#dull

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man. ↗

— John Osborne

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Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes. ↗

— John Dos Passos

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Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. ↗

— Thomas Perry

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I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#duller #earth #london #ours #rainy

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist. ↗

— Karel Reisz

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If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. ↗

— Herbert Read

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It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it. ↗

— Richard Steele

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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

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