Unexciting, perhaps, but a surefire way to build wealth, .
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Snap had one of its most unexciting years to date.
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Though it was still pretty good, it was otherwise unexciting.
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Judging by this new work, humanely elegiac but unexciting, she's right.
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Here they are: The rest of iFixit's teardown was relatively unexciting.
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Clinton is the wrong woman, the unexciting woman, the compromising woman.
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" Acuity Brands: "It's not [in] dire straits, it's just unexciting straits.
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Often simple — unexciting in the media — [things] that actually save lives.
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I found Sony's prior edition deadened the vocals and rendered music unexciting.
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TV may be overrun, not by bad content, but by unexciting competence.
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But overall, the sandwich is just unexciting compared with its Popeyes counterpart.
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Otherwise, they&aposre unexciting, as their profits are limited by state regulations.
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In the end, I thought the Surf Ranch Pro was pretty unexciting.
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Normally that's unexciting news—Android phones are basically always raining from the sky.
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The new Pixels look every bit as unexciting and quotidian as their predecessors.
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What has been achieved so far does help, though it can seem unexciting.
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Not so great were the hard and watery tomato chunks and unexciting cheese.
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I have always known the Ladoucette wines as sound, although unexciting and expensive.
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Most sex work exists between the dramatic mountains of joy or coercion, on the less colorful plains of ordinary apartments, parlors, and budget hotel rooms, offering unexciting sex to unexciting men, not for pennies but not for great riches either.
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Expensive, unexciting and unpopular, the war against land subsidence needs support all the same.
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Flacco is usually a legitimately unexciting quarterback, but the Ravens give New England trouble.
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Watching TV before bed can be fine if the program is unexciting, he added.
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Burger King's beef does have a nice char, but it's otherwise dry and unexciting.
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Unexciting, perhaps, but a surefire way to build wealth, according to legendary investor Warren Buffett.
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Friday, April 20th was shaping up to be an unexciting day for the metal community.
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Which makes sense, I guess, given that Saccone is unexciting even for a state representative.
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A 10% decrease in costs or a 15% cut in energy use are individually unexciting.
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Meanwhile, DJ Skinhead put on a pretty bland, unexciting set that left many crowd members grumbling.
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There's something clinical and unexciting when someone just stops and gets naked in front of you.
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Helen's stripped its concept to something that's pedestrian and unexciting despite all the bells and whistles.
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Though unexciting, that report reflects that the committee has kept its head while others have not.
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A few years ago, sisters Amra and Elma Beganovich had good, albeit self-described "unexciting," careers.
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People always say they want substance, but when it's a woman bringing it, it seems unexciting.
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The GLB has a respectable 20 cubic feet of cargo space under the unexciting hatch, however.
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Robert Langevin, the Philharmonic's principal flutist, was a deft if unexciting soloist in the flute concerto.
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It's called Maven, it's available in exactly one city, and, frankly, it's an unexciting riff on ZipCar.
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Apple almost certainly will offer other very good phones, including important but unexciting updates to the iPhone 7.
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Mr Emanuel's pragmatic centrism may have looked increasingly unexciting for many Democratic voters in the current political climate.
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But bulk-selling tickets to travel agencies at least gave it a predictable, if unexciting flow of income.
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Unlike Lamborghini's latest Huracán, which plucks heartstrings at first sight, the all-electric Rimac feels anonymous and unexciting.
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Much of that enthusiasm was diminished, however, by the Pixel's industrial design: it's pedestrian, unexciting, and frankly mediocre.
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Then they traded the team's best reliever, Jeurys Familia, for two unexciting prospects and five pieces of plywood.
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Take an unexciting, but important, streamlined approach to designing and building infrastructure that can save time and money.
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" He said the Democratic candidates are a "very unexciting group of people" but it's "part of my life.
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Our global macro team sees an unexciting expansion ahead, with two years of near-trend growth and low inflation.
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"The USDA's new forecasts proved mostly unexciting," said Tobin Gorey, director of agricultural strategy at Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
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If all that strikes you as a little unexciting, you don't know the half of it, or the seventh.
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However, Frankfurt is reasonably small in size, has a relatively unexciting reputation and must compete with several other European cities.
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It now has a tweaked interface, has added some live news and sports features, and is as unexciting as ever.
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Google has grown to a size and position where presenting an unexciting public image would actually be in its favor.
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The EU may be unexciting, with confusing institutions and rules, but seen from Washington, it has been a huge success.
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Put simply, newer artists appear to feel little need to fight for their proclivities—an unexciting but surely positive development.
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It's not so much that the fill is bad (although there's a good amount of glue here), it's just unexciting.
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The problem is that so many idealistic artists, even in this curated gathering, produce work that is simplistic and visually unexciting.
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That's why she logged onto Facebook to post a seemingly ordinary and unexciting video of her son zipping up his jacket.
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Consider the inflation-linked bonds known as Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, or T.I.P.S. They are standard, unexciting and very useful now.
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Having a less-than-stellar job title or working at an unexciting company can make you feel like you've failed already.
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But the short one that I've been giving — portraits and interiors wherever I travel: I can feel how unexciting it is.
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Take this kid with a Spongebob Squarepants shirt who sat through a dreary and unexciting political broadcast in Australia on Tuesday night.
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The best and most effective way to execute this prank is by replacing a commonly used, unexciting word with something incredibly random.
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Leave it to two innovatively feminist musicians to make something as unexciting as a Google Doc into a tool for world domination.
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But The Dark World is marred by bloated, bad action filmmaking and an unexciting story that did everything possible to suggest otherwise.
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Call me cynical, but you just know the whole #Webminster thing today at Westminster is going to relate to something very, very unexciting.
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You might call this sound blunted, and it can occasionally be unexciting, but I find it to be an absolute pleasure in use.
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However, the phone's unexciting appearance may have inadvertently given the company a major advantage over the competition—albeit one few would wish for.
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Researchers can get a paper published even if they found null or unexciting results, which should discourage scouring their data for unreliable results.
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Bernstein analyst Luca Solca said, the shares were already down a lot, and therefore were discounting an unexciting update (results) that was seen likely.
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Despite his attempt to remain unexciting, Diaz-Canel has had his provocative moments, especially with regard to Cuba's strict control of the official media.
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I followed the trucks down a set of unexciting roads to an industrial park, and that's where I first saw the massive fulfillment center.
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There's also something corporate about the Patriots, their detractors say, and corporate America is white America — bland, unexciting — at least according to the stereotype.
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This benefit is the antidote to the predictable silent auctions or the unexciting musical performances from the local grade school choir (no offense, kids).
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He developed a reputation as staid, perhaps unexciting, and after falling out of televised debates, he struggled to gain much of a national reputation.
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As Fox has already demonstrated with its unexciting remake of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" last year, you really had to have been there.
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The department's U.S. Digital Services team began by looking at existing assets — outdated forms, tracking software, desperately unexciting stuff in need of radical transformation.
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But the stand caused a stir on social media, with some technology fans mocking the price of what is generally regarded as an unexciting accessory.
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But his aides saw a new potential opening in 2020 for a person who made a mark as a technocratic, sometimes unexciting big city mayor.
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Mr Alckmin, though unexciting, has built a broad political alliance that gives him the lion's share of the free television advertising that began this week.
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I'm as excited as anyone to see the new gadgets, apps and services that 2016 will bring, especially after a relatively unexciting year in 2015.
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More than five decades in the publishing industry resulted in a culinary legacy — a distinct change from the rather unexciting cuisine she grew up eating.
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Even a cliché, "so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth," Foster Wallace explained in his insightfully bleak address.
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"ECB action is behind us, euro strengthening is a problem, relative valuations are unexciting and the region is a consensus (overweight)," JPMorgan Cazenove's note highlighted.
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I'm as excited as anyone to see the new gadgets, apps and services that 2016 will bring, especially after a relatively unexciting year in 2015.
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Loud, derivative and thoroughly unexciting, the streaming service has thrown money at this Will Smith vehicle, and merely bought itself a whole lot of embarrassment.
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As revealed in singularly unexciting flashbacks, the deceased (Jim Belushi) was a boor and a bully whose sins might not have stopped at serial adultery.
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That may seem unexciting for those used to the fast-paced life of a major metropolis, but in this small town, the excitement is palpable.
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Despite the general unexciting nature of the episode, there was one moment that had fans jumping up from the couch and rewinding for a closer look.
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Researchers from the University of Chicago and Ohio State University challenged participants in their study to consume unexciting foods — like popcorn and water — in novel ways.
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Here are the unexciting specs: Here are the exciting Star Wars things: The phones go on sale on December 2nd in Japan, and preorders start today.
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With rumors swirling about a potential Jonas Valanciunas deal (sources indicate the market for him remains unexciting), Jakob Poeltl could be in line for more time.
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At least a quarter of the seats were empty for the first heat of the men's 123,500, the longest individual event with a uniquely unexciting start.
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What is required is not the drama of hanging corrupt officials from lampposts but the unexciting process of reducing Iraq's regulatory hostility towards its private sector.
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The Alta HR may have been yet another unexciting move on the part of Fitbit, but it also seems to me like it was a good move.
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A recent poll of Conservative voters named Mr O'Leary, Mr Bernier, Dr Leitch and Lisa Raitt, a competent but unexciting ex-minister, as the most popular choices.
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It's a phone with solid specs and some robust security software (and, finally, a fingerprint scanner), which is what BlackBerry is aiming for, unexciting design be damned.
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BNP Paribas, HSBC, Societe Generale and UBS have less immediate need to restructure their business models substantially, as their underlying businesses are generating sufficient, if unexciting, earnings.
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The Galaxy Note 9 is most probably going to be a good but unexciting reiteration of Samsung's existing strengths, with a flash of Fortnite flair thrown in.
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The choice before the Conservative membership is between Mr. Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, a more trusted but unexciting man, with far less appeal to the Conservative base.
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But there's not a whole lot of range in the Space NC headphones' sound, which feel deficient in both bass and treble, leaving pop music anthems sounding unexciting.
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We knew they were doing well initially, with $80,000 in sales within the first 24 hours, but momentum seems to have continued for the relatively boring unexciting covering.
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Maintenance capex entails the unexciting but essential investments that keep an asset in working condition, like painting a ship or replacing the conveyor belt on an assembly line.
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"It's certainly trending the right way, but it's surely still unexciting — even unacceptable — wage growth at this point," said Dan North, chief economist at Euler Hermes North America.
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The work may initially sound unexciting, but it lays the foundations for AI-powered algorithms to potentially revolutionize medicine, manufacturing, self-driving cars, e-commerce, and social media.
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"Overall, these represent a solid if unexciting set of results, which is not necessarily a bad thing for a bank," said Gary Greenwood, an analyst at Shore Capital.
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I was a natural, and I found, to my amusement, that I was much better at promoting other people's work — no matter how odious or unexciting — than my own.
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I was sorry not to see the ultimate death of Mutiny, but I thought there was something elegant about suggesting it was an unexciting entropy in the space between.
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You might say that keeps its Stories authentic, but for kids around the world sitting in their unexciting bedrooms, it might leave what they share looking a bit boring.
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It's a surefire way to bring some verve back to something that's become kind of routine and unexciting, which is exactly the challenge you'll be faced with this month.
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"The ECB accounts from the overall rather unexciting March meeting will be scrutinised for hints whether or how the ECB may change its wording next time," Commerzbank analysts wrote.
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As befits her reputation as the subtle sibling, the resulting music is calm and unexciting, shot through with brief moments of intermittent beauty and prolonged moments of spacey drift.
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And regardless, being a professional e-sports player requires the discipline to remain laser-focused on your screen until the end, which makes your physical self a profoundly unexciting sight.
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The country could also use an emphasis on the technical side of business, an aspect that may be unexciting and even off-putting to many people but remains very important.
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In what is otherwise a fairly unexciting governing pact, the Europe chapter — short and vague, but prominently displayed on the first five pages of the 177-page document — stands out.
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The only surprise about "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny," the thoroughly unexciting sequel that became available on Netflix on Friday, is that anyone thought it needed to be made.
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"The ECB accounts from the overall rather unexciting March meeting will be scrutinised for hints whether or how the ECB may change its wording next time," Commerzbank analysts wrote in a note.
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Hate Mr Trump as they did, many of Mr Obama's voters, it seems, just could not bring themselves to vote for the unexciting and reviled alternative that Mrs Clinton presented them with.
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The surface quality of Singer's work is dull and unexciting if you're looking for expressivity — hovering between matte and glossy, only varying in a few works where the artist's hand is actually present.
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Though 12 of the 16 games in the world championship ended in draws, they were far from unexciting, often featuring Mr Carlsen's advantages and ambitions stymied after Mr Karjakin discovered brilliant defensive resources.
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Michael O'Neill's men are now unbeaten in 12 matches but they picked up a few bumps and bruises in a competitive, if unexciting, final friendly before the opening games in France next week.
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Pete Buttigieg: After sprinting into the top tier in polling in the spring, the South Bend, Indiana, mayor has spent the summer doing the unexciting work of building organizations in key early states.
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Frankfurt is relatively small in size with a reasonably unexciting reputation as a city yet Angela Merkel's financial powerhouse could be strengthened even further should lenders opt to move its business operations to Germany.
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Just look at Google's noble-minded but pretty unexciting Google Arts & Culture app — overlooked by most until it launched a feature last week that let users match their selfies to faces in famous artworks.
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While Newton had some success in the middle round, that success was gutted by a point deduction following three blows below the belt, which spelled out a lopsided, if unexciting, decision triumph for Vassell.
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Popular entertainment like The Matrix and Fight Club capitalized off this feeling of restlessness, telling stories about characters who break out of stable but unexciting lives to take on a quest to remake society.
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A whole poussin bore the deliciously smoky flavor of the wood fire on which it was grilled, but the accompanying faro, lacking the flavorful juices that accented it on the vegetable plate, was unexciting.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - In a Japanese team short of a real talisman, new coach Akira Nishino will be hoping Shinji Kagawa can provide much-needed sparkle to an otherwise efficient if unexciting World Cup squad.
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Cartman 148-Piece Tool Set, available at Amazon, $24.99They're going to need tools at some point, and they're probably going to be underwhelmed by the prospect of spending money on such an unexciting purchase.
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A similar formula to the one that brought Fernando Santos's team such success in Euro 2112: effective, rather than aesthetically pleasing; technically accomplished, if a little unexciting; and with one rather eye-catching superstar.
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A similar formula to the one that brought Fernando Santos's team such success in Euro 2016: effective, rather than aesthetically pleasing; technically accomplished, if a little unexciting; and with one rather eye-catching superstar.
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It was Mrs Clinton's best punch in an unexciting, but accomplished performance by the former secretary of state, which did nothing to upset a suspicion that her passage to the Democratic nomination is now inevitable.
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The whole thing is very DAO-like in that it's an investment fund where investors receive digital tokens and payouts governed by self-executing contracts, but the way this tech is deployed is fairly unexciting.
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And if TV drama seems to be in an era when it's struggling, TV comedy is thriving, perhaps because it knows that good TV is sometimes found in places that are just a little unexciting.
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"The thick strands ... didn't precisely resemble chicken strips, and when I tasted them unadulterated I found it bland, unexciting and not very chicken-like," former New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman wrote in a review.
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Two years later, Honest aimed for the charts even more blatantly, and while many declared it a solid if unexciting follow-up at the time, in retrospect its syrupy ballads and toned-down hooks sound clumsy.
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A careful, meticulous, unexciting performance of the kind that she has delivered in many debates before should suffice to make her look wiser, safer and more serious than the tabloid character across the stage from her.
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While unwrapping a monetary present may not be as thrilling as getting this year's hottest toy, it is not as unexciting as it sounds, according to Jill Fopiano, the CEO of O'Brien Wealth Partners in Boston.
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A startup backed by Andy Rubin's Playground incubator and venture capital firm has rolled out a new hardware product, one that addresses the pain points of an unexciting but crucial area of business technology: video conferencing systems.
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I've heard too many audiophile headphones that sound precise but utterly unexciting, and the Ella thread the needle by being faithful to the detail and substance of a song while still getting your foot tapping in approval.
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But it's hard to say whether that was due to Trump, the anthem protests, competition from other shows or the fact that the Washington Redskins' lopsided victory over the Oakland Raiders made for a relatively unexciting matchup.
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Dr. Wong, who'd just been discussing some of Summer and Morty's recent erratic behaviour as a result of the divorce, rebuts that it's only pointless if you're unwilling to do the unexciting stuff to mend what's wrong.
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If you've ever had the unusual compulsion to eat the candles on your menorah but are dismayed by the decidedly unexciting flavor of wax, look no further than mentalist and thought-reader Marc Salem's Edible Hanukkah Candles.
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Not only that Enchantress wound up being a pretty generic and unexciting villain in the eyes of many, but that The Joker was barely in the movie, despite being used quite a bit in the promotional materials.
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That the alleged scheme engaged in by FusionPharm executives is as complex as it is unexciting is sort of the point: Corporate-misbehavior Americans have become accustomed to has seeped into what was once a clandestine—and fun!
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It's a sensical way to stand out in an unexciting conference, but for a rebuilding team with an impressionable roster, it also serves as an incubator for bad habits, and may inflict long-term damage on their young core.
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In 20 years Hyundai Motor (which also controls Kia) went from being barely known to the world's fifth-biggest carmaker by churning out decent if unexciting cars that were cheaper than similar ones produced by Japanese or Western competitors.
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That's a stage-managed demo designed to emphasize Nest's advantage, to be sure, but I was still left with a very positive impression of the image quality obtained from what's typically been a quite drab and unexciting category of hardware.
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Bankers say that part of the reason IPOs have performed poorly in Hong Kong is that the market still needs to adjust to the high-growth companies coming to list, having been previously dominated by unexciting Chinese state-owned enterprises.
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Bill McDonough, an architect and the co-author of Cradle to Cradle, a book about the circular economy, was talking about the word "sustainability," and pointed out that it was a weirdly unexciting term to use for a hugely positive initiative.
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Fresh off a fairly well-received, if unexciting, sojourn to the globalist-friendly World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump is due to deliver his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.
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Although lots of news coverage of robots and AI veers between wild apocalyptic predictions and a sort of bemused wonderment, we need to split the difference and consider the real, unexciting challenges ahead — most of which will have political, not technological, solutions.
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On tracks like "Bombtrack" and "Know Your Enemy," where the Sine recreates Rage Against the Machine's always-on urgency and aggression, the PM3 gives an unexciting performance that makes both the guitars and drums sound more polite than they need to be.
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The juxtaposition of these three operas of congruent period, place and style is in all likelihood a coincidence, spurred — more than any creative consideration — by the sales-conscious programming that has made this one of the most unexciting Met seasons in memory.
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The problem is that too many of the younger painters in this exhibition don't seem very interested in inventing their own process or form, which results in images that, while they may be briefly refreshing, are too often painted in familiar, unexciting ways.
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Bolstering their point, the authors further found that drivers of sports cars are more likely to terminate their funds and to report regulatory and criminal violations than the average fund manager — while drivers of "practical but unexciting cars" are less likely to do so.
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According to Cora Fisher, writing in the Brooklyn Rail, that show also succumbed to some basic and unexciting thinking about how women see themselves and other women, by prioritizing a conceptual framework that regards identity as produced by the intersection of body and politics.
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This round of preparation includes a number of relatively unexciting "captive carry" flights with the spaceship and carrier aircraft attached to one another to get familiar with the surrounding airspace, as well as tests of rocket powered flight for the VSS Unity on its own.
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Fort Sumter was amazing; Fort Moutrie somewhat interesting; but while helping fill out yet another word search on the porch of the historic but relatively unexciting Charles Pinckney National Historic Site, I vowed never again to stop in a national park for a badge alone.
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" If you're wondering what input topic elicited this deadpan parade of stereotypical and strangely unexciting suggestions for a lady who apparently has everything yet still desires handmade and bespoke curios, or at least a coupon to go skydiving, it was a request for an article about "chocolate teapots.
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Her first logbook for Old Weather belonged to a 980-ton British naval sloop that patrolled the African coastline during World War I. It had what she calls "a very unexciting war," but she was soon absorbed by the rhythms and details of life at sea a century ago.
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Maybe it's the unexciting revelation that he's a clone of Jango Fett, the Mandalorian warrior who is also cloned for the aptly named Clone Army, that upsets people, or it's that their favorite character is unveiled as a dumb kid who spends most of his scenes glaring and silently brooding.
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Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Monday joked that Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's most unexciting emails must be code for drug purchases.
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For them, it's simply a means to fluster their grandparents … Young people perhaps aren't primarily attracted to the alt-right because they're instinctively drawn to its ideology: they're drawn to it because it seems fresh, daring and funny, while the doctrines of their parents and grandparents seem unexciting, overly-controlling and overly-serious.
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Rats are better drivers when they're mentally stimulated Kelly Lambert, study author and head of the University of Richmond's Lambert Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, trained two groups of young rats: One bunch raised in an "enriched environment" with toys, ladders, balls and pieces of wood designed to spark mental stimulation, and another reared in a standard, unexciting lab cage.
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Perhaps the lesson to take away from the Avalanches' pleasant, soothing, and relatively unexciting return is that we could all stand to apply better management to our expectations at large: after all, it's still impressive when someone pulls off a magic trick twice, but it's unfair to expect the trick to be as effective the second time around.
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But the final moment of its otherwise-unexciting premiere gave many Star Wars fans a sign that The Mandalorian would be more than an expensive exercise in bringing the franchise to streaming TV. When the Mandalorian saved an infant in a floating bassinet from certain death at the end of the episode, the adorable baby was revealed to be a lot more recognizable than the rest of the show's new heroes and villains.
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Nearly every dish tasted good, in one way or another, although more than one juxtaposed something unquestionably delicious with other things that turned up empty-handed to the flavor party: wonderful lobster in a bittersweet sauce of malted barley syrup and butter with a dull white spill of tapioca; exceptional brined scallop, sauced with yuzu and a tea made from Douglas fir tips, with unexciting ovals of white asparagus standing up like marble headstones in a cemetery.
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