Sentence examples for dull device from inspiring English sources

Friar Lawrence usually shuffles around as a dull device: Tristan Sturrock does a comic, very plausible turn as a trendy chaplain.

Even as we're told that dull, schlocky narrative devices are turning a diversion into a Serious Artform.

For this reason, Edelman (1964) regards conventional metaphoric language as a device of "dulling the critical faculties rather than awakening them".

But at the very least, Tag is going out of its way to shake up a market full of dull and overly large devices.

Left to their own devices and dull lives, not a lot of excitement comes their way.

When I finally connected the two devices, the music was dull and flat and the bass was muffled.

Through our activity, we also jump into what I like to call the rock polisher, a device that tumbles rough and dull stones so they smash against each other until smooth and shiny.

But Rose is an alchemising presence, a suspect device, able to invest the dullest clichés with menace.

Attached to nerves in the spine, these devices send out continuous, low pulses to dull chronic pain.

Position the two devices back-to-back, until a steady, dull tone is emitted.

Unfortunately, the music stored on a portable device is compressed, making it sound flat and dull.