Family weddings would be duller if Uncle Joe were limited to the small fish he caught.
Conventions are not just becoming duller to watch, they are also getting more unpleasant to attend.
Talk was beginning to turn away from corporate fraud and towards safer if duller topics such as outsourcing.
They are far duller folk than their caricatures and the offences they are accused of crumble on closer examination.
For local politicians, greenery is a welcome relief from duller concerns such as bin collections, lollipop ladies and parking charges.
The Prince of Wales has said that, without the adventures of Sir Ranulph, the world would be a duller place.
Joseph Pasqua, of security firm Symantec, thinks that those in stealth mode would likely be moving through duller waters.
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The state-backed firms concentrate on the duller end of the publishing spectrum: authorised histories, government-approved schoolbooks, manuals and so on.
Clearstream is also at the centre of a duller, but maybe more important, controversy: how many clearers does Europe need?
With reduced demand for university positions from bright but poor students, I would expect an influx of upper-class under-achievers to the duller Oxbridge colleges.
Tilt it slightly in any direction, however, and suddenly the warm color saturation dies out slightly, dropping down to something a little duller and less contrasty.
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That is admittedly duller, but it is far better to follow a story that is true than one such as Neanderthal cloning that is pure, speculative fantasy.
But it makes startup conferences just a little bit duller.
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But the biggest disappointments are the many science journalists, who by and large let their critical instincts lapse, exchanging the greyer and perhaps duller reality for a sensationalistic headline.
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Mr D'Alema has put his energy to duller ends.
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The new, duller Fidelity has built a business model bearing a resemblance to that of Vanguard, the industry's number two, but with even cheaper investment options and highly sophisticated, round-the-clock, customer service.
The second, duller piece is Vivendi Environment, which accounts for around half of the group's turnover and 60% of its profits, but which does not have the potential of the media and telecoms arm.
And it might have been more accurate (though duller) to call it applied public-choice economics, rather than to come down with a touch of third-way syndrome (not this, not that, but something quite new and wonderful).
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