Sentences with phrase «dull when»

River rocks and beach pebbles look beautiful when they're wet but dull when they're dry.

Similarly, in our romantic relationships the spark between us can dull when we stop the process of discovering one another.

We have already compared the Galaxy S9 camera to the Galaxy S8's, and our conclusion then was that the Galaxy S9 captures more accurate colors (which can seem dull when compared to the S8 side - by - side) and creates photos with less noise in low - light conditions.

Also, while everyone raves about black levels I've always thought plasma was a bit dull when watching sports.

It is a shame to see the outside world feeling empty and dull when the characters and others parts of the game are done so well.

A majority of the few bouts against bosses involved the already overused Batmobile, and most were dull when they didn't.

I've done the drive from FL - > WA and it gets dull when your car is packed down to the brim with your buddy's stuff.

However, the excitement can dull when you think you've completely paid down your debt only to discover that somehow you still owe something.

The Tucson is also a little dull when already underway and one asks more from the drivetrain.

Its rear, however, is a different story; it looks quite dull when compared to the car's overall design.

For instance, a V - 6 Honda Accord is dreadfully slow and dull when compared with the Jetta.

I couldn't fathom why she'd want to buy something so slow and dull when she could be buying something fun and / or fast and a hotel room.

This compliments the general feel of the single - player campaign, which is simplistic, repetitive and relatively dull when you consider what other games are doing.

Instead, the movie plays safe by cutting every theme down the middle - a swing that's effective when splitting wood or vampire skulls, but dull when applied to filmmaking.

Students should have quite a diverse range to show us — it is very dull when there is nothing more and you just see things regurgitated.

And not only is that dull in reality, it's especially dull when you're a fashion blogger too.

Light reflected off the pigments so that colors appeared deep and rich, like those of a wet river pebble that grows dull when it dries.

Say what you like about George Galloway, but it's never dull when he's in town.

AFC looks clueless and dull when Ozil not playing or having a bad game.

In launching a new company, resist the urge to be overly creative and dull when dreaming up your brand name.

The sharp «spiciness» of radish dulls when cooked, and the inherent sweetness of this beautiful vegetable is released.

You might expect their sex lives to be much duller when warbler pairs are isolated in remote fragments.

Real - life interactions are dulled when a person feels the urge to check their phone, and the distraction a phone affords one partner doesn't make the other person feel good.

With the extra vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, not only will your skin avoid looking drier and duller when you come to take off your makeup at the end of the day, but it's likely to be in even better condition from nourishing plant oils and extracts.

In fact, I think I dulled it when I put on my top coat.

Others — even when the setup is framed properly by Jung and cinematographer Phil Parmet — find their chills dulled when audio cues alert a jump scare is near.

Not exact matches

When we bought our first plane, air travel was considered very expensive, extremely frustrating and awfully dull; more recently, the banking sector has been held responsible for the financial crisis and global recession, so we used our reputation to instil some trust and, as Virgin Money's slogan says, «Make everyone better off.»

In college, a lecture is what happens when you've got a dull professor.

Without in - person emotional cues to engage them, people interpret positive emails as dull and assume the worst when unsure.

When discussing how weather affects human behavior in his book Drunk Tank Pink, New York University marketing and psychology professor Adam Alter said, «Sunshine dulls the mind to risk and thoughtfulness.»

In the world of Canadian tech startups, which tend to build dull business - to - business products and services, Shop.ca stood out when it launched in 2012 — boldly eschewing the enterprise crowd for everyday consumers.

The product flopped when targeting this type of customer because their senses were dulled and immune to the bad smells.

Hotels near the venue except when the event is in a dull location.

Under the editorship of former MoneySense editor Duncan Hood since 2012, Canadian Business continues to meet the goals set out by both McArdle and Ross — reinterpreting them when required, and evolving in step with the always interesting, never dull, world of Canadian business.

But when it came to billion - dollar M&A deals, the headline activity in 2017 seemed dull at best, compared to past years.

I like work flexibility because there's never a dull moment when I bring my marketing skills to help new clients on interesting projects.

Before Gillette, guys had to use a leather strop to sharpen their forged steel razor blades before each use, so his razors designed to be used and then thrown away when dull was a revolutionary idea.

As a side note, the word «intrepid» (adjective: resolutely fearless; dauntless) in the context of fertilizer is strangely reminiscent of the late - 1960's «Go - Go» market, when dull little companies gave themselves exciting names to divert investors attention from the fact that they were, in fact, dull little companies - as when Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken renamed itself «Performance Systems.»

Among widely followed indicators, we can see some of this in the declining number of individual stocks achieving new 52 - week highs when the major market indices push higher, by the tendency for trading volume to become dull on advances and expand on declines (or what is a similar observation, the tendency for the market to make little progress on heavy up - volume and substantial downside progress on light down - volume), and in the recent explosion of insider selling.

Obviously we like it when prevailing market currents carry along our holdings, but we worry that in an otherwise dull period investors are overreaching for investable concepts.

But when PC Party members delivered a stunning blow to Ralph Klein in a March 2006 leadership review, politics never seemed to get dull again in Alberta.

When boneheads like you try to post your religious twaddle and can't manage to write a coherent sentence that any sentient 8th grader ought to be able to manage, you just reinforce the belief that all of you are dull - witted morons with one tooth.

When the journalist says for the thousandth time, «Living religion is not in dull and dusty dogmas, etc.» we must stop him with a sort of shout and say, «There — you go wrong at the very start.»

So when Jesus finally returns to dispense his 1st century barbarism, do you think he is going to go door - to - door and shoot non-believers in the face, or do you think he will just hack off heads with a dull knife like the Muslims like to do?

When are you going to get that through that dull brain of yours?

Something must be lacking in our church services and programs when a high proportion of members find religion dull, if not empty.

One can not but be surprised (when one looks at it with a mind not dulled by habit) at the extraordinary care taken by Christ to urge upon men the importance of loving one another.

The intuitional evidence for belief in Allah, the belief based upon the recognition of Allah by our inner consciousness, is brought to our attention in the Qur» an by pointing out the important psychological fact that there is an instinctive feeling of faith in Almighty Allah, the Creator of the universe, which comes to men when they are free from inclinations, or the distractions of dull routines, or when surprised by the question of the origin of the universe, or when faced with hardships or misfortunes which they can not overcome by themselves.

As the suffering continues, there settles over him finally a dull despair, broken only rarely by an unnatural and terribly enfeebling intensity, as when the gambler hopes on and on that some day he will meet with luck.

Even when democratic ideals are still affirmed, they often appear to be dull platitudes rather than energizing aspirations.