To build 500 temples to the brand because the pre-purchase branding, the sort of broadcast, is getting duller and duller.
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The pain of ardor was duller as he walked uphill.
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And in the lesser, duller one: Ben Higgins vs. himself.
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The wider those divisions, the duller the blade of impeachment.
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" On the flip side, though: "What could be duller than that.
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Duller exports such as nuts and copper ore are far bigger.
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I raised my daughter in a great place, but it's duller.
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The ambitions this time are grander, but also vaguer and duller.
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Rarely have I sat through a duller, more self-important evening.
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But away from the dazzle of the flashbulbs lies a somewhat duller reality.
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It takes the game's sharpest metaphor and makes it progressively duller throughout the story.
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Makeup impedes that natural exfoliation process, so your skin becomes increasingly duller over time.
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Instead, he comes across as heavier and duller, frequently stymied by events around him.
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Shots like this former police department building look darker and duller as a result.
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It looks duller and darker than the vibrant red you've seen with your own eyes.
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I've suffered migraines in the past, but concussion headaches were different, duller and more relentless.
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Will you have the fortitude and commitment to make it through a duller second act?
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Tony Last, left by his wife for a duller man, decides he needs an adventure.
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While the axes certainly have heft, they were much lighter and duller than I expected.
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In Hamburg, Germany, looking past the duller leaders of lesser countries to his chosen one.
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Now it's becoming just another franchise, with a longer life but likely a much duller sheen.
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There's nothing duller than a portable battery in the chromed and colorful world of consumer electronics.
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Mr Corbyn is a dull performer in Parliament and an even duller one at official functions.
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Ariel's profile had noticeably duller highs and mids, thanks to her ear's supposed sensitivity to higher frequencies.
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But the toning down of his character's signature egotism manages to make the book all the duller.
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The American iteration is invariably sweeter and duller, but Grinker's version is closer to the Chinese original.
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It's day three of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, and things aren't getting any duller.
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"It looks like Jackson Hole might turn out to be a duller-than-expected event," Cashin said.
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Alternatively, sometimes stress signals the hair follicles to stop producing color, which can make hair duller and finer.
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But instead of making the new film smaller or duller, it leaves room for a little more sophistication.
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The cylindrical structure flows into a duller, funnel-like cone, which tapers into a tower with rocket nozzles.
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It's not as pungent because it's not freshly pulverized, and because the outer shells are duller in flavor.
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But the more hacked-up, the better (we even like using duller scissors to create a more jagged line).
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The color's absolutely lovely and I prefer it over the duller red Apple used on the iPhone 2160. Stunning.
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This may be because the event organizers wanted to improve flow, but it made the halls a little duller.
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The colder I get, the duller my impulse to share every inanity and profundity that crosses my mind becomes.
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While that series has had its misses, the superhero landscape will feel duller and more predictable if they leave it.
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It was smaller than I had expected—as places reconstructed from borrowed memories inevitably are—and also duller and dustier.
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This attitude made their corner of the beach a respite from the outside world and its duller standards of decency.
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At every step, it represents a series of possibilities that were rejected, and interesting chances discarded in favor of duller ones.
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In the hands of a less talented cast, the show's warts might be even more glaring and these scenes even duller.
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The video's colors feel duller than those of earlier NYT VR project the Displaced, which also adds to the newsreel feel.
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But it struck me that an intense, brief pain was probably preferable to a duller one with no end in sight.
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"You know there used to be a saying that Philadelphia back then was duller than seven Sundays in Flatbush," he said.
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And if the work was duller than the recruiters had promised, her fellow consultants' workaholism was out of step with that dullness.
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If Ned Stark the classic hero had only played the game for keeps, we'd be watching a very different and duller Westeros.
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THE Conservative election campaign so far has been duller than an afternoon looking at Jeremy Corbyn's collection of pictures of manhole covers.
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Its colors are a bit duller and its whites are a bit warmer, while the Nokia 7.1 has a cooler, grayer cast.
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Jody Stewart: So, I'm in my late 50s, and I have definitely noticed, as the years have passed, more wrinkles, duller skin.
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The Bank of England has noted that this should make lenders duller and safer, and so bring down the cost of equity.
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Though it feels like the odds for liberals have gone from overwhelmingly positive to desperate quickly, the reality is a bit duller.
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Barring any secrets Google is hanging onto, there's no denying that this is one of the outwardly duller Android releases in recent memory.
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The new theology transfers Judaism's healthy involvement in this life onto a palpitating anticipation of the next; the present becomes eternity's duller portal.
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The golem (voiced by Ben Whitehead) becomes an asset at work, too, handling Robert's duller chores and causing resentment among his co-workers.
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His point — a vital one — was that mere tinkering with the tax code or amorphous job-training proposals are yawners for duller times.
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However, the blade gets duller quicker when there's only one doing all the work, so you have to replace your razor far more often.
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Articular cartilage is usually found on the surface of bones in the knee joint, and when it wears out, it produces a duller ache.
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Jue makes a delightfully wry impression as Hwang; Ricamora is dreamy as Xue in the inside musical and subtly duller in the outside one.
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From that one motion come a fastball, curveball, slider, and changeup, all either slower or duller than they used to be but also better located.
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A lot of them embrace celebrity too; Chris Cornell earned immortality, and the world will be quieter, and a little duller, without him in it.
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"That was a little bit on purpose, in a duller version of Kimmy," Nigro says of Bankston's dull yellow T-shirt in the opening credits.
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A famous picture of him led to the legend that he trained by carrying sheep around, the duller truth being that the animal was unwell.
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The editing team initially accepted the changes, but challenged me further to make the bottom half more interesting, which had gotten duller in the redo.
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KS: So it has a social element, that's what's different about it than, say, a PayPal, which is a little duller, you just pay essentially.
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The Hufflepuffs move to a bigger house as Matt Cox's gentle lampoon of a duller corner of the Harry Potter universe transfers to a new home.
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Few things, of course, are duller than self-indulgent put-downs; but informed and spirited dismissals are another matter, and they remain in too-short supply.
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The screen's colors are a bit duller than the MacBook Pro's, too, though I don't think you'd notice unless you have the two computers side by side.
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The better you did with Phantom Doctrine, the slower and duller the game got as your elite spies crept through facilities, disabling security and taking out guards.
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In the Bernabéu, against the bright green of that perfect field, the colors seemed a little duller; in its steep stands, the noise was a little quieter.
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Imagine a world without "Mystery of Love" or "Washing Machine" or "You're Someone Special" or "Can You Feel It," and what you're imagining is an infinitely duller world.
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"The key when experimenting with color is to balance a brighter tone with a duller one and look to the opposite end of the color spectrum," she said.
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In an age when we've gamified our own step counts through Fitbit and the like, it's probably no surprise that companies are taking similar tacks for their duller positions.
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The alt-right's favourite candidate holds the presidency, and as generations of politicos have learned, governing is harder, duller and less gratifying than shouting from the sidelines in opposition.
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And behold a new indignity: during a night of insomnia, Jimmy sees a duller, text-heavy version of the client solicitation ad that landed him in so much trouble.
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Of course, you could operate both thoughts in tandem – export home-grown and import foreign – but this could lead to a duller Premier League made attractive by its internationalism.
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Rather than a glossy metal ring with a big, bright screen in the middle of it, this version of the Nest Thermostat looks a lot more like other, duller thermostats.
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But investors may have a different interpretation of duller economic prospects – it reduces the chance that the nearly four-decade trend of declining inflation rates is coming to an end.
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Mr. Peck's toy figures merely arrive like a conventional divertissement suite, a series of party pieces — generally duller than the fairy-tale figures who turn up in the "Sleeping Beauty" wedding.
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This lack of more granular pixel by pixel control leaves TVs looking dimmer, duller, and just not as good as a reference monitor, and no amount of pixels can fix that.
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Mackenzie explains that the FX shop could create different levels of aged tattoos — darker for newer tattoos and duller for older ones — before they would be applied via a tattoo transfer.
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Sean: So what's wrong with making it just a little bit duller, then, if the upshot is some crazy-ass team like Norway advancing that otherwise wouldn't have even been in?
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When he returned to the streets, Mr. Lawrence was 29 — past prime gang age — and imagined a steady, if duller, future raising the son he'd had eight years earlier with a girlfriend.
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Rather than teach them to absorb material that is slower, duller and decidedly two-dimensional, like a lot of worthwhile information is, schools cave in to what they say children expect: fun.
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The Haggler learned this a few weeks ago, when his home phone rang and his caller ID displayed a familiar name — that of the duller, windier ninny whose name appears atop this column.
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Washington will be a duller place in his absence—so relentless and uproariously grubby were the scandals his roving eye for a freebie and Napoleonic sense of self-importance kept landing him in.
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From a watchtower on Sime Darby's Liberian plantation, low lines of palm can be seen trailing to the horizon, a duller green than the natural forest canopy that towers above the concession's edge.
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His timing was off, the usual sweet sound of ball-on-racket that is almost unique to the great Swiss was absent, replaced by a duller thud as shots repeatedly flew off target.
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The entire production is so captivating that the audience is completely silent: as if clapping or announcing their presence would somehow ruin the futuristic magic, and yank them back into the duller present.
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Recently, using grayscale changes, which is turning the apps a different color — to black and white, essentially, making it duller — what do the features ... Is it color that attracts people or what is it?
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First, it's hard to imagine anything duller than marketing teams in today's NHL because there are only three types: roughly ten good ones, maybe five bad ones, and fifteen boring ones stuck in the middle.
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The Federal Reserve system, created in 1913, owes a lot to the efforts of Carter Glass, who gave his name to the more famous Glass-Steagall Act, which separated investment banking from the duller retail kind.
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That spectacle on Friday night was both streamed online and televised by NBC on a one-hour delay, giving NBC's producers a chance to remove what they deemed to be the chaos and the duller parts.
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Senior editor Jada Wong wears their Sapphire Twin Hoops ($190) every day, though she notes that the sapphires may seem duller and smaller than expected — and may try the solid gold version ($160) next time instead.
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Professional auto detailer Rob Schruefer told Farmer's Insurance that using household towels or terry-cloth rags to clean the exterior of your car may actually cause tiny scratches that make the paint look duller over time.
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Combat Obscura is made up of footage recorded by a member of the Marines deployed to Afghanistan, and it shows a much messier, scarier, duller, and seemingly more honest depiction of life and combat in the Marines.
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Since several major food brands started phasing out the use of artificial coloring, we've been forced to face the reality that many of our favorite snacks from childhood will be a bit duller than we're used to.
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These actions, they believe, are being carried out in order to tactically breed a country of mixed-race citizens who, by virtue of their nonwhite blood, are duller and more docile to the predatory machinations of Jewish will.
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They were, in my mind, the slightly less spectacular of America's two spectacularly large tree species: taller than sequoias, in many cases, but plainer — more conventionally treelike and slender, with pinnacled, Christmas-tree tops and duller, browner bark.
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PC Mag loves the black and white film and was impressed with its consistency and clarity, but they found the color film to be much less reliable, often producing duller, lower-contrast photos than they had hoped for.
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But the show quickly begins giving less time to the music and more to duller, formulaic plot lines including a marital crisis, a murder investigation and a female secretary's attempts to break the hemp ceiling of the recording business.
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After studying the old panels as well as the new, we made a high-resolution digital version of the new panel in which the gold looked duller and the colors more subdued to mimic 650 years of aging pigment.
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As for the clues, I'm happy with a few that I wrote (especially the "pyramid scheme" wordplay for CHEERLEADER), but I'm equally grateful for Will sprucing up some of my duller clues with some flavorful ideas of his own.
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Unfortunately, from the start, the characters feel like prototypes: Savitha is exuberant and loves pairing her bland rice and yogurt with sweet bananas, while Poornima — quieter, duller — observes and envies this ability to find flavor in a flavorless world.
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The tale is set largely in a suburb on the Hudson, and nothing is duller or more stifling, as a rule, than people who wish to make it perfectly plain how stifled they feel by their dull suburban existence.
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Colors in the Find X's pic just look duller and muddier than those from an S25.0+ 23 / 802.110When the camera is open, you can also lightly shake the phone and hear the pop up slider rattle a bit in its housing.
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The company's 1976 Sandro Sequi production is dustier-looking and duller than ever, and the conductor Maurizio Benini, a Met regular in the bel canto repertory, led a surprisingly limp and colorless performance of this lyrically sublime and elegant score.
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The actual work is duller, the way actual work always is: the hiring of staff, the managing of an operation that stretches across states, the coordination of an ever-growing organization as it responds to conditions that can change daily, if not hourly.
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As the basic sound continued, a duller rattle, the sound of the drum holding the clothes shaking back and forth in the machine, emerged below it, adding texture and, as the two machines cycles bounced against each other, a syncopated logic to the whole room.
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What does occupy screen time, rather than the entertaining, street-level business of flimflammery, are duller subplots involving Linda's flirtation with a dodgy hypnotist (Emmanuelle Chriqui), Charlie's visits with an unorthodox neurologist (Susan Misner) and the romantic travails of Charlie and Linda's son (Dylan Schmid).
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Dr. Fletcher's primary function is to explain the movie to the audience, foreshadowing the climax with her heterodox pseudo-scholarly theories about her many-sided patient, but Ms. Buckley also provides a dimension of warmth and wit that "Split" would be much duller and uglier without.
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About 22026 to 249 fans from each team boarded a Soviet-era train early Monday afternoon at Kazansky Station in Moscow, riding the rails instead of taking a much shorter, and surely duller, airplane trip that thousands of their compatriots were taking across the Ural Mountains.
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People outside the community, those who likely have little knowledge of the creature beyond what's crossed over into the mainstream, are no longer interested in what they see as a years-old meme, something that feels even duller now that it's been blown up for the big screen.
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MURRAY'S MENAGERIE' I'm not sure anyone could have imagined a duller setting for a play than a high school faculty meeting, yet in "Miles for Mary," the theatrical collective called the Mad Ones turned the banality of the break room into a hilarious and ultimately galvanizing Off Broadway hit.
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In the first two episodes, I was too irritated by clumsy exposition, the relegation of the great Elizabeth Reaser to a "long-suffering wife" role, and the huge charisma gap between Paul Bettany as a perfectly sinuous Ted Kaczynski and Sam Worthington as a much duller FBI agent, Jim Fitzgerald.
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Switzerland owes its highly productive economy to an overwhelming focus on lucrative jobs in financial services and precision engineering — in contrast to Britain, where the City of London financial district is a sparkling crown jewel encased in a broader, duller economy laced with generally aging manufacturers and a large, comparatively inefficient public sector.
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While there is nothing wrong with studying animal or environmental law — and these fields are prominently represented at top law schools — U.S. News choice to highlight them is an indication that such trendy offerings may be more attractive prospective students that duller studies in, say, constitutional, corporate law, or criminal (for humans) law.
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As Vox's Matt Yglesias writes, despite the declines in Democrats' generic ballot numbers, the data, including the results of the California primary, still hints at a likely advantage for the party: Though it feels like the odds for liberals have gone from overwhelmingly positive to desperate quickly, the reality is a bit duller.
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He slowed as a fighter: allowed back in the ring in 1970, his status as a conscientious objector now established, his reflexes were duller and his body forced to absorb blows he could have evaded in his prime; Frazier's defeat of him over 15 rounds the next year was the worst battering of his life.
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That has parameters smaller than the size of my thighs and is duller than the natural gradient of my eyes Despite Instagram's recent ranking as the worst platform for young people's wellbeing, Cox hopes that she and her fellow Instagram poets — like Rupi Kaur and Yrsa Daley-Ward — are creating a space away from the negativity.
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As Twitter's prospective suitors have one by one turned away, Twitter's board surely has come to the realization, at last, that the company has less to do with the sexy, endlessly expanding world of "social media" — Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat — than with the seemingly duller world of old-school newspapers, limited circulation and less-than-stratospheric profit margins.
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And for reasons that make no cosmic sense, a few of those men — Prince, David Bowie, Prince Be of P.M. Dawn, and now Mr. Michael — died in 2016, a year in which dismaying ambivalence about aggressive, invasive male behavior was matched by the reinstatement of duller performances of masculinity in both our pop music and our politics.
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While the economy may be duller than many had hoped for so far this year, "they have started so they will finish – and they will take every opportunity they can to raise rates," he added, opining that he would expect the Fed to potentially raise rates in August and November should the U.S. economy continue to "bounce" during this quarter and the next.
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It's a good move because the book's sharpest and funniest writing was mostly in the Crowley-Aziraphale scenes, and for the series Gaiman has reduced the time given to some of the duller material, like the appearances of the horsemen of the Apocalypse (here motorcycle riders) and the group of friends who beneficially influence the unsuspecting 11-year-old Antichrist, Adam Young.
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Above all, do not forget that the world would be a duller and darker place if everyone thought as you did, and if all our thoughts were safe ones, and if there were nothing to bestir our minds, and inflame our senses, and rouse our consciences, and churn the warm but too-placid waters in which we swim at our own peril.
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