Sentence examples for dull setting from inspiring English sources

"The former one was a dull setting in Greenland," he said.

The setting should be exciting; avoid a dull setting that does not lend itself to humor.

Paul Wall acknowledged him during a genial but rather dull set.

In its place are tortuously dull set-pieces, rambling dialogue and banal stagings.

In "Le Nozze di Figaro," heard on Friday, smart direction by Leon Major helped to overcome dull sets and variable singing in a businesslike account conducted by David Angus, the Glimmerglass music director.

Tree stumps made from felt bunched over cardboard boxes and anchored with packing tape are clearly meant to extend the enchanted-forest theme but look like dull set design.

Writer/director Nacho Vigalondo deserves immediate plaudits for crafting a premise that reads like Rachel Getting Married meets Godzilla (in fact, the film's resemblance to the latter led to a lawsuit) and the leftfield genre shift comes as a refreshing change, after another particularly dull set of summer blockbusters.

How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg [480 pages, The Penguin Press, 2014; Guardian bookshop; Amazon UK hardcover/paperback/kindle UK; Amazon US hardcover/paperback/audiobook download/kindle US] Publisher's synopsis: The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned.

Children who grow up in a stimulating environment perhaps become more motivated than they would in a duller setting; yet children rarely determine the time and place in which they are raised.

It has dull action set pieces, leaden dialogue, lots of running around Belgrade (making very little use of location photography) and endless Skype calls.

It may be unfair to judge the six proposals by photographs of models (front page, July 17), but they all look like dull rectangles set on end.