Sentences with phrase «into dull»

Just a little change here and there can breathe new life into a dull space.

What had been a very vital market where homes were selling quickly, turned into a dull market, over the summer months, in June and July, and that affects what a seller can get too.

The shock - tastic, YBA days of the Nineties have long since passed, and the Turner — now in its 28th year — has in recent times matured into a dull, dry and academic affair.

Fucking Quick Time Events... Resi 4 was great but last third of that game descended into a dull QTE - Athon, this picks up that batton and runs with it.

Taking a leaf from Stefan Pryor's own charter school management company, Achievement First (English for Separate Will Always Be Unequal), I will institute daily shaming sessions, no heads on desks, eyes always on the teacher while I click, click, click the students into a dull stupor.

There's a primal spirit to their honeymoon — Sam pierces her ear with a fish hook before she tells him to «do the other one» — that throws into dull relief the sexual stagnation of the guardians who want to pull them back to reality, especially Scout Master Ward (Edward Norton), a math teacher whose devotion to the troop suggests he's taken an ascetic's oath as far back as when he was Sam's age.

The Alamo: Speaking of overblown war epics, The Alamo somehow manages to waste the talent of two exceptionally charismatic performers (Dennis Quaid and Jason Patric), while turning a moment of great historical importance into a dull spectacle.

Even talented, likable actors like Jason Bateman, Olivia Wilde and Billy Crudup can't breathe life into this dull, vapid drama about bored rich people meandering about Manhattan.

Writer - director Rowan Joffe (28 Weeks Later) manages the neat trick of keeping the necessary repetition of the plot from sinking into dull redundancy.

Despite a number of exhilarating surfing sequences, the interesting true story of surf legend Jay Moriarty is transformed into another dull Hollywood biopic.

But Cay's heavy involvement, combined with a framing device that incorporates both Cays, turns Savannah into a dull vanity project for the Southern highborn.

He has also happily settling into a dull sort of suburban life with fiancée, Julia (Bridget Monaghan).

This is a game that is oversimplified to the point where it does not offer any experience of significant interest whatsoever and quickly falls into a dull and repetitive cycle.

Shrek (Mike Myers) the misunderstood ogre and his lady love, the Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) have settled into a dull married life.

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We provide our members with the much sought - after opportunity to celebrate love, dating and rekindle romance into their dull and boring lives.

Blended with the extract of tea tree and liquorice, this lotus herbals fairness get infuses life into dull skin to make it healthy and radiant from within.

It's a gorgeous shade and perfect for breathing life into a dull, winter complexion.

When I assist a student with this pattern, I do so by sitting behind her, holding her arms and gently pressing my foot into the dull midback to make the circular spinal movement from Upward Thunderbolt to Camel Pose more conscious.

We drop into dull and depleted couch - potato mode, our inner batteries drained.

In fact, it's easy for two people to settle into dull familiarity when they're living off static notions of one another, notions that are easily maintained at a distance.

It's a great way to get life back into dull hair and is even effective on split ends.

«We plant trees in the town and bungalows in the country,» complained the architect Clough Williams - Ellis, «thus averaging England out into a dull uneventfulness whereby one place becomes much the same as any other - all incentive to exploration being thus removed as the great network of smoothed - out concrete roads is completed.»

(3) Homogenizing Reality with God: how theists turn beautiful complexity into a dull homogenous soup for safe consumption.

If Christianity today has degenerated in some quarters into a dull and spiritless moral code, that must not blind us to the tremendous fact upon which all Christian churches are founded.

By the time Lara gets to the uncharted isle she's looking for, the movie has turned into the dullest Indiana Jones movie you ever saw.

The Lacquer sealed the paint perfectly for the antique brass; however, it turned the shiny chrome paint into a duller gray... not so great!

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Tony Hsieh was the mastermind behind an incredible shaping of culture, turning what could have been one of the dullest and most robotic of companies into a shining example of employee engagement and customer service.

Home improvement store Lowe's has managed to turn dull tasks of stripping wallpaper and watering plants into something beautiful with its Vines, executing some fantastic stop - animation wizardry.

Project Beyond, shown off at Samsung's developer's conference just hours ago, transports users from their dull, real - life existences into the digital beyond, capturing and streaming three - dimensional videos in crisp high - resolution 3 - D.

Mark Zuckerberg ran his apology scripts, trotted out his lists of policy fixes and generally dulled the Senate into submission.

With wild price swings, massive up - cycles, exciting resource discoveries and extreme weather events all playing into things, there's rarely a dull day in the sector.

We have some neandrathal skulls that shows their teeth were duller and were used more in eating ve.geta.tion instead of the ca.rniv.orous teeth that are used to bite into meat.

We have identified ourselves so completely with majestic eagles soaring off into the sun and the «wild blue yonder» that it has not been easy to admit a finiteness — relative to the infinities that surround us — in which we are really more like chickadees, or dull gray sparrows.

But here I am, dulling my voice, fitting into a too - small box of God - breathed womanhood, shrugging off.

If you judge me worthy, Lord God, I would show to those whose lives are dull and drab the limitless horizons opening out to humble and hidden efforts; for these efforts, if pure in intention, can add to the extension of the incarnate Word a further element — an element known to Christ's heart and gathered up into his immortality.

If those who have most deeply entered into the contemporary situation find what is said dull or vacuous, it is not saved by the amount of evidence amassed for its conclusions or the tightness of its logical arguments.

The unaffectedness of wishing is stained by mistrust, everything around is hostile or can become hostile, agreement between one's own and the other s desire ceases... and the dulled wishes creep hopelessly into the recesses of the soul....

So after all, this ordinary world may not be so flat, dull and uninteresting as some proponents of transcendence claim, since by walking and running we may see and enjoy much which, in our haste to leap into transcendence, we have overlooked or deprecated.

Monastic missionaries, both women and men, would live among and educate the so - called «barbarians,» only later to give in to the tactics of a Charlemagne pressing the monasteries into strategies of Western empire - building, which, in turn, evoked ongoing reforms as wealth dulled and darkened a genuine Christian discipleship (CSP 1 - 43).

One time in Holland when the market was rather dull for spices the merchants had several cargoes dumped into the sea to peg up prices.

No big deal» — to which I wanted to plead, «Please remember, if just for a moment, the horror you felt upon learning this for the first time, before all the scholarly articles dulled the blade and blurred the faces of actual human beings into flat, emotionless ideas.

Their duller glory can be converted into a divine irradiance when such a sight «meets» a human heart in a receptive and perceptive mood.»

It seems that the g - force of life endeavors to suck the happiness out of us and inject dull drudgery into our life and into our love.

Shrinking looked they like those who wade through a stream in winter; irresolute like those who are afraid of all around them; grave like a guest (in awe of his host); evanescent like ice that is melting away; unpretentious like wood that has not been fashioned into anything; vacant like a valley, and dull like muddy water.

These series of occasions of experience (as Whitehead calls them) build up into patterns which give the outward appearance to our dull senses of firmness and immobility.

His start at school had been smooth, beginning with a mix of classes, parties, dining halls and dorm rooms — a schedule that quickly dulled into a monotonous routine.

When one becomes accustomed to perversions of justice with reference to those of another race, these are likely before long not to seem perversions, and the democratic conscience that should be demanding «liberty and justice for all» is dulled into acquiescence.

In short, we locked ourselves into the past — and then had the gall to wonder why our present always seemed so dull and our future so terrifying (The Astonished Heart, 4).

Not drying the shells sufficiently before they go into the oven — the top should be slightly tacky and dull.