The rational world suddenly loses its appeal; dull, steady scientific observation seems only dull and steady.
Being fortunate had dulled her powers of observation.
Sample observation: "a desperately dull opening, for which I would normally give Stephen my slightly more middle-class version of the Alex Ferguson hairdryer treatment, but since he only needed a draw, it was forgivable just this once".
With the exception of L6, all other inoculated cattle (H5, H6 and L5) became dull, which was most evident on passive observations and CCTV observations: affected cattle stood with their heads close to the wall or dividing gate or occasionally rested their heads against them.
It is simply an observation that much that dulls the passion in our discourse starts with our tendency to shy from the existential.
But perhaps the most haunting observations come from the uncouth Dull Gret (the droll Ana Reeder), who speaks few words but all of them pungent.
Published in 1971 and billed as a novel - her only one - it offered a fictionalised portrait of her girlhood and contained the observation that people's lives "were dull, simple, amazing and unfathomable - deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum".
Gould's writing was very much like his conversation; it was a little stiff and stilted and mostly rather dull, but enlivened now and then by a surprising observation or bit of information or by sarcasm or malice or nonsense.
In one cute observation he notes how some people are so dull that when they turn away you forget what they look like.
Thus, the a* and the b* values observed corresponded to a quantifiably red color (dull red), with a decreased degree of redness in the light, which is in agreement with our visual observations (Fig. 2).
