My own inclination is to continue to go there if I can, to find points on the map and take those dull, dull photographs, because the research is often as much about reassuring the author as convincing the reader.
The company offers to take on "dull, repetitive work" — like digitizing paper forms or business cards — for prospective clients.
Military analysts debate what it would take to dull the luster of enlisting in the Army, either for a short-term contract or as a career.
In a case of very bad timing, his father is beginning to show signs of Alzheimer's disease, and everyone -- the local doctor (Patrick Tull, Seann's girlfriend (Eileen O'Connell and Michaell himself -- thinks Sean should cancel his own plans, take a dull job at an insurance company, move back in with his father and nurse him for the duration.
IGN writer Jeremy Dunham wrote that the "only exception in the game's mass list of progression is the plotline," explaining that it has one of the more basic Dragon Quest stories; but he also mentions that the game still manages to take a dull plot and make it entertaining.
The sentiment was understandable: Yes, pivoting from a week-long parade of race-baiting and fear-mongering to something more closely approaching sanity would provide sweet relief, but there was a very real possibility that the Democratic Party would take a dull, middle-of-the-road approach while laying out its agenda this week.
Take 1 dull rod and put a 2 millimetre cut on a flat face.
If this still didn't clean to your satisfaction, take a dull knife (like a butter knife) and wrap it with a rag dipped in detergent.
They would gladly have taken four dull victories, but dull was never going to be the phrase associated with any game these two teams were going to play.
It would take the dullest of curmudgeons not to enjoy the surge of this saga, accurate or not, and the excesses of what already feels like a distant age.
