-
Mesoproterozoic era 1.6 to 1
billion years ago (Ga), and, thus,
described it as "the
dullest time in Earth's history". The term "Boring Billion" was
coined by paleontologist...
- "Never have I ever", also
known as "I've never.." or "ten fingers", is a
drinking game in
which players take
turns asking other players about things they...
- sunshine,
averaging over 7
hours a day in
early summer.
December is the
dullest month, with an
average daily sunshine ranging from
about 1 hour in the...
- novel, but
modeled firmly upon the
detective story of 30
years ago at its
dullest... When I keep
urging a
return to the
formal detective story, this is not...
-
Francis Beaumont and his
sometime collaborator John
Fletcher "two of the
dullest Elizabethan writers ever known ... I had a very, very long part, but I...
-
November 1941. The ****est year on
record was 1,740
hours in 1959, and the
dullest year was 1987 with 1,240
hours of sunshine. The
lowest amount of monthly...
- Symphony,
described by one
critic after an 1898
Dresden performance as "the
dullest [symphonic] work the new
epoch has produced". The
Second Symphony was received...
- was
deemed by
Stephen Hunter,
writing for The
Washington Post, as the "
dullest orgy [he'd] ever seen".
Hunter elaborates on his criticism, and states...
- "plodding, protocol-conscious and loth to
stand up to the big powers" and "the
dullest—and
among the worst" secretaries-general. ****anese
diplomat Kiyotaka Akasaka...
- is the
dullest name I ever heard. — Ian Fleming, The New Yorker, 21
April 1962 On
another occasion,
Fleming said: "I
wanted the simplest,
dullest, plainest-sounding...
