"In almost every instance, I was deadening his language; I was making him seem duller than he was.
The spat over language dulls the luster of what many national Hispanic political leaders had hailed as a landmark event.
Before taking up the post, Wilshaw told a committee of MPs that he used to glaze over when reading Ofsted reports, because the language was so dull and bureaucratic.
We see and hear the incomprehension in his very language, which is dull and inexpressive, as if he doesn't really inhabit the words he uses; like everything else around him, language appears to not quite belong to him and there isn't much he can make of it.
Every sigh, moan and squeal is precisely notated, so that despite the ostensibly recondite text in a dead language, even the dullest member of the audience will get the titillating point.
Their efforts to communicate across language barriers range from the dull to the hokey (a group hug), and end in an astonishing platitude.
For this reason, Edelman (1964) regards conventional metaphoric language as a device of "dulling the critical faculties rather than awakening them".
As Guides go, this one is a little on the abstruse side: although she opens the show all warm, genial and down-to-earth, soon her language is breaking down into long, dull bursts of disconnected language, as she tries to help us enter the distant world of the woman she's portraying.
It didn't take long after Dallas for the language of war to obviate racism, dull nuance and ennoble every clumsy effort.
It all seems a lot duller for my daughter, who is studying English language and linguistics.
In a nutshell, politics Tumblr is similar, where people, predominantly young people, discuss in their own language the ins and outs of stereotypically dull current affairs.
