Sentence examples for dry affairs from inspiring English sources

Speeches by central bankers tend to be dry affairs.

"I started thinking," she says, "if they could do it, why not others?" Superannuation conferences can be dry affairs.

'I' now and 'I' then are certainly twain, but which 'I' was better?" Many of his early essays are dry affairs, culling precepts and exempla about cowardice and mercy, death and philosophy into elegant but on the whole unoriginal digests.

Crain's forums are typically high-minded, if rather dry, affairs, and this particular one was billed as an opportunity to hear Mark Green, the city's public advocate and the Democratic candidate for mayor, discuss New York's economy in the aftermath of September 11th.

Politics without any element of charisma is certainly a dry affair.

So, despite the bookish references, Chetwynd's conversation with academic Neil Mulholland is sure to be a far from dry affair.

Any attempt to rank the world's most powerful people is likely to be a somewhat dry affair, with serried ranks of politicians, businessmen and media magnates.

Mr. Michaels took over as editor of Forbes in 1961, when American journalism remained a polite, dry affair, and corporate spin was reported without much skepticism.

Haggis is quite a dry affair, and I worry about the lack of gravy, but the results are the hit of the evening.

Though inevitably a dry affair, the trust's release is enlivened by a disastrous line towards the end saying that the report "demonstrates good progress in most respects against the trust's recommendations" (Monkey's italics).

And the skaters indulging in craft beer and cocktails are a sure sign of the amateur (pro tip: real skate jams are a dry affair, and the dance floor is all the more stylish for it).