Word: dulle
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...part of the disesteem which for years dull minds visited upon him was the result of his novel writing, which was not first rate. Though his mind was essentially creative, it worked less freely through his imagination and sympathy than through his critical faculty. Whereas his novels were mainly empty shells of form, his volume on English Composition was full of meat, probably the most philosophic and stimulating work on this much be-written subject. His critical biography of Shakespeare was by turns brilliantly original and deficient in imaginative feeling. In his later years his methods sobered somewhat, his interests...
There is something fundamentally wrong in the nature of men who, considering any desire to be serious as dull and boring and even "plebeian," can have the callousness to joke about a man who has just made the most courageous and noble and idealistic sacrifice a man can make. Levity in such a case cannot fail to stir the feelings of all those who see in Lord Mayer MacSwiney's death an unfalling loyalty to ideals, seldom realized in most men, and therefore the more inspiring, And such levity will not, I think, be anything to be boasted...
...campaign which orators in both parties were proclaiming early in the summer as the "most momentous in the nation's history" is dragging on to-a dull and uninteresting finish...
...dull it is to pause, to make...
...number, though perhaps decadent in spirit, shows undeniable power. And in the Class-Day number the fifth of Mr. J. F. Leys' "Billet Ballads" has real fun in every line. But there are not enough such contributions. Except in the field of politics, the essays are somehow strained and dull...