Sentence examples for dull dog from inspiring English sources

The difference is that Cameron's smooth PR skills make him look a dull dog by comparison.

He is also rather a dull dog, with little taste for big ideas and no known ability to capture people's imagination.

Next to them even Thomas Hampson as Germont seemed a dull dog, with the velvet gone from his voice, while Carlo Rizzi drew ultra-refined playing from the Vienna Philharmonic.

You could also say that, since he tells this story against himself, Charles Leslie Falconer cannot be the dull dog of a chubby lawyer portrayed by some of the media.

As he passed into middle age 20 years later, he was thought of politically as a dull dog; for, after refusing the chancellorship of the Exchequer from the prime minister Spencer Perceval in 1809, he took the office of secretary at war.

Audiences, said Shaffer, would have to be pretty dull dogs not to enjoy it.

Some dull dogs have found her Mrs. Bennet too broad, too Dickensian, but in fact she establishes a miraculous equipoise between bitterness and boiling vulgarity (and this balance is sustained by the memory of her physical allure).

"No concert singer I ever heard, dull dogs that they are, approached these rural warblers in variety of tone quality, range of dynamics, rhythmic resourcefulness and individuality of style".

So interested was he in occultism that he even met Aleister Crowley in 1922, an event that Sorabji found disappointing and caused him to describe Crowley as "the dullest of dull dogs".

Usually the announcements are so dripping with venom that even the dullest dog is made aware of his scorn for his passengers.

Samuel Johnson, according to James Boswell, pronounced him "as dull a dog as he had ever met with".