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Or, odd though it may seem, try reading something dull.
"It takes the edge off of it being something dull and dreary," Mr. Johnson said.
"It is quintessentially English to look at something dull as ditchwater and find it interesting": notes from a boredom conference.
She opened the notebook and read a sentence about an acute intimacy that had eroded into something dull.
"Public" has got a serious image problem: we associate the idea with something dull, bureaucratic and old-fashioned.
What she looks for is "a phenomenon" -- an arrangement or configuration that transforms something dull and disposable into something numinous.
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More and more often lately, there was something dulled about her mother.
The colorful details have been stripped away, and the wonderful rhythms of Dickens' prose have become something leaden and dull.
What writer ever declared: "I've thought of something really dull – I must write it immediately"?
There's something unremittingly dull about fulfilling your objectives every season.
There is something truly dull and depressing about this year's exhibition.
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