As for the left-hand side of the bell curve, those adjoining the Normals are persons with IQs from 75 through 89, whom we labeled Dull (there is no such thing as a neutral label).
More recently, Coco Before Chanel – the 2009 biopic documenting the difficult early career of Coco Chanel – won plaudits for its elegant styling but was labelled "rather dull" by film critic Philip French.
Trilling found Ginsberg's incendiary poem "Howl" the opposite of shocking — he labeled it "dull" — but he also lent Ginsberg support and encouragement.
Overnight, the characteristics that had previously seen Spitting Image label him as dull made him seem authentic, approachable and honest.
And while many, not surprisingly, resent the education secretary, Michael Gove, labelling ICT teaching as dull and boring, most agree that sweeping changes need to be made to the way computing is taught in schools.
"Dull in a new way," she labelled books that she despised.
Michael Gove recently labelled the current provision of ICT in English schools as "dull' and argued, schools should have the freedom to teach computer science.
In part because his specialties were the so-called classics, from Haydn and Mozart through Schumann to Wagner, Bruckner and Strauss, he was sometimes labeled conservative or even dull, descriptions his performances belied.
Marketing men have labelled gays "early adopters"—people who latch on to fashions first, followed by the duller masses.
John McCarten, in his review of "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" for the magazine in 1957, referred to it as a "mash of stale jokes, bad acting, and dull drama," ultimately labelling the entire production "mucilaginous nonsense".
