Sentences with phrase «even dull»

Some days are down right dreary but even the dull days are filled with little glimpses of sunshine when you stop and soak up the subtle sweet moments of childhood!

Even dull chores such as grocery shopping or sorting the recycling seemed fun, as long as you were doing it side by side.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.

Filmed in Croton - on - Hudson, on the filmmakers» own property north of New York City, the 45 - minute film transforms a natural world that many north - easterners shrug off as ordinary and even dull (compared to a rainforest or jungle) into a place teeming with life and stunning rituals.

The biggest issue with it isn't even its dull plot.

There's so much that's good about The Surge that it's a shame about the bad, or even dull, moments.

More to the point, so many times you see the makings of a target set to be skewered with razor - sharp wit, and not even a dull blade appears to take a swipe.

So because Carrey won't play mean or even dull, there's no real room for the character to grow, and change.

Purple is an elegant color, but if you overwhelm it, it can look matronly or even dull.

It instantly lifts the face making even a dull look bright.

Dark chocolate is a must for people with magnesium deficiency, the symptoms of which include thinning hair, hair loss, increased split ends, and even dull hair.

Otherwise, personal authenticity would be lacking in the «bit of a bore» CEO's speech, and even a dull speech that is true to life is better than pumped - up rhetoric that rings hollow.

If you are looking for a quick tool that makes fast work out of even the dullest knives, carbide is the way to go.

Sometimes, caking makeup onto tired skin makes it look even duller.

Peppermint essential oil, meanwhile, efficiently hydrates and nourishes even the dullest of skin.

I just noticed that eating in the evening didn't make me sleepy, but eating earlier in the day would make an hour nap almost compulsory, and leave me feeling even duller all day.

It blends perfectly with the blueberries and bananas to create the perfect dairy - free treat for even the dullest of days!

And, as Liz says, your so full of sparkle — even the dullest of day wouldn't dare try to dull your shine!

I love the pattern play and the stripes and print add enough interest to make even the dullest color fun to wear.

Interspersed between the dull characters and even duller plot, we are occasionally treated to the CGI sequences promised in the trailer, and this is perhaps the only aspect of the film which doesn't fail to impress.

The writing is even duller showing no wit, no smarts, and no spark of energy.

And once zombies — I mean, the mutants who aren't immune to the virus that has threatened humanity — arrive midway through, the drama gets even duller.

Nimesh the Adventurer will surely make even the dullest journey a dazzling adventure.

Now that Quincy is moving away, Zoe's worried her life will become even duller.

Terry Brooks writes with such a passion, such magic, that it could sweep even the dullest of minds away.

As for the tracks, lens - flare and bloom lighting effects all over the place means even the dullest circuits look impressive.

The corridor shooting, of course, feels even duller.

Catchy beats and sweeping soundtracks can make even dullest game memorable, and without music most of our favorite games would simply be forgotten.

Just this summer, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council took a building near the Manhattan - bound terminal for even duller open studios, while the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition used the island's opposite edge for its 2010 summer sculpture (returning to Brooklyn for 2012 summer sculpture).

Back in the old days, before the land temperature records were subjected to bouts of data diddling to conceal the awful truth, one could scrutinise the graphs back to 1850 and clearly see the alternate warmer / cooler regimes in roughly 30 - year cycles that even the dullest brain could imagine was a manifestation of natural cycles.

Such a perfect addition for a bedroom — even the dullest of evenings will seem warmer with a piece like this!

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Roses, tulips, anemones — these cheery reminders of spring and summer brighten up even the dullest day and you home decor.

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They're dulling us in the process to the real world and real people around us, making us blind to anything outside our own orbits, blind even, say, to something like a young man on a train wielding a 45 - calibre pistol.

And it's even more likely that your team's regular staff meeting is the dullest, least productive hour in your week.

And even though it doesn't all have to be like a standup comedy routine, it should never be dull and boring.

Even in dull moments, you find yourself entertained with complex thoughts and brainstorming patterns.

In Spent, evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller says that regardless of where you are on that spectrum, «those less open than you seem boring, dull, conventional, and conformist, whereas the more open seem eccentric bizarre, disruptive, threatening, or even psychotic.»

I first tired Tony Moly I'm Real Pomegranate Sheet Mask after a bout of jet - lag and have to say it worked wonders - my tired, dull complexion was radiant, even though inside I was just about surviving... you know how it is.

Indeed, it can even be read as a mockery of the whole literary enterprise, pairing dull and uncomprehending readers who ploddingly manage to miss the obvious, with clever authors (both the fictional Vereker and the actual James) who feel compelled to play the trickster, taunting their readers with the hint that there is something — indeed, the whole point of it all — that they don't get.

Even more important, we must never allow our appreciation for the goodness of all life to dull our awareness of the injustices inflicted upon others.

But even if you could so dull yourself that the wish would die out, so that you could sever the wish's painful tie with that happier sense of being a man, of loving to live, of loving to be a happy one, still you would fail to will only one thing.

Even my own magazine, the United Church of Canada Observer, has made use of readers» antiestablishment hostilities to force them to notice some otherwise dull report on Sunday schools, salaries or organizational restructuring.

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

We also have our favorite passages, and if we are honest we will admit that even though the Bible is the most important book of our faith, much of it is dull and irrelevant to this century.

This works to dull the senses even further of the people gullible enough to fall for the religion to begin with, and make them even more compliant and malleable to the leaders.

Otherwise, of course, theoreticians and philosophers even today would have much greater chances in this respect than the «little man» who, to all appearances, dull and untouched by the absolute issues of human life, seems to live a day - to - day biological struggle for existence.

But if your marriage is a «tired friendship,» not breaking apart but monotonous and dull, or if it is pained and a little empty at times but O.K. and even downright happy at others, a growth group may be precisely what you need to liven things up, improve communication, and increase your times of closeness and joy.

In this case, we get something like e. e. cummings's famous couplet «I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing / Than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance» — or even, more memorably, Keats's complaint in «Lamia» that «cold philosophy» (Newton's optics) threatens to reduce the rainbow to «the dull catalogue of common things.»

This is more human and beautiful than is the help our multitude of professional healers and comforters can give, I propose, even if it yields no dulling of pain, no patching of injuries.