It looked like just another dull piece of basalt, so much of which litters the Martian surface.
"Looking at a black line all day, every day gets awfully dull, " he said.
The mettle of a president is tested not during a dull routine, but in a crisis.
Indeed, even as the dull-witted leviathan sinks, many nimble companies have shown remarkably resiliency.
To further dull the pain, she drank, developing a problem she later realized was alcoholism.
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He also focused inward, selling off dull but profitable businesses such as circuit boards.
After all, they did a dull, routine job that was carefully scripted in advance.
But this time, the substance in question is not meant to dull and numb.
What better way to promote an otherwise dull piece of equipment than with a familiar face?
In her explorations of different male subcultures, Ms Faludi is always alert and almost never dull.
Both find their own country dull, and their fellow countrymen abroad arrogant and hypocritical.
By about 0420 GMT, the Moon was three-quarters obscured, still with the same dull-red tinge.
But the truth is that, in any version, the Hulk is a dull beast.
In the far distance we can see the dull glow of Puerto Ayora to our stern.
However, President Obama learnt the hard way that dull passivity hardly goes down well either.
In the polished glass the dull walls seemed brighter, the bedroom door a richer brown.
It's created when growth rings are distorted as if they'd been poked by a dull pencil.
Master marketer and promoter that he is, Ailes would never be so predictable and dull.
Fox plays Marty McFly, a teen itching to break loose from his dull family.
Every day, thousands of people are forced to sit through dull, flat PowerPoint slide decks.
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Santo Loquasto's mottled-print outfits in muddy colors only add to the work's largely dull effect.
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Stocks were soon to turn dull, and they were to remain so for a decade.
The Weather Channel might seem like a painfully dull app to kick off the proceedings.
Beware of fancy painted or textured finishes, they often wear off and or get dull.
Doing business in China is never dull, and this is truer today than ever before.
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One day before China's big moment, the Olympic opening ceremonies, a dull haze hung over Beijing.
Gone were the personal stories repeated so often that their original lustre was worn and dull.
Sooner or later, their once-sharp skills get dull, and they ride on past performance.
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One thoughtful touch: If the discussions got too dull, the businessmen could always call home.
Talley stumbled into chemistry at the University of Northern Iowa after finding business classes unbearably dull.
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