Sentence examples for dull performance from inspiring English sources

In a dull performance, he finished fourth.

Olga Kern was the dour sounding soloist in a dull performance of Rachmaninov's Paganini Rhapsody.

The Standard & Poor's 500 put on a dull performance yesterday, rising just 6.12 points, or 0.7percentto to 841.44.

But the 2006 winner drew criticism for her "dull" performance, with a number of Twitter users questioning her decision to release a Christmas album.

Theirs was, oddly enough, the most appropriate response to the sweet, dull performance of Chanticleer, the genial San Francisco men's a cappella choir.

The men's national champion, Todd Eldredge, who previously said he would revamp his short program, has also decided to overhaul his long program after a dull performance at the nationals.

It's not a terrible performance, just a terribly dull one.

But under Fernando Santos Portugal must be viewed as a genuine threat to any side given their clinical – if slightly dull – performances in winning their first senior tournament.

This year, they've been given a day a week to see their wives and girlfriends; the rest of the time has been spent training, or, some say, getting bored and frustrated during long, empty afternoons, leading to dull performances on the pitch.

If any opera can be regarded as foolproof, it is Mozart's "Nozze di Figaro," a work that has so much to offer, both musically and in its sparkling da Ponte libretto, that neither loopy productions nor dull performances can quench it entirely.

But the entertainment industry as a whole turned in a duller performance than its bickering principals.