Sentences with phrase «like dull»

Answering telephone calls and preparing correspondence may seem like dull, mundane jobs but in actuality, these play an important role in how an attorney will lead his day.

See my post: An Executive Resume Without a Clear Job Target Is Like a Dull Knife — Just Ain't Cuttin»

They can make you look like a dull try hard (think about the candidates on the television show The Apprentice!).

At the first look, the phone doesn't look any different from the Apple iPhone, thanks to the beveled edges on the sides and the entire side panel being made to look like a dull metallic one.

When I watched a trailer for Thor: Ragnarok, Thor's normally bright cape looked like a dull burgundy and the Hulk's green skin appeared as though it had been dipped in a gray milk bath.

Photo by Andrew H. Walker Energy Code sounds like a dull topic, but if you're hope is to see things like energy use or carbon emissions reduced - energy codes are at the heart and soul of your desires.

Witcher contracts were at the core of Geralt's profession as a witcher, which means that the repetitive structure of these missions felt less like a dull slog and more like Geralt's modus operandi.

Bear in mind that I'm not using any professional measurements tools here, rather I'm just going by my eye, but the colors lack any depth or punch, with things that should be crimson looking more like a dull red and what should be vivid greens looking like they have the flu.

As with most muck dive sites you are greeted with what looks like a dull and uninteresting stretch of black volcanic sand.....

Symptoms like dull fur, lethargy, coughing, constipation, or trouble breathing could be caused by parasites or any number of other health issues.

The portents have hung in the air for a while, but it's clear now that the traditional dumb PMP is dead, like a dull and rusted Swiss army knife.

Watching someone tell you a story might sound like a dull, Victorian sort of entertainment, but Sparks makes her tales of country life and the strange characters in her own family tree completely mesmerizing, incorporating music, expressive body language and onomatopoeia into her electric performances.

Also, there's not much to praise from a visual standpoint in what looks like a dull cabin with an uninspiring design, where black dominates the panorama.

Redesigned inside and out and dressed in a more stylish suit, the Passat no longer seems like the dull - looking people's car we got used to over the last few decades.

This may sound like dull, arcane stuff, but it isn't.

Too many books about teaching read like dull academic treatises, condescending how - tos, or simplistic Hollywood scripts.

He wrote the film, which marks his directorial debut, based in Mapes» book, and while the specifics of what happened, how television news became less about fact, and more about perception, I was interested in talking about my admiration for the way he neatly folded so many facts into the film without it feeling like dull exposition, avoiding the obvious tropes of good guys and bad guys, Cate Blanchett's spontaneity, and the pleasures and perils of casting one icon (Robert Redford) as another icon (Dan Rather).

If it sounds like a dull plot, don't worry.

In fact, STRATTON feels like the dull pilot to a TV series, with lots of shaky exposition about his past laid out, from his upbringing by a salty old sea captain (the great Derek Jacobi — livening things up with his scenery chewing) through his status as the SBS's resident alpha.

It's galling for a movie that costs so much and takes up so much cultural space to try to do so little, but it's a familiar disappointment, like the dull ache of a tooth that only bothers you when you bite down on it wrong.

It's so easy for so many aspects of Footloose to descend into cartooniness, but it only really happens when Chuck is on screen, and his scenes feel like dull diversions from the real story.

This is a first glance and if your profile reads like a dull biography, you're going to turn off potential dates.

It's vital to focus on making each date feel like a special adventure, and never like a dull interview.

Having fun when it's time to play, being serious when it's time for professional or not a laughing matter, like to walk, like to talk to a more mature audience, like playing games, don't like a dull moment, i will keep trying till there's no more trying in me, very passionate, and anything you...

In turn, this can lead to 12 profile photos all looking exactly the same, making you look like a dull poser.

The skin's protection system can become weak and show signs like dull complexion, tired look, lack of freshness.

Protein may counteract some of the negative effects associated with excessive stress, specifically the tryptophan content of protein may increase the brain's serotonin levels — excessive stress often causes serotonin depletion and this depletion of serotonin is one of the causes of symptoms like dull headaches, tiredness, irritability, feelings of anxiousness, sleeping disturbances and a heightened sense of pain.

Round ligament pain can also feel like a dull ache as if the muscles are overworked.

That sounds like dull molecular plumbing.

Water may seem like a dull liquid.

We've had the election for the heads of the select committees - which sounds like a dull Westminster process story but is actually a welcome release for MPs to be independent figures.

Referring to Fire and Death: my twin ate a month old and they're ate times throughout the day when they are NOT nursing that my nipple or the area around it feels like a dull constant pain almost like it's on fire.

On paper a 0 - 0 draw with Chelsea looks like a dull end to match of the day with Hanson and Shearer giving it all of 20 seconds of their expert analysis.

We don't Like this dull frenzy in the emirates....

The following example shows how one man moves with sustained interest and surprising force to a point that, handled otherwise, would have sounded like another dull preachment about «life's little things».

From the table of contents and the chapter subheadings the book appears like another dull commentary not meant to disturb the Christian cognoscenti or the average believer from their faith.

At first glance, this might sound like the dullest idea for a video game ever since I Am Mayo, but not long after beating the first level you'll realize there's a bit more of sadism and entertainment in this game than you would expect.

Ste Curran, game developer and writer: Imagine fighting through a cardboard city constructed from adverts; through a slow - shifting swamp of unlikable men, saran - wrapped in logo - stained T - shirts, shambling like the dullest zombies.

The review unit we got had a pink gold colour, sort of like a duller version of the original rose gold that is now common.

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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.

Add the incursions by craft breweries, which made national brands seem hopelessly dull to many, and the return of hard liquor — beer dropped from 56 % of alcohol consumed in 1999 to 48 % in 2014 — and it made for a depressing picture for mainstream giants like Miller Lite.

It can feel like you're faced with the binary choice of the $ 20 knife set you used in college — which feels more like operating a dull saw — or the crazy price tag of the blade that the chef on your favorite cooking show uses.

Economics is about more mundane things like producing steel and cars and working in offices — we have Olympics to take our minds off the dull things that make the money.»

Word problems often present dull scenarios like two trains traveling at different speeds or determining the number of apples someone has in their possession.

• 15 - inch display is a TN panel; colors are duller than those of an IPS screen like the one on the Dell Chromebook 13

But rationalization acts like a drug to dull those bad feelings, enabling us not just to commit fraud but to feel righteous about having done so.

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

Chances are, your employees will tell you directly if they feel like your office is dull or uninspiring.

Which isn't to say the book's dull: «We made the antics depicted on every episode of Mad Men look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,» Della Femina writes in a new foreword.

For example, instead of saying something dull like «Manager of Sales,» elaborate how you excel.