I can imagine James Brown writing dull material.
Hester revels in all the raw material, while rationalizing that "pure objectivity is, frankly, dull stuff and overrated".
Partly it's the way she transforms this dull, base material into refined objects.
And while the veteran action director Walter Hill hasn't done much to enliven this dull, unmemorable material, with its mechanically moving parts and popping gunfire, its dull-red splatter and spray, he has brought a spark of wit to the proceedings, starting with the figure of Sylvester Stallone.
With unthinkable lack of decency, and brilliant journalistic flair, Capote blags his way into the funeral parlour where the shooting victims are in their coffins, and actually heaves up the lids to look at the shattered faces which are swathed in a dull white material.
Ambergris Latin for "gray amber"—is a dull, waxy material produced in the intestines of sperm whales.
In all three fossils, outlines of soft tissue were preserved in the surrounding rock as dull black material.
The technician, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on the work, said it appeared that the saw was dulled by material inside the riser - including, perhaps, some of the objects pumped into the well during the failed "top kill" procedure last week.
The technician, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on the work, said it appeared that the saw had been dulled by material inside the riser -- including, perhaps, some of the objects pumped into the well during the failed "top kill" procedure last week.
One sometimes got the sense that she despised the banal fact of gravity, couldn't bear the dull thud of material reality.
