Sentence examples for become rather dull from inspiring English sources
In fact, for those excited by economic meltdowns and political turmoil, the place has become rather dull.
As one speaker (ironically from Argentina) remarked, a flexible inflation target is simply not credible.As Geoffrey Kendrick of Nomura admitted, at least the debate over the yen's future under prime minister Abe and the sharp decline in the pound had livened up what had become rather dull foreign exchange markets.
"These parades were once very big affairs, but they became rather dull and ritualized, and they became less and less effective," said Joshua B. Freeman, a labor historian at the City University Graduate Center and the author of "Working-Class New York" "So now we're seeing an effort not to always do the same thing to add some energy to the parade and make it more effective," he said.
His retirement would suddenly become rather comfortable.
Sometimes the negotiations would become rather adversarial.
Paris has become known for its flailing club scene in recent years - the obsession with the inner city, and notoriously difficult working relationships within artist and promoter circles coming often noted as contributing factors - so the spotlight on Parisian producers has since become a rather dull haze for those on the outside.
But it deepens and becomes rather touching.
"It becomes a really rather dull programming job," says the bot master.
Nowadays, however, Beethoven it seems in spite of all his revolutionary fervor has along with the whole kit-and-caboodle of classical music become something of a rather dull commodity -- so perfect in every way that his music displays not really greatness or excitement anymore, but (I am sad to report) only "packaged greatness".
Fashion, let's face it, has become so prescriptive that any red-carpet event these days is rather dull and predictable (with the possible exception of Tilda Swinton) in terms of what everybody wears.
