Indeed why is it that anybody dull, stupid or unambitious has a Birmingham accent in ad land?

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So it is a puzzle that he could render such a compelling life story in a manner so dull.

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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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But as often has been the case in finance, the back office gets very little attention since it is viewed as a dull cost center.

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It's the very end of the dry season now in Southern Africa, and the land is a dull, lifeless beige.

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Turn up in person and dull is the wrong word: stand in the right (wrong?) place and it's more a cacophony.

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Players are not dull, and it is brilliant at the moment because no-one is sitting back thinking 'I am in the Test team'.

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