Sentence examples for make dull from inspiring English sources

Positive role models, of whatever race, make dull characters, because they don't really exist.

Actors often make dull interviewees, but Cumberbatch regularly comes across as interesting and unguarded, happy to talk about a wide range of issues.

Completely good police officers make dull viewing, which is why both Happy Valley and Line of Duty (season three starts this month) have central characters under internal scrutiny.

At a time when misery and depression have become a trope, a way to make dull bands seem interesting, the song is a simple, open-hearted, open-throated howl, with Neil singing his dead mother's name repeatedly in the chorus.

I'd always been a reporter, partly because I feared my own life would make dull literary fodder (too much pleasure, too little misery) and partly because my father was an essayist and I felt that in the Fadiman biome, that ecological niche was already taken.

Wireless text chat may make dull classes bearable, but Cybiko is too big to hide from teacher.

In an industry that regulators aim to make duller, those are bankable assets.

Four years later they were making dull progressive rock.

Pep drives overcautiously, while Herman makes dull conversation.

Step out of the trench warfare, the pounding makes dull viewing.

And by making dull, quotidian life its subject, it redeemed all that was dull and quotidian.