There are no good dull skyscrapers, though the old World Trade Center towers came close.
If the remains of a good, dull king had been dug up in a Leicester car park, we wouldn't have cared.
And, if it is a particularly good, dull book, you can see its spine hanging over your head, haunting you a little, urging you to read it … more readers have been seduced by spines ("I've got to read that Tolstoy") than have been summoned by iStores.
However, King dislikes playing "Eyes of the Insane" live, commenting, "It's just dull to play, good song just dull to play on guitar".
Of Caroline, Forster wrote: "She was good, quiet, dull, and amiable, and young only because she was 23.
Jane Grigson was born in 1928 in Gloucester, where her father was the deputy town clerk; her mother, a "good, but dull cook", was an artist.
He dominates the film, even its ambiguities, although he never quite convinced me that Patton, by any stretch of the imagination, could be called a rebel against anything except the good, gray, dull forces of bleeding heart liberalism.
It saw Bridget recount the minutiae of her life, weight changes and romantic pitfalls, as she vacillated between the men in her life, good but dull Mark Darcy, and wrong but romantic Daniel Cleaver.
At no point, Elborough is at pains to point out, were the American buyers of good old dull, granite-arched London Bridge under the impression they had bought the much more impressive and iconic Tower Bridge: this is just a Furguson-style fantasy.
That Christmas I gave Holly a St Christopher medal from Tiffany's and she gave me a $350 bird cage I had always admired, on the proviso I kept it symbolically empty, but we fell out soon after when she told me OJ thought my stories were like me: good but dull.
