Rob sat up, his fever was mostly broken, but it still raged at a dull throb. |
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The sound becomes an acrid smog, a dull thudding headache, in which it is well-nigh impossible to distinguish the individual elements. |
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Try as I may, though, it's been a dull day, with my brain partly addled by pain-killers. |
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But to be truthful it is very dull at the moment and it's a real job to motivate myself to study. |
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A few quartz specimens have included yellow to dull orange acicular crystals, identified by quantitative analysis as aegirine. |
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Sometimes all you feel is a dull achy sensation or muscle fatigue after class. |
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Venous wound pain is often minimal and may be described as dull, achy pain or heaviness in the legs. |
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Her bearing has turned to reserve, her normally quick eyes dull and watery. |
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Elsewhere the vocal strength is wasted on dull content and music which has had much of the soul digitally removed from it. |
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Ministers and officers were sitting at a long table in the conference hall, a dull rain sorrowfully washing large windows. |
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All I saw was jagged branches of bare, lifeless trees pointing towards a dull gray sky. |
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Evans skilfully avoids the gratuitously voyeuristic while never sinking into safe but dull academicism. |
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Pen clips, protractors, and jackknives have left hacked shapes to tell people how dull it all was when they sat here. |
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The house in the suburbs, the sense of life being easy and calm, it was a little dull but fulfilling. |
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I suppose she is a cultural phenomenon that cannot be ignored, but I find her programme, and the derivative imitators to be deadly dull and no substitute for actual thought. |
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His course managed to be both dreadfully dull and appallingly difficult, with few light moments. |
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Aquarius All biz and no play can make Aquarius a dull non-binary-gender being. |
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After so many centuries of dull black-and-white, he led us bareheaded into an outdoor, Technicolor future. |
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Instead of walking the same dull route, let your curiosity be your guide. |
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It started in a dull fashion, though, when Miranda Ranieri was forced to withdraw from the event for personal reasons, giving the top seed Melissa Martin a walkover. |
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We went to the beach and watched the dull grey waves slam the white shore. |
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It was a dull green and brown color with a giant wasp-like head. |
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A tension headache is a dull, achy feeling on both sides of the head. |
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Severe or sharp pains are more significant than dull, achy pains. |
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True, some elegant, delicate, citrussy whites and some fine, vibrant, beetrooty reds have been made, but 2001 also delivers rafts of dull, acidic, edgy wines in both colours. |
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Britney Spears will give a deliberately dull performance when Madame Tussaud's museum unveils a new waxwork of the pop starlet as part of a new collection. |
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So sit back quietly in that agreeably familiar comfy chair, treat yourself to a pot of weakish tea, and let me put the case for the rise of the dull man. |
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He gives a remarkable performance, which has been criticised for being too actorish, and yet manages to make a dull man interesting, without falling back on self pity. |
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After a little while, I realized my face was looking a little dull, so I used some more product on my face to bring out the natural bold radiance of my ebony skin. |
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After a very dull and rainy morning, things seemed to brighten up today, allowing the yearly ceremony by the Sikhs celebrating the birth of their guru to take place. |
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On the set, Sanders was the perfect self-effacing host, happy to play straightman to his guests or to enliven a dull show with pertinent ad-libs and stupid sketches. |
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They all wore matching dull silver jumpsuits, and all had shaved heads. |
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Thus begins a wheezy, dull little story that follows Clint around as he has annoying conversations with his complainy doctor, jerky cops, and Jeff Daniels. |
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She heard the dull thump of someone knocking weakly on the door. |
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I heard Dana drop her schoolbag down on the floor with a dull thump. |
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Though it was a dull, rather windy day, people turned out in force. |
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I never kept a diary when I was growing up but I did receive them as Christmas presents and loved the idea of documenting my daily and dull doings. |
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At this time of year it's difficult to make the garden look anything but dull, even with the occasional splash of winter colour from a witch hazel or mahonia. |
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Usually it was a long and, I often felt, unnecessarily drawn-out and tedious experience where worthy but dull homilies were addressed to the assembled Gaels. |
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On the inside is the usual mix of off-white, flecked linoleum tiles and segmented ceiling panels, dull and dimly lit. |
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But I found it impossible to get to grips with, laborious and dull. |
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That will make their next year of study dull and lacklustre. |
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The work at Art Basel is often interesting, often dull, and disproportionately decorative in nature. |
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He lay in bed, clutching himself, trying to dull the ache of rejection. |
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But who's to say that five minutes into a conversation with him, that I don't find him yawningly dull and he doesn't find me brain-numbingly boring? |
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Exfoliating scrubs and chemicals like alpha-hydroxy acids and retinoids can leave skin smooth and glowing because they eliminate dull, dead cells on the skin's surface. |
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Because I have become either wise or dull, I decided to hop it. |
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If you have sufficient physical energy but are feeling dull and languid, you need a movement pattern with some creative fire to spark your life force. |
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She belongs round the back of the bike sheds, her hair is lank, her eyes are usually dull, and she is not expected to be a high-achiever academically. |
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But the man appears so weary that I decide to skip the dull stuff and get to the heat. |
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There's a bunch of begats in First Chronicles, chapter six, and it's way dull, especially if you consider what a begat involves. |
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First, the dull coloration of their feathers can render them almost invisible under certain conditions. |
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Common colors include black and dull shades of green, olive, brown, purple, blue, and red. |
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I have never seen, well, hardly ever, a pretentious, silly or seriously misguided production, and neither have I seen a dull one. |
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Yet you do not brighten what would otherwise be dull, impart a keenness to the obtusest point, and diffuse a general lustre? |
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It tarnishes on contact with moist air, and takes on a dull appearance the hue of which depends on the prevailing conditions. |
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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain. |
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Amethyst is a form of quartz that ranges from a bright to dark or dull purple color. |
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Bostonian fashions are reserved, even dull, when compared to California style. |
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The addition of the second batch of paint muddied the bright colors to a dull and washed look. |
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Mistpouffers are dull, distant explosive sounds heard around the coast of Europe all the way to Iceland. |
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To make ends meet, Constable took up portraiture, which he found dull, though he executed many fine portraits. |
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The window here, and there the door annoys, Then frequent repetitions tire the ear Of meanless speeches, dull and insincere. |
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She had a low forehead, a dull grey eye, a vast pendulous nose, a huge mouth full of uneven teeth and a chin and jawbone qui n'en finissent pas. |
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I listened to every blast of wind as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me. |
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The aide gave the old men in Ward Two their medicine, and they joked with her. Shevek watched with dull incomprehension. |
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But at the same time they portray him as paranoid and apathetic, dull and easily confused. |
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Improper cooling and a dull milling blade on titanium can gall the surface. |
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In the airport, holiday lovers kiss, mouth forevers, the usual argot betrays you. Desire makes love dull. |
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The exciting ending partially redeems what is otherwise a very dull movie. |
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Little recked he perhaps for what she felt, that dull aching void in her heart sometimes, piercing to the core. |
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He won a Classics scholarship to Oxford University and, although he loved university life, he found the tuition dull. |
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The dull mound now cuts off the sportive infancy of the Stour from its sorely-tasked term of useful riverhood. |
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Many apple varieties are mottled or russet, with a rough, dull skin hiding crisp, flavorful flesh. |
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A dull red or terracotta brown is far better, and sets off the foliage of Palms or Ferns to greater advantage. |
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Charlotte Haze is spared Quilty's fate because she is, from the beginning, not a mirage but an oppressive, dull, untransfigurable reality. |
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Sluggish are the spirits and base the lot of the men I am ordained to lead through a dull life to a fameless grave. |
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A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds. |
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The other men opened fire with pistols, slugs zithering past him with a dull whine. |
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Strangers of limited information and dull apprehension were sometimes observed not to know what a Powler was. |
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The text, a series of encyclopedialike Star Wars trivia blurbs, is generally as dull and dry as the Tatooine desert. |
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The dentition of hypocarnivores consists of dull, triangular carnassial teeth meant for grinding food. |
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Sweet gums and black gums and sourwoods made the woods bright now when oaks and hickories had just begun to look dull and faded. |
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Here the content is more stirring, but the presentation is dull, jargonized, less specific, and occasionally poorly translated. |
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The nectar and copious dull yellow ochre pollen are collected by honeybees as food sources. |
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In certain species, brightly coloured males turn dull when not in the presence of rivals or females. |
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Also, duns are dull and generally sober colored, whilst spinners are more brightly colored and shining and their wings are clear and transparent. |
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The one jazz organist I almost always enjoy, though his latest records are dull and pandersome. |
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The ground-colour is a pale drabby stone-colour, and all about the large end is a broad dense zone of dull brownish purple. |
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My confused senses received a dull roar of pounding feet and dinning voices as the herald of victory. |
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They can be dull, small and of varying colour, but there are exceptions that are appreciated for their aesthetic qualities. |
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The mineral displays a well-developed habit of deltoidal icositetrahedra with dull faces. |
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In many ducks the male is colourful while the female is dull brown. |
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A corpse swirled past me, gape-mouthed, fish-white, dull eyed. |
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The silence of our meal was alone broken by the dull clattering of knives and forks, and the tinkling of the bell to summon the brisk waiter to bring wine and draw the cloth. |
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Without the daft stunts and wackily dressed goofballs, all you'd have left would be a bunch of dull dolts, demanding wealth without graft, fame without talent. |
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They stopped discussing them because it usually meant epically dull speeches from Steve on market fluctuations and innovations in Internet trading. |
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McAvoy plays Wesley, a regular Joe Schmo, who has a dull life and no ambition, until Angelina Jolie roars into his life and prevents him being assassinated. |
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With its downward intonation at the end of sentences and nasal sound, it is considered dull, droney and whingey and plain unsexy by a large percentage of the population. |
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For an unbelieving face, whether the dull dining countenance of a mayor, or the keen searching countenance of a barrister, is a sad bone in the throat of utterance. |
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This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing. |
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Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas, Andrew Litton's forces come off sounding dull and bass-heavy, with occasional odd vibrations and whumps from who knows where. |
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They are slow and reticent, and are like a dull good horse which lets every nag pass him, but with whip and spur will run down every racer in the field. |
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As the gig starts with frontman Matt Bellamy on a podium, widdling his guitar and pulling faces, you know you're not in for a dull, lifeless show. |
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In a sense, Portmeiron is a gay, deliberately irresponsible reaction against the dull sterilities of so much that passes as modern architecture today. |
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Curriculum and materials are too often stupid as well as dull, aimed to produce attitudes and allegedly practical pseudoskills rather than understanding and capability. |
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The film was cinematically interesting, but the story was dull. |
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These shadows, black as the earth they emerged from, were wearing what looked like dull German helmets, their webgear and canteens chinging as they ran. |
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The play, often considered to be a comedy, reverses traditional views on events of the Trojan War and depicts Achilles as a coward, Ajax as a dull, unthinking mercenary, etc. |
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The tunics of poor people and labouring slaves were made from coarse wool in natural, dull shades, with the length determined by the type of work they did. |
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It all feels tasteful, companionable and often saggingly dull. |
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This seems to have been a sercon, dull group for the first few years. |
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After May I am sure things will continue to be as dull as they have been for the last couple of years, despite the argy-bargies between the leaders. |
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Sullivan was not a showy conductor, and some thought him dull and old fashioned on the podium, but his composition had an enthusiastic reception and was frequently revived. |
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They take their little enjoyments on little means and with little things and don't let solemn big-wigs stare them out of countenance or speechify them dull. |
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Yet second-hand romance and second-hand emotion are surely better than the dull, soul-killing monotony which life brings to most of the human race. |
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And while some snobs might think aubrieta is just too common to be given garden space, the way it can colour a vast, dull area never fails to impress me. |
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Yet The Cry is not a pondersome, dull collection of critical views. |
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Whether the memories have been turned into bizarre shrines, or forgotten and left to rot, you'd have to be totally uninterested in filmlore to find the place dull. |
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I loathe it, for it is made up of mediocrity, hate, and dull conceit. |
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Martin was pretty dull as names went but 'Alex Blake' had a certain dash to it. His publishers hadn't considered Martin's own name to be 'punchy' enough. |
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He found lectures dull and surgery distressing, so neglected his studies. |
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He was to be the elite social intercourser for all the others who could only lead drab dull lives, slightly comfortable at most, full only at moments. |
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Females are usually more dull than males with more developed black dots. |
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The dull grey skies hint at more snow, and the zero chill approaches. |
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Scott Quist is the first to admit that he's got a pretty dull resume. |
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What was it all, to have a duke and to have lords dining with her, to dine with lords or with a duke itself, if life were dull with her, and the hours hung heavy! |
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