Sentence examples for dull party from inspiring English sources

A few months later, Mr. Levy was sitting at another dull party and again amusing himself with talk of his hockey-training idea.

Woolf's novel takes place in one day, during which Clarissa Dalloway, a 52-year-old London society hostess, shops, sees the man she might have married but did not, takes a nap, and gives a rather dull party.

The intimacy and despair involved in reading a stranger's problem – it's like eavesdropping on a meaty bus chat, or being invited to skip the small talk at a dull party.

For her own part, Lolita remembers her bestial stepfather without rancor, but she is politely incredulous at his proposal that she leave her husband for him: "In her washed-out gray eyes, strangely spectacled, our poor romance was for a moment reflected, pondered upon, and dismissed like a dull party".

He is trying to make the acquaintance of a Zinkist(who plays a Zink--a wooden cornetto used in Renaissance time), and a Shawmist(who plays a Shawm--an ancestor of the oboe), because he believes they will liven up a dull party if they are introduced as a 'Zinkist' and a 'Shawmist.' View Article By Anthony Lane By Jia Tolentino By Rebecca Mead By Andy Borowitz.

The universal "civilization of the Mind" Barlow celebrated will wither to a dull party for misanthropes who'd rather no one else had come.

She said she had aimed to improve on the Eisenhowers' dull parties.

It's actually a fun party game – assuming that, like me, you go to very dull parties.

Their sons, at least the quick ones, the adapted ones, became ministers at thirty, immaculate, familiar with their elders, blowing through dull parties, on their way to somewhere else, to cool rooms where ice and alcohol glowed on the table, rooms where deals were made; she imagined them gliding through foreign airports, at ease in the European cities that she only read about.

Everyone has endured their share of dreadfully dull parties or social events and combatting the chronic tedium at such affairs is the impetus behind a recently introduced food product.

A role model for the do-anything Beats, Carr was a hard-drinking, brawling intellectual who liked to liven up dull parties at Columbia University by chewing up his beer glass, ripping pages out of a Bible or putting Kerouac into a wooden barrel and rolling him down Broadway.