Not a bad fellow, the driver, but rather dull in conversation.
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.
They now offer cars that are just as reliable but far more exciting than the rather dull vehicles Toyota has concentrated on producing in ever-larger numbers.
The articles themselves are rather dull, pointing out that Walmart plans to open 30 new stores this year and spend 500 million yuan to upgrade 50 existing ones.
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Perhaps the book, ultimately, is rather dull.
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Low in the sky there's the classic cotton wool Cumulus, the Stratus, a layer of "rather dull" cloud, and higher up Cirrus - "a translucent delicate streak as if a watercolour brush has been stroked across the blue".
Work and school, laundry, dinner, the things that happened in their lives were not part of the brightness that she and Roy had glimpsed but were, rather, dull, quite expected, and entirely unastonishing.
Playing safe means you go for the dull rather than the emotional, the read rather than the conversational, and the preachy rather than the interactive.
In any case, most of the 2, 000-odd registered insurers were engaged in tax avoidance and capital flight, rather than the dull business of claims and premiums.
According to Clara, from that day on nothing was the same, in spite of the reconciliation, in spite of their trip to a town on the coast, a rather sad and dull trip, as it turned out.
Belgians tend to think of the Dutch as loud, dull and rather too keen on money.
All ten in each list, with the exception of Sydney and Calgary, might be considered rather homely, even dull.
Today we have the mainstream media who also uncritically accept the prevailing views, choosing their opinions by popularity, dull-mindedness, or opportunism rather than by reason.
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Routledge's are positively dull perhaps because, as a publisher for universities rather than a university publisher, it is defensive about looking too commercial.
Rather than boring your customers to death, there is a clear opportunity to put the dull corporate website to rest.
Williams described his own performance as "a bit dull", attributing it to the stage being surrounded by industry guests sitting at tables rather than ordinary fans.
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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