dullness

Example Sentences

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He finds Pádraic dull and, in his advancing years, he figures he has no more time for dullness.

From Los Angeles Times

Discovering that “stuffiness is not dullness,” Mr. Kimbrough played Dial as a pretentious newsman with heart and sensitivity as well as a charmingly incisive sense of right and wrong.

From Washington Post

My instinct said to leave after the appetizer — I was raised in communist Bulgaria by atheists who taught me to associate religion with dullness of mind.

From Los Angeles Times

Yglesias named his Substack “Slow Boring,” after a 1919 lecture by the German sociologist Max Weber titled “Politics as a Vocation,” wherein “boring” is not an adjective of dullness but a gerund of diligence.

From Washington Post

“There was just a weird dullness on defense.”

From Seattle Times