Sentence examples for not colourful from inspiring English sources

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We had cottage cheese and pancakes in Russia, not colourful circles that came in cardboard boxes".

That is certainly a concern but one that demands a cool examination of the evidence and implications, not colourful rhetoric.

The rag-tag bunch of single men who gave Bachelor Gulch its curious name were nothing if not colourful.

In the same year, Alfred Schnittke's opera about Gesualdo added the (false) detail that he killed his own child, as if the facts were not colourful enough already.

But it seems he can block anybody else.The resulting manoeuvres are as intricate as a central European folk-dance, but one performed in grey suits, not colourful peasant costumes.

His family history is also nothing if not colourful: his father traded in whisky during US prohibition, while his mother, a relation of Rab Butler, the erstwhile Tory grandee, was Winston Churchill's private secretary.

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Writing in the fifth century BC, Herodotus was accused of embroidering tales because the truth wasn't colourful enough.

Now, Tony is not a colourful character.

They are screamingly, if not jarringly, colourful but lack delicacy or profundity.

THE many palaces of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's desert capital, are not as colourful as the Kremlin.

His son Wuwang, though not as colourful as his father, was always regarded as the conqueror.

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