Sentence examples for dull romance from inspiring English sources

Pairing a dull romance with an even duller sport (at least as represented here), this cliché-ridden vanity project is more suited to the ABC Family channel than to the inside of a movie theater.

Throughout the movie, too much time and fuss are expended on a dull romance between a roseate maid (Mia Wasikowska) and a handyman (Aaron Johnson), although the director, Rodrigo García, may have been forced in this direction simply because he could not find enough to do with his central character.

Our judgment may be dulled by the romance of the compound's agrarian simplicity, by its collection of trees heavy with fruit and by its proximity to the Tigris River.

Morris is now regarded as a modern and visionary thinker, though he turned away from what he called "the dull squalor of civilization" to romance, myth, and epic.

Like his teacher, Nguyen even delays the arrival of the birds for almost an hour to build suspense, although he does so with a romance so agonisingly dull that we'd quite like to see its protagonists pecked to death.

We're going to Paris to attend a friend's exhibition, and the potential for romance has already been dulled by the little scene I made when I couldn't find my passport.

This acceptance, I believe, is the dull ache many great SF writers describe as romance and many SF inhabitants use as their inspiration for weirdness.

War of the Worlds is a fundamentally unambitious and often quite dull film, compared to Spielberg's great alien romances ET and Close Encounters.

But we have a romance to get through first: that of dull Annie and smitten Jesse, who works at the Wallace Collection.

LA Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Emma Bovary, the wife of a kindly but dull country doctor, yearns for a life of luxury and romance that she has read about in popular novels.

Romance is abused in all sorts of endlessly dull ways in mainstream products.