Where is Cecil B. DeMille when we need him, I wondered, as "Water for Elephants" drew to its dull, tidy conclusion.
Ever since Michael Jordan ended his first comeback with that picturesque game-winning, title-clinching jump shot in 1998, the N.B.A. finals have been the calm after the storm, a dull and usually lopsided conclusion to six weeks of excitement.
Many past European summits have been dull affairs, generating 40-page conclusions that the assembled leaders barely read, drafted for weeks by their underlings.
The stirring conclusion followed a crude, dull, nationally televised game.
Janet Maslin of The New York Times considered the film formulaic and "half an hour too long, thanks to the obligatory shoot-'em-up conclusion, ... nevertheless the dullest sequence here" but praised Moore's performance and the film's "share of self-mockery", which she found refreshing.
While the introduction of the Batmobile suffers from dull tank battle sections, this meticulously crafted, mature conclusion to the Arkham series showcases the Dark Knight at his very brightest.
Royce Koop, associate professor and head of the department of political studies at the University of Manitoba dubs it "dull" and that "the result has been a foregone conclusion for several years now".
The settlement of the Sun lawsuit did not dull the hostility between the companies, each of which characterized the conclusion as satisfactory.
This led me to the conclusion that those who care about clothes really are the dullest, daftest people in the world, and this is why their elaborate window-dressing is so important to them.
I think she came to the conclusion that the academic approach to music was quite rigid, dry and dull, which is obviously one perspective of it.
