Apart from its dullness, it sets up an expectation the book does not fulfill.
This year, the campaign season officially began less than five weeks before voting day, and calling it soporific would fail to convey the extent of its dullness.
This analysis may alarm investors who love the company precisely for its dullness and inflation-matching (or beating) dividends.
The peril came to an end that would be disappointing in an action movie but was in fact reassuring in its dullness, as the train simply ground to a halt on an uphill stretch of track.
Monteverdi's "Orfeo" was the perfect work for the AAM's fortieth anniversary, and hundreds of people came to a pre-performance talk by composer Fabrice Fitch (though its dullness drove many away before the end).
For some, Spurrier's presence will be the equivalent of opening a window on a musty league that can be as brutal in its dullness and sameness as in its violence.
The New Republic criticized its "dullness and lack of critical energy".
The title may be mildly provocative in its vulgarity, but the most striking feature of this movie is its dullness.
As the years passed, it seemed to take on the quality of a huge piece of minimalist sculpture, and its dullness was almost a virtue.
Her speech was, as usual, boring, but its dullness muted the radicalism of her proposal to defund asylum shelters and put the money into teachers' salaries.
"I think of it as it should have been, with its prolixities docked, its dullnesses enlivened, its fads eliminated, its truths multiplied," he wrote in dedicating it to his brother's memory.
