Two years ago I was asked to write an autobiographical essay for a screenwriting magazine, and midway through I realized I had led an intensely dull life.
He had everything to live for, on a Tuesday, and no reason to dull his life with liquor, no reason to hide in a whiskey haze.
After being demobbed, he led a comparatively dull, respectable life.
Just a subtle shift, and what was dull suddenly springs to life.
But Dr. Musharbash, the anthropologist, says her work has helped her pep up potentially dull situations in her own life.
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Creativity is going to make the difference between working and not working, quality work or dull work, insecurity or life chances.
The north Belfast derby came to life after a dull first half with all three goals coming in the last seven minutes.
But soon enough, as it has for others, the retired life proved kind of dull for Zaremba.
So it is a puzzle that he could render such a compelling life story in a manner so dull.
The interplay between Mr Hyman's reflections on government and his experience in real life is sometimes clumsy, but never dull.
This is the selling point of Dead State: it is not set during the first desperate struggle to survive, but in the long, dull period when zombies have become a fact of life (or unlife).
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The video is dull and grainy, but it shows real-life drama: A comeuppance for David Ji, an entrepreneur who built a billion-dollar business importing dirt-cheap DVD players from a booming China, where he was born, and selling them at Wal-Mart and Circuit City stores in the U.S., his adopted home for two decades.
The video is dull and grainy, but it shows real-life drama: A comeuppance for David Ji, a celebrated U.S.-bred entrepreneur who built a billion-dollar business importing dirt-cheap DVD players from a booming China, where he was born, and selling them at Wal-Mart and Circuit City stores in the U.S., his adopted home for two decades.
To outsiders this may sound pretty dull, but to insiders it is the very stuff of working life.
He takes on a new assistant, in the shape of Troy (Colin Hanks) a pleasant fellow, who keeps telling us (in a superfluous voice-over) how life-changing the experience has been, although he seems no less dull at the end of it than he did at the start.
Winchester brings to life the trials and tribulations of creating the OED, particularly the never-dull personalities of those who were involved.
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