Sentence examples for dull text from inspiring English sources

It was for a moment, but Mr. Papoutsas's dull text and his histrionics stamped out the humor in the idea.

It earns its place in A History of the World in 100 Objects because in the 19th century the equally dull text – on tax breaks for priests, inscribed upon it, in three different languages (Greek, demotic Egyptian and hieroglyphs) – became the key to decoding the hieroglyphic script of the ancient pharaohs.

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Neither showy nor dull, the text has that feeling of giving you the right words in the right order with the right pacing.

Unfortunately, and shockingly, when you get through the dull blocks of text about IP routing and encrypted code, your reward is to spend more time with uninteresting, unknowable "good guys" tasked with finding and stopping an unseen villain.

"It seemed like an act of pure hubris to predict retroactively what this utterly original and unpredictable artist did in a place that was totally alien to him...Rimbaud habitually avoided doing things the easy way and he was never dull". The resulting text is a spare 121 pages, pared down to the essential, and it examines intensely how the adolescent poet must have embraced his manhood.

As I remember it, the text was dull and the pencil drawings duller.

Knol has a desperately dull home page with text links to articles about Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding, Evolving Trends in Laparoscopic Surgery, and so on, and most of the featured articles are very academic.

Other ads get better placement, Hulett says, but suffer from such confusing text or dull graphics that readers never so much as pause their cursor on them.

Gone are the days of flat text and dull, one-dimensional images.

Yury Vorobiev had an attractive voice as Gurnemanz but, like Avgust Amonov in the title role, seemed text-bound and dull, making the long exchange in Act 3 between the pair well nigh interminable.