Many frogs that are rather dull or uniformly coloured when in a resting position have bright colours or patterns on the flanks, groin, posterior surfaces of the thighs, and belly.
WHEN the rather dull playoff game was over, a crushing Red Sox loss, the Sox and their fans said goodbye to Fenway Park.
The consent forms were extremely typical, rather dull, procedural accounts of what happens when people take part in a study, so I can only assume that the word "laughter" provoked the red mist to descend, and the urge to write a note overwhelmed my colleague.
Now he returns to Mr. Rudolph's direction as an upright, rather dull suburban dentist whose facade of cold professionalism dissolves when he begins to suspect that his wife and office partner (Hope Davis) may be having an affair.
Yet, given the facts, we must conclude that Bailey was right when, in 2005, he made the rather dull (and thus generally ignored) legalistic point that, all other questions aside, Juanita was simply not his research subject in March 1998, at least not in any meaningful sense of research.
When the national and local news gets rather dull, the English can always turn to the BBC and find out about the latest crisis in the Sudan or the newest economic growth indicator from China.
"And the years when you are bringing up children are, in personal terms, rather dull.
Or just when I decide that it's all hideously perky, wincingly corny and rather dull, a deeply unsettling piece like "Last Look" pops out of the woodwork and startles by its remorseless, unsparing reach into the unconscious.
'I feel that now, when I speak with other people, I speak rather directly and in rather dull and dry fashion, unlike some who give you a sense that their language is of a high standard or is very rich,' he said.
I've only known the broadest outlines of Austen's life – it always seemed rather dull to me – so the piece in the NEH magazine Humanities was rather a pleasant surprise – and unpleasant, too, when one considers the wandering and dependent life even rather well-heeled spinsters endured.
Once Hardy went to see Ramanujan when he was in a nursing home and remarked that he had traveled in a taxi with a rather dull number, viz 1,729, Ramanujan exclaimed, 'No, Hardy, 1,729 is a very interesting number.
