Sentence examples for dull static from inspiring English sources

Among the Hitchcock classics, this is the most bafflingly overrated: often dull, static, undramatic, and marooned on one single, giant set, which we are permitted to inspect from a very limited number of camera set-ups.

In the main, writer's lives are dull, quotidian, static.

We may desire loving relationships in real life — if you believe the magazines, anyway — but in literature, they make for dull and static prose.

This strategy seems on one level an acknowledgment of the commercial reality that contemporary audiences require speed, narrative drive -- that the meditative temperament of a more traditional ghost story would strike them as dull and static.

The angriest pages in her book are devoted to the psychiatrists who put her on a regimen of anti-anxiety medications, which dulled the static in her brain but left her "in an emotional half-light," secure but disengaged.

Five members of an extended family sit in a static, dull grey environment talking about how they have nothing to talk about.

They are not static or dull.

If these recurring ensemble passages, or ritornellos, are played with anything less than all-out enthusiasm, they can sound static and dull.

"But that was very static and dull.

Thus, a very large space might offer an extensive viewshed, but it could be of a static or dull space, whereas a slightly smaller space could draw the viewer's eye to look more deeply into an environment, thereby increasing the sense of transparency (Rowe and Slutzky 1963; Ellard 2009).

One of his few theories about photography is that if it does not provide a lot of fun for both him and his model, it is not worth bothering with, because his work will become static, methodical, and dull.