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.
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.
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.
But this was enervating music: most of it grounded in one chord, bereft of inspired improvisation (with the exception of a nice long-tone solo by the trumpeter Steven Bernstein), adorned with dull melodies and awkward vocal texts about peace and harmony.
February 12 2016 September 20 200909 Because it is primarily about ideas, not images, conceptual photography can be pretty dull and overly dependent on explanatory texts.
