What is more, Sunderland for most of this season has been a byword for dullness.

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Dullness is not something the museums in his charge have ever been accused of.

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First, we have to consider the vast gulf between the elation of pursuit and the dullness of getting.

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So far this has produced a low-key campaign which, by its very dullness, conveys that normal politics are taking root.

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Architectural exemplars of the limitations of such an approach stand out in the dullness of Brasilia and the rigidity of Chandigarh.

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Poles may end up hankering for the dullness of Mr Tusk's heyday.

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The extraordinary devotion of the staff to the health and well-being of the creatures on display is balanced by the dullness of existence behind bars.

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Now forty-two, McConaughey has lost some of his buttery, blond-beauty dullness.

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Dullness of federal regulation as a public policy issue aside, the president promised in a series of executive orders to bring more openness and rationality to the rulemaking process.

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There was no longer any need for dullness.

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