There are so many instances like this that the reader quickly accepts the book as more novel than history, a disappointing acceptance that makes the duller histories of the past seem somehow more reliable.
He notes that whereas Hitler had Josef Goebbels and Leni Riefenstahl as publicists, U.N.R.R.A. had to make do with a dull official history and the "feeble efforts" of the National Film Board of Canada.
Ray Romano did some puzzling, unfunny and unnecessary stand-up comedy, and then Jay-Z, as Presidential a rapper as we've ever had (other than Slick Rick), performed his deeply dull song "History," wearing black tie and eyeglasses that almost managed to make him look nerdy.
She ingests a fair number of drugs, maybe to dull her personal history.
Heather, Josh and Mike hike off into the forest, laden with equipment, intent on making their dull, supercilious "community history" project, and are never seen again, dead or alive.
It gets pretty dull in the history books, but if you have got something like this to refer back to, with the pictures and the memories of somebody who was there, telling it in, I hope, a friendly informal fashion, I think it might be something that's worthwhile having on the shelf.
History is dull unless there's a yarn in it.
Their dull explanations revolve around history and fashion.
Ben Bradlee was the least dull figure in the history of postwar journalism.
My take on Magna Carta had been that it's a dim and dull memory of schoolroom history, but that was turned on its head.
