Sentences with phrase «rather humdrum»

Such future games as might attain to this title could come from anywhere in the world — they are as likely to come from Chile as from Europe and the United States, where commercial pressures make storytelling in games take rather humdrum and conventional paths, more influenced by Hollywood action movies than anything else.

But those hot versions originate as rather humdrum commuter vehicles.

However, it's not all good news, because the boot is an awkward shape and interior quality is rather humdrum compared with its German rivals.

It could have stuck to doing what it does best, which is churning out worthy but dull hatchbacks and SUVs that are long on warranty but short on fun, but the company wanted to inject some excitement into its rather humdrum image, and the result is the i30 N.

Students required to change correct, but rather humdrum phrases into ones guaranteed to have examiners like me drooling!

My first reaction was how she was able to pinpoint him when everyone else is also rather humdrum.

It's a rather humdrum Queen's Speech for a weird period in the political cycle.

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It is perhaps an unusual place to start, though, because our everyday lives tend to be plains of humdrum daily existence rather than peaks on which the gods visibly dwell.

The upcoming summer movie season promises to be one of the biggest in years, so it's a bit of a surprise that studios are limping (rather than sprinting) into that period with such a humdrum selection of films.

The 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer improves after a grainy, oversaturated start (colours remain a little too «Columbia bold» throughout) while the 5.1 Dolby Digital soundmix is humdrum and another offender of the dreaded dance club anomaly: Shouldn't the music be competing with voices — rather than yielding to them — in San Francisco's hottest disco?