Add a little salt, and even the blandest British tomatoes and the dullest processed cheddar will amalgamate into a flavour bomb that is so wet at its centre you can almost slurp it down.
The magical part is, paradoxically, this dull process to witness has the potential to produce something heart-pounding, petrifying, mesmerizing, outrageous.
Clinical trials appear to be a very dull process.
I had a far smoother experience than many of my European friends who are still flailing around in H1B or O1 hell, but I still had to struggle through a dull process of bureaucracy, money, police checks, paperwork, money, waiting, interviews, money and bullshit.
This is a dull process, but it's also routine for hundreds of thousands of hockey fans.
An oath for education In many countries, school enrolment is a routine, perhaps dull process.
Unfettered marketing is skilled at pretending to offer more choice, and it does – more choice of junk – and for the dull reason that processed food is more profitable than unprocessed food.
Enthusiastic patients, however, enabled by the usual cast of shady entrepreneurs, have predictably skipped the long, dull validation process and are busily infecting themselves with a variety of intestinal worms.
I've filmed in DNA sequencing labs on several occasions and the producers have always been dismayed at how visually dull the process is: the labs are full of white boxes sitting on benches, and the magic of sequencing goes on inside them, hidden away and unaided by human hand.
The dull knottiness of opaque planning processes and the hyper-local conflicts that pad out local newspapers have taken on a new significance, stitching themselves into a larger and very grim picture of where Sydney is and where it's going.
