leaden

Technically, White should seem out of step with our current pop-centric culture: leaden, irrelevant, dinosauric.

That there was a way to tell the story and not have been leaden—not be a chore or an ordeal.

The Romney-Ryan Medicare proposal is stunningly unpopular—and Romney left the debate firmly lashed to its leaden weight.

Soldiers called out, and they gave two unfortunates leaden food enough to kill them.

Several tons of leaden pipe were dug up in Fleet street, London, laid down 300 years before.

The wind-blown rain-makers lost their leaden hue and became a soft pearl-gray, all fleecy white around the edges.

Thickets were swept as with a great jagged scythe by the leaden hail which swept through them.

For the rest, the “Dolphin” is a singularly dull and unromantic-looking house, painted a leaden hue.