Sentence examples for dull phrase from inspiring English sources
These days, a dull phrase on the second page can stop me in my tracks for good.
Deferred compensation is such a dull phrase that it makes you want to rush to the offices of the ubiquitous TV advertiser J. G. Wentworth to trade your guaranteed future payments for a discounted wad of upfront cash.
There may be no more dull phrase than that.
By all means conform to the required guidelines of the publication in question, but try to avoid cliches, hackneyed turns of phrase, dull prose, and deadly boring content.
Each superfluous word or phrase dulls the prose.
Yes – they actually spoke like human beings, to human beings, without relying purely on dull, focus-grouped phrases.
The passing of time has done little to dim those images of glory and success, or dull those famous phrases he conjured as English football fell under his thrall.
His faith shines through every note of his music - in his wonder at every tiny yet monumental scrap of human endeavour, and in his ultimate (if at times shaky) acceptance of a celestial Big Plan that will rid us of what he has described as 'all the nonsense of suffering' - but it's as far removed from 'Christian rock', with all the deadly dull connotations of that phrase, as it's possible to be.
There is a dull, quotidian sheen to the phrase "standard repertory," although it's primarily the more extraordinary works that are eventually categorized as such.
These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis.... Totalist language, then, is repetitiously centered on all-encompassing jargon, prematurely abstract, highly categorical, relentless judging, and to anyone but its most devoted advocate, deadly dull: in Lional Trilling's phrase, 'the language of nonthought'.
