In the afternoons, the garden often caught the sun, and on duller days the roses danced and bobbed in the breeze. |
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If there's one thing that's duller than an Academy Awards ceremony, it's the red-carpet dumbshow that precedes it. |
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We heated the metal with a propane torch to slightly discolor it and rubbed the top with fine steel wool to give the surface a duller sheen. |
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This kind of ricercar has little musical interest, and is artistically on a par with Czerny's duller technical studies. |
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Older skin has a rougher surface, which doesn't reflect the light, giving it a much duller appearance. |
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In the movie's duller stretches, the viewer may daydream of pulling up in an unmarked van and spiriting the actor away to a better film. |
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So much for the duller secularism's nonsense about irrationalism and whimsy. |
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Females and males in non-breeding plumage are duller than breeding males, their backs mottled gray-brown rather than rufous. |
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We do not wish to expose the duller portions of our lives to the public eye. |
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From each new bout of misery he emerges not brighter and stronger but duller and flabbier. |
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It seems that the prettiest baby fish like the shubunkins and red and white fish die off most of the time while the duller fish survive predation. |
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It is always important to ensure that the first surface is always the showface as the second surface can be slightly duller after heating. |
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How much drabber, duller, and more tedious this race will be without those daffy Huntsman girls. |
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The breast is brown with some vinaceous color but duller than the back. |
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I also have duller symptoms like a sore throat and earache, and the miserable conviction that this ailment will probably last for my entire holiday. |
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I'm not convinced: the breast, though pleasant enough, is definitely duller than the thigh, which offers a multitude of sensory pleasures. |
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Far less appreciated, Houston, rather than being a southern city of duller wits, actually ranks second in engineers per capita. |
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The additional light provided by the Lumino Plus during the duller seasons increases your exposure to light. |
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Peter Beinart says the House will be a duller, meaner place when he leaves. |
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If the apple is placed in front of a bright background, it will appear duller than when it was placed in front of a dark background. |
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My untrained ear seems to detect, however, that as the slider setting increases, the music becomes very subtly duller and less bright. |
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If you smoke occasionally, it will not be betrayed by your complexion, but if you smoke it will be much duller and your skin will be oily. |
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When the temperature is too low, the aromas have difficulty in coming through, and the wine appears duller and shorter. |
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It reduces also the capacity of the soap and the shampoos to foam, which returns the linen, once washed, stiffer and of duller aspect. |
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There have been predictable calls to ditch the fusty feudal flimflam for a streamlined, modern system. That would be sensible, but also duller. |
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Young birds are apt to be more spotted or streaked and duller than adults. |
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They also say that it is generated in another rock similar to saline marble but of a duller colour, and in still another rock whose colour is yellow with many red specks in it. |
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Gordon thought it became duller with more exposure to air. |
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Michael Angelo said that he already saw in the unhewn block a statue which to duller eyes remained invisible until his chisel had removed the flakes of marble which concealed it. |
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Nothing is duller then listening to a long ex cathedra speech. |
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German politics has been a duller place since Mr Fischer left to teach and write. His beginnings were inauspicious: school drop-out, shoplifter, occasional taxi-driver. |
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Nonetheless, it would all appear somewhat unornamental and even duller without the inhabitants, households and street crowds in Allendorf, who contribute to the further embellishment of the town picture. |
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A friend actually sent me a message the other day with an article from a newspaper which said Andy Murray is duller than a weekend in Worthing, which I thought was a bit harsh – on Worthing. |
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The following year he was in heady if duller company in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus, playing Antoninus, the handsome slave who flees from the overtures of his master, Laurence Olivier. |
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Mr Cain's spell between 1996 and 1999 as chief executive of the National Restaurant Association in Washington, DC, had appeared to be one of the duller way-stations in the candidate's otherwise compelling life story. |
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It was one of the better speeches of the night. Conventions are not just becoming duller to watch, they are also getting more unpleasant to attend. |
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Flour colour is duller, and starch damage is lower this year. |
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The feathers of young birds show little lustre and are duller. |
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This is evident in many brightly colored birds, such as Northern Cardinals and Blue Jays, but in duller, brown birds the alteration is often noticeable only when it contrasts with recently replaced feathers. |
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They shed the colourful outer parts of their bills after the breeding season, leaving a smaller and duller beak. |
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The colourful outer part of the bill is shed after the breeding season, revealing a smaller and duller true bill beneath. |
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The female is similar but duller, and younger birds often lack the breast crescent. |
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The juvenile is similar to the adult, but with duller and greener upperparts and paler underparts. |
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The male is duller in fresh nonbreeding plumage, with whitish tips on many feathers. |
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Ye Gods, if you're glued to the screen in the hope of seeing two show-offs bonking under a duvet, your life must be duller than ditchwater. |
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The world would be a much duller place without the good old situation comedy, as this new series proves. |
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Inspection criteria should be adjusted and operators trained so that duller lead-free joints are not classified as cold joints and reworked unnecessarily. |
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Immature birds lack the dark stripe on the head and are generally duller in appearance than adults, with a grey head and neck, and a small, dark grey crest. |
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It is greyer, duller and lacking in the lustre of the winter fur. |
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Flatting agents reduces gloss by scattering reflected light. The more flatting agent added, the duller the appearance and the greater the loss of film clarity. |
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According to Dr Duller, the layer of sand in the cave where the ochres were discovered had probably been blown in from the nearby beach. |
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