Sentences with phrase «rather dull»

These calming DIY candle holders will brighten up a rather dull room beautifully.

This all started with Mr Aaron's desire to spice up a rather dull real estate column in the Toronto Star.

Their restricted emotional range and failure to reciprocate gestures or facial expressions (such a smiles or nods of agreement) cause them to appear rather dull, bland, or inattentive.

Nobody wants a sword with a rather dull and useless edge.

Wash's original resume portrayed him as a «rather dull, procedural candidate,» says Auron.

Either way, the iPhone is rather dull.

The LG G3 with its QHD display was statistically impressive, but in reality, it was rather dull looking.

When a screen is effectively calibrated in the television world, for instance, it might look rather dull and lack color.

LG claims this allows for a 25 - percent brighter display with a 50 - percent increase in the contrast and 56 - percent improvement to the color accuracy... and you can really tell the difference over what most thought was the LG G3's rather dull looking display.

Instead of continuing to sport a rather dull and boring interface, the team behind the app has implemented a brand new design, better reflecting the modern UI that's utilised on Windows Phone and across the Microsoft ecosystem.

The gist of the story is that life insurance companies are supposed to plunk their money — essentially, the premiums they receive — into rather dull, safe investments so that there -LSB-...]

Drafters of legislation can have rather dull jobs at times.

I was about to list a number of rather dull press releases that I've seen in the last few weeks to illustrate the «plus ça change» attitude of the bigger end of town, but actually why spoil all the positiveness above with the sort of record I've played to you year in and year out.

What I see is rather dull, grey, extremely mild day, with — well, a lot higher temps but still very very far from hot.

The official definition of the group, from its rather dull website, is «The Group of Twenty (G - 20) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors.»

But his poster would have been rather dull, without the red temperature line shooting up in hockeystickesque fashion.

While this made it rather dull, it also meant that it was robust and unchallengeable: any claim which would not stand up to rigorous academic scrutiny was excluded.

Skip the show's rather dull opening wall text: It... read more... ««Lines, Grids, Stains, Words» at MOMA»

Also on at Tate Britain is Fighting History and over at Tate Modern we're divided between the colourful Sonia Delaunay and the rather dull Agnes Martin.

It surprised me that the nonprofit space opened for this big occasion with a rather dull conceptual show with work that would've easily been at home in a forgettable Chelsea gallery.

Strangely absent from this week's Sony Press Conference was any discussion on PlayStation VR and the PS4 Pro's integration into that system - in fact the entire Press Conference was rather dull all around leaving us with more questions than answers.

Compared to Dragon Quest VIII — which came out a few months after this — this remake looks rather dull, and it's undoubtedly why Square - Enix skipped on localizing it for the rest of the world — but it's preferable to the Super Famicom version.

Instead, the game features a rather dull survival mode where you're forced to fight nine wrestlers in a row with no recovery in between.

The slow pacing and limited attacks causes the game to be rather dull, not helped by the attacks while human are impractical and enemies liking to swarm you.

Destiny: The Taken King improved a huge amount on the rather lacking first year of the game and while a lot of fans came back to try it out again, there are quite a few fans who were soured by the initial launch of the game, with not a lot to do, repetitive missions and frankly rather dull loot grinding.

However, in the later areas of the game you'll spend most of your time in various caverns, which eventually start to look all the same and rather dull and boring after a while.

The environments, while varied, are rather dull - there's a ton of empty open space to walk through without anything engaging to the eye.

When you hear the term «background,» you think of something rather dull and boring with no movement.

The background graphics are rather dull looking, consisting of a pretty, watery effect which simply shifts coloring from level to level.

That, coupled with the stoic facial expressions, make for some rather dull cutscenes.

The assassinations themselves were always fun, but everything around them became rather dull after the first few hours.

Fans of the show will find certain elements that will no doubt please them, although the game itself soon gets rather dull, with unchallenging enemies and the feeling of doing the same thing over and over.

And the Gate Relay games were rather dull in that each lap was extremely short, which is why it required 8 laps to finish a race.

You and a friend can battle against each other in standard versus mode, or play together in the Survival mode where one player uses the ballista, and the other fights as the hero on the battlefield, which is rather dull in my opinion.

Where the presentation lacks slightly though is in its rather dull audio that consists of what can only be described as annoying elevator music that eventually got on my nerves so much that I turned it off.

At its core, Sea of Thieves is a fun, innocent experience that rewards spontaneity and imagination, but becomes rather dull and repetitive if you want a linear experience.

While the single player campaign comes across as short and rather dull, the game is far more fun to play online, or even on the couch with friend, which is always a nice (and sometimes oddly missing) addition to games nowadays.

At first this seems like a pretty neat diversion from the main game, but it quickly becomes rather dull.

Most of the sound effects are rather dull however.

To this day console owners are still waiting for the game even if it has been dubbed rather dull.

The combat is a rather dull button mashing affair with no block button, instead you just have a roll button and hitting an enemy doesn't feel like it has any impact.

The first two are rather dull multiplayer games.

Unfortunately, this makes it rather dull, since you don't need to delve deeply into any of the systems.

Once you get past that, the story line is rather dull.

They have so much to work with and do and the cover us just spiderman and a red background... rather dull.

The updated engine certainly puts out some nice looking backdrops at times, but other times, things look and feel rather dull.

There's three extra unlockable mini-games, but they're rather dull and likely won't hold your attention for very long.

Sadly the story gets largely weighed down by Henry, who is a rather dull protagonist.

The tokens are rather dull but at least they are made of good card.

Attempting to hunt down bugs within a time limit is another rather dull task, and another mission riding around on a motorbike attempting to run over enemies is downright annoying thanks to clumsy and unresponsive controls.