dull

f. köreltmek, uyuşturmak
s. kör, sersem

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
Edward Albee

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.
Lynn Abbey

Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of revellers.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
Red Barber

A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.
Red Barber

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Charles Lamb

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
William J. Clinton

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace Thackeray

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
John James Audubon

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Karl Marx

He must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt before.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?
Mason Cooley

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Walter Scott

Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
Mason Cooley

At the same moment there came a sort of dull flapping or buffeting at the window.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
Tabitha Soren

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