Sentence examples for dull and expensive from inspiring English sources

Last week he assailed both European human rights law anathema to the right-wing press and the "compensation culture", both of which he blamed for risk-averse behaviour that makes life dull and expensive.

At the same time he deplored the poor taste of many of the buyers, who chose "dull and expensive porcelains" and "garish Mandarin robes which they condemned to the oddest uses".Kates was no slouch at acquiring, just more discreet.

Admittedly, boiled soybeans would be a tough sell in New York, and we could teach them a thing or two about a pastrami-and-corned-beef sandwich (PacBell's is dull and expensive), but whoever is in charge of food has hit several back-to-back grand slams.

It is much less proficient in the often dull and expensive business of putting reporters on the ground everywhere from local council meetings to warzones to gather informed accounts of complex events.

DULL, elitist and expensive, classical music in Britain is in its death-throes, the pundits say.

Over all, I'm not sure this is such a great idea: the ceviche is dull, the lobster quesadilla obvious (and expensive), and the Cuban sandwich not close to the ones you buy in the Miami airport.

That's politically dull but expensive at £20bn spent and another £20bn by 2010.

University of York's Head of Sociology, Roger Burrows, said in The Independent that the show "makes a fantastic contribution to their understanding of contemporary urbanism", and is "a contrast to dry, dull, hugely expensive studies that people carry out on the same issues".

"And expensive".

Dull, dull and duller.

He was dull and flat.