And while obviously not everything he does needs to come with a side of controversy, Symphonica feels like an incredibly safe and at times slightly dull album – perfect for a night in on a Sunday, or for when you've got friends round who are Michael Bublé fans but are willing to try something a bit different.
A dull meal is perfect, but even a medium broil java will yield an in number fragrance and flavour.
Ludacris can erase three dull minutes in forty perfect seconds.
Nowadays, however, Beethoven it seems in spite of all his revolutionary fervor has along with the whole kit-and-caboodle of classical music become something of a rather dull commodity -- so perfect in every way that his music displays not really greatness or excitement anymore, but (I am sad to report) only "packaged greatness".
One of the movement's early sins was a fondness for eugenics, the belief that contraception was perfect for "dull-minded natives," as one enthusiast put it, or for curbing the share of melanin in the admixture of humanity.
Braised short ribs were a perfect example — dry, dull.
The hospital's crowded wards resembled those studied in Erving Goffman's 1961 book, "Asylums," which showed how, through years of institutional life, people lost their identities and learned to be perfect mental patients — dull, unmotivated, and helpless.
There had been Sunday period dramas before (Lark Rise to Candleford, Cranford), but Downton was the first to perfect the deliberately dull formula: A period setting, an enclosed, hierarchical community, some chaste romances and a barely-there sense of dramatic tension.
Indeed, the only real problem with the client itself, as opposed to the card game specifically, is its stingy requirement to always be online; passable with for the PC/Mac version, but irritating on the iPad, where a quick match against the AI would be perfect for a dull commute.
They all have weird features and major flaws, anyone with perfect features looks dull and bland, only vaguely good-looking.
