dullness

He even took on a process often dismissed as the dullest thing imaginable in his essay “Watching Paint Dry,” written for a Harvard undergraduate journal.

As more chips accumulate, the edge can quickly dull, especially if the microscopic structure of the steel is not uniform.

It is a potential firelighter of vanity, self-pity and logorrhoeic dullness.

For the past forty years critic James Wolcott has been a cerebral antidote to the dullness contaminating our cultural pages.

Once you're out of breath, you might be within earshot of what that phrase conjures up in the United Kingdom: dullness.

Still, TV-show creators can appreciate the dullness in overthinking sex when the moment strikes—particularly after a certain age.

Luckily for him, this is Washington, where dullness can be prized if it is effective.

The dullness of that time has gone, and the roads are tolerably travelled to-day.

The person whose mind is satisfied by the parlour dullness of that nightly foolery only becomes animated when he is indecent.

It not only rewards dullness as if it were positive virtue, but sets an enormous premium upon hypocrisy.

The ax was not sharp no army ax ever was, but Si's and Shorty's muscles were vigorous enough to make up for its dullness.

Alone in her chamber, the dullness of her mind diminished and finally cleared away like a fog in a wind.