Sentence examples for a dull one from inspiring English sources

"How do bookshops get their books?" I could write a book (a dull one, admittedly) on the things we've had to think about for the first time - from figuring out where you buy books, to sourcing shelves and cash registers - in the seven months since we began the real nitty gritty of setting up our business.

It's an interesting, maddening mess — not a terrible movie, and by no means a dull one.

Which is a problem – and not, by any means, a dull one.

Moreover, the story is a dull one.'" He hurls the paper at his butler.

One thorn in Major's side is Cutter Peter Ferdinandoo), a corporate villain, and a dull one to boot.

In addition, many species (especially those in temperate climates) are seasonally dimorphic, with a bright plumage during the breeding season and a dull one in winter.

Still, what once seemed certain to be a dull one-horse race is turning into a real Christmas cracker.

He wonders whether a cleaner, safer city is a duller one and, therefore, if the place he once fell for "still exists".

They cleave, in other words, to what I call the Backbeat Principle: if your main man is shiningly glamorous or markedly eccentric, don't plant him in full view, but approach him through the prism of another character — preferably a duller one, so as not to steal the glow.

It's a portrait — a rather dull one, ultimately — of a young, earnest intern, and a writer who is a total jerk, or at least posturing as one for cheap effect.

Eichmann appeared to Arendt as a bureaucrat, and a staggeringly dull one at that.