She was embarrassed for him and longed to urge him to be less dull and more to the point at the meetings.
It is not good acting by a long shot, but it is less dull than the stuffy, overdressed film surrounding him, which professes cynicism at the Tinseltown machine, but is mostly in wide-eyed thrall to high-end movie stars giving high-pitched performances in high‑style clothes.
My husband's sensations were less dulled than usual, too, since it was the thinnest traditionally shaped condom we used.
It was even less dull the first night shen she did what used to be, what indeed still should be called a stomach dance (later deleted).
Other appetizers were less distinguished, from dull, heavy stuffed artichoke to veal soup that combined stringy meat and timid stock.
I'm not religious, and don't go to church, as he does, so my Sundays are much less dull than those of my childhood (and the shops are all open now, a liberty that brings its own universal boredom).
For some Italians, the metaphor is less flattering: that of dull, disciplined, solitary grinding on, especially compared with the 71-year-old Mr. Berlusconi, the richest man in Italy, who does not run but flits around in his private helicopter, entertains at his mansions and gets in public spats with his wife over other women.
THE political scene is suddenly less dull.
Mr. Immordino said that the bulls he uses were less aggressive and have duller horns than the ones that run along the cobblestone streets of Pamplona, where the running of the bulls was immortalized by Ernest Hemingway in "The Sun Also Rises".
Iron Man is a mixture of Robocop and Darth Vader, with a hint of the Iron Man that Ted Hughes once imagined: only he is less mysterious, and essentially duller than each of these.
