The perception is that Melbourne is a trifle dull, a city in decline.
So she was sent to do a dull job in a warehouse in the middle of nowhere.
But there was no explosive move in the Preakness, only a mild kick in the late stages to make a dull effort appear a little better than it was.
It would transform what at times can be a dull bowl season into a crescendo of collegiate football memories.
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Members of a second group were placed in a dull, unstimulating environment for a further week.
"Deadly dull for a U.S. audience, " a Forrester Research analyst told the New York Times.
But, even if they prove dull, a fall into poverty is unlikely.
"Annuities, which seemed dull for a long time, now seem interesting when a sense of security and freedom are good things, " says Donn Sharer , vice president of Metropolitan Life Insurance 's (nyse: MET - news - people ) MetLife Financial Service, which is currently evaluating ways to increase flexibility in the annuities it offers.
The first, a dull affair in 2005, resulted in a points win for Williams, while the second saw Harrison knock out his opponent inside three rounds.
An artsy, thirtyish New Yorker, Nora Wilder (Parker Posey), whose name hints at a Hollywood pedigree, is stuck in a dull job and searching for love with a growing desperation.
Still, what once seemed certain to be a dull one-horse race is turning into a real Christmas cracker.
Soon after, he rolled into a typically dull footwear trade show in a 1956 Thunderbird convertible covered with different-colored versions of the shoe.
Connecting a dull activity (scoring tests, say) to a meaningful purpose (determining scientific results) can help maintain attentiveness.
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Three middle-age blowhards (a supercilious retired soldier, a dull canon and the puffed-up owner of a river bathhouse) vie for the affections of a comely magician's assistant, who seems open to dalliances despite a relationship with her milquetoast employer (wonderfully underplayed by Mr. Menzel).
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At this man Ms Sereny probed away, searching for the process by which a dull, provincial Austrian policeman had become the murderer of perhaps a million persons, driven as she always is by her insatiable need to know.
It's small, a bit dull in the color department and a little choppy.
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After a dull first half, the visitors took the lead when Elmander received a cushioned pass from Kevin Davies and fired in his fourth goal of the season.
He ran a dull campaign, promising to defend Austria's traditional neutrality and calling for a return to cosy corporatism.
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But in person, football's biggest game tends to be a dull corporate affair, with few fans interested in the game unless they have a lot of money riding on the outcome.
Nor does it help that Jamie is so withdrawn as to be downright dull. (Nothing is harder to write than an interesting play about a dull person.) The biggest problem of all is the ending, which feels contrived rather than earned, just as Mark Wendland's picture-puzzle set is too explicitly symbolic of the play's theme.
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The Pontipee brothers, after all, are trapped in a dull, generic plot when they're not leaping over sawhorses, whereas there's a knowing awareness of form to Dr. Frank-N-Furter's gyrations that goes way beyond mere choreography.
But on page 5, next to a dull column on President Ulysses S. Grant's address to the Congress of the United States, was a headline, loss of the deutschland.
Griffin's breakthrough livened up a dull game and Lowndes injury-time goal wrapped up the points for the Saints in what was in the end a well deserved victory.
Stampede is an insanely versatile addition to the Centaur lineup, replacing a rather dull passive buff and freeing Centaur players from a mandatory Blink Dagger purchase.
Nolfi and the cinematographer, John Toll, have produced a sombrely unified vision of New York as a place of dull skies and frequent downpours, a city whose towers stick up like hostile gray stalagmites.
Most investors wouldn't give a fund described as "relatively prosaic, dull, conservative" a second glance.
After all, they did a dull, routine job that was carefully scripted in advance.
But the truth is that, in any version, the Hulk is a dull beast.
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