"Who wants to look at a dull picture of an uninteresting old man, even if they are wonderful composers or talents?" said Phillips.
"We also wanted to erase the dull picture of the Islamic Emirate that has been painted and presented to the world by our enemies who dismissed us as a warring faction which has no political, administrative and social capabilities," it said.
Too much ambient light can result in a duller picture, and glare or reflections can be distracting.
Though Davis later dismissed it as a "dull B picture," "dull" is hardly the word.
Dull Gret, pictured by Brueghel harrowing hell at the head of a crowd of ransacking women, chomps on potatoes.
RESTORED MADONNA GLOWS Keith Christiansen remembers all the times he stood in front of "Madonna and Child," a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Filippino Lippi, and thought, "What a dull, disappointing picture".
Though I can't get too exercised about the lack of Globe nominations for Clint Eastwood's Sully (a bafflingly dull and creaky picture), it is quite extraordinary that Martin Scorsese's powerful and valuable movie Silence has been utterly overlooked.
Barring one clear jewel - Francisca (1981) - and a strong, Tempest-like late statement on mortality (2001's I'm Going Home, starring Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve and John Malkovich), much of his output seems either willfully obscure (The Uncertainty Principle, The Letter), dull (A Talking Picture, A Caixa) or just stagey, over-literal and awkward (er, most of the rest).
Legal There has been a lot of talk about allowing the Oculus Rift technology into courtrooms as a means for letting the jury understand and evaluate the crime scene without the use of dulled, two-dimensional pictures of potential evidence.
