"The old versions portrayed the founders as deities, which makes them dull.
As we know, people are at their best when engaged in the endless heroic quest for whatever — truth, love, literary excellence, supremacy in tennis, a royal flush, the perfect salad — and relaxation makes them dull.
Cutting aluminum or sandpaper rounds off the edges, making them duller and ruining the action, and does nothing to hone the flat side.
It's clear that following this path we are on will result in regulatory schemes governing social networks, search and other key services, making them as dull and bureaucratic as electric companies.
This dance, to Jody Talbot's orchestral "Dying Swan" (a Morphoses commission), shows men and women coexisting in a peaceable torpor that makes them look dull-witted, complacent, languorous and narcissistic, making few demands on life and getting little out of it.
Others bought a Saab because they believed it made them less obviously dull.
Try to work out what makes them good, interesting, dull or just plain bad.
He takes on things – taste and class last time, now identity and some of its components (power, fame, religion and gender) – that could be dry, academic and dull, and he makes them not at all dull by spraying them with colour and life and ideas.
Saturation will change the concentration of the colors on your, making them brighter or duller.
Some readers felt the love interest distracted from the purity of the detective story form, pulling the books out of shape and making them too long and dull, while others simply didn't think she was worthy of their hero.
