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Sorry Belgium, but mayo on its own is utterly dull, a creamy layer of, so what?
I say attempt, because the most remarkable thing about it is not the shock factor of its content, but how utterly dull and lacking in humour it is.
"Boum" is the sound as far as the human alphabet can express it, or "bou-oum," or "ou-boum," — utterly dull.
I can barely bring myself to think about this time, not because it depresses me but because it's so utterly dull.
At a time when cycling was dominated by the machine-like, but utterly dull, Spanish figure of Miguel Indurain, Pantani was also loved for little touches of eccentricity.
Previously, the Goldsmith campaign had attempted to link Khan to Islamic extremism, a smear against one of Labour's most utterly dull middle-of-the-road liberals that succeeded only in making him look slightly more racy.
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Utterly reliable, decent, dull, Michael's life consists of Grouchers, his Mayfair gentleman's club, and Beinn Caorrun, the Perthshire estate he inherited from his parents and from which he remains, to Elizabeth's frustration, "indivisible".
KitKat in Japan comes in flavours as fancy as lemon cheesecake, utterly different from the dull combination of chocolate and wafers munched in Britain.
Still less did I like the heat of an electric oven, particularly those which were 'fan-assisted', which guaranteed the same dry, even, dull, characterless, utterly dependable temperature at all points.
"Revolutionary Road" is a brilliant rewriting of "Madame Bovary," with one signal difference — at the end of Flaubert's novel, both Emma and Charles Bovary lose, because she commits suicide and her dull husband is utterly bereft.
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