Dullness

And that the dullness of death is gay, compared to thy dullness— ❋ Unknown (1912)

As Eliot notes, though, this dullness is actually a protection that keeps us from being overwhelmed by the power of the true nature of things. ❋ Rabbi Alan Lurie (2010)

Blade Runner has some substance, maybe even a lot, but it's so buried in dullness it's tough to dig it out. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Rather, the stylistic dullness is disagreeably coarsened and made the more decadent by being a brotherly symptom of, and in fact a technical support for, the assumption (which has only strengthened in the past 150 years) that the aim of poetry is apotheosis, an ecstatic and unmediated self-consumption in the moment of perception and feeling. ❋ Unknown (2007)

On the contrary, a slow imagination maketh that defect or fault of the mind which is commonly called dullness, stupidity, and sometimes by other names that signify slowness of motion, or difficulty to be moved. ❋ Unknown (2007)

You know the pessimists who write so much about our slowness, what they call our dullness, and sometimes our blunders; they would not be satisfied unless they had the news of a Waterloo with their porridge every morning for breakfast; then their appetites would still leave them hungry for a Trafalgar each day every month. ❋ Unknown (1915)

"I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. ❋ George Eliot (1849)

Overall, the novel seemed to me to be shallow to the point of dullness, which is a great pity given its potentially dramatic subject matter. ❋ Carla (2008)

Subtle mental dullness occurs when the mind that is single-pointedly focused on its object slightly loses the sharpness associated with the tightness of hold of its mindfulness on that object, so that such a mind loses its freshness and becomes slightly stale. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Loneliness, all you will, they can bear, for they draw occupation and joy from the depth of their own souls; but that dreariness, which has been called dullness, is an almost tangible presence at moments, and seems to blight the beauty of all things. ❋ Unknown (1905)

He continued in the same tone to ridicule what he was pleased to call my dullness and credulity. ❋ Abb�� Pr��vost (1730)

It would be a mistake to equate his bluntness with any kind of dullness of mind or spirit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Together, they enjoyed little better than commiserating on the "dullness" of nearly everyone else whom they knew at Newport and in New York. ❋ Unknown (2009)

David Lawton has a great article about the "dullness" of 15th-c English lit along these lines. ❋ Heo (2006)

[Today] Is a [dull] [day] ❋ AC (2003)

I got her [flowers] but she's [still] [dulling] me. ❋ Alexander90210 (2018)

"She's [dull as fuck] [man]." ❋ Welshwords17 (2005)

[Tomorrow] is [gonna] be a dull [day] ❋ Mr Welsh (2009)

[Mike]: This party sucks. [George]: I know, its so [dull]. Mike: This is such a dull night. ❋ Watermelonman123 (2011)

Did you see the new [Wolverine] [movie] with [Hugh Jackman], man I was Dulling. ❋ LBOT (2011)

im working all weekend, i been [dull] this past month, im [on my grind] now i aint dulling [no more] ❋ Johnblay7756 (2023)

[She wrote] [dull], [respectable] articles for the local newspaper. He's pleasant enough, but deadly dull. ❋ Polakaw (2021)

dull has a picture of [Jon] [DesJardins] next to it in [the dictionary] ❋ Phillygoat (2008)

After being at the party for [a few minutes], [Brooke] texted her friends saying, "Don't come to the party, it's super [dull]." ❋ @EmilyTheFlannelGirl (2016)